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• Winner of CHOICE 2009 Outstanding Academic Title Award
• Focuses primarily on charges leveled by recent critics that belief in God is irrational and that its nature ferments violence
• Balances philosophical rigor and scholarly care with an engaging, accessible style
• Offers a direct response to the crop of recent anti-religion bestsellers currently generating considerable public discussion

• Winner of CHOICE 2009 Outstanding Academic Title Award
• Focuses primarily on charges leveled by recent critics that belief in God is irrational and that its nature ferments violence
• Balances philosophical rigor and scholarly care with an engaging, accessible style
• Offers a direct response to the crop of recent anti-religion bestsellers currently generating considerable public discussion

This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.

Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization:

• the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners
• Via Campesina peasant farmers
• Our World Is Not For Sale
• and the anarchistic Peoples Global Action.
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This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.

Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization:

• the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners
• Via Campesina peasant farmers
• Our World Is Not For Sale
• and the anarchistic Peoples' Global Action.
...

This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time, the Japanese state sought to quell uprisings and overcome social disruptions so as to produce national unity and defend its sovereignty against Western encroachment. Morality became a crucial means to attain these aims. Moral prescriptions for re-ordering the population came from all segments of society, including Buddhist, Christian, and Confucian apologists; literary figures and artists;...