Learning to Live Together
Learning to Live Together

Author: David A. Hamburg M.D.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-04-08

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780195348019

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With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society. Discussing the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations between groups, the authors focus on the developmental processes by which we can work to diminish ethnocentrism, prejudice, and hatred, which children learn from a very early age. Until now, scholarship and practice in international relations have gravely neglected crucial psychological aspects of these terrible problems and have not yet explored the educational opportunities related to them. Addressing these promising lines of inquiry and innovation, this book fosters a more humane and less violent development in childhood and adolescence. Educators, religious leaders, developmental and social psychologists, will find this a valuable resource, as will a socially concerned segment of the public who are looking for practical ways to work for peace.

Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes

Author: Thomas Streissguth

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1438119046

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Examines the issues associated with hate crimes committed in the United States including statistics, important legislation, and bibliographical resources.

Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage
Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage

Author: Catherine M. Wallace

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1498225411

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Writing in part for secular humanists, non-Christians, and ex-Christians, Wallace locates the beginning of religious vilification of LBGTQ Americans: these attacks recycle earlier, equally reactionary political opposition to racial desegregation and equal rights for women. Then, step by step, she lays out three major flaws in the religious argument against gay marriage. First, it derives from Plato and Greco-Roman sexual anxieties, not from Jesus. Second, opposition to gay marriage takes Bible verses out of context, ignoring their roots in Iron Age biology, sexual politics in the classic era, and pagan ritual practices. Third and most importantly, this opposition reflects an inadequate moral theology based on a denial of contemporary science and social science. Then and only then does she offer her own concept of marriage as a morally rooted, creative process, laying out common ground easily shared by Christian humanists and secular humanists alike. Her nimble, accessible account, richly leavened by personal stories, will facilitate new conversations and alliances among all those, believers and nonbelievers alike, who affirm the moral dignity of gay marriage.