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To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, author Gary Stern has interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum, among them Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Father Benedict Groeschel, author of Arise from Darkness; The Rev. James Rowe Adams, founder of the Center for Progressive Christianity; Kenneth R. Samples, vice president of Reason to Believe; Dr. James Cone, the legendary African American theologian; Tony Campolo, founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America; Imam Yahya Hendi, the first Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University; Dr. Arvind Sharma, one of the world's leading Hindu scholars; Robert A. F. Thurman, the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; David Silverman, the national spokesman for American Atheists; and others--rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains--Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists-people of belief, and people of nonbelief, too. Stern asked each of them probing questions about what their religion teaches and what their faith professes regarding the presence of tragedy. Some feel that the forces of nature are simply impersonal, and some believe that God is omniscient but not omnipotent. Some claim that nature is ultimately destructive because of Original Sin, some assert that the victims of natural disasters are sinners who deserve to die, and some explain that natural disasters are the result of individual and collective karma. Still others profess that God causes suffering in order to test and purify the victims. Stern, an award-winning religion journalist, has extensive experience in this type of analytical journalism. The result is a work that probes and challenges real people's beliefs about a subject that, unfortunately, touches everyone's life..
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Cokeville, Wyoming was the perfect slice of American Pie--a rural community surrounded by ranches and built by committed families with strong religious convictions; certainly not the typical terrorist target--precisely why David Young chose it as the place to seize his hostages.

Shortly after lunch, Young and his wife charged the Cokeville Elementary School toting a small arsenal of weapons and pushing a cart carrying a deadly bomb. One hundred fifty-siz children and teachers were herded into a single classroom and the terror began.

But something was different. This was home-grown terrorism with a different motivation. David Young's twisted and deranged intent was to blow up the school creating a mass murder-suicide that would plunge them all into a "Brave New World" where he would rule over the children.

"When Angels Intervene to Save the Children" is a basis for the CBS movie "To Save the Children". The real story of this incident unfolded during interviews with school therapists and parents. The children's accounts attributed their survival to angels dressed in white who instructed and protected them and told them to stay calm. Fact by fact, the authors described every hour of the terrifying ordeal and recount piece by piece the children's stories of the miraculous escape..
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Parents will benefit from this invaluable guide on how siblings interact in today's world, and sometimes cross the line.By reading this book, parents will learn how to identify and prevent abusive behavior, and know when to intervene.The author brings together his many years of study and experience to show how to break the cycle of violence.Is what happens in your family just normal sibling rivalry or could it be called sibling abuse?This instructive guide will help you answer this question and help you break any cycle of violence, verbal or physical. The practical suggestions in this book will protect your children now, and help them become responsible adults.You will learn:How to identify abusive behaviorHow to prevent abuse in your homeHow to know when to interveneVernon R. Wiehe, Ph.D. is a professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of over fifty articles in social science journals as well as numerous books. Dr. Wiehe has lectured extensively on the subject of family violence to audiences in the United States and abroad. He has appeared on numerous television and radio talk shows discussing the subject of family relationships..
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Who Intervenes? takes as a given that there are tensions among ethnic groups throughout the world. But it is not at all clear when and why these tensions escalate into violence The likelihood and character of intervention depend upon the interplay of two factors: ethnic composition and institutional constraint. A fourfold typology is produced. For example, states with high constraints and ethnic diversity are likely to intervene only for reasons related to national interests, while states with both ethnic dominance and low constraint are most disposed to intervene. The disposition to intervene is catalyzed, the authors hypothesize, by the presence of ethnic affinity and cleavage.

The book includes a comparative analysis of five case studies: India and Sri Lanka, Somalia and Ethiopia, Malaysia and the Thai Malay (a non-intervention), the immediate aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, and Greece and Turkey with Cyprus. The case histories produce strong support for the relevance of the typology and catalysts. Ethnic composition, institutional constraint, and ethnic affinity and cleavage are very useful factors in distinguishing both the likelihood and form of intervention.

Policies that encourage institutional reform and support ethnic diversity can be expected to reduce the likelihood and even the perceived need for intervention..
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