This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Is a more integrated approach to human rights desirable - an approach that transcends the individual-centred orientation of civil and political liberties of the dominant centres of power in the West? How can religious thought contribute to an integrated notion of human rights and human dignity? What sort of transformation should religion itself undergo in order to enable it to come to grips with contemporary challenges? Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics; the economy and society as a whole?
#822501 in Books 2015-12-04 2015-11-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.30 x 1.80 x 6.30l; .0 #File Name: 0700621458624 pages
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Time to review the usual accepted line on BarbarossaBy Norman HoughtonThis is a most interesting tome; examining the conflict from a different perspective and breaking some of the usual and long held views on the exact nature of the Nazi--Soviet pact. The author posits that the Soviets in facilitated the outbreak of the war in September 1939 as much as the Nazis did. In addition; Soviet methods of political and social control in the territories they forcibly occupied prior to the launch of Barbarossa were just as bad as the Nazis. The Soviet judges could not go down this path at the Nuremberg Trials so the issue was not aired. The author cites many Soviet documents; clamped shut for decades; and now available for scholars to peruse to make his case. A good read.36 of 40 people found the following review helpful. A groundbreaking bookBy PrestonIf you are a student of the Eastern Front; you know that most of the literature from the end of the war until 1970 described the Germans as misunderstood knights fighting the Bolshevik hordes. Between then and now; the literature on the war on the Eastern Front has (mostly) portrayed the Germans as totally ruthless; barbaric murderers; turned into automatons by National Socialist indoctrination. This book convincingly argues (with strong support of recently declassified and previously unexamined Soviet sources) that the most accurate representation of this conflict is between those two extremes; that the criminality of the Soviet regime (actions from the First World War to WW2) influenced the German approach to the war in the East. (Please note that he is not giving the Germans a pass on their own criminal behavior.) If you are interested in the Eastern Front; you must read this book. Reading the forward/preface alone was a revelation!1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Excellent read on the events leading up to this operationBy Scott BaileyExcellent read on the events leading up to this operation. Book describes the Russian and German armies and political maneuvering going on in both camps. Many military and political thinking shows what both sides thought of each other and another interest portion is the directives issued and the reason behind them are made more clear from this author.
