In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urap...(展开全部)

In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urap...(展开全部)

“An epic narrative in crystalline prose of the poignant death of an ancient language and the enchanted universe it signified in a remote New Guinea village related by a gifted anthropologist who lived there on and off for 30 years as the ghost of a departed villager, sharing its communal virtues and a considerable measure of its suffering. A unique testament of global history a...(展开全部)

“An epic narrative in crystalline prose of the poignant death of an ancient language and the enchanted universe it signified in a remote New Guinea village related by a gifted anthropologist who lived there on and off for 30 years as the ghost of a departed villager, sharing its communal virtues and a considerable measure of its suffering. A unique testament of global history a...(展开全部)

A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asi...(展开全部)

A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asi...(展开全部)

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)

《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)

《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。