莱斯特·库尔茨（Lester Kurtz），耶鲁大学神学院宗教学硕士，芝加哥大学社会学博士，得克萨斯州立大学奥斯汀分校社会学教授、宗教研究中心主任，曾任美国和平与正义研究协会主席，美国社会学和平、战争和社会冲突分会主席，2005年被授予“罗宾?威廉斯杰出职业成就奖”（Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award）。他曾在芝加哥大学、西北大学、印度德里大学及台湾东大学等多所大学访学授课。 主要研究领域为比较宗教社会学、和平与冲突、西方和非西方社会理论等，一直在寻找解决暴力的出路，创建了一个暴力理论系统。曾创立及编辑多本重要学术刊物，主编《非暴、和平和冲突百科全书》，另与人合编《非暴力社会运动——一种地理学视角的分析》，代表作为《异端的政治——罗马天主教的现代主义危机》（获宗教科学研究协会杰出著作奖）。

In an era plagued by religious conflict, the Third Edition of Gods in the Global Village directly responds to issues of social problems prevalent in the world today. Using an engaging, thought-provoking style, Lester R. Kurtz focuses on the relationship among the major faith traditions that inform the thinking and ethical standards of most people in the emerging global social o...(展开全部)

War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man.Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest."Marshall McLuhan illustrates ...(展开全部)

焦大衛（David K. Jordan） 曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多...(展开全部)

焦大衛（David K. Jordan） 曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多...(展开全部)

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some of the w...(展开全部)