TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welch, Sharon D
AU  - Welch,Sharon D
TI  - After Empire:  The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace
SN  - 0800629868   
U1  - C37.1 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Religion and Politics
KW  - Religion and International Affairs
KW  - United States Foreign Relations
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Memory .....1  Generation .........1  Activism .........4  Colonial Legacies ..........7  2. Laughter ........12  An Ironic Spirituality ..........14  The Courage of Living ......18  An Alchemy of Desire ...........22  Wonder and Suffering .......24  Memory and reciprocity .......27  Return to Laughter ........30  3. Virtuosity ..........33  A new social contract ....38  Elements of a Communal Ethic ........45  Wisdom and the Sacred ....56  Contact, Conquest, Identity ..........66  4. Respect .......72  Atrtocity and Evasion .........75  Culpability and Accountability ......98  5. Ceremony ...........105  Transforming democracy ........106  Politics without polemic......108  Coalition ........110  Democracy as Ceremony ........114  Practices of Inclusive democracy ............116  Trickster politics ..........119  Limitations of the social Contract ....122  power and desire ..............126  A collective, Historical Social Contract........128  6. Audacity .............132  Engaged buddhism .........133  Examples of Engaged buddhism ...........135  Compassion .............139  Dharma practice and social Action .............141  Mindfulness........143  Skillful means .....146  Beyond us vs. Them ...........148  A buddhist ethos of Social Engagement ..........152  7. Risk ...............159  Responses to the threat of war .....160  The susks of International Cooperation............167  The folly oEmpire .............172  Cooperative power ..........179
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