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This book contains NO Medical or technical advice relating to virus outbreaks. This is a short diary written by a mildly disabled English woman living in France during the lockdown in 2020 and looking at the situation in England from the view of the whole spectrum of the UK media. The book gives some views that are quite blunt due to the author's past and autism. The book is one of many lockdown diaries, each one unique, everyone has a story to tell....
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The description for this book, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, will be forthcoming. "Illuminates great reaches of society beyond the confines of cathedral and chapel, tabernacle and temple. . . . So mountainous is the factual material on such a myriad of subjects and so thoughtful are the author's interpretations, grounded in a mastery of social science theory, that one can only be grateful for this brilliant...
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Este libro abre un nuevo espacio para el diálogo entre teólogos del país y de otras regiones sobre un tema tan importante, actual y necesario en nuestra sociedad: el perdón, la compasión y la esperanza. Cada uno de los capítulos de esta publicación, y desde diversas aristas, fomenta la conversación entre la teología y la cultura, la articulación de la ciencia teológica con los demás saberes.
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Presents oral histories and interviews of women who belong to Nation of Islam
With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in creating the public image that made it appealing and captivating.
Women...
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To the astonishment and dismay of Anglican leadership in the Global North, Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola led the Global South's revolt against the campaign to normalize homosexuality within the global Anglican communion. For this, he was twice recognized by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People" on earth. As shepherd of an immense Nigerian flock, he joined arms with like-minded archbishops in Africa, Asia, and South America...
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This book carefully explores the claim that young adults (18 to 35) are leaving Catholicism in the United States. According to primary empirical research, many young adults stay and do so living their faith in engaged ways. Most, however, do not do it in the traditional context of the parish. Young adult Catholics are living their faith and spiritual life largely in small faith communities, ecclesial movements, faith-based affinity groups, at home,...
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Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' compared with the 'dogmatism' of 'believers'; the difficulty of reading 'scripture' outside 'the community of faith' that has selected and elaborated it; the problems...
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This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of 'hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author's original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health.
The climate crisis, violence, hostility, pandemics, homelessness,...
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This book takes a look at the faith, philosophy, and way of life of the country's one remaining Shaker community. Lauber explores their spiritual and daily lives by weaving together proprietary Shaker quotations, interviews, and photographs. The result is a book that pierces many misconceptions, most notably that the Shakers and their faith are dead. Lauber places the topics of faith, community, work, and worship in the context of Shaker history and...
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Los Evangelios testimonian que Jesús no estuvo ajeno a las ciudades.
Al contrario, en ellas desarrolló diversas actividades relacionadas con el Reino de Dios como horizonte de plenitud urbano. Por eso es tan importante ver si el mundo urbano de hoy podría ser escenario de revelaciones de lo que Dios quiere para la ciudad.
Este libro brinda una aproximación a esta búsqueda. ¿Son nuestras ciudades lugares de morada de Dios o lugares de ausencia...
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A history of Catholic social thought
Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception, and divorce. Yet there is a longstanding tradition of progressive Catholic movements in the United States that have addressed a variety of issues from labor, war, immigration, and environmental protection, to human rights, women's rights, exploitive development practices, and bellicose foreign...
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En las páginas de la Historia Universal del malentendido, Dorothea Ortmann ha escrito un capítulo. Gracias a su análisis del libro La ética protestante y el espíritu del capitalismo −la obra más difundida de Max Weber− se logra detectar los conceptos teologales que el sociólogo alemán emplea con error para explicar el origen del capitalismo.
A través de una mirada arqueológica del pensamiento, la autora acopia y comenta de forma pormenorizada...
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The Sathya Sai global civil religious movement incorporates Hindu and Muslim practices, Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian influences, and "New Age"-style rituals and beliefs. Shri Sathya Sai Baba, its charismatic and controversial leader, attracts several million adherents from various national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. In a dynamic account of the Sathya Sai movement's explosive growth, Winged Faith argues for a rethinking of globalization...
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This is the first critical study of feminist practices of 'speaking out' in response to rape. This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women's personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political limitations. The book explores both the successes...
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Behind the scenes at a creationist theme park with a mission to convert visitors through entertainment
Opened to the public in July 2016, Ark Encounter is a creationist theme park in Kentucky. The park features an all-timber re-creation of Noah's ark, built full scale to creationist specifications drawn from the text of Genesis, as well as exhibits that imagine the Bible's account of life before the flood. More than merely religious spectacle,...
76) Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Bahá'í Practice and Thought
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Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has, paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that arise from these complex relationships, many search for ways to find peace and understanding through a "global public sphere." There citizens can deliberate on issues...
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It wouldn't make headline news if a scientist declared that in today's world, we are all connected and dependent on each other. But, it would become a main feature if a scientist said there is a proven way we can not only benefit from our connectedness, but actually enjoy it. Completing the Circle: an empirically proven method for finding peace and harmony in life, presents precisely that. Over a period of four years, the Connection-Circle and Round-Table...
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to...
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Diese Textsammlung erschliesst erstmalig in Deutscher Sprache einen Bereich der Psychonautik, welcher in ungeahnt kraftvollen Bilder den Peyote Kult der Amerikanischen Ureinwohner beschreibt. Die Berichte stützten sich auf authentische Beschreibungen von Mitgliedern der sogenannten Peyote Kirche. In den Protokollen erläutern die Ureinwohner des südlichen Nordamerikas die Rituale der Sitzungen. Aber auch das persönliche Erleben im Rauschzustand,...
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Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute...
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