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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian)
* Introduces case study examples of pedagogical practices in
Islamic schools worldwide. * Offers pre- and in-service teachers
and islamic teacher educators up-to-date best practice for teaching
skills, methods of teaching and training for school development and
curriculum reform. * Will help to enhance Muslim teachers' 21st
century skills and knowledge.
The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped
by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and
(post)colonial scholarship. This book addresses a gap in the
scholarly debate around defining Hinduism by demonstrating the role
of online discourses in generating and projecting images of Hindu
religion and culture. This study surveys a wide range of
propaganda, websites and social media in which definitions of
Hinduism are debated. In particular, it focuses on the role of
Hindu nationalism in the presentation and management of Hinduism in
the electronic public sphere. Hindu nationalist parties and
individuals are highly invested in discussions and presentations of
Hinduism online, and actively shape discourses through a variety of
strategies. Analysing Hindu nationalist propaganda, cyber activist
movements and social media presence, as well as exploring
methodological strategies that are useful to the field of religion
and media in general, the book concludes by showing how these
discourses function in the wider Hindu diaspora. Building on
religion and media research by highlighting mechanical and
hermeneutic issues of the Internet and how it affects how we
encounter Hinduism online, this book will be of significant
interest to scholars of religious studies, Hindu studies and
digital media.
Since its development as a field over the last part of the
twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been
heavily concerned with methodological issues. Following the lead of
Thomas Kuhn, many scholars in this interdisciplinary field have
offered proposals that purport to show how theology and science are
compatible by appropriating theories of scientific methodology or
rationality. Arguing against this strategy, this book shows why
much of this methodological work is at odds with recent
developments in the history and philosophy of science and should be
reconsidered. Firstly, three influential methodological proposals
are critiqued: Lakatosian research programs, Alister McGrath's
"Scientific Theology" and the Postfoundationalist project of
Wentzel van Huyssteen. Each of these approaches is shown to have a
common failing: the idea that science has an essential nature, with
features that unite "scientific" or even "rational" inquiry across
time or disciplines. After outlining the issues this failing could
have on the viability of the field, the book concludes by arguing
that there are several ways scholarship in science and religion can
move forward, even if the terms "science" and "religion" do not
refer to something universally valid or philosophically useful.
This is a bold study of the methodology of science and religion
that pushes both subjects to consider the other more carefully. As
such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious
studies, theology and the philosophy of science.
C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers of our
time. The Chronicles of Narnia has sold more than 100 million
copies worldwide and all Lewis's works are estimated to sell 6
million copies annually. At the fiftieth anniversary of his death,
Lewis expert Devin Brown brings the beloved author's story to life
in a fresh, accessible, and moving biography through focusing on
Lewis's spiritual journey.
Although it was clear from the start that Lewis would be a writer,
it was not always clear he would become a Christian. Drawing on
Lewis's autobiographical works, books by those who knew him
personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this book
tells the inspiring story of Lewis's journey from cynical atheist
to joyous Christian and challenges readers to follow their own
calling. The book allows Lewis to tell his own life story in a
uniquely powerful manner while shedding light on his best-known
works.
This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not
intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much written upon subject
of the power of thought. It is suggestiive rather athan
explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the
discovery and perception of the truth that...'they themselves are
makers of themselves' by virtue of the thoughts which they choose
and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner
garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and
that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they
may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.
Weaving together Jewish lore, the voices of Jewish foremothers, Yiddish fable, midrash and stories of her own imagining, Ellen Frankel has created in this book a breathtakingly vivid exploration into what the Torah means to women. Here are Miriam, Esther, Dinah, Lilith and many other women of the Torah in dialogue with Jewish daughters, mothers and grandmothers, past and present. Together these voices examine and debate every aspect of a Jewish woman's life -- work, sex, marriage, her connection to God and her place in the Jewish community and in the world. The Five Books of Miriam makes an invaluable contribution to Torah study and adds rich dimension to the ongoing conversation between Jewish women and Jewish tradition.
The essential companion volume to the phenomenal self-help
bestseller THE POWER OF NOW - 'the must-read bible du jour'.
Eckhart Tolle's book describes the experience of heightened
consciousness that radically transformed his life - and shows how
by living in the moment we can also reach a higher state of being
where we can find joy and peace and where problems do not exist.
The invaluable companion volume - PRACTISING THE POWER OF NOW -
contains all the essential techniques we need to start to put this
important book into practice in our own lives. No reader will be
complete without it.
In March 2020, Are Thoresen contracted Covid-19. Whilst
convalescing from the disease and suffering great exhaustion, he
experienced a breakthrough in his daily meditation. Although he has
always been able to 'see' into the spiritual world, now deeper,
unknown realms appeared to his inner vision. In the soapstone
surround of the fireplace in his Norwegian home, he perceived the
elemental beings and forces that make up the mineral at an atomic
level. A few days later, an even deeper dimension revealed itself,
in the form of a void or vacuum. Here, astonishingly, was an open
portal to the entire cosmos... In Travels on the Northern Path of
Initiation, Thoresen shares the results of his latest spiritual
investigations, including a moving, life-changing encounter with
'the Light of the World'. He details the teachings he receives from
the beings Vidar and Balder - who stand as guardians to the
threshold of the outer etheric world - and characterizes the
Northern way of initiation, which is based on merging, or 'fading',
into nature. Thoresen documents Rudolf Steiner's descriptions of
this path and shows how it is reflected in the Old Norse Poetic
Edda, the Kalevala and von Eschenbach's Parzival. Based on
painstaking research, he describes the individual qualities of the
three elemental realms, and how the adversarial forces - seeking to
corrupt human senses - hinder spiritual observation of them.
Thoresen's book is a powerful personal testimony to the human
potential for spiritual knowledge and experience in our time.
Islamic powers in secular countries have presented a challenge for
states around the world, including Indonesia, home to the largest
Muslim population as well as the third largest democracy in the
world. This book explores the history of the relationships between
Islam, state, and society in Indonesia with a focus on local
politics in Madura. It identifies and explains factors that have
shaped and characterized the development of contemporary Islam and
politics in Madura and recognizes and elucidates forms and aspects
of the relationships between Islam and politics; between state and
society; between conflicts and accommodations; between piety,
tradition and violence in that area, and the forms and characters
of democratization and decentralization processes in local
politics. This book shows how the area's experience in dealing with
Islam and politics may illuminate the socio-political trajectory of
other developing Muslim countries at present living through
comparable democratic transformations. Madura was chosen because it
has one of the most complex relationships between Islam and
politics during the last years of the New Order and the first years
of the post-New Order in Indonesia, and because it is a strong
Muslim area with a history of a very strong religious as well as
cultural tradition than is commonly understood and is largely
ignored in literature on Islam and politics. Based on extensive
sets of anthropological fieldwork and historical research, this
book makes an important contribution to the analysis of Islam and
politics in Indonesia and future socio-political trajectory of
other developing Muslim countries experiencing comparable
democratic transformations. It will be of interest to academics in
the field of Religion and Politics and Southeast Asian Studies, in
particular Southeast Asian politics, anthropology and history.
This exceptional hymnal features more than 600 hymns, psalms, and
spiritual songs in contemporary language that is both familiar and
inclusive. The selections are arranged according to the seasons and
festivals of the Christian year, theological topics, and specific
occasions for worship. First published in 1990 and now in its
nineteenth printing, The Presbyterian Hymnal is available in a
variety of editions.
Useful in settings where Spanish language worship is the norm,
this comprehensive hymnal is filled with hymns, songs, choruses and
service music from a Hispanic tradition.
The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently
reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi
Arabia and Iran - with no apparent end in sight. But how did this
conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention?
In this definitive account, John McHugo charts the history of Islam
from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. He
describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the
Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism evolved as different sects during
the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of
the Sunni Ottomans and Shi'i Safavids ensured that the split would
continue into the modern age. In recent decades, this centuries-old
divide has acquired a new toxicity resulting in violence across the
Arab and Muslim world.
This book is designed to help those who bring a child to church for
Baptism tell the child about their Baptism and what it means. "We
hope this will be a book that a child will cherish and will love to
look through--like a family photo album."
In February 2018, the 'Independent Review on Sharia Law in England
and Wales' was published headed by Professor Mona Siddiqui. The
review focused on whether sharia law is being misused or applied in
a way that is incompatible with the domestic law in England and
Wales, and in particular whether there were discriminatory
practices against women who use sharia councils. It came about
after years of concerns raised by academics, lawyers and women's
activists. This timely collection of essays from experts, scholars
and legal practitioners provides a critique and evaluation of the
Inquiry findings as a starting point for analysis and debate on
current British Muslim family law practices in the matters of
marriage and divorce. At the heart of the collection lie key
questions of state action and legal reform of religious practices
that may operate 'outside the sphere of law and legal relations'
but also in conjunction with state law mechanisms and processes.
This cutting-edge book is a must read for those with an interest in
Islamic law, family law, sociology of religion, human rights,
multiculturalism, politics, anthropology of law and gender studies.
This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and
accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader
through the different variables that have played a part in the
ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists.
This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazali
(1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual
from the medieval period. By understanding al-Ghazali as an
Ash'arite theologian, a particular strand of Sunni theology, his
metaphysical and hermeneutic ideas are taken to explore if and how
much Neo-Darwinian evolution can be accepted. It is shown that his
ideas can be used to reach an alignment between Islam and
Neo-Darwinian evolution. This book offers a detailed examination
that seeks to offer clarity if not agreement in the midst of an
intense intellectual conflict and polarity amongst Muslims. As
such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Science and
Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Islamic Studies, and
Religious Studies more generally. *Winner of the International
Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) book prize 2022 (academic
category)*
In spite of Islam's long history in Europe and the growing number
of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim
pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the
first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging
research field. Placing the pilgrims' practices and experiences
centre stage, scholars from history, anthropology, religious
studies, sociology, and art history examine historical and
contemporary hajj and non-hajj pilgrimage to sites outside and
within Europe. Sources include online travelogues, ethnographic
data, biographic information, and material and performative
culture. The interlocutors are European-born Muslims, converts to
Islam, and Muslim migrants to Europe, in addition to people who
identify themselves with other faiths. Most interlocutors reside in
Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Great
Britain, and Norway. This book identifies four courses of
developments: Muslims resident in Europe continue to travel to
Mecca and Medina, and to visit shrine sites located elsewhere in
the Middle East and North Africa. Secondly, there is a revival of
pilgrimage to old pilgrimage sites in South-eastern Europe.
Thirdly, new Muslim pilgrimage sites and practices are being
established in Western Europe. Fourthly, Muslims visit
long-established Christian pilgrimage sites in Europe. These
practices point to processes of continuity, revitalization, and
innovation in the practice of Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. Linked
to changing sectarian, political, and economic circumstances,
pilgrimage sites are dynamic places of intra-religious as well as
inter-religious conflict and collaboration, while pilgrimage
experiences in multiple ways also transform the individual and
affect the home-community.
Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, which
pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a
profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by
determining the Covenants' historicity and textual accuracy. The
authors focus on the Prophet Muhammad's relationship with other
faith communities by conducting detailed textual and linguistic
analysis of documents which have received little scholarly
consideration before. This not only includes decrees of the Prophet
Muhammad, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Mu'awiya
ibn Abi Sufyan, but also of important Muslim rulers. They present
their findings in relation to contemporaneous historical writings,
historic testimonies, official recognition, archaeological
evidence, historic scribal conventions, date-matching calculations,
textual parallelisms, and references in Muslim and non-Muslim
sources. They also provide new and revised translations of various
Covenants issued by the Prophet Muhammad which were attested by
Muslim authorities after him. The authors argue that the claim of
forgery is no longer tenable following the application of rigorous
textual and historical analysis. This book is essential reading for
Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, and Zoroastrians, as well as
anyone interested in interfaith relations, Islamophobia, extremist
ideologies, security studies, and the relationship between Orthodox
and Oriental Christianity with Islam.
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The New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of
purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle
Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered
the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe. In her second
work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker
Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story - who she was, the life she lived
and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's
letter to the Philippians, giving a sense of the cultural and
historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of
the early church. Written in the gripping style of Gerd Theissen's
The Shadow of the Galilean, and similarly rigorously researched,
this is a book for everyone and anyone who wants to engage more
deeply and imaginatively with Paul's theology - from one of the
UK's foremost New Testament scholars.
Take Hold Of The Freedom That Is Yours In Christ! Do you want to
become an even more fruitful disciple of Jesus? Are you tired of
not fulfilling your full potential as a Christian? No matter how
long or short a time you have been a Christian, or how far you are
on the journey, you will find The Steps To Freedom In Christ a
wonderfully refreshing spiritual check-up. It will help you clear
away the spiritual cobwebs and connect with Jesus in a deeper way.
Many use it on a regular basis to give God an opportunity to
highlight attitudes and behaviors that need to change and to
uncover areas where their faith is not as strong as they would like
it to be. It's also extremely effective for those facing particular
challenges such as: * condemning thoughts * patterns of wrong
behavior * spiritual struggles * hopelessness You might also want
to use The Steps To Freedom In Christ DVD, in which Neil Anderson
and Steve Goss (international director of Freedom In Christ
Ministries) take you through this book. Dr. Neil T. Anderson is the
founder and president emeritus of Freedom In Christ Ministries,
which has offices and representatives in 40 countries. He was
formerly chairman of the Practical Theology Department at Talbot
School of Theology and has five earned degrees, including two
doctorates. Dr. Anderson and his wife live in Franklin, Tennessee.
For more information see www.ficm.org or www.ficminternational.org.
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