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Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 2 - Engagement and Activism in Religious Institutions (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 2 - Engagement and Activism in Religious Institutions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando, Sophia Chirongoma
R4,565 Discovery Miles 45 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Zimbabwe has invested in women’s emancipation and leadership while articulating a strong Pan-Africanist ideology, providing a valuable entry point into understanding the dynamics relating to women’s leadership in Africa. It is also characterised by radical religious pluralism, thereby facilitating an appreciation of the impact of religion on women’s leadership in Africa more generally.  This volume reflects on the role of Zimbabwean women in religio-cultural leadership, with a specific focus on roles within religious organizations. It begins by examining Zimbabwean church women’s leadership roles in long established faith communities. The chapters then hone in on the emergence of churches or ministries founded by women in Zimbabwe, starting from the pre-colonial era and advancing through the last forty years of independence. Hence, the book offers a comprehensive assessment of the challenges and opportunities women in leadership face in religious institutions in the country, before exploring the impact of the pandemic on the ability of women to lead. It will make a major contribution to the advancement of scholarship of gender and leadership in emerging markets.

Handbook of Religion - A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices (Paperback): Terry C. Muck, Harold A.... Handbook of Religion - A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices (Paperback)
Terry C. Muck, Harold A. Netland, Gerald R. McDermott
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Finding Peace through Spiritual Practice - The Interfaith Amigos' Guide to Personal, Social and Environmental Healing... Finding Peace through Spiritual Practice - The Interfaith Amigos' Guide to Personal, Social and Environmental Healing (Hardcover)
Don MacKenzie, Ted Falcon, Jamal Rahman
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

If we want to heal our personal and planetary problems, we have to move beyond talking to spiritual practice. Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman, who have become known as the Interfaith Amigos, believe truly effective interfaith dialogue can inhibit the demonization of any religion. Their work together, which began with the horrors of 9/11, aims to help us see all authentic spiritual traditions as sacred avenues to a shared Universal Reality—when we achieve this, the healing of our shared personal and planetary problems begins. In this, their third book, the Interfaith Amigos look at the specific issues we face in a pluralistic society and the spiritual practices that can help us transcend those roadblocks to effective collaboration on the critical issues of our time. Focusing on the interconnection of spirituality and authentic interfaith dialogue, they examine: How Spiritual Awareness Can Heal Our Own Traditions Beyond Polarization: Confronting Our Most Personal Obstacle Spiritual Paths to Environmental Stewardship Spiritual Paths to Social Justice How to Make Spirituality a Way of Life This book helps awaken readers to the spiritual consciousness within each of us that provides the foundation for much-needed healing. Each chapter includes spiritual practices to aid us in reclaiming the deep spiritual truths of our own being.

Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian (Paperback): Paul F. Knitter Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian (Paperback)
Paul F. Knitter
R579 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Honest and unflinching, "Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian" narrates how estreemed theologian, Paul F. Knitter overcame a crisis of faith by looking to Buddhism for inspiration. From prayer to how Christianity views life after death, Knitter argues that a Buddhist standpoint can encourage a more person-centred conception of Christianity, where individual religious experience comes first, and liturgy and tradition second. Moving and revolutionary, this book will inspire Christians everywhere.

Performing the Gendered Self in Intercultural Communication (Paperback, New edition): Ozan Can Yilmaz Performing the Gendered Self in Intercultural Communication (Paperback, New edition)
Ozan Can Yilmaz
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While there is a multiplicity of identity markers that affect the dynamics of intercultural communication, the intersectionality of gender and religion deserves more scholarly attention. The book takes the dissimilar cultural concepts and identity performance as a starting point, exploring the significant role that the religious indoctrinations play in the construction and performance of gender. It features contributions by the scholars in the field of communication, gender and cultural studies, including theoretical reflections on the socio-cultural formation of identity, dogmatic impositions on gender roles, and the performance of gender identity in intercultural settings.

Keys to the Beyond - Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence (Paperback): Patrick Laude Keys to the Beyond - Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence (Paperback)
Patrick Laude
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue - Kairotic Place and Borders (Paperback): Allen G. Jorgenson Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue - Kairotic Place and Borders (Paperback)
Allen G. Jorgenson
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Allen G. Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous spiritualties and worldviews. Jorgenson argues that theology in North America has been captive to colonial conceits and has lost sight of key resources in a post-Christendom context. The volume is especially concerned with the loss of a sense of place, evident in theologies written without attention to context. Using a comparative theology methodology, wherein more than one faith tradition is engaged in dialogical exploration, Jorgenson uses insights from Indigenous understandings of place to illumine forgotten or obstructed themes in Christianity. In this constructive theological project, "kairotic" places are named as those that are kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins, where we meet the religious other.

Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings (Hardcover): James W. Watts, Yohan Yoo Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings (Hardcover)
James W. Watts, Yohan Yoo
R2,330 Discovery Miles 23 300 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Human cultures, especially religious groups but also secular artists and performers, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. An international team of scholars addresses this theme of books as sacred beings in this volume through an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. These studies show the wide variety of ways in which books, bodies, and beings intermingle in material sacred texts manipulated by human bodies, and also in literary and artistic depictions of transcendent textual bodies. The boundary between material immanence and spiritual transcendence turns out to be very thin indeed when people use books. The chapters on specific book practices in different cultures are bracketed by an introduction to the collection and by a concluding essay that extrapolates on the widespread theme of books as sacred beings.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media (Hardcover, New): Diane Winston The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media (Hardcover, New)
Diane Winston
R5,405 Discovery Miles 54 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Once relegated to the private sphere, or confined to its own section of the newspaper, religion is now a major part of daily news coverage. Every journalist needs a basic knowledge of religion to cover everything from presidential elections to the war in Iraq to the ethical issues raised by latest developments in medical research. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media will be the go-to volume for both secular and religious journalists and journalism educators, scholars in media studies, journalism studies, religious studies, and American studies. Comprised of six sections, the first examines how the history of the mass media and the role religion played in its growth. The second looks at how the major media formats - print, broadcast, and online - deal with religion. The next two examines how journalists cover major religious traditions and particular issues that have religion angles. The fifth examines the religious press, from the Christian Broadcasting Network to The Forward. The final section looks at how the American press covers the rest of the world.

Science, Humanism, and Religion - The Quest for Orientation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Matthias Jung Science, Humanism, and Religion - The Quest for Orientation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Matthias Jung
R2,259 Discovery Miles 22 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cultural activities are rooted. Human beings have to relate themselves to the entirety of their lives to achieve orientation. This relation involves a non-methodical, meaningful experience that exhibits the crucial features for understanding worldviews: it comprises cognition, volition, and emotion, is embodied, action-oriented, and expressive. From this starting-point, religious and secular worldviews articulate what is experienced as ultimately meaningful. Yet the plurality and one-sidedness of these life stances necessitates critical engagement for which philosophy provides indispensable means. In the end, some worldviews can be ruled out, but we are still left with a plurality of genuine options for orientation.

ISLAM IN LiGHT OF THE BIBLE (Hardcover): Ph D Samuel Shahid ISLAM IN LiGHT OF THE BIBLE (Hardcover)
Ph D Samuel Shahid
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Crescent and the Cross - Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace (Hardcover): Oliver Ramsbotham, Saba Risaluddin,... The Crescent and the Cross - Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace (Hardcover)
Oliver Ramsbotham, Saba Risaluddin, Brian Wicker, Abdel Haleem Harifyah
R2,871 Discovery Miles 28 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the West of Islamic fundamentalism. It analyzes the ethical and legal principles, rooted in both traditions, underlying any use of armed force in the modern world. After chapters on the history, theology and laws of war as seen from both sides, the book applies its conclusions to firstly, the 1990-91 Gulf War and secondly, the Bosnian conflict. It concludes that Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" thesis is a myth.

Ultimate Journey - Death and Dying in the World's Major Religions (Hardcover): Steven Rosen Ultimate Journey - Death and Dying in the World's Major Religions (Hardcover)
Steven Rosen
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Like taxes, death is inevitable. Everyone experiences it sooner or later. This book offers perspectives on death and dying from all major religions, written by experts in each of those religions. Focusing on the major world traditions, it offers important information about what death and dying means to those practicing these faiths. The second part of the book adds a necessary and truly unique perspective - a personal look at how people actually die in the various world religions, as told by a hospital chaplain, with anecdotes and experiences that bring the death process to life, so to speak.

Each chapter engages the theology of each religion, giving quotes from the literature of their respective scriptural traditions, to explain the process of dying, death, and the afterlife. In doing so, each author draws on the history of his respective tradition and looks at real-life figures, exemplars of the tradition, showing how practitioners view death and hope to one day engage the death process themselves.

Reflections on Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity (Hardcover, New edition): Riv kah Nir, Dan Jaffe, Yaakov Teppler Reflections on Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity (Hardcover, New edition)
Riv kah Nir, Dan Jaffe, Yaakov Teppler
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nothingness and Desire - A Philosophical Antiphony (Hardcover, New): James W. Heisig Nothingness and Desire - A Philosophical Antiphony (Hardcover, New)
James W. Heisig
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide.

Love as Common Ground - Essays on Love in Religion (Hardcover): Paul S Fiddes Love as Common Ground - Essays on Love in Religion (Hardcover)
Paul S Fiddes; Contributions by Minlib Dallh, Oliver Davies, Mircea Dumitru, Paul S Fiddes, …
R3,200 R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Save R327 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the way in which the study and practice of love creates a common ground for different faiths and different traditions within the same faith. For the contributors, "common ground" in this context is not a minimal core of belief or a lowest common denominator of faith, but a space or area in which to live together, consider together the meaning of the love to which various faiths witness, and work together to enable human flourishing. Such a space, the contributors believe, is possible because it is the place of encounter with the divine. This book is the fruit of a Project for the Study of Love in Religion which aims to create this space in which different traditions of love converge, from Islam, Judaism, and the Christianity of both East and West. Tools employed by the contributors in exploring this space of love include exegesis of ancient texts, theology, accounts of mystical experience, philosophy, and evolutionary science of the human. Insights about human and divine love that emerge include its nature as a form of knowing, its sacrificial and erotic dimensions, its inclination towards beauty, its making of community and its importance for a just political and economic life.

Language and Religion (Hardcover): Robert Yelle, Courtney Handman, Christopher Lehrich Language and Religion (Hardcover)
Robert Yelle, Courtney Handman, Christopher Lehrich
R5,359 Discovery Miles 53 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.

Suffering and Evil in Nature - Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures (Hardcover): Joseph E.... Suffering and Evil in Nature - Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures (Hardcover)
Joseph E. Harroff, Jea Sophia Oh; Foreword by Robert S Corrington; Contributions by Katelynn E. Carver, Desmond Coleman, …
R3,599 R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Save R1,062 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures, edited by Joseph E. Harroff and Jea Sophia Oh, provides many unique experiments in thinking through the implications of ecstatic naturalism. This collection of essays directly addresses the importance of values sustaining cultures of healing and offers a variety of perspectives inducing radical hope requisite for cultivating moral and political imaginings of democracy-to-come as a regulative ideal. Through its invocation of "healing cultures," the collection foregrounds the significance of the active, gerundive, and processual nature of ecstatic naturalism as a creative horizon for realizing values of intersubjective flourishing, while also highlighting the significance of culture as an always unfinished project of making discursive, interpretive and ethical space open for the subaltern and voiceless. Each contribution gives voice to the tensions and contradictions felt by living participants in emergent communities of interpretation-namely those who risk replacing authoritarian tendencies and fascist prejudices with a faith in future-oriented archetypes of healing to make possible truth and reconciliation between oppressor and oppressed, victimizers and victims of violence and trauma. These essays then let loose the radical hope of healing from suffering in a ceaseless community of communication within a horizon of creative democratic interpretation.

Ethnic Religious Minorities in Iran (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): S Behnaz Hosseini Ethnic Religious Minorities in Iran (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
S Behnaz Hosseini
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the experiences of the ethnic and religious minorities of Iran, such as Jews, Yarsani, Christian, Sabean Mandaean, Bahai, Zoroastrian, Baluch, Kurd, and others and provides a historical overview of their position in society before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution and highlights their contribution to the country's history, diversity, and development. It also focuses on the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that affected the minorities' development during the last century. Author Behnaz Hosseini has shaped this book with authentic material and has assembled the experiences and opinions of academics of diverse backgrounds who approach the minorities' issues in Iran in a constructive and ingenious way: from debating their efforts to preserve their identity and cultural heritage and ensure their survival to discussing their relations with the majority and other minorities, the role of religion in everyday life, and their contribution to the rich cultural history of Iran.

Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Paperback): Roger T. Ames Human Becomings - Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics (Paperback)
Roger T. Ames
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Confusion of Worlds (Hardcover): Heiner Schwenke The Confusion of Worlds (Hardcover)
Heiner Schwenke; Translated by Sarah Kuhne
R1,231 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R204 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R7,501 Discovery Miles 75 010 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also with history; related to science and health practices and ranging across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power, Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media, and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to developments in the future.

Hathor Rising - The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt (Paperback, Original ed.): Alison Roberts Hathor Rising - The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt (Paperback, Original ed.)
Alison Roberts
R535 R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


- The first book to seriously examine the feminine aspect of Egyptian religion sheds new light on the important role of the goddess Hathor-Sekhmet.
- This accessible study sheds much new light on ancient Egypt and provides a powerful new perspective on women's theology.
- The text is accompanied by nearly 200 striking and unusual illustrations
Drawing from temple art, myths, rituals, and poetry, "Hathor Rising" is the first book to seriously examine the feminine aspect of the complex Egyptian pantheon and to shed new light on the pivotal place held there by the fiery serpent-eyed goddess, Hathor-Sekhmet. The primary importance of this goddess is emphasized by the serpent coiled over the forehead of every pharaoh--the supreme symbol of royal power in ancient Egypt. The erotic vitality and fierce aggression of the goddess, qualities commonly perceived as masculine in nature, gives the reigning Pharaoh the capacity for dynamic leadership. The author explores the symbolism behind this and other manifestations of the goddess in Egyptian cosmology and provides new revelations on the rich tradition of feminine divinity in Egypt. "Hathor Rising" is the most important study of one of the world's oldest civilizations to appear in years.

Theologies from the Pacific (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jione Havea Theologies from the Pacific (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jione Havea
R3,430 Discovery Miles 34 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters. The first, Roots, explores the many roots from which theologies in and of Pasifika grow - sea and (is)land, Christian teachings and scriptures, native traditions and island ways. The second, Reads, presents theologies informed and inspired by readings of written and oral texts, missionary traps and propaganda, and teachings and practices of local churches. The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage. The 'amanaki (hope) of this work is in keeping talanoa (dialogue) going, in pushing back tendencies to wedge the theologies in and of Pasifika, and in putting native wisdom upon the waters. As these Christian and native theologies voyage, they chart Pasifika's sea of theologies.

The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism - How to Deal with Too Many Gods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Mario Ferrero The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism - How to Deal with Too Many Gods (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Mario Ferrero
R2,631 Discovery Miles 26 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or competition among multiple gods in a polytheistic system and the monotheistic solution to this competition. Presenting case studies on the transformation and demise of various polytheistic religions, it highlights the pivotal role of the priestly class in driving religious change and suggests a joint explanation for the demise of Greco-Roman religion and the resilience of Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. It will appeal to scholars of the economics of religion and religious history and to anyone seeking new insights into the birth and death of religions, and the birth of monotheism in particular.

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