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This is the first Chicken Soup book to focus specifically on
stories of faith, including 101 of the best stories from Chicken
Soup's library on faith, hope, miracles, and devotion.
This Chicken Soup book focuses on stories of faith, hope, miracles,
and devotion. The heartfelt true stories written by regular people
will amaze, inspire, and amuse readers. Many of them are stories of
prayers answered miraculously, amazing coincidences, rediscovered
faith, and the serenity that comes from believing in a greater
power.
The first Chicken Soup for the Soul books was published in 1993,
and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling
eight million copies. Since then, more than 150 Chicken Soup titles
have been published, selling more than 100 million copies.
Chicken Soup for the Soul has won dozens of awards over the last 15
years, and its founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have
become celebrity motivational speakers and authors.
The sacred and the revered, the divine and the musealised, relics
have long been integral to Islamic practice. Wahhabisation has cast
a modernist spectre over celebrated traditions such as the visiting
of shrines and pilgrimages to the birthplaces of beloved religious
figures, yet these rituals continue to thrive. In this issue of
Critical Muslim, we look at footprints ascribed to the Prophet
Muhammad, to Adam and to Jesus. We pay our respects to Sufi saints,
who may or may not be Islamicised versions of the Buddha, and we
ask whether tradition is nothing more than a relic of times gone
by. About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and
issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it
means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.
Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include
reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography,
poetry, and book reviews.
Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between
marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in
the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for
upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in
urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning
three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a
gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually
constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book
uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than
causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration
realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and
independent women capable of making "right" choices. The
consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum:
agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make
the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of
"freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.
Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a
difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction or anger?
Renowned Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder
we fight our demons, the stronger they become. Offering Eastern
answers to Western needs, Tsultrim seamlessly weaves traditions
from Tibet and the Western world to offer a new and unique answer
to the problems that plague us: that rather than attempt to purge
them, we need to reverse our approach and nurture our demons. This
powerful five-step practice forms a strategy for transforming
negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness and self-defeating
patterns. This will help you cope with the inner enemies that
undermine our best intentions.
The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished today from other
hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism,
and on empowering women. Hasidism Beyond Modernity provides a
critical, thematic study of the movement from its beginnings,
showing how its unusual qualities evolved. Topics investigated
include the theoretical underpinning of the outreach ethos; the
turn towards women in the twentieth century; new attitudes to
non-Jews; the role of the individual in the hasidic collective;
spiritual contemplation in the context of modernity; the quest for
inclusivism in the face of prevailing schismatic processes;
messianism in both spiritual and political forms; and the direction
of the movement after the passing of its seventh rebbe, Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1994. Attention is given to many
contrasts: pre-modern, modern, and postmodern conceptions of
Judaism; the clash between maintaining an enclave and outreach
models of Jewish society; particularist and universalist trends;
and the subtle interplay of mystical faith and rationality. Some of
the chapters are new; others, published in an earlier form, have
been updated to take account of recent scholarship. This book
presents an in-depth study of an intriguing movement which takes
traditional hasidism beyond modernity.
God promises to finish the good work he began in us-but that
doesn't come without bumps in the road. Life can be hard, faith can
wane, and distractions abound. Too many today are at risk of
compromising their integrity or giving up on their faith. How can
we persevere to the end? Trillia Newbell, a fellow struggler on the
journey, offers encouragement and hope for us to run the race well.
While life may be full of challenges, we have a true and real hope
in Jesus, who provides us with what we need to endure through pain
and doubt. Newbell shares theological insights and practical
disciplines to train us for faithful, godly living over the long
haul. The race is hard, but you are not running it alone. Find
strength and courage here to endure and finish well.
Although we are materially better off than ever before, surveys
show that we are depressed and listless. In his revolutionary book,
Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard shows that happiness is not just an
emotion, but a skill that can be developed. Free of jargon,
Happiness contains simple exercises that will train the mind to
recognize and pursue happiness by concentrating on the fundamental
things in life, and in doing so change the way we view the world.
A collection of essays engaging with Buddhism in Thailand and the
virtues of distraction and variety within the materialist turn in
studies of religion. In Thailand, Buddhism is deeply integrated
into national institutions and ideologies, making it tempting to
think of Buddhism in Thailand as a textual, institutional,
cultural, and conceptual whole. At the same time, religious
expression in the country reflects anything but a single order.
Often gaudy, cacophonous, variegated, and jumbled, diversity and
apparent contradiction abound. A more open engagement with Buddhism
in Thailand requires a willingness to be distracted, to step away
from received hierarchies and follow the intriguing detail in the
ornate design, the odd textual reference, and to prefer "thin
description" over a search for meaning. Justin McDaniel's
well-known book-length writings in Buddhist and Theravada studies
cannot be fully understood without taking into account his shorter
writings, what he calls his wayward distractions. Collected
together for the first time, these essays cover subjects ranging
from ornamental art to marriage and emotion, the role of Hinduism,
neglected gender and ethnic diversity, Buddhist inflections in
contemporary art practice, and the boundaries between the living,
dead, and undead. These writings will be of importance to students
of Theravada and Thailand, of religion in Southeast Asia and more
generally, of the materialist turn in studies of religion.
This book is about discernment. To discern means to look for clues
in your innermost experience in order to know what to do or what
not to do. More precisely, discernment means paying attention to
what is happening in the very depths of your heart. Christians
believe that a careful reading of our deepest emotions can reveal
what God is inviting us to do. The language that God speaks today
is that of human experience. The book opens with a general overview
about the practice of discernment and examines the role of our
heart, our intelligence and our will. It then explains how
discernment can be practiced in daily life, how discernment can
help in making choices, and in knowing whether something is good or
bad. Then ten different emotionally charged situations are
explored. Finally, the book addresses the question of whether or
not discernment is reserved for Christians, and also briefly
discusses discernment in a community setting. The book concludes
with a reflection on discernment as a way of life.
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A 31-day devotional from bestselling author and speaker Joni
Eareckson Tada that takes readers on a month-long journey toward
the deepest healing God offers. The entire book is framed against
Joni's visit to the healing pool of Bethesda to seek healing where
Jesus healed.As Joni relates aspects of her own journey in dealing
with the most painful "unanswered prayer" of her life, readers will
learn to see beyond potential quick fixes to the deepest and
greatest solutions God has for them. As the journey continues,
readers deal with topics such as contentment, patience, unanswered
prayer, transformation through suffering, wrestling with God, and
hoping in God.
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions
within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding
the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian
(for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance), with
consequences for long-term peacemaking. Nigerian society has long
been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims
and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important
polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and
sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of
intra-Muslim pluralism and conflict in Nigeria. Conflicting
interpretations of texts and contexts have led to fragmentation
within northern Nigerian Islam, and differentIslamic sects have
often resorted to violence against each other in pursuit of 'the
right path'. The doctrinal justification of violence was first
perfected against other Muslim groups, before being extended to
non-Muslims: conflict between Muslim groups therefore preceded the
violence between Muslims and Christians. It will be impossible to
manage the relationship between the latter, without addressing the
schisms within the Muslim community itself. Nigeria: Premium Times
Books Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor in African
Politics, University of Oxford. His publications include (co-edited
with Lindsey Whitfield) Turning Points in African Democracy (James
Currey, 2009).
Chaim Waxman, a prominent sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, is
one of the keenest observers of American Jewish society. In
illustration of how Orthodoxy is adapting to modernity, he presents
a detailed discussion of halakhic developments, particularly
regarding women's greater participation in ritual practices and
other areas of communal life. He shows that the direction of change
is not uniform: there is both greater stringency and greater
leniency, and he discusses the many reasons for this, both in the
Jewish community and in the wider society. Relations between the
various sectors of American Orthodoxy over the past several decades
are also considered.
Now in softcover, "God Promises & Answers for Your Life" is
a compilation of the best-selling books, "God's Promises for Your
Every Need" and "God's Answers for Your Life." These two books have
sold in excess of eight million copies.
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