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The Tactics of Toleration examines the preconditions and limits of
toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along
religious lines. During the Age of Religious Wars, refugee
communities in borderland towns like the Rhineland city of Wesel
were remarkably religiously diverse and culturally heterogeneous
places. Examining religious life from the perspective of
Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Catholics, this book
examines how residents dealt with pluralism during an age of deep
religious conflict and intolerance. Based on sources that range
from theological treatises to financial records and from marriage
registries to testimonies before secular and ecclesiastical courts,
this project offers new insights into the strategies that ordinary
people developed for managing religious pluralism during the Age of
Religious Wars. Historians have tended to emphasize the ways in
which people of different faiths created and reinforced religious
differences in the generations after the Reformation's break-up of
Christianity, usually in terms of long-term historical narratives
associated with modernization, including state building,
confessionalization, and the subsequent rise of religious
toleration after a century of religious wars. In contrast, Jesse
Spohnholz demonstrates that although this was a time when
Christians were engaged in a series of brutal religious wars
against one another, many were also learning more immediate and
short-term strategies to live alongside one another. This book
considers these "tactics for toleration" from the vantage point of
religious immigrants and their hosts, who learned to coexist
despite differences in language, culture, and religion. It demands
that scholars reconsider toleration, not only as an intellectual
construct that emerged out of the Enlightenment, but also as a
dynamic set of short-term and often informal negotiations between
ordinary people, regulating the limits of acceptable and
unacceptable behavior. Published by University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity
and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that
story is a muddied one. This new and expanded edition of a
classroom favorite tells a jolting history-illuminated by
historical texts, pictures, songs, cartoons, letters, and even
t-shirts-of how our society has been and continues to be replete
with religious intolerance. It powerfully reveals the narrow gap
between intolerance and violence in America. The second edition
contains a new chapter on Islamophobia and adds fresh material on
the Christian persecution complex, white supremacy and other
race-related issues, sexuality, and the role played by social
media. John Corrigan and Lynn S. Neal's overarching narrative
weaves together a rich, compelling array of textual and visual
materials. Arranged thematically, each chapter provides a broad
historical background, and each document or cluster of related
documents is entwined in context as a discussion of the issues
unfolds. The need for this book has only increased in the midst of
today's raging conflicts about immigration, terrorism, race,
religious freedom, and patriotism.
"The Book of Lyle" by Daniel B. Lyle, Ph.D., is a spiritual
adventure from our beginning to beyond death. It is a fresh look at
Religion and Spirituality. If you could start all over with
Religion while retaining the accumulated experience and knowledge
of mankind---where would you end up? In the Book of Lyle you
discover for yourself four profound insights: 1) a completely
different perspective on pain, suffering, and tragedy; 2)
motivation far more interesting than fear or love; 3) how to be
freed from the tyranny of success; and 4) how to constantly
celebrate the true meaning of life. Together with Dr. Lyle explore
all aspects of human behavior. Question your deepest assumptions.
Pursue your true motivations. Allow God to put you on trial. Have
the courage to listen to your enemies and allow them to dictate
your fate. By this process both you and Lyle will excavate your own
minds---not for vague generalities but hard specifics. You will
confront your greatest fears. You will admit your greatest
weaknesses. You will discover and be reconciled with the true
nature of evil. Struggle for survival in a hostile wilderness.
Battle predators and the elements. Confront the Unholy Trinity.
Fight vicious demons. All this and more---intriguing parables,
beautiful songs, and the most-dangerous prayers---await you in The
Book of Lyle Together with Lyle answer the key Question upon which
everything else hinges: "What do you want?"
From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship
between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested
and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This
groundbreaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a
variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus
on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and
reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements
in the West, "Dying for Faith" offers a comprehensive and highly
original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted
sensational media coverage but scant academic attention.
What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim
world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen
finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of
Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought
the restoration of Islamic purity and declared violent jihad on all
who opposed them. The Wahhabi teaching spread rapidly-first
throughout the Arabian Peninsula, then to the Indian subcontinent,
where a more militant expression of Wahhabism flourished. The ranks
of today's Taliban and al-Qaeda are filled with young men trained
in Wahhabi theology. God's Terrorists sheds much-needed light on
the origins of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous
ideology lives on today.
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Misuse of the Bible has made hatred holy. In this provocative book,
Adrian Thatcher argues that debates on sexuality currently raging
through the churches are the latest outbreak in a long line of
savage interpretations of the Bible. This title is a fascinating
reading for anyone concerned about the future of Christianity. It
is a provocative book claiming that debates on sexuality currently
raging through the churches are the latest outbreak in a long line
of savage interpretations of the Bible.It argues that the Bible has
been abused to convert the 'good news' which it brings to the
world, into one which has been used to discriminate against many
groups, including children, women, Jews, people of color, slaves,
heretics, and homosexuals. It asks how Christians have been able to
conduct, in public and on a global scale, an argument that has
exposed so much prejudice, fear and hatred. It offers an
alternative, faithful and peaceable reading of the Bible, drawing
on numerous examples throughout. It breaks new ground in debates
about sexual ethics and biblical interpretation.
In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural
Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though
many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism
has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars
of European history, Jewish studies, and Christian theology examine
antisemitism s insidious role in Europe s intellectual and
political life. The essays reveal that annihilative antisemitic
thought was not limited to Germany, but could be found in the
theology and liturgical practice of most of Europe s Christian
churches. They dismantle the claim of a distinction between
Christian anti-Judaism and neo-pagan antisemitism and show that, at
the heart of Christianity, hatred for Jews overwhelmingly formed
the milieu of 20th-century Europe."
In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned
from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews
rubbed shoulders on a daily basis--sharing irrigation canals,
bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. Medieval Spaniards
introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals,
philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new
medical techniques. Her mystics penned classics of Kabbalah and
Sufism. More astonishing than Spain's wide-ranging accomplishments,
however, was the simple fact that until the destruction of the last
Muslim Kingdom by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492,
Spain's Muslims, Christians, and Jews often managed to bestow
tolerance and freedom of worship on the minorities in their midst.
A Vanished World chronicles this panoramic sweep of human history
and achievement, encompassing both the agony of Jihad, Crusades,
and Inquisition, and the glory of a multi-religious, multi-cultural
civilization that forever changed the West. Lowney shows how these
three controversial religious groups once lived and worked together
in Spain, creating commerce, culture, art, and architecture. He
reveals how these three faith groups eventually veered into a
thicket of resentment and violence, and shows how our current
policies and approaches might lead us down the same path. Rising
above politics, propaganda, and name-calling, A Vanished World
provides a hopeful meditation on how relations among these three
faith groups have gone wrong and some ideas on how to make their
interactions right.
1838. Part Two of Two. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race
and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later
times. With a preliminary dissertation, on the difference between
the church of Rome that now is, and the ancient church of Rome that
then was. With a memoir of the author by his son. A new edition,
with five appendices containing accounts of the Massacres in
France: The Destruction of the Spanish Armada: The Irish Rebellion
in the Year 1641: The Gunpowder Treason; and a Tract, showing that
the executions of Papists in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, were for
treason and not for heresy. Acts and Monuments, also known as
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is the landmark work of John Foxe,
Protestant martyrologist. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s):
1417946105.
A harrowing tale of how faith and friendship can surmount hate and
violence. After a vicious hate crime destroyed St John Baptist
Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, in 1984, two courageous women
risked their lives to organize the rebuilding effort. Ammie Murray,
a white union leader, and her African American friend Barbara
Simmons braved death threats to successfully lead an interracial
group of volunteers to reconstruct the historic African American
church. But their joy was short-lived. In 1995, St John was the
first of more than one hundred southern black churches plagued by a
series of arsons during a two-year period. The obstacles to erect
the church once more seemed insurmountable but proved no match for
the tenacity of those determined to see St John rise again.
""Standing on Holy Ground"" is an inspiring tale that proves
friendship, reconciliation, spiritual strength, and enduring hope
can transcend racial hatred. In a moving narrative, Sandra E
Johnson chronicles how the fearless duo of Murray and Simmons
sparked a victory against hate crime in their community and became
leaders in a national battle against violence and vandalism.
Under the Roman emperors, commonly called the Era of the Martyrs,
was occasioned partly by the increasing number and luxury of the
Christians, and the hatred of Galerius, the adopted son of
Diocletian, who, being stimulated by his mother, a bigoted pagan,
never ceased persuading the emperor to enter upon the persecution,
until he had accomplished his purpose.
Faced with a world in which unspeakable crimes not only went
unpunished but were rewarded with glory, profit, and power, the
Bosnians of all faiths who testify in this book were starkly
confronted with the limits and possibilities of their own ethical
choices. Here, in their own words, they describe how people helped
one another across ethnic lines and refused the myths promoted by
the engineers of genocide. This compelling book is essential
reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of the
"ethnic" conflicts of the late 20th and the 21st century.
1838. Part One of Two. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race
and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later
times. With a preliminary dissertation, on the difference between
the church of Rome that now is, and the ancient church of Rome that
then was. With a memoir of the author by his son. A new edition,
with five appendices containing accounts of the Massacres in
France: The Destruction of the Spanish Armada: The Irish Rebellion
in the Year 1641: The Gunpowder Treason; and a Tract, showing that
the executions of Papists in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, were for
treason and not for heresy. Acts and Monuments, also known as
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is the landmark work of John Foxe,
Protestant martyrologist. See other titles by this author available
from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s):
1417946113.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern
pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres - from Inquisitional
investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing - was
conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how
epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early
modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific
methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the
production of knowledge increasingly challenged established
orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional
dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural
challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has
often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity.
Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe
and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern
Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological
debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social,
and intellectual locales.
One of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date.
Long before September 11, 2001, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had declared war on America—yet sadly, Americans failed to take heed. The publication of Militant Islam Reaches America finally brought Pipes the attention he deserves. Dividing his work into two parts, Pipes first defines militant Islam, stressing the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and the ideology of militant Islam. He then discusses the relatively new subject of Islam in the United States, and how it has developed rapidly in the last decade. In Militant Islam Reaches America, the product of thirty years of extensive research, Pipes provides one of the most incisive examinations of the growing radical Islamic movement ever written.
The paperback edition includes a new essay, "Jihad and the Professors." Daniel Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. He has served in the departments of State and Defense and has taught at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. He lives in Philadelphia.
"[Pipes is] an authoritative commentator on the Middle East."—Wall Street Journal
"Brilliantly demonstrates how Pipes knows his subject."—Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad
"Unlike other Middle East experts, Daniel Pipes did not need to reinvent himself or revise his opinions after September 11th."—Robert Kaplan, author of Warrior Politics and Balkan Ghosts
"Blunt and passionate."—Judith Miller, New York Times
"An extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis...easily readable by the nonspecialist, yet engaging for scholars as well."—National Review
"A singular and alarming insight into ideological Islam and the nurturing—at home—of the extremist and terrorist threat."—National Post
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic
- the attempted communication with angels and demons - both
reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority
of male magicians acted from a position of control and command
commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society;
other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender
ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who
claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their
attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners
employed magic to undermine the patriarchal culture and further
their own agenda. Using unpublished diaries and journals,
literature and legal records, Frances Timbers studies the practice
of ritual magic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries focusing
especially on gender and sexual perspectives. Based on numerous
case studies and using the examples of well-known individuals,
including John Dee, Simon Forman and William Lilly, this book
provides a unique analysis of early modern ceremonial magic from a
gender perspective.
'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations'
Cynthia Ozick The prescient New York Times writer delivers an
urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism --
and explains what we can do to defeat it On 27 October 2018 Bari
Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the
deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most of us, the
massacre came as a total shock. But to those who have been paying
attention, it was only a more violent, extreme expression of the
broader trend that has been sweeping Europe and the United States
for the past two decades. No longer the exclusive province of the
far right and far left, anti-Semitism finds a home in identity
politics, in the renewal of 'America first' isolationism and in the
rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred increasingly allowed
into modern political discussion, anti-Semitism has been migrating
toward the mainstream in dangerous ways, amplified by social media
and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. In this urgent
book, New York Times writer Bari Weiss makes a powerful case for
renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this
uncertain moment.
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and
Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and
learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh
century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy,
primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet heresy trials did not
occur in Ireland until significantly later, long after allegations
of Irish apostasy from Christianity had sanctioned the English
invasion of Ireland. In The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild
Irish, Maeve Brigid Callan analyzes Ireland's medieval heresy
trials, which all occurred in the volatile fourteenth century.
These include the celebrated case of Alice Kyteler and her
associates, prosecuted by Richard de Ledrede, bishop of Ossory, in
1324. This trial marks the dawn of the "devil-worshipping witch" in
European prosecutions, with Ireland an unexpected birthplace.Callan
divides Ireland's heresy trials into three categories. In the first
stand those of the Templars and Philip de Braybrook, whose trial
derived from the Templars', brought by their inquisitor against an
old rival. Ledrede's prosecutions, against Kyteler and other
prominent Anglo-Irish colonists, constitute the second category.
The trials of native Irishmen who fell victim to the sort of
propaganda that justified the twelfth-century invasion and
subsequent colonization of Ireland make up the third. Callan
contends that Ireland's trials resulted more from feuds than
doctrinal deviance and reveal the range of relations between the
English, the Irish, and the Anglo-Irish, and the church's role in
these relations; tensions within ecclesiastical hierarchy and
between secular and spiritual authority; Ireland's position within
its broader European context; and political, cultural, ethnic, and
gender concerns in the colony.
For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha’i faith, Iran’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation’s ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Baha’is have been barred from entering the nation’s universities, more than two hundred have been executed, and hundreds more imprisoned and tortured.
Now, however, Iran is at a turning point. A new generation has begun to question how the Baha’is have been portrayed by the government and the clergy, and called for them to be given equal rights as fellow citizens. In documenting, for the first time, the plight of this religious community in Iran since its inception, Fereydun Vahman also reveals the greater plight of a nation aspiring to develop a modern identity built on respect for diversity rather than hatred and self-deception.
Founded in the early twelfth century, allegedly to protect pilgrims
to the Holy Land, the Knights Templar became famous for their
pioneer banking system, crusading zeal, and strict vows of
obedience, chastity and poverty. Having grown to some 15,000 men,
they came to be perceived as a threat by Philip the Fair, who in
1307 disbanded the group and tortured their leaders for
confessions. The French king accused the order of heresy, sodomy
and blasphemy. Recent works of fiction and popular histories have
created a resurgence of interest in the mysterious Knights Templar.
Numerous contradictory and fantastic claims are made about them,
adding to the enigma that already surrounds the warrior monks of
France. In this unique collection of lecture material and writings
from Rudolf Steiner, a new perspective emerges. Based on his
spiritual perceptions, Steiner speaks of the Templars' connection
to the esoteric tradition of St John, their relationship with the
Holy Grail, and their spiritual dedication to Christ. He describes
the secret order that existed within the Templars, and the strange
rituals they performed. He also throws light on the Templars'
attitude to the Roman Church, and the spiritual forces that
inspired their torture and confessions.
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