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'[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a
scholarly hiker ... Magnificent' - New Statesman, Books of the Year
Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and
Scotland's Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote
places, but their mission was also to spread the word of God to the
peoples of Scotland. Columba was the most famous of these pioneers
who rowed their curraghs towards danger and uncertainty in a pagan
land, but the many others are now largely forgotten. Alistair
Moffat sets off in search of these elusive figures. As he follows
in their footsteps, he finds their traces not so much in tangible
remains as in the spirit and memory of the places that lay at the
very edge of their world.
First Published in 1963, the book Pilgrim in the Modern World tries
to answer fundamental questions like does the Christian faith meet
intellectual, moral, and spiritual needs of the contemporary
situation or it is like the irreducible surd in a mathematical
problem- present as a fact but to be ignored in use? L. J. Baggott
has had a long experience in the ministry of the Church of England,
from work in the slums to that of Abbey, Minster, and Cathedral;
from a chaplaincy of the Tower of London to the vicariate of large
industrial parishes; from a visiting lectureship to the parochial
tasks peculiar to four great seaports; from the supervision of
Ordinands to the archdeaconship of a hundred peaceful Norfolk
villages. Throughout it has become increasingly clear that man is
indeed the 'Eternal Pilgrim of the Infinite'. Christianity is an
historical religion of which 'redemption of man' is the central and
ruling thought. For twentieth century man, his pilgrimage is set in
most challenging era that man has ever known, a scientific era and
a temporal order in which his most important problems take their
rise and shape his life. In the light of new knowledge and
discovery, the book offers what the author believes the only valid
and satisfying answer to the question of relevancy of the Christian
faith for modern times. This is a must read for scholars of
religion and Christianity.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'When one of the world's leading
scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of
violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important
book' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How
Democracies Die Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace
today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.
We are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While
violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being
fought in countries including Iraq, Syria and Libya, and smaller
civil wars are being fought in India and Malaysia. Even countries
we thought could never experience another civil war - such as the
USA, Sweden and Ireland - are showing signs of unrest. So how can
we stop them? In How Civil Wars Start, acclaimed expert Professor
Barbara F. Walter, who has advised on political violence everywhere
from the CIA to the U.S. Senate to the United Nations, explains the
rise of civil wars and the conditions that create them - not least
when countries are not quite democratic. As democracies across the
world backslide and citizens become more polarised, civil wars will
become even more widespread and last longer than they have in the
past - but this urgent and important book shows us a path back
toward peace.
Why should the church be concerned about cultures? Louis J.
Luzbetak began to answer this question twenty-five years ago with
the publication of The Church and Cultures: An Applied Anthropology
for the Religious Worker. Reprinted six times and translated into
five languages, it became an undisputed classic in the field. Now,
by popular demand, Luzbetak has thoroughly rewritten his work,
completely updating it in light of contemporary anthropological and
missiological thought and in face of current world conditions.
Serving as a handbook for a culturally sensitive ministry and
witness, The Church and Cultures introduces the non-anthropologist
to a wealth of scientific knowledge directly relevant to pastoral
work, religious education social action and liturgy - in fact, to
all forms of missionary activity in the church. It focuses on a
burning theological issue: that of contextualization, the process
by which a local church integrates its understanding of the Gospel
("text") with the local culture ("context").
Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an
introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully
selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to
form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam's rise and
evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining
historical and chronological approaches, the book examines
intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the
extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social
and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional
practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday
existence. Islam in Historical Perspective is designed to help
readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it
to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a
wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources
that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable
way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated
text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter
summaries.
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing
prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a
central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern
technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research,
nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we
think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays
by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a
number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including
pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism,
cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of
case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants,
racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders,
religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise
these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores
various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a
body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on
empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine,
gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the
debate over the globalization of the body: how have military
technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this
contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook's
clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in
the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical
sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies,
social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to
consolidate the new field of body studies.
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Sermons
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Thomas Treadwell Stone
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Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of
religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of
cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and
the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins
with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of
Religion,” which was the first to employ the phrase, and has
since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It
signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution
has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world
of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in
the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by
scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture.
Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of
religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of
the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be
relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.
This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History
spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps, starting
with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia
and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first century.
It presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials
and tribulations which have haunted the Jewish story, as well as
Jewish achievements. The themes covered include: Prejudice and
Violence – from the destruction of Jewish independence between
722 and 586 BC to the flight from German persecution in the 1930s.
Also covers the incidence of anti-Semitic attacks in the Americas
and Europe. Migrations and Movements – from ancient dispersals
from the promised land, to new maps on the ingathering of exiles
from Arab and Muslim lands from 1948, and from the break-up of the
Soviet Union in 1992. Society, Trade and Culture – from Jewish
trade routes between 800 and 900, the geography of the Jews of
China, of India, to communal life in the ghettoes and the situation
of world Jewry in the opening years of the twenty-first century.
Politics, Government and War – from the Court Jews of the
fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of
Israel. This new edition now includes an additional 39 of Martin
Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history,
originally published across a range of publications, now gathered
in this one volume for the first time. Over 50 years on from its
first publication, this book is still an indispensable guide to
Jewish history.
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