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This book tells the story of the Prophet Muhammad as an inspirational role model for anyone who wants to be extraordinary.
You will learn how Muhammad shaped his personality as a child, dealt with the universal challenges of adolescence while a teenager, and then emerged as a leader in his community as a young adult. The book deliberately avoids the language of historical narration used in typical biographies of the Prophet in favor of a more informal, down-to-earth approach.
In this book, the reader will get a completely different view of Muhammad and hopefully will see how Muhammad addressed our own daily challenges, inspiring us to excel in confronting these challenges.
This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and
goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic,
Etruscan, and Latin deities in context and in the material remains,
and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship
which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient
Italy by different individuals and communities, using different
languages, at different sanctuaries, and for very different
reasons. This multiplicity creates challenges for modern historians
of antiquity at different levels. How do we cope with it? Can we
reduce it to the conceptual unity necessary to provide a meaningful
historical interpretation? To what extent can deities named in
different languages be considered the equivalent of one another
(e.g. Artemis and Diana)? How can we interpret the visual
representations of deities that are not accompanied by written
text? Can we reconstruct what these deities meant to their local
worshippers although the overwhelming majority of our sources were
written by Romans and Greeks? The contributors of this book, a
group of ten scholars from the UK, Italy, France, and Poland, offer
different perspectives on these problems, each concentrating on a
particular god or goddess. Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy
offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on ancient Roman
and Italian religion.
\"It\'s almost upon us \" yelled a frantic voice as the ship neared
the iceberg. \"God\'s Will be done, \" prayed Mother Marie. If God
wanted her to drown in the icy Atlantic Ocean before ever reaching
Canada, His Holy Will be done. Yet perhaps . . . This book tells
what happened next, plus the many other adventures that met the
Sisters who brought the Holy Catholic Faith to Canada. 152 Pp. PB.
Impr. 18 Illus.
History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began
to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and
experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support. This
proto-civilization would have arisen from each individual's
questions about the world, and their attempt to understand
themselves and their place in the world. These groups, or tribes,
evolved rules of conduct to facilitate communal living, and made a
calendar for the group's celebration of harvests, and other events
upon which the group was utterly dependent. This process of social
evolution is the origin of religion, and of a magical way of
looking at Nature. Eventually, this developing worldview was also
the origin of science, which is our investigation of Nature to
understand something of what is happening around us, and to use
this knowledge to ensure our survival in a violent, indifferent
Universe. After all, science and religion seek to answer the same
question: Why and how is the natural world the way it is? This book
seeks to show how science evolved from religion and magic, in
response to a need to understand Nature.
History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began
to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and
experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support. This
proto-civilization would have arisen from each individual's
questions about the world, and their attempt to understand
themselves and their place in the world. These groups, or tribes,
evolved rules of conduct to facilitate communal living, and made a
calendar for the group's celebration of harvests, and other events
upon which the group was utterly dependent. This process of social
evolution is the origin of religion, and of a magical way of
looking at Nature. Eventually, this developing worldview was also
the origin of science, which is our investigation of Nature to
understand something of what is happening around us, and to use
this knowledge to ensure our survival in a violent, indifferent
Universe. After all, science and religion seek to answer the same
question: Why and how is the natural world the way it is? This book
seeks to show how science evolved from religion and magic, in
response to a need to understand Nature.
Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn't be more
different. Evie's sharp and funny. Lottie's a day-dreamer. Evie's
the fighter, Lottie's the peace-maker. What they do have in common
is their Jewishness - even though the family isn't religious. When
their mother gets a high-profile job and is targeted by antisemitic
trolls on social media, the girls brush it off at first - but then
the threats start getting uglier. . . What We're Scared Of is a
taut thriller, a tale of sibling friendship and rivalry - and a
searing look at what happens when you scratch beneath the surface.
Established in Peru in 1570, the Holy Office of the Inquisition
operated there until 1820, prosecuting, torturing, and sentencing
alleged heretics. Ana Schaposchnik offers a deeply researched
history of the Inquisition's tribunal in the capital city of Lima,
with a focus on cases of crypto-Judaism-the secret adherence to
Judaism while publicly professing Christianity. Delving into the
records of the tribunal, Schaposchnik brings to light the
experiences of individuals on both sides of the process. Some
prisoners, she discovers, developed a limited degree of agency as
they managed to stall trials or mitigate the most extreme
punishments. Training her attention on the accusers, Schaposchnik
uncovers the agendas of specific inquisitors in bringing the
condemned from the dungeons to the 1639 Auto General de Fe ceremony
of public penance and execution. Through this fine-grained study of
the tribunal's participants, Schaposchnik finds that the
Inquisition sought to discipline and shape culture not so much
through frequency of trials or number of sentences as through the
potency of individual examples.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron),
published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of
Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan's firsthand account
describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan - its
development, rapid expansion, and decline - and its place in the
social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period.
Yamaji's overall argument is that Christianity played a crucial
role in shaping the growth and development of modern Japan. Yamaji
was a strong opponent of the government-sponsored ""emperor-system
ideology,"" and through his historical writing he tried to show how
Japan had a tradition of tolerance and openness at a time when
government-sponsored intellectuals were arguing for greater
conformity and submissiveness to the state on the basis of Japanese
""national character."" Essays is important not only in terms of
religious history but also because it highlights broad trends in
the history of Meiji Japan. Introductory chapters explore the
significance of the work in terms of the life and thought of its
author and its influence on subsequent interpretations of Meiji
Christianity.
Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in
Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative political
events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new
book, Francis Young explores the role of occult traditions in the
history of the island of Great Britain: Merlin's realm. He argues
that while the great magus and artificer invented by Geoffrey of
Monmouth was a powerful model for a succession of actual royal
magical advisers (including Roger Bacon and John Dee), monarchs
nevertheless often lived in fear of hostile sorcery while at other
times they even attempted magic themselves. Successive governments
were simultaneously fascinated by astrology and alchemy, yet also
deeply wary of the possibility of treasonous spellcraft. Whether
deployed in warfare, rebellion or propaganda, occult traditions
were of central importance to British history and, as the author
reveals, these dark arts of magic and politics remain entangled to
this day.
Compelled to flee the Iberian Inquisition in Europe, Jews began
crossing the Atlantic Ocean and settling in the West Indies from as
early as the 15th century. When the Inquisition travelled to Brazil
in the late 16th century, Jews sought refuge in Jamaica. From that
time, to the persecutions in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s,
Jamaica proved tolerant and welcoming, and today, the Jewish
community remains a strong thread in the nations tapestry. But
little is known about this segment of Jamaican society and its
contribution to the development of modern day Jamaica. The Island
of One People: An Account of the History of the Jews of Jamaica
redresses this unawareness in an engaging exploration of the
Jewish-Jamaican community and its contribution to the development
and modernization of the Kingston Harbour, the construction of
numerous housing developments, and landmark buildings such as the
Ward Theatre; from the development of companies such as the
Lacelles de Mercardo conglomerate with interests in sugar, rum,
insurance, motor car agencies and airport and shipping services, to
the establishment of the renowned Gleaner newspaper, arguably the
oldest newspaper in the western hemisphere; from representing
Jamaica internationally to the now iconic work of Belisario; the
contribution of the Jewish community in nation building in Jamaica
is unquestionable. Copiously illustrated, the result is a vibrant,
engaging story of not just Jewish, but Jamaican history.
Using biblical and historical data, this book first describes the
biblical and theological basis for worship in the Free Church
tradition, then shows how this tradition is expressed in worship at
special occasions as well as in traditional services.
Many Baptists were persecuted for their faith in late eighteenth
century Virginia but only two, James Ireland and Joseph Craig, left
first-hand accounts of their struggles. Esteemed Reproach: The
lives of Reverend James Ireland and Reverend Joseph Craig brings
these two works together for the first time and offers readers a
vivid account of religious persecution in colonial Virginia and the
price some were willing to pay for their freedom.
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