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Awaken your heart and engage your mind with Buddhist Wisdom: Daily
Reflections, a simple but powerful collection of Buddhist sayings
and extracts that offer an easy way to incorporate the Buddha's
most significant teachings into your everyday life. Use it daily or
at random to find help facing a particular issue or problem.
Illustrated with photographs of traditional Buddhist people, sacred
places and monuments, the book provokes contemplation and more
profound understanding for all individuals, regardless of religious
persuasion. Buddhist Wisdom also offers a brief overview of the
life of the Buddha, Buddhist teachings and the spread of Buddhism
around the world; includes a Buddhist calendar of celebration days
and festivals.
This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned
scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary
texts from the world's major religions. To help readers encounter
strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible
introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries,
maps, illustrations and chronologies are provided. For readers of
any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens
new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us "to see others with a
measure of openness, empathy, and good will..." Unprecedented in
scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions:
Judaism brings together over 300 texts from pre-Israelite
Mesopotamia to post-Holocaust Israel and America. The volume
features Jack Miles's illuminating General Introduction-"How the
West Learned to Compare Religions"-as well as David Biale's "Israel
among the Nations," a lively primer on Jewish history and the core
teachings of Judaism.
Drawn from his masterful presentation of Islam in the bestselling book The World's Religions (over two million copies sold), Huston Smith offers a revealing look into the heart of a tradition with more than one billion adherents worldwide. Dispelling narrow and distorted notions about the nature of Islam and featuring a new introduction by the author, this book compellingly conveys the profound appeal of Islam, while addressing such timely issues as the true meaning of jihad, the role of women in Islamic societies, and the remarkable growth of Islam in America.
This invaluable resource from David W. Shenk, an export in comparative religious studies, examines Islam and Christianity at their deepest spiritual, cultural, and communal levels. Shenk explores the similarities and differences found in Isaac and Ishmael, Jesus and Muhammad, the Bible and the Qur'an, Jerusalem and Medina, the Eucharist and the Hajj, and the Church and Ummah.
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors
was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the
political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh,
whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into
Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this
long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore
the queens and princes to the story of this empire's spectacular
rise and fall. She brings to life a self-made ruling family,
inventively fusing Sikh, Mughal and European ideas of power, but
eventually succumbing to gendered family politics, as the Sikh
Empire fell to its great rival in the new India: the British.
Royals and Rebels is a fascinating tale of family, royalty and the
fluidity of power, set in a dramatic global era when new stars rose
and upstart empires clashed.
We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have
outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state
on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the
state has done much to contain the worst excesses of inequality,
but neither is capable of bearing the moral weight of showing us
how to live. This has had a profound impact on society and the way
in which we interact with each other. Traditional values no longer
hold, yet recent political swings show that modern ideals of
tolerance have left many feeling rudderless and adrift. In this
environment we see things fall apart in unexpected ways - toxic
public discourse makes true societal progress almost unattainable,
a more divisive society is fuelled by identity politics and
extremism, and the rise of a victimhood mentality calls for 'safe
spaces' but stifles debate. The influence of social media seems
all-pervading and the breakdown of the family is only one result of
the loss of social capital. Many fear what the future may hold.
Delivering a devastatingly insightful critique of our modern
condition, and assessing its roots and causes from the ancient
Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present
day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and no
freedom without responsibility. If we care about the future of
western civilisation, all of us must play our part in rebuilding
our common moral foundation. Then we will discover afresh the
life-transforming and counterintuitive truths that a nation is
strong when it cares for the weak, and rich when it cares for the
poor. Here is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all
find our place, and face the future without fear.
'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power,
justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust
with my whole heart' GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed When Lamya is
fourteen, she decides to disappear. It seems easier to ease herself
out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in
a world that doesn't fit. She is a queer teenager growing up in a
Muslim household, a South Asian in a Middle Eastern country. But
during her Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam, and
suddenly everything shifts: if Maryam was never touched by any man,
could Maryam be... like Lamya? Written with deep intelligence and a
fierce humour, Hijab Butch Blues follows Lamya as she travels to
the United States, as she comes out, and as she navigates the
complexities of the immigration system - and the queer dating
scene. At each step, she turns to her faith to make sense of her
life, weaving stories from the Quran together with her own
experiences: Musa leading his people to freedom; Allah, who is
neither male nor female; and Nuh, who built an ark, just as Lamya
is finally able to become the architect of her own story. Raw and
unflinching, Hijab Butch Blues heralds the arrival of a truly
original voice, asking powerful questions about gender and
sexuality, relationships, identity and faith, and what it means to
build a life of one's own.
THE FIRST ADULT NOVEL BY THE CARNEGIE PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF JUNK
'A spirited retelling... witty and insightful.' i PAPER 'His prose
is electrical, crackling with a mischievous charge.' BUZZ MAGAZINE
'Told with wit [and] verve... it's a book that exerts a curious
charm.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Burgess recounts Loki's genius . . . with
great gusto, pulling together many tales into one sometimes
beautifully lyrical masterwork.' SFX MAGAZINE 'a mischievous,
unpredictable and clever book that breathes new life into an
already fascinating character and godly race.' CULTUREFLY Step into
the ancient fir-tree forests of Scandinavia and bear witness to
legends as epic as those of the Greeks and the Romans. Melvin
Burgess revolutionised children's literature with the infamous cult
novels Junk and Doing It. In his first adult novel, Loki, he
breathes new life into Norse myths. Starting with the Norse
creation myths, the trickster god Loki takes the reader on a wild
ride through Norse mythology, from the time the gods - the founders
of Asgard - defeated races of monsters, and hurtling through famous
stories, including Odin hanging himself on the World Tree, the
theft of the corrupting gold ring and the murder of Baldr, the god
of love and the Sun. This narrative may seem familiar enough at
first, but the reader should beware. Born within the heart of a
fire in the hollow of a tree-trunk, Loki arrives in Asgard as an
outsider. He is a trickster, an unreliable narrator, the god of
intelligence and politics. In spite of his cleverness and sparkling
wit (or, perhaps, because of this...) Loki struggles to find his
place among the old patriarchal gods of supernatural power and is
constantly at odds with the god of thunder - Thor. Alongside the
politics of Asgard, it charts the course of Loki's many loves and
families, from his mothering of Odin's famous horse to his intense,
turbulent, and, eventually, fatal relationship with Baldr the
Beautiful - a tender and moving story of love that goes wrong,
jealousy and a transitioning that is forbidden by society. This is
a retelling that is contemporary in tone, at once amusing and
relatable. It is a heartfelt plea to overthrow the old gods of
power and authority and instigate a new era ruled by love and
intelligence.
An black Iraq war veteran and an Iraqi-American Muslim teenager
form an unlikely friendship through their shared love of John
Coltrane. A supreme coming-of-age story of friendship, forgiveness
- and jazz. Tariq is is a young Iraqi-American Muslim man, beset by
danger on the streets and conflict at home. Music is his only
consolation. When he forms a friendship with the volatile but
intriguing record-store owner and Iraq war veteran, Jamal, Tariq
discovers the world of jazz - and the man he could become. Jamal is
exciting, eloquent, and troubled. He suffers from PTSD, is always
on edge. Tariq wants to learn from Jamal's knowledge of music, but
can he afford to get close to this volatile veteran? When violence
that has long threatened finally erupts, things suddenly clarify
for Tariq. He takes the ultimate risk - not on behalf of his friend
but his enemy - and the disparate worlds of modern America and
traditional Islam come together in an unexpected and gripping
resolution.
"All that I am, I am because of my mind."
Paavo Nurmi, Olympic runner with nine gold medals in track &
field
All runners strive to get in the ?zone, ? but here they?ll learn
to enter the ZEN ?zone?! By adopting Buddha's mindful approach, you
will discover you can run longer, faster, and harder. This book
shows how to align body and mind for success on?and off?the track!
Iron Man triathlete and philosophy professor Larry Shapiro coaches
you to:
- Walk the talk: Get out and run
- Practice mindfulness: Train harder
- Visualize success: Race the Zen way
- Accept and let go: Cope peacefully with injuries and aging
Complete with case studies, testimonials, and training techniques,
this guide inspires seasoned runners and first timers alike to
pound the path to enlightenment?one stride at a time!
Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to
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Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come
to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one
of the most informative and accessible works in English on the
origins, development, character and major figures of early
Christianity. In this new edition, the strengths of the first
edition are retained. These include the book's attractive
architecture that initially takes a reader through the context and
historical development of early Christianity; the essays in
critical areas such as community formation, everyday experience,
the intellectual and artistic heritage, and external and internal
challenges; and the profiles on the most influential early
Christian figures. The book also preserves its strong stress on the
social reality of early Christianity and continues its distinctive
use of hundreds of illustrations and maps to bring that world to
life. Yet the years that have passed since the first edition was
published have seen great advances made in our understanding of
early Christianity in its world. This new edition fully reflects
these developments and provides the reader with authoritative,
lively and up-to-date access to the early Christian world. A
quarter of the text is entirely new and the remaining essays have
all been carefully revised and updated by their authors. Some of
the new material relates to Christian culture (including book
culture, canonical and non-canonical scriptures, saints and
hagiography, and translation across cultures). But there are also
new essays on: Jewish and Christian interaction in the early
centuries; ritual; the New Testament in Roman Britain; Manichaeism;
Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. This new edition will
serve its readers for many years to come.
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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