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Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order - A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval... Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order - A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism (Paperback, New ed)
Ilana Friedrich Silber
R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning in current comparative historical sociology, the author also argues the need for a multidimensional approach capable of addressing the part played by religious orientations in shaping the institutional strength and ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions.

God's Internationalists - World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism (Hardcover): David P. King God's Internationalists - World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism (Hardcover)
David P. King
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past seventy years, World Vision has grown from a small missionary agency to the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world, with 40,000 employees, offices in nearly one hundred countries, and an annual budget of over $2 billion. While founder Bob Pierce was an evangelist with street smarts, the most recent World Vision U.S. presidents move with ease between megachurches, the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, and the corridors of Capitol Hill. Though the organization has remained decidedly Christian, it has earned the reputation as an elite international nongovernmental organization managed efficiently by professional experts fluent in the language of both marketing and development. God's Internationalists is the first comprehensive study of World Vision—or any such religious humanitarian agency. In chronicling the organization's transformation from 1950 to the present, David P. King approaches World Vision as a lens through which to explore shifts within post-World War II American evangelicalism as well as the complexities of faith-based humanitarianism. Chronicling the evolution of World Vision's practices, theology, rhetoric, and organizational structure, King demonstrates how the organization rearticulated and retained its Christian identity even as it expanded beyond a narrow American evangelical subculture. King's pairing of American evangelicals' interactions abroad with their own evolving identity at home reframes the traditional narrative of modern American evangelicalism while also providing the historical context for the current explosion of evangelical interest in global social engagement. By examining these patterns of change, God's Internationalists offers a distinctive angle on the history of religious humanitarianism.

Embodied - Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say (Paperback): Preston M Sprinkle Embodied - Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say (Paperback)
Preston M Sprinkle
R420 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R40 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Evidence-Based Healthcare Chaplaincy - A Research Reader (Paperback): George Fitchett, Kelsey White, Kathryn Lyndes Evidence-Based Healthcare Chaplaincy - A Research Reader (Paperback)
George Fitchett, Kelsey White, Kathryn Lyndes
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Research literacy is now a requirement for Board-Certified chaplains in the US and a growing field in the UK. This reader gives an overview and introduction to the field of healthcare chaplaincy research. The 21 carefully chosen articles in this book illustrate techniques critical to chaplaincy research: case studies; qualitative research; cross-sectional and longitudinal quantitative research, and randomized clinical trials. The selected articles also address wide-ranging topics in chaplaincy research for a comprehensive overview of the field. To help readers engage with the research, each article includes a discussion guide highlighting crucial content, as well as important background information and implications for further research. This book is the perfect primary text for healthcare chaplaincy research courses, bringing together key articles from peer-reviewed journals in one student-friendly format.

Without Benefit of Clergy - Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Hardcover, New): Karin... Without Benefit of Clergy - Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Hardcover, New)
Karin E. Gedge
R2,867 R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Save R1,750 (61%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship - found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship - was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship from the perspective of the minister, the female parishioner, and the larger culture. The question that troubled religious women seeking counsel, says Gedge, was: would their minister respect them, help them, honor them? Surprisingly, she finds, the answer was frequently negative. Gedge supports her conclusion with evidence from a wide range of previously untapped primary sources including pastoral manuals, seminary students' and pastors' journals, women's diaries and letters, pamphlets, sentimental and sensational novels, and The Scarlet Letter. She moves from male seminary training to the failures of male pastoral "counseling," to more serious difficulties between ministers and their female congregants - difficulties strikingly illuminated by the literature surrounding criminal trials of ministers accused of abusing both their pastoral office and individual women. Dissatisfied with the professional ministry, Gedge shows, women ended up turning to family, friends, and published tracts for pastoral care.

Sacred Rights - The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions (Paperback): Daniel C Maguire Sacred Rights - The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions (Paperback)
Daniel C Maguire
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse of family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the parameters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and naunced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. This theme is carried out in essays on each of the world's major religious traditions, written by scholar practitioners of those faiths.

Foundations of Chaplaincy - A Practical Guide (Paperback): Alan T Baker Foundations of Chaplaincy - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
Alan T Baker
R672 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduisms Greatest Thinker (Paperback): Pavan K. Varma Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduisms Greatest Thinker (Paperback)
Pavan K. Varma
R558 R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 1 - The Life of Al-Hallaj (Hardcover): Louis Massignon The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 1 - The Life of Al-Hallaj (Hardcover)
Louis Massignon; Translated by Herbert Mason
R4,530 Discovery Miles 45 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 1 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist and scholar of religion, penetrates Islamic mysticism in a way that was previously unknown. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his death in 1962, he left behind a greatly expanded version, published as the second French edition (1975). It is edited and translated here from the French and the Arabic sources by Massignon's friend and pupil, Herbert Mason. Volume 1 gives an account of al-Hallaj's life and describes the wo rld in which he lives; volume 2 traces his influence in Islam over the centuries; volume 3 studies Hallajian thought; volume 4 contains a full biography and index. Each volume contains Massignon's copious notes and new translations of original Islamic documents. Herbert Mason is University Professor of Religion and Islamic History at Boston University. He is also apoet and novelist; his version of the Gigamesh epic was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1971. Bollingen Sreis XCVIII. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 3 - The Teaching of al-Hallaj (Paperback): Louis Massignon The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 3 - The Teaching of al-Hallaj (Paperback)
Louis Massignon
R2,038 Discovery Miles 20 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 3 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist and scholar of religion, penetrates Islamic mysticism in a way that was previously unknown. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his death in 1962, he left behind a greatly expanded version, published as the second French edition (1975). It is edited and translated here from the French and the Arabic sources by Massignon's friend and pupil, Herbert Mason. Volume 1 gives an account of al-Hallaj's life and describes the wo rld in which he lives; volume 2 traces his influence in Islam over the centuries; volume 3 studies Hallajian thought; volume 4 contains a full biography and index. Each volume contains Massignon's copious notes and new translations of original Islamic documents. Herbert Mason is University Professor of Religion and Islamic History at Boston University. He is also apoet and novelist; his version of the Gigamesh epic was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1971. Bollingen Series XCVIII. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

When Sheep Attack - A pastor's survival guide (Paperback): Mark Conn When Sheep Attack - A pastor's survival guide (Paperback)
Mark Conn
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It's an unfortunate reality within church ministry that sometimes people get upset. It happens, and you do the best you can with it. It's true that many churches and pastors have marvelous synchronicity and enjoy a mutually-beneficial ministry together. The pastor ministering to the needs of the flock, and the flock protecting and caring for their shepherd. Occasionally though, something goes wrong inside of the flock. Rather than following the pastor's leadership and receiving the pastor's care, one (or more) of the flock begin to turn on their shepherd. Sometimes the build-up is obvious, sometimes it's explosive and comes seemingly from nowhere. Regardless of how it happens, the sheep attack. When sheep attack, the fallout surrounding the attack takes a toll on the shepherd and his family, the flock, and on the attack sheep themselves. Inside you will find some of the common traits of attack sheep, some reasons that sheep attack, and some of the challenges that exist before, during, and after an attack. Before you're through, you will learn some things you can do to stop or lessen the damage of the attack, and some specific steps you can take to pick up the pieces afterwards.

Seven Principles of a Spiritually Healthy Church (Paperback): Darryl S Henson Seven Principles of a Spiritually Healthy Church (Paperback)
Darryl S Henson
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bats in the Bell Tower - Unmasking the Doctrines That have Seduced the Modern-Day Church (Paperback): Kenny Campbell Bats in the Bell Tower - Unmasking the Doctrines That have Seduced the Modern-Day Church (Paperback)
Kenny Campbell
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Secular Monasticism - A Journey (Paperback): Jane FitzGibbon, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Secular Monasticism - A Journey (Paperback)
Jane FitzGibbon, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Transgressionen Der Bibelfiguren in Der Prosa Von Georg Trakl (German, Hardcover): Sambor Grucza Die Transgressionen Der Bibelfiguren in Der Prosa Von Georg Trakl (German, Hardcover)
Sambor Grucza; Andrzej Pilipowicz
R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Fur Trakl gilt die Bibel nicht nur als eine grosse Inspirationsquelle. Sie ist auch als ein standiger Bezugspunkt zu betrachten, der ihn seine eigene Position in der Welt bestimmen lasst. Der Autor untersucht auch die Prosadichtungen, die in formaler Hinsicht den Charakter der Prosa aufweisen. Mit der Aufnahme der Gedichte zielt der Autor nicht nur darauf ab, die behandelte Problematik in moeglichst vollem Umfang darzustellen, sondern auch Trakls Rezeption des Christentums in ihrem chronologischen Verlauf zu erfassen.

Mentoring the Next Generation (Paperback): Peter R. Mason, R Peter Mason Mentoring the Next Generation (Paperback)
Peter R. Mason, R Peter Mason; As told to Dino Pedrone
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why do we lack the leaders with the character and skill needed in our homes, communities, businesses, churches and nation? Our present leaders must invest in future leaders. Do you want to make a lasting impact? Invest your time as a mentor. Mentoring is a stewardship of your life experience which you entrust to the next generation. As a mentor you provide "a brain to pick, a shoulder to cry on and a kick in the pants." Encourage your protege to be the person whom God created and called. Make a lasting difference in the lives of others. Dr. Mason is the Senior Pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Clifton Park, New York. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and Graduate School (B.A. and M.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Denver Seminary (D. Min.). He is an Assistant Professor at Liberty University and an Adjunct Professor at Davis College. His passion is to prepare the next generation of leaders for the challenges of contemporary culture. In his philosophy and ethics courses he helps young people develop, defend and live out a biblical worldview. He and his wife, Rhonda, have two children and four grandchildren. Dr. Pedrone is the ninth president of the historic Davis College in the Greater Binghamton, New York area. A veteran of more than forty years in ministry and a sought after speaker around the world, he is the author of more than twenty books and booklets. His insightful teaching is heard on various radio programs. Dr. Pedrone is dedicated to training men and women in the ministry. He is the recipient of the Israel Film Festival Humanitarian Award, an honorary member of Delta Epsilon Chi, and numerous other awards. He and his wife, Bobbi, live in the Greater Binghamton area. They have four children and three grandchildren.

My Basilian Priesthood - 1961 to 1967 (Paperback): Michael Quealey My Basilian Priesthood - 1961 to 1967 (Paperback)
Michael Quealey; Afterword by Arthur Haberman, Jan Rehner
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in reforming the mass and in other theological matters. The 1960s was a time of questioning traditions, including the role of Biblical criticism, the nature of liturgy, the place of women in the Church and in society, and the power of community living and decision-making. Quealey was deeply involved in all these matters, and sought to fulfill his commitment to service and balance that with his faith and vows of obedience to the institution of the Church. Written decades after the events he describes, the book is his reflection on the excitement of the times and the tensions created when tradition encountered new ideas and new forms of communal living. Here's a story that blends Toronto history with Catholic Church history and an inside look at 1960s counterculture.

God on High - Religion, Cannabis, and the Quest for Legitimacy (Hardcover): Laurie Cozad God on High - Religion, Cannabis, and the Quest for Legitimacy (Hardcover)
Laurie Cozad
R2,392 Discovery Miles 23 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

God on High examines cannabis-based religious groups in Canada and the United States. These religious groups are on the rise as cannabis use is further decriminalized or legalized. In examining these groups, Laurie Cozad explores the triangular relationships between cannabis, religion, and the law, and the ways in which the shifting discourse of medical science impacts this trio.

Roman Missal (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): International Commission on English in the Liturgy Roman Missal (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
International Commission on English in the Liturgy
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edition of the Roman Missal will be published in the Dioceses of the United States of America, and has been approved by the Conference of Catholic Bishops and confirmed by the Apostolic See.

This volume (approx. 1500 pp) includes the enhanced features that celebrants have come to know and trust from Catholic Book Publishing: large, easy-to-read type, reinforced end papaers, durable Smyth-sewn binding.

Full color illustrations throughout add to the sacred nature of this volume.

Tone Setters (Paperback): Jason Smith Tone Setters (Paperback)
Jason Smith
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Paperback, Reissued 1st paperback ed): Douglas Johnston, Cynthia Sampson Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Paperback, Reissued 1st paperback ed)
Douglas Johnston, Cynthia Sampson; Foreword by Jimmy Carter
R2,163 Discovery Miles 21 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a collection of case studies and theoretical pieces which examines the importance of religion in international conflicts and diplomacy. It is co-published with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and includes a foreword by ex-President Jimmy Carter.

Church Forsaken - Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods (Paperback): Jonathan Brooks, Sho Baraka Church Forsaken - Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods (Paperback)
Jonathan Brooks, Sho Baraka
R601 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"There are no God-forsaken places, just church-forsaken places." -Jon Fuller, OMF International Jonathan Brooks was raised in the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As soon as he was able, he left the community and moved as far away as he could. But through a remarkable turn of events, he reluctantly returned and found himself not only back in Englewood but also serving as a pastor ("Pastah J") and community leader. In Church Forsaken, Brooks challenges local churches to rediscover that loving our neighbors means loving our neighborhoods. Unpacking the themes of Jeremiah 29, he shows how Christians can be fully present in local communities, building homes and planting gardens for the common good. His holistic vision and practical work offers good news for forgotten people and places. And community stakeholders and civic leaders will rediscover that churches are viable partners in community transformation in ways that they may never have considered. God has always been at work in neglected neighborhoods. Join Pastah J on this journey and discover new hope for your community.

The Lives of Saint Constantina - Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries (Hardcover): Marco Conti, Virginia Burrus, Dennis... The Lives of Saint Constantina - Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries (Hardcover)
Marco Conti, Virginia Burrus, Dennis Trout
R5,249 Discovery Miles 52 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Constantina, daughter of the fourth-century emperor Constantine who so famously converted to Christianity, deserves a place of her own in the history of Christianity. As both poet and church-builder, she was an early patron of the Roman cult of the virgin martyr Agnes and was buried ad sanctam in a sumptuously mosaicked mausoleum that still stands. What has been very nearly forgotten is that the twice-married Constantina also came to be viewed as a virgin saint in her own right, said to have been converted and healed of leprosy by Saint Agnes. This volume publishes for the first time critical editions and English translations of three Latin hagiographies dedicated to the empress, offering an introduction and commentaries to contextualize these virtually unknown works. The earliest and longest of them is the anonymous Life of Saint Constantina likely dating to the mid or late sixth century, reflecting a female monastic setting and featuring both a story of pope Silvester's instruction of Constantina and a striking dialogue between Constantina and twelve virgins who offer speeches in praise of virginity as the summum bonum. A second, slightly later work, On the Feast of Saint Constantia (the misnaming of the saint reflecting common confusion), is a more streamlined account apparently tailored for liturgical use in early seventh-century Rome; this text is reworked and expanded by the twelfth-century Roman scholar Nicolaus Maniacoria in his Life of the Blessed Constantia, including a question-and-answer dialogue between Constantina and her two virginal charges Attica and Artemia. These works will be of great interest to students of late ancient and medieval saints' cults, hagiography, monasticism, and women's history.

My Role As A Deaconess - The Deaconess Role For A Biblical Perspective (Paperback): Joseph R Rogers Sr My Role As A Deaconess - The Deaconess Role For A Biblical Perspective (Paperback)
Joseph R Rogers Sr
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Book shares with its reader some important information about understanding the role of the deaconess from a traditional as well as biblical perspective.

Guideposts for Leadership (Paperback): Gail Stathis Guideposts for Leadership (Paperback)
Gail Stathis
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book advances the fundamental belief that leadership is not a position; it is, rather, a function that is often performed without any title. It is the domain of every person in some arena of life, and each of us should learn to function within our spheres of leadership. True leaders, the kind that can be developed using these guideposts, will begin to influence others positively. The community will benefit. Life will benefit from that good.

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