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This volume is intended to promote academic and public understanding of the different positions that exist on the issues of sexual orientation and civil rights protections for gays and lesbians within the major American religious traditions. Writers from the Jewish, Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and African-American churches explore the history and tradition of their communities on same-sex orientation, discuss the moral stance they advocate, and consider the legal and public policy implications of that stance.
Evaluating Current Approaches to Leadership This book offers a
comprehensive evaluation of current approaches to leadership from a
discerning Christian perspective. Combining expertise in
leadership, theology, and ministry, the authors take a historical
look at leadership and how it is viewed and used in today's
context. The book is informed by both biblical and leadership
studies scholarship and interacts with a number of popular
marketplace writings on leadership. It also evaluates exemplary
role models of Christian leadership. The second edition has been
updated and revised throughout.
They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce
materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking
enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan
Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of
subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist
monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce.
Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit
and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among
these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways,
studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of
Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns.
Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks
direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil
in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and
significant political and social power, yet global flows of
capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance
of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being
considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of
resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals.
A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a
Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns
struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis
of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and
social power provides valuable insight into the relationship
between women and religion in South Asia today.
Richard Antoun documents and exemplifies the single most
important institution for the propagation of Islam, the Friday
congregational sermon delivered in the mosque by the Muslim
preacher. In his analysis of various sermons collected in a
Jordanian village and in Amman, the author vividly demonstrates the
scope of the Islamic corpus (beliefs, ritual norms, and ethics),
its flexibility with respect to current social issues and specific
social structures, and its capacity for interpretation and
manipulation.
Focusing on the pivotal role of preacher as "culture broker,"
Antoun compares the process of "the social organization of
tradition" in rural Jordan with similar processes outside the
Muslim world. He then highlights the experiential dimension of
Islam. The sermons discussed range over such topics as family
ethics, political attitudes, pilgrimage, education, magic, work,
compassion, and individual salvation.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
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These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
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Die Kapitel 9-11 des Roemerbriefes sind fur die Frage nach der
Bedeutung Israels im Neuen Testament von zentraler Bedeutung. In
welcher Weise Paulus dabei das Alte Testament verwendet, ist in der
Forschung jedoch umstritten. In dieser Studie wird anhand der
Zitate aus dem Kontext des Sinaibundes untersucht, inwieweit Paulus
auf die alttestamentlichen Aussagen zur Bundesbeziehung Gottes zu
Israel zuruckgreift. Dazu wird die Bundesbeziehung in ihrem
alttestamentlichen Kontext, ihrer Rezeption im Fruhjudentum und
schliesslich in ihrer argumentativen Funktion in Roem 9-11
analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass die alttestamentlichen Kernaussagen
zur Bundesbeziehung Paulus weitreichend gepragt haben und
wesentlich der UEberzeugung sind, dass Gott Israel nicht verstossen
hat.
This is a controversial and important new examination of the origins of Christian mission, set against the background of ancient Judaism and the pagan culture of the Roman Empire. The author's startling conclusions suggest that mission was not inherent in either early Judaism or Christianity, and was only sporadically practised in antiquity by these religions. Clear, accessible, and at the same time displaying considerable scholarship, this book will provide an important challenge and a stimulus to both theologians and historians, and is likely to provoke keen and lively debate among scholars of these disciplines. It invites a total re-consideration of the grounds for religious mission in both Christianity and Judaism.
The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in
the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the
earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya
and probably provided models for Kali-dasa's more famous works. The
most poignant scenes on the path to his Awakening are when the
young prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha, is confronted by the
reality of sickness, old age, and death, while seduced by the
charms of the women employed to keep him at home. A poet of the
highest order, Ashva-ghosha's aim is not entertainment but
instruction, presenting the Buddha's teaching as the culmination of
the Brahmanical tradition. His wonderful descriptions of the bodies
of courtesans are ultimately meant to show the transience of
beauty.
Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC
Foundation
For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit
series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org
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