|
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart - author Mark Lanier
has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying
and living the Bible. Living daily with the demands of his career
and the desire for a godly life, Lanier recognizes the importance
and challenge of finding daily time to spend in God's Word. His
study of the first five books of the Bible - the Torah, the Law -
has brought Life to his life. In Torah for Living, Lanier shares a
year's worth of devotionals - one for each day of the year. In each
devotional, Lanier reflects on the biblical text, relates the text
to the struggles facing faithful readers of the Bible, and
concludes with a prayer for the day.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious,
spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences
mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their
geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious,
spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities? Freedoms, Faiths and
Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity
offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world
around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this
book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young
people's lives and how school education covering diversity best
addresses their world. This book argues that school education
focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young
people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's
everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each
other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can
play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance
and positive attitudes to diversity.
|
|