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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial
conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of
the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in
any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian
Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control
and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a
liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter
of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the
preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj
be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of
Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked
officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and
interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it
also generated new thinking within the government about the utility
of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays
invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering
American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to
specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of
"lived religion." Discussing such topics as gift exchange,
cremation, hymn-singing, and women's spirituality, a group of
leading sociologists and historians of religion explore the many
facets of how people carry out their religious beliefs on a daily
basis. As David Hall notes in his introduction, a history of
practices "encompasses the tensions, the ongoing struggle of
definition, that are constituted within every religious tradition
and that are always present in how people choose to act. Practice
thus suggests that any synthesis is provisional."
The volume opens with two essays by Robert Orsi and Daniele
Hervieu-Leger that offer an overview of the rapidly growing study
of lived religion, with Hervieu-Leger using the Catholic
charismatic renewal movement in France as a window through which to
explore the coexistence of regulation and spontaneity within
religious practice. Anne S. Brown and David D. Hall examine family
strategies and church membership in early New England. Leigh Eric
Schmidt looks at the complex meanings of gift-giving in America.
Stephen Prothero writes about the cremation movement in the late
nineteenth century. In an essay on the narrative structure of Mrs.
Cowman's "Streams in the Desert," Cheryl Forbes considers the
devotional lives of everyday women. Michael McNally uses the
practice of hymn-singing among the Ojibwa to reexamine the
categories of native and Christian religion. In essays centering on
domestic life, Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates modern
homesteading as lived religion while R. Marie Griffith treats
home-oriented spirituality in the Women's Aglow Fellowship. In
"Golden- Rule Christianity," Nancy Ammerman talks about lived
religion in the American mainstream."
A celebration of men's voices in prayer—through the ages from
many faiths, cultures and traditions. "If men like us don't pray,
where will emerging generations get a window into the soul of a
good man, an image of the kind of man they can aspire to be—or be
with—when they grow up? If men don’t pray, who will model for
them the practices of soul care—of gratitude, confession,
compassion, humility, petition, repentance, grief, faith, hope and
love? If men don’t pray, what will men become, and what will
become of our world and our future?" —from the Introduction by
Brian D. McLaren This collection celebrates the profound variety of
ways men around the world have called out to the Divine—with
words of joy, praise, gratitude, wonder, petition and even
anger—from the ancient world up to our own day. The prayers come
from a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions—both East and
West—including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
and more. Together they provide an eloquent expression of men’s
inner lives, and of the practical, mysterious, painful and joyous
endeavor that prayer is. Men Pray will challenge your preconceived
ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of
prayerful expression and new possibilities for your own spiritual
journey. This is a book to treasure and to share. Includes prayers
from: Marcus Aurelius • Daniel Berrigan • Rebbe Nachman of
Breslov • Walter Brueggemann • Bernard of Clairvaux • St.
Francis of Assisi • Robert Frost • George Herbert • Gerard
Manley Hopkins • St. Ignatius Loyola • Fr. Thomas Keating •
Thomas à Kempis • Chief Yellow Lark • Brother Lawrence
• C. S. Lewis • Ted Loder • Nelson Mandela • General
Douglas MacArthur • Thomas Merton • D. L. Moody • John Henry
Newman • John Philip Newell • John O’Donohue • Rumi •
Rabindranath • Tagore • Walt Whitman • many others
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Touching God
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Jon Korkidakis; Foreword by David Barker
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William N Mitchell; Foreword by David Brown; Illustrated by Amanda Weems
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