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This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of
religious diversity in the early modern world. Recent scholarship
has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were
accommodated in the early modern era (1500â1800). This book
propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation
of religious diversity in early modern communities to the
experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying
the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different
religious groups, including Christian denominations, Muslims, and
Jews, in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and
South-East Asia. This book is structured around five key concepts:
the senses, identities, boundaries, interaction, and space. For
each concept, the book provides chapters based on new, original
research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their
historiographic context. Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches is
aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students, to whom
it offers an accessible introduction to the study of religious
toleration in the early modern era. Additionally, scholars will
find cutting-edge contributions to the field in the bookâs
chapters.
Known as the "book of books," the Bible is the most successful
bestselling book of all times. It lays the foundations for the
worldview and moral stance of followers of all monotheistic
religions. Beyond its religious significance and its contribution
to the faith in one God, the Bible presents a framework that
provides meaning and value to human existence in our world. The
Bible provides lifestyle guidance, and suggests responses to crisis
situations that are inevitable in human life. For the religious and
non-religious alike, the Bible constitutes an important source of
cultural heritage, worldviews, fundamental values, and basic codes
of social conduct and personal beliefs. What is the secret of the
Bible's perpetual appeal and the value attributed to it by so many
individuals? The Bible presents the entire range of human
characteristics, positive and negative. No human emotion or
feeling, no matter how difficult or subversive, is foreign to the
Bible. The Bible covers it all. Examination of the stories and
contents of the Bible reveals their interest to all ages and across
the ages. Thousands of years old, the stories continue to resonate
with us, deepening our self-awareness and awareness of those around
us. Nevertheless modern psychology and psychiatry have made
relatively very little use of these materials, being based largely
on a classical Greek view of mental life. Instead, much of
traditional psychotherapy has been based on classical Greek
foundation legends (for example, Oedipus, Electra, and Narcissus).
This view unfortunately seems to carry the tragic vision of
classical Greece into modern life. In this view, no real change is
possible, whereas in the Biblical stories, life is not tragic but
hopeful, and people can and do change. The idea that people's lives
are not determined and that people have free will to change things
around them is essential in empowering people to fight for social
justice, and to generally show concern for other people. In this
book, we present seven Biblical tales, ordered to the days of
Creation. Just as God created the Earth in the Biblical tales, so
it is that we can create our own journeys, filled with insight,
ingenuity and compassion. Each of these stories has been adapted
for children in pre K-5th grades. Commentaries, questions and
activities follow each story. We suggest using these stories to
deepen a child's understanding of the ebb and flow of life. Because
the Bible addresses human emotions and human interactions, its
stories seem to provide appropriate means of encouraging interest
in and discussion of fundamental human issues, fostering social
skills and values.
This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of
religious diversity in the early modern world. Recent scholarship
has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were
accommodated in the early modern era (1500â1800). This book
propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation
of religious diversity in early modern communities to the
experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying
the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different
religious groups, including Christian denominations, Muslims, and
Jews, in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and
South-East Asia. This book is structured around five key concepts:
the senses, identities, boundaries, interaction, and space. For
each concept, the book provides chapters based on new, original
research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their
historiographic context. Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches is
aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students, to whom
it offers an accessible introduction to the study of religious
toleration in the early modern era. Additionally, scholars will
find cutting-edge contributions to the field in the bookâs
chapters.
212 original poems regarding the author's understanding of
necessary positivity with the goal in mind of transforming our
world today to a better yet realistic one- desired, unified,
peaceful, loving, and all-together happy- conducive to an
everlasting well-being that all can enjoy.
What if you had the power and connections to stop terrorism?
Paradise Denied! tells the tale of a covert organization, Stop
Terrorism Now (STN), who has both. Their mission: Destroy global
terrorism.
Terrorists are under attack! STN has declared their War against
Terrorists on September 11, 2010, nine years after the Twin Towers
attack.
Paradise Denied! engrosses the reader in this intricate and
powerful plot while delving into personal and political issues and
controversies.
Paradise Denied! is a story of three ordinary men with lofty
ideals who assume leadership roles. Each man leads a dual life as
they vacillate between being a normal citizen and the clandestine
leader of their respective killing teams. World leaders feel
threatened. The Peace Envoys, originally created to help third
world countries, are thrust into a new and secret mission: Destroy
STN. Two clandestine groups with vast resources strive to eliminate
their adversary. Will either succeed?
Ambitious humanitarian military, economic and social interventions,
undertaken by Western actors acting in defence of liberal values,
have today become indelible features of Africa's engagement with
the world. Yet the continent's long, complex historical
relationship with Western humanitarian intervention, dating back to
the origins of imperial engagement with the continent, is often
overlooked in the study of contemporary African security and
development issues. This volume responds to a need for greater
historical grounding in the study of humanitarian intervention, by
bringing together a wide and interdisciplinary range of
contributors who explore the history, theory, and practice of
humanitarian intervention in Africa. In doing so, it traces
continuities in the discourse and practice of the concept as it
evolved from the colonial past to the present, and argues that the
West's colonial relationship with Africa is crucial for better
understanding humanitarian intervention and how the legacies of
colonialism continue to impact emerging international policy.
We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke
religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on
everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us
would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these
political beliefs in the religious texts that are said to have
spawned them. In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and
Government, Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz offer a
genre-straddling examination of the political themes in the Jewish
Bible. By studying the political implications of 42 biblical
stories (organized into the categories Social Order, Government and
Leadership, Domestic Relations, Societal Relations, Morale and
Mission, and Foreign Policy), the authors seek to discern a
cohesive political viewpoint embodied by the Jewish Bible.
Throughout the text, the views put forth in the Jewish Bible are
compared to those put forth by Greco-Roman philosophers in order to
argue that the Bible offers a worldview that fosters a "high degree
of creative individualism within a supportive non-chaotic and
well-functioning society". Kaplan and Schwartz are generous with
their explanations of Greco-Roman philosophical concepts in the
introductory chapters and with giving background information about
the biblical stories engaged in the text.
This book explores an important area of Jewish tradition: Jewish
healing. In particular, Kaplan examines the system of Jewish
Science. Long placed on the back burner of Jewish theology and
practices, Jewish healing systems and methodologies were relegated
only to select scholars who were interested in this field. In the
early 1920s, four rabbis, independent of each other, developed
their own user-friendly interpretations of scholarly healing
material and presented it to the public. This work examines the
writings of these four rabbis, emphasizing the work of the most
prolific among them, Morris Lichtenstein. Healing in the Jewish
Tradition illustrates how healing-emotional and physical-is in the
hands of all, regardless of religious tradition. Through direct
quotes, edited material, and psychodynamic understandings, one is
able to clearly see the role Jewish Science can play in people's
everyday lives. Both scholars and students-as well as professionals
and laypersons-will find this little known area of great interest.
In The Seven Habits of the Good Life, the authors highlight seven
biblical gifts_self-esteem, wisdom, righteousness, love, healthy
appetite, prudence, and purpose_and present each one as an
alternative to one of the seven deadly sins. Each gift gives
readers a chance to enrich their lives by integrating concern for
themselves with a healthy concern for others rather than punishing
themselves for bad behavior. Incorporating clinical case studies,
the voices of real people, and biblical stories, this book shows
how the wisdom of the scriptures can provide us concrete ways of
redefining difficult situations and approaching life in a way that
strives for fullness, harmony, and balance.
At first sight, the subjects of piety and family life may appear to
have little in common. Yet, as the essays in this volume make
clear, there are in fact a number of shared features and points of
contact that make the study of these issues a particularly fertile
area for scholars of the Reformation period. Whether it be the
concept of an individual's relationship with God - so often
articulated in familial terms, the place of domestic devotions, or
the difficulties that faced families split by rival confessional
beliefs and mixed marriages, this book demonstrates how piety and
family life were interwoven in the social and theological landscape
of early modern Europe. Inspired by the works of Steven Ozment, the
volume is divided into two sections, each of which deals with a
particular concern of his writings. The first four chapters address
issues of Reformation theology and the medieval heritage, whilst
the remaining seven examine the spiritual life of families.
Together they underline how modern scholarship by broadening its
conceptual outlook and bringing together seemingly unrelated
subjects, can provide a more sophisticated understanding of the
past.
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was the first Ashkenazic
chief rabbi of mandatory Palestine. Admired for the incredible
diversity of his talents and interests--talmudist, halakhist,
kabbalist, mystic, theologian, moralist, poet, and communal
leader--Rav Kook's world outlook extolled breadth and derided
narrow specialization. More than any other Orthodox thinker in
modern times, he addressed, squarely and boldly, the confrontation
between Judaism and the modern world. Kook serves as a natural
model to those Jews who seek a religious understanding of and
response to the culture and politics of the modern age.
These essays, most published here for the first time, offer a range
of analyses and interpretations covering, in an accessible,
systematic, and comprehensive fashion the major areas of Rav Kook's
thought. Among the issues discussed are: his relationship to the
Jewish mystical, philosophical, and halakhic traditions; poetry and
spirituality; harmonism and pluralism; tolerance and its limits;
Zionism, messianism, and politics; and Rav Kook today.
Looking at schizophrenia from the point of view of individuals
actually suffering from the disease, this text gives a first-hand
insight into the process and effects of the disease. Throughout the
narratives, poetry and artwork, Kaplan and Harrow add comments
illuminating the meaning and pyschological significance of the
stories.
The religious histories of Christian and Muslim countries in Europe
and Western Asia are often treated in isolation from one another.
This can lead to a limited and simplistic understanding of the
international and interreligious interactions currently taking
place. This edited collection brings these national and religious
narratives into conversation with each other, helping readers to
formulate a more sophisticated comprehension of the social and
cultural factors involved in the tolerance and intolerance that has
taken place in these areas, and continues today. Part One of this
volume examines the history of relations between people of
different Christian confessions in western and central Europe. Part
Two then looks at the relations between Western and Eastern
Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the vast area that
extends around the Mediterranean from the Iberian Peninsula to
western Asia. Each Part ends with a Conclusion that considers the
wider implications of the preceding essays and points the way
toward future research. Bringing together scholars from Asia, the
Middle East, Europe, and America this volume embodies an
international collaboration of unusual range. Its comparative
approach will be of interest to scholars of Religion and History,
particularly those with an emphasis on interreligious relations and
religious tolerance.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
An alternative to existing bipolar choices, this book looks at individuals and their distances from the self (individuation-deindividuation) and from others (attachment-detachment). Simultaneously theoretical, empirical, and applied, this book can be reasonably applied to all types of individuals involved in interpersonal situations regardless of culture, age, gender, or sexual orientations. Broken into four parts, in the first part, Definitions and Measurements, the author includes an introduction to the Individuation-Attachment Questionnaire. Implications of TILT for Individuals is the basis for Part Two and includes a view of TILT across the life span. The next section extends the analysis to TILT for Couples and Families. The clinician, counselors, and individuals attempting to help himself/herself are addressed in the final part: TILT for the Clinician and includes application of TILT to everyday life. The text brings to life, through extensive description, the questions and situations consistently raised in couples therapy: space-too much or not enough. TILT: Teaching Individuals To Live Together presents a unique model of individuation and attachment and was developed to facilitate the understanding of the complex relationship between these two developmental processes across the life span. The model shows how we gradually develop our boundaries and hence reduce the need for defensive interpersonal walls. The TILT model has applications in the fields of therapy, education, and organizational development. Thus, it will be of interest to mental health professionals including psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Practitioners of transactional analysis will find this book of supreme interest and usefulness.
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In Biblical Psychotherapy, Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a
new approach to suicide prevention based on biblical narratives
that is designed to overcome the suicidogenic patterns in Greek and
Roman stories implicit in modern mental health. More than sixteen
suicides and self-mutilations emerge in the twenty-six surviving
tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides and countless others occurred
in Greek and Roman lives. In contrast, only six suicides are found
in the Hebrew Scriptures, in addition to a number of
suicide-prevention narratives. Kaplan and Cantz reclaim
life-enhancing biblical narratives as alternatives to matched
suicidal stories in Greek and Roman society with regard to seven
evidence-based risk factors. These biblical narratives are employed
to treat fourteen patients fitting into the outlined Graeco-Roman
suicidal syndromes and to provide an in-depth positive psychology
aimed at promoting life rather than simply preventing suicide.
Intraocular inflammation is particularly difficult to diagnose and
treat, often resembling a complex puzzle of patient history,
symptoms, imaging, and laboratory test results. Clinical Cases in
Uveitis: Differential Diagnosis and Management is a unique,
case-based resource designed to help you navigate the range of
challenging manifestations and presentations that often mimic other
diseases. More than 90 real-world uveitis cases are presented in a
highly templated, easy-to-follow format, along with step-by-step
guidance on the right patient questions, assessment, differential
diagnosis, testing, management, and follow-up care. Provides a
variety of patient presentations and scenarios and unique clinical
situations that mirror day-to-day practice. Covers current
diagnostic imaging modalities, including optical coherence
tomography (OCT), optical coherence tomography angiography,
fluorescein angiography (FA), and indocyanine green angiography
(ICG). Features diagnostic and management algorithms that assist in
differential diagnosis and decision making for even the most
complex cases, including those in which the patient does not
improve as expected, prompting a reassessment of diagnosis and
management. Contains approximately 250 high-quality images,
including color anterior segment photographs, color fundus
photographs, OCT images, and angiograms. Discusses distinguishing
infectious from non-infectious inflammation; when and how to start
systemic immunosuppressive therapy; diagnostic criteria and
management of "white dot syndromes"; pediatric uveitis; masquerade
syndromes, including inherited retinal degenerations, malignancies,
and paraneoplastic syndromes; and much more. Includes the authors'
specific thought processes and approach in particularly challenging
cases. An excellent resource and study tool for ophthalmology
residents and fellows, those studying for oral boards, general
ophthalmologists, retina specialists, and more. Enhanced eBook
version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to
access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a
variety of devices.
The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked
Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history,
cultural studies, international relations, policy, and
non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities
and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.
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