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This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic
religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the
varied perspectives of each tradition. It provides a cadre of
values inherent to the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and
Muslims and illustrates how these values may be used to deal with
current economic inequalities. Contributors use the methodologies
of religious studies to provide descriptions and comparisons of
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on poverty and
wealth. The book presents citations from the sacred texts of all
three religions. The contributors discuss the interpretations of
these texts and the necessary contexts, both past and present, for
deciphering the stances found there. Poverty and Wealth in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam identifies and details a foundation of
common values upon which individual and institutional decisions may
be made.
This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic
religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the
varied perspectives of each tradition. It provides a cadre of
values inherent to the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and
Muslims and illustrates how these values may be used to deal with
current economic inequalities. Contributors use the methodologies
of religious studies to provide descriptions and comparisons of
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on poverty and
wealth. The book presents citations from the sacred texts of all
three religions. The contributors discuss the interpretations of
these texts and the necessary contexts, both past and present, for
deciphering the stances found there. Poverty and Wealth in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam identifies and details a foundation of
common values upon which individual and institutional decisions may
be made.
Soul Searching: A Handbook for Discovering, Developing, and Talking
about Your Spirituality offers you an opportunity to learn about
the spiritualities of others while discovering your own. It does so
by providing you with five chapters describing the nature of
spirituality as well as its history, signposts, sources, and
diverse manifestations in the world's religions. It also provides
you with five Dear Diary chapters that encourage you to describe,
reflect upon, develop, and choose what is necessary for you to
become a mature spiritual person. This is an ideal book for
discussion groups that wish to learn about other religions,
spiritualities, and how to make intelligent choices for personal
and communal living. Appendices at the end of the book provide
internet and print resources for further research into the
spiritualities of the world, glossaries to help cut a path through
the one hundred and eighty seven million web offerings, a list of
key facts for understanding the classical spiritualities, and a
list of dos and don'ts for talking about spirituality. If you are
seeking to discover your own spirituality and understand those of
others, this is a necessary part of your search.
Spiritualities: Past, Present, and Future - An Introduction is a
scholarly analysis of contemporary spiritualities written in
everyday language. Aside from describing the history, feelings,
signposts, and sources of spirituality in this liminal age, it
offers descriptions of ten classical and twenty marginal
spiritualties that influence current spiritual ways of life. How
these past and present spiritualities respond to the ever present
realities of suffering and death and the contemporary challenges of
diversity, environmental degradation, and injustice, challenges
readers as to how they will grow their future spiritualities. This
is a primer for those interested in understanding spiritualities
and helping others deepen their own spirituality. It provides
condensed information and common sense categories that enable a
reader to intelligently read, discuss, and choose among the forty
three million offerings on the web. The short history of
spirituality in the West enables one to understand how spirituality
has developed over the centuries and, especially, its current
fragile relationship with the Classical religions. Anyone who reads
this book will have at their fingertips the print and web resources
for updating their information about these spiritualities, a
glossary of key terms for discussing spiritualities, a list of do's
and don'ts for spiritual listening, and a spiritual compass for
making a spiritual journey.
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