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Islamic postcolonialism is a theoretical perspective that combines two components which have up until now existed in a state of tension. As a secular theory, postcolonialism has notably failed to account for Muslim priorities; it has, for instance, had severe problems critiquing the anti-Islam polemics of The Satanic Verses, as is evidenced by Edward Said's support for Rushdie, in spite of his criticism of the stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims in the West.Islamic postcolonialism...

Auf seiner Suche nach einer -menschlichen- Philosophie stosst Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) auf die Frage nach dem ganzen Menschen als dem zentralen Problem der Anthropologiegeschichte. Die Studie zeichnet anhand einer detaillierten Analyse der einschlagigen Schriften Herders nach, wie dieser aus theologischer Perspektive zu einer alle Dimensionen der menschlichen Existenz umfassenden, ganzheitlichen Sicht des Menschen gelangt. Er begrundet damit eine Konzeption von der Erziehung des Mensc...

Tracing the Evidence: Dinah in Post-Hebrew Bible Literature examines the post-biblical literary developments of Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob. According to Genesis 34, Dinah was sexually violated by Shechem; however, there are gaps in the biblical narrative and little written about what happened to her after the fateful time. Tracing the Evidence considers how post-Hebrew Bible traditions have filled in some of those gaps. Some traditions give more information about her day-to-day life,...

This is the first complete publication of Merton's last book, revised by the author shortly before he died, in which Merton draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the subject of contemplation/meditation in depth, and to show how true contemplation can be practised in everyday life.

"T.D. JAKES, autor de bestseller del New York Times, presenta El poder del perdón demostrando una vez más por qué lo llaman "un genio espiritual", "un maestro para entenderse con la humanidad" y uno de los mejores predicadores en los Estados Unidos. Jakes es consciente de que él y sus pares cristianos comparten verdades espirituales "que trascienden el tiempo y las culturas y reflejan un entendimiento universal de la naturaleza humana". En El poder del perdón explora la verdad espiritual del per...

In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and King Lear, he suggests, Shakespeare's "New Testam...

Offering insights into the lives and times of over fifty artists, and the beliefs that inspired their work, this book, for those who want to know how to interpret religious art, contains more than 100 colour reproductions of some of the world's greatest paintings.

The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters of Zion, a Puritan conduct book, he offers a female type of divine wisdom, authority and force. In the biblical Book of Esther, Esther acts as a female type of wisdom and redemption, but her story a...

Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis - a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty-while walking on the beach with his Labrador. His was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, filled with sports cars and younger women. Instead, Cairns realized his spiritual life was advancing at a snail's pace and time was running out. Midlife crisis for this this Baptist turned Eastern Orthodox manifested as a desperate need to seek out prayer....