Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue
by Jane I. Smith
The attacks of September 11, 2001 instantly heightened the American public's sensitivity toward matters of religious difference. Many Americans realized not only that non-Muslims need to learn more about Islam, but also that Muslims must better understand and articulate their own faith to themselves and others. In this volume, Jane Idleman Smith examines the current American Christian-Muslim dialogue, contextualized both through the history of Islam and of the contemporary West. As we approach t...
Christianity and the Igbo Rites of Passage (European University Studies, v. 462)
by Charles Ok Onuh
Owing to their value and strategic importance in the people's mentality and culture, this work proposes the Igbo Rites of Passage as a necessary parameter and a transmitting wave-length for a firm rooting of the christian faith among the Igbos.
Святой апостол Лука, евангелист и дееписаm
by Н. Н. Глубоковский
The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 (Studies in Religion)
by James Terence Fisher
James Fisher argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the ""immigrant church,"" largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, launched a variety of spiritual, communitarian, and literary experiments. He also explores the life and works of Thomas A. Dooley and Jack Kerouac to show that their experiences signaled a new Catholic appreciation of the American tradition of creative freedom.
Mediatization of Politics
The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes. As politics becomes increasingly mediatized, the role of the media becomes more important in political processes, overlaying and subsuming political logic. This affects not only the pr...
Spiritualism and Society (Routledge Revivals) (Routledge Revivals)
by G. K. Nelson
First published in 1969, this title explores the origins of Spiritualism as a religious movement. The first part is a history of Spiritualism, with a focus on its origins within America and the development of the organisation within itself. Next, Nelson considers the rise of Spiritualism in Britain, using evidence taken from contemporary journals, other publications and interviews. Finally, the Spiritualist movement is analysed in terms of sociological theory, looking at the Church and the defin...
The Crescent and the Cross
This book is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the 'West' of Islamic 'fundamentalism'. It analyses the ethical and legal principles, rooted in both traditions, underlying any use of armed force in the modern world. After chapters on the history, theology and laws of war as seen from both sides, the book applies its conclusions to (a) the 1990-91 Gulf War and (b) the Bosnian Conflict. It concludes that Hu...
Соединение и перевод четырех Евангелий
by Л. Н. Толстой
Both a scholarly and personal critique of current feminist Moroccan discourses, this book is a call for a larger-than-Islam framework that accommodates the Berber dimension. Sadiqi argues that current feminist discourse, both secular and Islamic ones, are not only divergent but limit the rich heritage, knowledge, and art of Berber women.
The Future of Jewish Schooling in the United Kingdom (Planning for Jewish communities)
by Oliver Valins, Barry A. Kosmin, and Jacqueline Goldberg
"Ocak" Und "Dedelik" (Heidelberger Studien Zur Geschichte Und Kultur Des Modernen, #36)
Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, einen Einblick in die traditionellen Institutionen des Alevitentums zu geben und insbesondere deren Veranderungen im 20. Jahrhundert zu thematisieren. Die Aleviten bilden eine Religionsgemeinschaft, die sich in ihrer Grundungserzahlung auf die fruhislamische Geschichte, d. h. die Leidensgeschichte der unmittelbaren Nachkommen des Propheten Mohammed und in ihrer Praxis auf die islamische Mystik bezieht. In seiner heutigen Form hat sich das Alevitentum in Anatolien zwisc...
Casting Faiths
Did European imperialism invent Asian religion? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission in East and Southeast Asia shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society. But as these essays show, Western ideas were not always imposed at gunpoint. In places like Burma or Indonesia, many of these changes were initiated by European imperialism. Yet they also reached places like China, which was...
Since the end of the Cold War fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace and prosperity, a concern that was exacerbated by the events of 9/11, and the War Against Terrorism. But what does Fundamentalism really mean? This is the first book to expose the real nature and spread of both secular and religious fundamentalism worldwide, and to explore the many different forms this can take. Fundamentalism is a problematic term that eludes easy definitions. Since it was coined by Am...
Inspired by the social theories of Max Weber, David d'Avray asks in what senses medieval religion was rational and, in doing so, proposes a new approach to the study of the medieval past. Applying ideas developed in his companion volume on Rationalities in History, he explores how values, instrumental calculation, legal formality and substantive rationality interact and the ways in which medieval beliefs were strengthened by their mutual connections, by experience, and by mental images. He sheds...
Православно-христианское учение о нравст
by И. Янышев
Religion and Law in Independent India
Contributed seminar papers.
This book analyzes attempts by radical Spanish republicans to construct an anticlerical-nationalist vision of Spain, focusing in particular on the the mass production by the 'anticlertical industry' of newspapers, novels, poems, cartoons, posters, postcards and plays put out by republican muckrakers, journalists, and politicians.
Unlike other recent studies of the Southern Baptists, Southern Baptist Politics was written after the culmination of the "Baptist battles" of the 1980s, when Fundamentalists had effectively taken control of the denomination. It also considers the SBC not simply as a denomination but as an organization with characteristics similar to other voluntary associations in American society-an approach that promises to be useful for the study of other religious groups in America. Arthur Farnsley concludes...