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By Barnaby Rogerson. 2006
Within a generation of Muhammad's death, his followers exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the…
seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. Coming from small oasis communities of central Arabia, their achievements were immense. Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Some descriptions of violence. 2006. Uniform title: Heirs of the prophet MuhammadBy Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen. 1992
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world…
in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.By Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 2007
Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has now become one of…
today's most talked-about, admired and controversial political figures because of her desire to free women from an oppressive Muslim culture. This collection of essays brings together some of her most passionate and compelling writing on a wide range of issues concerning Islam. Drawing on her own first-hand experience and cultural background, she assesses the role of women in Islam both in practice and in theory; the rights of the individual; fanaticism; and Western policies towards immigrant communities. The Caged Virgin is an important addition to the ongoing debate about the 'clash of civilizations' and marks the debut of a writer and activist destined to be one of the key international figures of the early twenty-first century. 2007. Uniform title: De maagdenkooi.By Mary Rose O'Reilley. 2000
O'Reilley embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, she describes her work in an agricultural…
barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks in both places a spirituality based not in "climbing out of the body" but rather in existing fully in the world. 2000.By Youssef Seddik. 2004
"Comme il aimait cette longue et paisible marche à travers un Damas encore endormi ! L'émir savourait un calme bonheur…
sur la route entre la Grande Mosquée des Omeyyades et sa demeure de l'autre côté de la ville." Partager à travers l'évocation de dix grands personnages poètes, hommes de foi, voyageurs, califes, savants les richesses et la diversité de la civilisation arabo-musulmane. Apprendre les fondements de notre histoire. Années 3 à 6. 2004.By Tom Monte, Elliot Tiber. 2009
This is the extraordinary, behind-the-scenes tale of how Woodstock went from a pipe dream to the most iconic rock concert…
of all time. Elliot Tiber, then known as Eliyahu Teichberg, was a budding painter in the 1960s. He also happened to be head of his local chamber of commerce--and owner of the yearly permit to hold summer music concerts. The rest, as they say, is history. 2009.By Pema Chödrön. 1994
A handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, and how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine…
compassion toward others. The author shows how to "start where we are" - embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives - and frames her teachings around 59 traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims. 2001, c1994.By Andrew Crofts, Zana Muhsen. 1994
Fifteen year old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia, born and raised in Birmingham, travelled to visit relatives in…
North Yemen for a holiday, to discover their father had sold them into marriage. They were helpless prisoners, forced to adapt to a primitive way of life, rape and frequent beatings. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana escaped. This book tells of her experience and her fight to bring her sister home. 1994.By Joanna Brooks, Alex Cooper. 2016
Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where…
they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed "residential treatment program," a virtual gulag where thousands of American teenagers have been sent by fundamentalist parents. Forbidden from attending school, Alex was beaten and verbally abused, and forced to stand facing a wall for up to eighteen hours a day wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks that literally broke her back. "God's plan does not apply to gay people," her captors told her, using faith as a cudgel to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex would eventually escape and make legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law's protection as an openly gay teenager. 2016.By R. T Naylor. 2006
Naylor exposes the post 9/11 global War on Islamic Terror as based on myth, misinformation, and even deliberate disinformation -…
all of it premised on misguided notions about the nature of terrorist financing and the structure and organization of terrorist groups. Naylor believes that the secret agendas behind, and the private interests that profit from, an illusory War on Terror may be far more dangerous than the events that led to it. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.By Rita Mae Brown. 1997
Autobiography of the openly lesbian novelist who has co-authored mysteries with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Describes her illegitimate birth, adoption…
by relatives, and southern childhood; how she became an advocate for women's rights; and her relationships with tennis star Martina Navratilova and author Fannie Flagg. Some strong language. c1997.By Sarah Prager. 2017
A LGBTQ chronicle for teens shares hip, engaging facts about 23 influential gender-ambiguous notables from the era of the Roman…
Empire to the present, exploring how they defied convention to promote civil rights, pursue relationships on their own terms and shape culture. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.By Jacques Brosse. 2007
L'auteur, philosophe et maître zen, s'interroge sur le sens que nous pouvons donner à notre vie et sur notre présence…
en ce monde. Une méditation sur le mystère de l'existence s'appuyant sur les philosophes d'Orient et d'Occident. 2007.By K. Sri Dhammananda. 1999
By Eléna Roerich, Rosalie Casella, Yves Chaumette. 1991
L'auteure nous parle du bouddhisme : "Le terme bouddha n'est pas un nom, mais indique un état d'esprit, un esprit…
parvenu au point le plus élevé de son développement. Traduit littéralement, il signifie "l'illuminé"...". 1991.By Mahmoud Hussein. 2009
Le Coran est, pour les musulmans, la Parole de Dieu, révélée au Prophète Muhammad par l'intermédiaire de l'ange Gabriel entre…
610 et 632 de l'ère chrétienne. Est-il besoin de souligner l'importance aujourd'hui de comprendre ce que dit ce texte capital ? Ce qu'il dit et non pas ce qu'on lui fait dire. L'ouvrage de Mahmoud Hussein donne des clés pour lire et penser ce texte fondateur. En replaçant de nombreux versets du Coran dans les circonstances où ils furent révélés, il éclaire des évidences largement occultées à l'heure actuelle et cependant essentielles à l'intelligence du texte. Et à l'intelligence de l'islam.By Lodrö Palmo. 2015
" En juillet 2000, Danielle Lamoureux fait sa petite valise et met le cap sur la Nouvelle-Écosse, où elle passe…
les neuf années suivantes à l'abbaye de Gampo, dirigée par Ani Pema Chödron. Elle y prend les vœux monastiques dans la tradition bouddhiste de Shambhala. Elle devient Ani Lodrö Palmo. Dans L'armée de la bienveillance, l'auteure, sous forme de lettres à son fils, livre le récit captivant de l'expérience spirituelle authentique qu'elle a vécue au Cap-Breton. En plus de témoigner de sa transformation profonde, Ani Lodrö Palmo répond à la soif de sens actuelle et nous aide à composer avec les petits et grands défis de la vie. Convaincue qu'il nest pas nécessaire de se retirer du monde pour trouver la paix de l'esprit, capable de prouver qu'il y a un monastère dans le cœur de tous les êtres humains, elle s'applique, à l'aide d'enseignements simples, tout en douceur, à éveiller la nonne ou le moine qui dort en chacun de nous. " -- 4e de couv.By Rachid Benzine, Christian Delorme. 1998
Les deux auteurs, l'un musulman, l'autre prêtre catholique, racontent leur cheminement dans leur foi respective et comment ils en sont…
venus à connaître et à respecter la religion de l'autre; ils sont favorables au dialogue entre chrétiens et musulmans. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus. 1997.By Lhakpa Yeshe, Anne-Laure Estèves. 2018
Dix contes tibétains est un recueil d'histoires ancestrales qui ont pour thème l'essence même du bouddhisme : la compassion.Ces contes…
à la beauté sobre et sublime éveilleront votre esprit et le nourriront. Ils vous inviteront à effectuer les changements auxquels vous aspirez pour être en harmonie avec vous-même et avec les autres. 2018. Titre uniforme: Ten tales from Tibet.By Elspeth Cameron. 1997
Elspeth Cameron, a literary biographer, shares her journey from an unhappy marriage to the realization that she is a lesbian.…
Along the way she must deal with her own confused feelings and the reactions of her friends and family to her decision. Some descriptions of sex. c1997.