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The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan
By Ali Ezzatyar. 2017
Amidst changing notions of religion and identity in the modern Middle East, this book uncovers the hidden story of Ahmad…
Moftizadeh, the nonviolent religious leader of Iran's Kurds during the Iranian Revolution. The characters of Ayatollah Khomeini and a number of other prominent revolutionaries surface through never before heard first-hand accounts of that era's events. The author further surveys the underlying causes of conflict and extremism today by placing this dramatic biography in the context of a rapidly-evolving region after the First World War. The author's coverage of some of the twentieth century Middle East's most defining events leads him to powerful policy arguments for a region in turmoil.Medieval Religion and its Anxieties
By Thomas A. Fudgé. 2016
This book examines the broad varieties of religious belief, religious practices, and the influence of religion within medieval society. Religion…
in the Middle Ages was not monolithic. Medieval religion and the Latin Church are not synonymous. While theology and liturgy are important, an examination of animal trials, gargoyles, last judgments, various aspects of the medieval underworld, and the quest for salvation illuminate lesser known dimensions of religion in the Middle Ages. Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture, heresy and heretics, law and legal procedure, along with sexuality and an awareness of mentalities and anxieties. Although an expanse of 800 years has passed, the remains of those other Middle Ages can be seen today, forcing us to reassess our evaluations of this alluring and often overlooked past.Religious Minorities in Turkey
By Annette Freyberg-Inan, Mehmet Bardakci, Christoph Giesel, Olaf Leisse. 2017
This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European…
integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey's EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards autocratic government is rolling back some earlier achievements. This book shows how these broader processes affect the lives of three important religious groups in Turkey: the Alevi as a large Muslim community and the Christian communities of Armenians and Syriacs. Drawing on a wealth of original data and extensive fieldwork, the authors compare and explain improvements, set-backs, and lingering concerns for Turkey's religious minorities and identify important challenges for Turkey's future democratic development and European path. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of minority politics, contemporary Turkish politics, and religion and politics.Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song
By Graham M. Schweig. 2007
The Bhagavad Gita is often regarded as the Bible of India. With a gripping story and deeply compelling message, it…
is unquestionably one of the most popular sacred texts of Asia and, along with the Bible and the Qur'an, one of the most important holy scriptures in the world. Part of an ancient Hindu epic poem, the dialogue of the Bhagavad Gita takes place on a battlefield, where a war for the possession of a North Indian kingdom is about to ensue between two noble families related by blood. The epic's hero, young Prince Arjuna, is torn between his duty as a warrior and his revulsion at the thought of his brothers and cousins killing each other over control of the realm. Frozen by this ethical dilemma, he debates the big questions of life and death with the supreme Hindu deity Krishna, cleverly disguised as his charioteer. By the end of the story, Eastern beliefs about mortality and reincarnation, the vision and practice of yoga, the Indian social order and its responsibilities, family loyalty, spiritual knowledge, and the loftiest pursuits of the human heart are explored in depth. Explaining the very purpose of life and existence, this classic has stood the test of twenty-three centuries. It is presented here in a thoroughly accurate, illuminating, and beautiful translation that is sure to become the standard for our day.Voix d'espérances ((Les racines du ciel).)
By Frédéric Lenoir, Laylī Anvar, Karima Berger. 2016
Par ces temps troublés, où trouver matière à espérer ? Répondant aux questions de Frédéric Lenoir et de Leili Anvar,…
artistes, penseurs et écrivains tracent des chemins où inscrire nos pas. Ce sont autant d'invitations : cultiver l'indignation face à l'injustice avec Stéphane Hessel ; incarner le vivre-ensemble dans une unité féconde avec Jean Vanier ; être à l'écoute d'une voix de fin silence avec Sylvie Germain ; célébrer, au-delà des ténèbres, la joie avec Magda Hollander-Lafon ; ou suivant les paroles du poète Salah Stétié, ajouter chacun un peu d'humanité à l'humanité... Ces témoignages, ainsi que le parcours exemplaire d'Etty Hillesum évoqué par Karima Berger, sont porteurs d'une espérance insoupçonnée. Ces entretiens sont issus de l'émission Les Racines du Ciel, diffusée sur France Culture chaque dimanche de 7h05 à 8h00. Frédéric Lenoir et Leili Anvar y évoquent toutes les formes de spiritualité, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, d'Orient et d'Occident, ancrées ou pas dans une tradition religieuse. 2016.Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
By Susan Jacoby. 2016
In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges…
the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century “religious marketplace” in which half of Americans have changed faiths at least once, nothing has been more important in the struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether. Focusing on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—each claiming possession of absolute truth—Jacoby examines conversions within a social and economic framework that includes theocratic coercion (unto torture and death) and the more friendly persuasion of political advantage, economic opportunism, and interreligious marriage. Moving through time, continents, and cultures—the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, Southern plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—the narrative is punctuated by portraits of individual converts embodying the sacred and profane. The cast includes Augustine of Hippo; John Donne; the German Jew Edith Stein, whose conversion to Catholicism did not save her from Auschwitz; boxing champion Muhammad Ali; and former President George W. Bush. The story also encompasses conversions to rigid secular ideologies, notably Stalinist Communism, with their own truth claims. Finally, Jacoby offers a powerful case for religious choice as a product of the secular Enlightenment. In a forthright and unsettling conclusion linking the present with the most violent parts of the West’s religious past, she reminds us that in the absence of Enlightenment values, radical Islamists are persecuting Christians, many other Muslims, and atheists in ways that recall the worst of the Middle Ages.(With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)From the Hardcover edition.Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It…
is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents a broad view of psychology; whatever kind of psychology you are interested in, you will find it covered here, from biological to social, and from experimental to psychoanalytic. It focuses particularly on the varied concepts that psychologists have employed to make sense of religion and subjects them to critical examination. The book is also concerned with practical applications, helping those engaged in religious ministry. It will be of interest to undergraduates and general readers, as well as specialists in religious studies, psychology, and philosophy of religion.L'acceptation radicale (L'esprit d'ouverture)
By Tara Brach, Daniel Roche. 2016
" Il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas rond chez moi... C'est ma faute, si j'avais fait un…
autre choix, tout ça ne serait pas arrivé... Combien de fois par jour nous flagellons-nous avec de telles pensées négatives ? Pour en finir avec cette haine de soi qui nous empoisonne l'existence, Tara Brach, thérapeute et grande pionnière du bouddhisme occidental, nous propose d'entreprendre une acceptation radicale de nous-mêmes. Grâce à une méthode simple et pleine de finesse où se mêlent méditations guidées et anecdotes personnelles, elle nous montre comment rompre avec la spirale de la culpabilité et la déconsidération de soi afin de nous aimer tels que nous sommes : imparfaits certes, mais aussi confiants et bienveillants à l'égard des autres. Apaisant et lumineux, L'Acceptation radicale est un livre culte aux États-Unis, sans cesse réédité depuis sa parution en 2004. Un texte fondateur, pour une estime de soi contagieuse. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Radical acceptance : embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha.La naissance du christianisme: comment tout a commencé
By Enrico Norelli, Viviane Dutaut. 2015
" En Galilée et en Judée du temps de l'empereur Tibère, Jésus de Nazareth provoque un mouvement de réveil et…
de révolte d'Israël, fondé sur l'annonce de la proximité du royaume de Dieu. Or la mort infamante de Jésus ne met pas fin à son mouvement. Elle est paradoxalement à l'origine d'une relance de son message, et au-delà même des frontières d'Israël. Enrico Norelli enquête ainsi sur l'étonnante constitution, au deuxième siècle, de tout un système de pouvoir et de doctrine qui finira par s'imposer à l'empire romain. Il montre la diversité remarquable des modèles de foi en Jésus, et comment certains d'entre eux furent vaincus par d'autres. Il décrit la formation de mémoires plurielles et les débats qui conduisent à la rédaction d'un Nouveau Testament et à la constitution d'un canon écrit. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: La nascita del cristianesimo.Le fondateur du Christianisme ((Livre de vie ; 137))
By Charles Harold Dodd, Paul-André Lesort. 1972
An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United StatesIt is by…
now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are increasingly relying on religious organizations to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. And these religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences.Some twenty thousand of these Evangelical Christian volunteers now run educational programs in over three hundred US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Prison seminary programs are flourishing in states as diverse as Texas and Tennessee, California and Illinois, and almost half of the federal prisons operate or are developing faith-based residential programs. Tanya Erzen gained inside access to many of these programs, spending time with prisoners, wardens, and members of faith-based ministries in six states, at both male and female penitentiaries, to better understand both the nature of these ministries and their effects. What she discovered raises questions about how these ministries and the people who live in prison grapple with the meaning of punishment and redemption, as well as what legal and ethical issues emerge when conservative Christians are the main and sometimes only outside forces in a prison system that no longer offers even the pretense of rehabilitation. Yet Erzen also shows how prison ministries make undeniably positive impacts on the lives of many prisoners: men and women who have no hope of ever leaving prison can achieve personal growth, a sense of community, and a degree of liberation within the confines of their cells.With both empathy and a critical eye, God in Captivity grapples with the questions of how faith-based programs serve the punitive regime of the prison, becoming a method of control behind bars even as prisoners use them as a lifeline for self-transformation and dignity.Por que deixei a religião judaica para seguir Jesus
By Bernard Levine, Emanuel Guedes Santos. 2017
Tenho certeza que você vai ficar muito surpreso ao saber que na maioria das casas judaicas, você não vai encontrar…
uma Bíblia lá. Mas, não é muito estranho, você pode dizer ... .que por que a nação conhecida como o 'Povo do Livro' não possui uma Bíblia em suas casas? O que é ainda mais surpreendente é que você pensaria que o povo judeu segue e conhece bem as Escrituras, a chocante verdade real é que a maioria dos antigos livros do testamento são um mistério para os judeus porque eles não sabem e nunca viram as profecias Sobre Jesus nos livros como Ezequiel, Isaías, Daniel e Malaquias. E, você sabia que os judeus não sabem o que estão dizendo quando estão orando, como a maioria dos judeus não podem entender o hebraico. Então agora, eu suponho que você deve estar se perguntando como os judeus se livrar de todos os seus pecados se eles não acreditam em Jesus Cristo? ... o que os judeus acreditam ser o caminho para chegar ao céu? Você ficará chocado ao descobrir o que está acontecendo no mundo judaico.Hoekom ek die Joodse geloof verlaat het om 'n Christen te word
By Bernard Levine, Zelna Naude. 2017
Ek is seker jy sal verbaas wees om te hoor dat daar in die meeste Joodse huise nie 'n Bybel…
is nie. Maar is dit nie baie snaaks dat die nasie, bekend as die "Mense van die Boek", nie eers 'n Bybel in hul huise het nie? Wat nog meer verrassend is, is dat mens sou dink dat die Joodse mense die Skrifte goed sou ken, die skokkende waarheid is egter dat meeste van die Ou Testament boeke aan hulle onbekend is en dat hulle nog nooit die profesieë oor Jesus in boeke soos Esegiël, Jesaja, Daniël en Maleagi gesien het nie. En, het jy geweet dat die Jode nie weet wat hulle sê as hulle bid nie, want die meeste Jode verstaan nie Hebreeus nie. Nou wonder jy seker hoe die Jode dan verlos raak van hulle sondes as hulle nie in Jesus Christus glo nie? Wat glo die Jode is die weg na die hemel? Jy sal geskok wees om uit te vind wat in die Joodse wêreld aangaan.La tradition et la vie de l'Église ((Traditions chrétiennes, ISSN 0293-3985 ; 18).)
By Yves Congar. 1984
La sainte Bible
By Louis Segond. 1985
Aubes et lumières: naissance de l'impossible ((Semeurs, ISSN 0293-7662).)
By Yves Girard. 1988
Le chemin du calvaire ((Le Livre de poche ; 5920).)
By Roy Hession. 1974
Comment les sectes vous manipulent: les stratégies dévoilées
By Marie Joly. 2002