Aspects of religion

Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo.

By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition.

Secular assumptions underlie much formal communication between the West and Africa, and even intra-Africa.

The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk.

In The Yoga of Ghost Hunting, discover a new perspective on ghost hunting.

This book analyzes Morocco''s unique response to counter-terrorism through the development of a religious bureaucracy to define and disseminate Islam.

This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography.

This volume introduces students to the history of cultural and theological responses to abortion as background for understanding a diversity of ethical positions in contemporary Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings.

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "e;Jewish law,"e; the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law.

Apologetic methodology has been the subject of intense debate in Reformed circles.

John Chryssavgis explores the sacred dimension of the natural environment, and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual classics of the Orthodox Church, through the lens of its unique ascetical, liturgical and mystical experience.

A range of practitioners explore what fuels and sustains a life of pioneering mission.

The most extensive royal accounts in the Hebrew Bible are those of kings David (the "e;Succession Narrative,"e; usually identified as 2 Sam 9-20 and 1 Kgs 1-2) and Solomon (the "e;Solomon Story,"e; 1 Kgs 3-11).

This unique work is a teaching-learning guide to help instructors and students to determine "e;What makes Matthew Matthew?

Both traditions recognize and draw theological and historical lessons from some of the same narrative sources, but this is the first comparative resource to provide interdisciplinary coverage of the history and textual sources associated with prophets and prophecy.

Shi`i Ismaili Muslims are unique in following for centuries a living, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader), whom they believe to be directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad.

Matthew Farlow traces the thoughts of Balthasar and Barth so as to enter into theological truth of God's Being-in-Act.

The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections of life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture.

With Open Hands, Henri Nouwens first book on spirituality and a treasured introduction to prayer, has been a perennial favorite for over thirty years because it gently encourages an open, trusting stance toward God and offers insight to the components of prayer: silence, acceptance, hope, compassion, and prophetic criticism.

Like other evangelical kids, Jesse James DeConto felt called to shine the light of truth into the world.

Für die Theorie einer gegenwärtigen – und d.

The Revelation builds conviction, inspires worship, and encourages patient endurance.

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This all-in-one guide is designed to better equip clergy and the church leaders to meet their congregations' needs in a spiritually grounded and scientifically sound manner.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.

The wisdom and spirituality of Hawaiian elders is a facet of Hawaiian culture that outsiders rarely see or truly understand.

Liturgy with a Difference gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender, culture, ethnicity, and body, among others, remain at work in congregations.

In this book, Vivian Houk acknowledges that parenting is really hard work.

Loneliness, or the feeling of being cut off from others, is an epidemic among people in America.

From London to New York to Ann Arbor, people are gathering in pubs and bars to communicate, connect, and learn from one another over the topic of religion, of all things.

This groundbreaking book is based on the findings of the first major study on spiritual reminiscence work with people with dementia.

Many pastors find it easier to preach on the New Testament than the Old Testament, with its powerful and often shocking narrative, prophetic warnings and calls to holiness.

George Lindbeck wrote one of the most often read and debated theological works of the twentieth century, The Nature of Doctrine.

Sein zentrales Thema hat der schulische Religionsunterricht in der Behandlung der Gottesfrage.

Sovereign is who decides; and who decides is responsible.

The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life.

Das Hauptwerk Juan de Torquemadas (1388-1468), die Summa de Ecclesia, hatte einen erheblichen Anteil am Wiedererstarken des Papsttums nach den Wirren des Schismas.

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively.

The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas.