Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually abused as children or youth.
Esta obra aborda un interrogante que de modo cada vez mas intenso y urgente se hacen gran numero de personas: si Dios existe, por que no se hace presente de manera tangible, por que no actua e interviene de forma eficaz y evidente para suscitar cuanto de positivo desea promover en la humanidad?
The concept of inspiration is part and parcel of the theological tradition in several religious confessions, but it has largely receded to the background, if not vanished altogether, in the discussions of biblical scholars.
Erotic texts written by and for women play a significant role in negotiating relations of gender, sexuality and kinship, and in shaping popular ideas about romance and the erotic.
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America.
This volume of the series "e;Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;body"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
A groundbreaking account of how religion made society possibleHow did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today-even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation?
A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.
In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims.
"For the sake of science is destined, and the highest is proud, and he informed it of a virtue, and the most successful means, the knowledge of the honorable Sharia and the knowledge of its rulings, and the knowledge of the secret of its permissible and forbidden, so it was appointed to support his intention and facilitate his resources to his pioneer, and his help to remember his word and meanings, and to understand his phrases and buildings.
L’auteur part du principe que les racines du vieux contentieux entre l’islam et le christianisme ont des apparences politiques et socio-économiques, mais sont en réalité d’ordre structurel.
The main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging.
In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined-and continues to define today-the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths.
This books is the result of concerted teamwork among the academia staff of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Nairobi between 1986 and 1990.
Can Christian-Muslim relations be better understood and even interfaith conflicts resolved if Christians and Muslims joined together in an existential and phenomenological engagement with common spatiality?
La otra mitad de Dios es un ensayo filosofico que comienza con un comentario al Genesis, en particular el episodio de la destruccion de Sodoma por dos angeles exterminadores.
The book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original Pali scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.
This book combines the mainstream liberal arguments for religious tolerance with arguments from religious traditions in India to offer insights into appropriate attitudes toward religious 'others' from the perspective of the devout.
Drawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists' roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history of British art, and in which the work of their male contemporaries is so well understood.
