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Book Sacred Fury

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Selengut
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780742560840
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Sacred Fury written by Charles Selengut and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Selengut's multidsciplinary approach to understanding the causes and effects of religious violence around the globe.

Book The Sacred Fury

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barton Cockey
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2018-10-08
  • ISBN : 1480991449
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Fury written by Barton Cockey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fury By: Barton and Elizabeth Cockey The Sacred Fury is a literary work of social criticism, a tale about modern-day deviltry. The story surrounds Dylan and Sidney Greene, a newly married couple who live in Baltimore. Dylan, who is the Junior Editor at a local newspaper, is enticed to join an organization called G.O.O.D. whose aim is to control all human life. But Sidney begins having bizarre prophetic dreams about graveyards, disembodied spirits from the past and macabre visions of Samurai armor that comes to life. Meanwhile, Dylan is drawn inexorably into the sinister organization where he realizes his job is to write the news before it happens. At the same time, Sidney seeks an explanation for her dreams from a local fortune teller. It is here where she learns the truth about G.O.O.D. and their plan to excavate the grave of Edgar Alan Poe in search of the potion for eternal life.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Religion  Conflict  and Peacebuilding

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion Conflict and Peacebuilding written by Atalia Omer and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organised thematically.

Book The Myth of Religious Violence

Download or read book The Myth of Religious Violence written by William T Cavanaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the secular are constructed. A growing body of scholarly work explores how the category 'religion' has been constructed in the modern West and in colonial contexts according to specific configurations of political power. Cavanaugh draws on this scholarship to examine how timeless and transcultural categories of 'religion and 'the secular' are used in arguments that religion causes violence. He argues three points: 1) There is no transhistorical and transcultural essence of religion. What counts as religious or secular in any given context is a function of political configurations of power; 2) Such a transhistorical and transcultural concept of religion as non-rational and prone to violence is one of the foundational legitimating myths of Western society; 3) This myth can be and is used to legitimate neo-colonial violence against non-Western others, particularly the Muslim world.

Book Sacred Fire

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  • Author : Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira
  • Publisher : Jason Aronson
  • Release : 2002-08-22
  • ISBN : 1461630568
  • Pages : 427 pages

Download or read book Sacred Fire written by Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury (1939-1942) consists of commentaries on each weekly Torah portion. It also includes a number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals as well as a few discourses alluding to people loved and lost. Because writing is not permitted on the Sabbath, these "words of Torah" were transcribed from memory, after the Sabbath or festival had ended. Although the pages of Sacred Fire are not stained with the names of its author's tormentors, there are numerous references to historical events through which parallels can be drawn. Rabbi Shapira often refers, for example, to the binding of Isaac and the martyrdom of Rabbi Akiba. Sacred Fire forms a religious, spiritual response to the Holocaust that speaks from the heart of the darkness. In doing so, it may well form the basis for what could one day become Judaism's formal liturgical response to the events that occurred during those years of fury.

Book The Story of Religious Controversy

Download or read book The Story of Religious Controversy written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual Communications

Download or read book Spiritual Communications written by Henry Kiddle and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine

Download or read book Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Violence in Judaism  Christianity  and Islam

Download or read book Political Violence in Judaism Christianity and Islam written by Jonathan Fine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious political violence is by no means a new phenomenon, yet there are critical differences between the various historical instances of such violence and its more current permutations. Since the mid-1970s, religious fundamentalist movements have been seeking to influence world order by participating in local political systems. For example, Islamic fundamentalism is at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Christian fundamental right wing has seen a resurgence in Europe, and Jewish fundamentalism is behind the actions of Meir Kahane’s Kach movement and the settler movement. The shift in recent years from secular to religious political violence necessitates a reevaluation of contemporary political violence and of the concept of religious violence. This text analyzes the evolution of religious political violence, in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Since religious political violent events are usually associated with the term “terrorism,” the book first analyzes the origins of this controversial term and its religious manifestations. It then outlines and highlights the differences between secular and religious political violence, on ideological, strategic, and tactical levels before comparing the concept of Holy War in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Lastly, it shows how modern radical monotheistic religious groups interpret and manipulate their religious sources and ideas to advocate their political agendas, including the practice of violence. A unique comparative study of religious political violence across Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, this text features many international case studies from the Crusades to the Arab Spring.

Book In Search of Solutions

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  • Author : Clinton Bennett
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-12-05
  • ISBN : 131749105X
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book In Search of Solutions written by Clinton Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has played a role in conflict throughout history, with religious scriptures often being used to justify violence. In Search of Solutions evaluates the role of religion in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Israel-Palestine. The book argues that religion has a tendency towards conflict and that peace is best guaranteed when human individuals commune directly with the divine without the mediation of organized religions. Different approaches to the reading of scriptures are introduced, drawing on post-modern theory. In Search of Solutions will be invaluable for the student seeking a clear overview of both the theory and the practice of religion in conflict resolution.

Book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare  Macbeth  Othello

Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Macbeth  Othello

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1881
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Macbeth Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hengest

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  • Author : Nellie Slayton Aurner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 870 pages

Download or read book Hengest written by Nellie Slayton Aurner and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humanistic Studies  Hengest  a study in early English hero legend  Le Liure de la Deablerie of Eloy d Amerval   Origins of Poe s critical theory

Download or read book Humanistic Studies Hengest a study in early English hero legend Le Liure de la Deablerie of Eloy d Amerval Origins of Poe s critical theory written by University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humanistic Studies

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  • Author : University of Iowa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 898 pages

Download or read book Humanistic Studies written by University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All that Makes a Man

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  • Author : Stephen W. Berry II
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-12-19
  • ISBN : 0199923833
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book All that Makes a Man written by Stephen W. Berry II and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South makes clear, most southern men saw the war more simply as a test of their manhood, a chance to defend the honor of their sweethearts, fianc?s, and wives back home. Drawing upon diaries and personal letters, Stephen Berry seamlessly weaves together the stories of six very different men, detailing the tangled roles that love and ambition played in each man's life. Their writings reveal a male-dominated Southern culture that exalted women as "repositories of divine grace" and treasured romantic love as the platform from which men launched their bids for greatness. The exhilarating onset of war seemed to these, and most southern men, a grand opportunity to fulfill their ambition for glory and to prove their love for women--on the same field of battle. As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home. Elegant and poetic, All That Makes a Man recovers the emotional lives of unsung Southern men and women and reveals that the fiction of Cold Mountain mirrors a poignant reality. In their search for a cause worthy of their lives, many Southern soldiers were disappointed in their hopes for a Southern nation. But they still had their women's love, and there they would rebuild.