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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith R. Crim
Publisher : Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon
ISBN 13 : 9780687004096
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions written by Keith R. Crim and published by Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the historical development, beliefs, and practices of the world's religions.
Author : Keith R. Crim
Publisher : Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions written by Keith R. Crim and published by Nashville, Tenn. : Abingdon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the historical development, beliefs, and practices of the world's religions.
Author : Gailyn Van Rheenen
Publisher : William Carey Library
ISBN 13 : 9780878087716
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts written by Gailyn Van Rheenen and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether in New Age mysticism, occultism, Haitian voodooism, Chinese ancestor veneration, or Japanese Shintoism, animistic beliefs are widespread, even today. Gailyn Van Rheenen presents a rigorous, biblical, theological, and anthropological foundation for ministering in animistic contexts.
Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573831208
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Concise Dictionary of Religion written by Irving Hexham and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedetto
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866293
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches written by Benedetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.
Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447789
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Religious Truth written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores religious truth in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763870
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Relating Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essays—four of them never before published—that together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion. Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion, outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections between his thinking and his concerns for general education. He then engages several figures and traditions that serve to define his interests within the larger setting of the discipline. The essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to be key to the comparative enterprise. The final essays deploy features of Smith's most recent work, especially the notion of translation. Heady, original, and provocative, Relating Religion is certain to be hailed as a landmark in the academic study and critical theory of religion.
Author : Síân Lee MacDonald Reid
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303140
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Between the Worlds written by Síân Lee MacDonald Reid and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the trend toward pre-monotheistic worship and focuses on neo-paganism practitioners' desire to find the female in the divine. It includes the work of Starhawk, Ronald Hutton, Michael York, Graham Harvey, Jenny Blain, Helen A. Berger, Wendy Griffith, and more.
Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310314488
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Understanding World Religions written by Irving Hexham and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Author : Raphael Israeli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135315140
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Green Crescent Over Nazareth written by Raphael Israeli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the cultural and political struggle between Christians and Muslims, and of the rapid Islamicization of Nazareth - the birthplace of Christianity - ironically, under the rule of the Jewish State of Israel.
Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761860584
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book African Religion Defined written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth. For the Akan, the ancestors’ stool is the emblem of the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo). Led by their kings and queen mothers as living ancestors, the Akan periodically propitiate the ancestors’ stools housing their ancestors. In return, the ancestors and deities influence the affairs of living descendants, making ancestor worship as tenably viable as any other religion. This second edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship by demonstrating the centrality of the ancestors’ stool as the ultimate religious symbol. In addition, all chapters have been expanded. A new chapter has been added to show how ancestor worship is pragmatically integrative, theologically sound, teleological as well as soteriological, with a highly trained clerical body and elders as mediators.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889208492
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Religious Dimensions of Child and Family Life written by Harold Coward and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was unanimously approved by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989, it was widely heralded as a landmark in children’s advocacy, and provided a useful framework for developing programs and advocating for children’s well-being. However, many children’s programs are still designed with little thought to religious or cultural diversity, even though the importance of culture was highlighted at the convention. Religious Dimensions of Child and Family Life examines the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child from the perspectives of eight of the world’s most-practised religions—Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, North American Native spiritual belief, Judaism, popular Chinese religious practice and Bahá’í. The authors of each article pay special attention to religious moral codes of conduct governing parental behaviour, child-rearing norms and the role of children in spiritual practice. They pinpoint where positive support is provided, but also where the religions criticize or disagree with the ideas of the Convention. When considered in relation to the UN Convention, these ideas provoke a lively discussion.
Author : Elijah Obinna
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317119088
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Identity Crises and Indigenous Religious Traditions written by Elijah Obinna and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the complex identity crises among many Christians as they negotiate their new identities, religious ideas and convictions as both Christians and members of Nigerian-African societies of indigenous religious traditions and identities. Through an interdisciplinary interpretation of religious practices and educational issues in teaching and ritual training, the author provides tools to help analyse empirical cases. These include the negotiation processes among Christians, with focus on the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) and members of the Ogo society within the Amasiri, Afikpo North Local Government Area, Ebonyi state, in South-eastern Nigeria. Identifying the power dynamic, identity, role and influence of indigenous religions on Christians and the Ogo society, this book reveals the limited interactions between many Christians and members of the Ogo society. Questions explored include: what makes the Ogo society an integral part of the socio-religious life of Amasiri and what powers and identity does it confer on the initiates; how is the PCN within Amasiri responding to the Ogo society through its religious practices such as baptism, confirmation, local auxiliary ministries and organisational structure; and how does the understanding and application of conversion within the PCN impact on its members’ response to the Ogo society? Demonstrating how complex religious identities and practices of Nigerian-African Christians can balance mission-influenced Christianity with indigenous religious traditions and identities, this book recognises the importance of appropriating the powers of indigenous cultures, ingenuity and creativity in the construction and preservation of community identities. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Christian theology, indigenous religious practice and African lived religion.
Author : Dr. Andrea C. Paterson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452030499
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Three Monotheistic Faiths – Judaism, Christianity, Islam written by Dr. Andrea C. Paterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a synopsis of three monotheistic faiths Judaism, Christianity, and Islam their common areas and their differences. The authors desire? To show why she believes and to also prove that, of the three main faiths existing in the world today, Christianity (a true and right personal relationship with Christ) is the only vehicle to God. It is only through Jesus Christ, Gods Son, that we find our way to Him. (John 14:6).
Author : Watson E. Mills
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548640
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Mercer Commentary on the New Testament written by Watson E. Mills and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume commentary on the Old Testament including the Deuterocanonical literature is taken from the "Mercer Commentary on the Bible. Every book of the Old Testament receives full commentary treatment, complete with an introduction and outline to each book, followed by a commentary on each book. This volume is the perfect tool for students and teachers in that it provides the essential information in understanding the text and its meaning. As such, it is deal for introductory courses on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, or for individual or group study.
