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Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 Volumes]

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 144084187X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 Volumes] written by Carl Olson and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the major monotheistic religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings. Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine--directly--the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia--and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence. Guides readers through some of the most important religious texts in world history, providing significant interpretative material to help students understand the history and ideas within these writings Discusses the nature of a sacred text and suggests ways of reading a sacred text to more fully appreciate its significance Provides insightful comments from the editor that accompany the selected texts, explaining the context of passages to enhance readers' comprehension

Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 volumes]

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 volumes] written by Carl Olson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings. Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia—and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence.

Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 volumes]

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440841888
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 volumes] written by Carl Olson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings. Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia—and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence.

The Book Of Lies

Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Book Of Lies written by Aleister Crowley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Lies was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley under the pen name of Frater Perdurabo. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive." The book consists of 91 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

The Satapatha-Brahmana, According to the Text of the Madhyandina School

Author : Julius Eggeling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368635972
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book The Satapatha-Brahmana, According to the Text of the Madhyandina School written by Julius Eggeling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.

The Sacred Books of China

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Books of China written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts

Author : John F. A. Sawyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415125472
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts written by John F. A. Sawyer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By considering the status of Hebrew in Judaism alongside that of Greek in Rome Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts sheds new light on the role of the power of words, spoken and written, in religion.

The Chinese Classics

Author : James Legge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Classics written by James Legge and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting Words

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274199
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Words written by John Renard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting Words makes solid text-based scholarship accessible to the general public, beginning with the premise that a balanced approach to religious pluralism in our world must build on a measured, well-informed response to the increasingly publicized and sensationalized association of terrorism and large-scale violence with religion. In his introduction, Renard provides background on the major scriptures of seven religious traditions—Jewish, Christian (including both the Old and New Testaments), Islamic, Baha’i, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Sikh. Eight chapters then explore the interpretation of select facets of these scriptures, focusing on those texts so often claimed, both historically and more recently, as inspiration and justification for every kind of violence, from individual assassination to mass murder. With its nuanced consideration of a complex topic, this book is not merely about the religious sanctioning of violence but also about diverse ways of reading sacred textual sources.

The Shu King

Author : Confucius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Shu King written by Confucius and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clothing Sacred Scriptures

Author : David Ganz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110558602
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Clothing Sacred Scriptures written by David Ganz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

The Mîmâmsâ Sûtras of Jaimini

Author : Jaimini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mîmâmsâ Sûtras of Jaimini written by Jaimini and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holy Writings, Sacred Text

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664257781
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Holy Writings, Sacred Text written by John Barton and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An internationally respected biblical scholar investigates the origins of the Christian canon. John Barton explores the reasons behind the development of the New Testament and pursues the historical factors involved in combining these books with the Hebrew Scriptures.

The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East

Author : Charles Francis Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Message and the Book

Author : John Bowker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179294
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Message and the Book written by John Bowker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the key texts of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Confucian, Daoist, and Shinto traditions. The author discusses some 400 books, among them such well-known sacred texts as the Bible and the Quran, but also spiritual writings by theologians, philosophers, poets, and others. Bowker provides clear and illuminating commentary on each text, describing the content and core tenets of the work and quoting pertinent passages. He also sets the writings in religious and historical contexts, showing how they have influenced—and in many cases continue to influence—artistic, musical, literary, and political traditions. The Message and the Book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the meaning and the deep significance of primary religious texts of civilizations around the globe.

Multidisciplinary Approach in Research Area (Volume-11)

Author : Chief Editor- Biplab Auddya, Editor- Dr. Gayatri Indrakanti, V.Saujanya, Meenakshi Ahlawat, Ankush Nijhawan, Dr. P.Parameswari, Dr. Dudheshwar Mahto
Publisher : The Hill Publication
ISBN 13 : 8197194726
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Multidisciplinary Approach in Research Area (Volume-11) written by Chief Editor- Biplab Auddya, Editor- Dr. Gayatri Indrakanti, V.Saujanya, Meenakshi Ahlawat, Ankush Nijhawan, Dr. P.Parameswari, Dr. Dudheshwar Mahto and published by The Hill Publication. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Qur'an and Woman

Author : Amina Wadud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029438
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Qur'an and Woman written by Amina Wadud and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal interpretation and implementation of the Qu'ran that have kept women oppressed. For many, the way to reform is the reexamination and reinterpretation of religious texts. Qu'ran and Woman contributes a gender inclusive reading to one of the most fundamental disciplines in Islamic thought, Qu'ranic exegesis. Wadud breaks down specific texts and key words which have been used to limit women's public and private role, even to justify violence toward Muslim women, revealing that their original meaning and context defy such interpretations. What her analysis clarifies is the lack of gender bias, precedence, or prejudice in the essential language of the Qur'an. Despite much Qu'ranic evidence about the significance of women, gender reform in Muslim society has been stubbornly resisted. Wadud's reading of the Qu'ran confirms women's equality and constitutes legitimate grounds for contesting the unequal treatment that women have experienced historically and continue to experience legally in Muslim communities. The Qu'ran does not prescribe one timeless and unchanging social structure for men and women, Wadud argues lucidly, affirming that the Qu'ran holds greater possibilities for guiding human society to a more fulfilling and productive mutual collaboration between men and women than as yet attained by Muslims or non-Muslims.