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The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?...
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A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment.
After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Weber's...
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There's a time for irreverence and a time for reverence; now is the time for reverence.Every religion, to some degree or another, teaches God's truths. To honor this, this book of poems praises 25 different world religions (such as Quakerism, Ethical Culture, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Taoism, Jainism, Sufism, Calvinism, Unitarian Universalism, and others).
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Secularización, transhumanismo, crisis de civilización y valores cristianos, cuidados, fraternidad abierta, diálogo entre fe y cultura, pastoral con jóvenes emigrantes, pastoral rural… Estos y otros conceptos de presente y de futuro se entreveran en este volumen que recoge las aportaciones de la XXXIII Semana de Estudios de Teología Pastoral.
El futuro del cristianismo está al servicio de un mundo que se busca a sí mismo. La misión sigue...
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God is without beginning and is without end but when the bible says he is the beginning and the end, bible is referring to the beginning of his project and the end of his project. Particularly the beginning and the end of the living creatures, angels, and the human beings. We all begin with him, but we will end up either in heaven or hell, good or bad respectively. Bible says all things were created by God good and evil (Isaiah 45:7). This book reveals...
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"El Legado de Nana Buruku: Entretejiendo los Hilos de la Creación y la Fertilidad" invita a los lectores a adentrarse en el fascinante mundo de la religión yoruba, explorando la rica mitología que rodea a la venerada deidad Nana Buruku. A través de las páginas de este libro, los lectores descubrirán la historia, los mitos y la influencia de Nana Buruku en la cosmogonía yoruba.La narrativa se sumerge en la antigüedad, desentrañando la conexión...
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"El Resplandor del Arco Iris: Misterios de Oshumare" es un viaje fascinante hacia las profundidades de la mitología yoruba, explorando los misterios y la esencia única de la deidad Oshumare. A través de estas páginas, los lectores se sumergirán en un mundo lleno de colores vibrantes, simbolismo sagrado y enseñanzas espirituales.Desde las raíces ancestrales de la cultura yoruba hasta las prácticas contemporáneas, el libro ofrece una visión...
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All men born by women have one battle or the other. We are all bound by Satan from the creation and we all need to be loosed and only Yeshua HaMashiach can truly loose man and loose man indeed. All other freedom which is not from God will end up in hell. Many of us have life but not life in abundant, many of us are free but not free indeed.The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. There are things and truth you need...
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“Inspired Messages of Truth” is a book with spiritually insightful knowledge about the blessings bestowed upon humanity and nations under God.
These messages expose the increasing human frailties and cultural crises in America and beyond. However, the inspired messages also provide enlightenment, human possibilities, hope and the love of God. This love of God reveals the means, methods and resources for the success of those who embrace the truth...
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Love, grace, mercy, and favor are four major characteristics of God that we cannot do without, and these characteristics are all related to one another,.These four characteristics of God are used instead of one another in the bible because of their relationship.This book explain the different between these characters of God, the greatest among the four, how to get them, how to keep them and how to restore them when they are lost.
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What used to be a serpent in the book of Genesis, is now leviathan in the book of Job and in the book of Revelation it has become the dragon.As the end is fast approaching Satan is not having enough time on his side to accomplish his aim of taking as many as he could to hell. His aim is to take all to hell but he has failed for many are dead as saints already and there are still saints around, nevertheless he is not slowing down. Unknowingly the mark...
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Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on Earth. Of all their tasks, one responsibility they cannot neglect is teaching the word of God. Unfortunately, church leaders seldom have enough time to prepare Bible studies for their congregation. This book is a quick resource to help fill that gap. These thematically arranged Bible studies each contain an introduction to a topic and a list of relevant Scripture readings for that topic....
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In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence. Assuming that the command to love one's enemies is at the heart of the Gospel, these writers carefully, faithfully--and no doubt provocatively--attempt to explain why the nonviolent path...
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The author suffered from repeated depressions after his ordination to the Catholic priesthood. The depression once for all ceased after his sacramental marriage. The reactions to this marriage from the hierarchy, who stuck to tradition, could hardly be other than negative, although no-one could refute the arguments of the author. Nevertheless he was not officially readmitted to the Catholic priesthood, even if some Catholic communities welcome his...
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The first collection to distinguish religion's role in the creation of race and ethnic categories
Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity is the first collection devoted to demonstrating the role that religion and myth have played in the creation of the categories of "race" and "ethnicity."
When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have expressed Christianity, or how Japanese...
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Let's take a deep dive into the scriptures and learn what the Bible teaches about God and His nature. This is a Biblical based study on who God is. We present who Jesus Christ is and His role in our salvation.
Presenting a strictly biblical approach, let's take a walk together into the scriptures! As Christians, our spiritual walk depends on Jesus Christ and having an accurate knowing of who He is and who He represents. We can't grow into spiritual...
17) The Want Book
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When asked, "what did you learn at Sunday School today", my four-year old daughter replied, "Just another fairy tale about Jesus." I suddenly realized I could not teach what I did not understand clearly myself. The verse, Mathew 7:7,8, came to mind. Thus, began my lifelong search to find universal truths in all the world's respected religions.
I wanted to know how to explain and teach logically the mysteries and wonder of life to children in our...
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Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many accomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary...
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The prophets of the Old Testament were speaking, in the first instance, to the people of their own time. This means that we need to locate the prophets in the history of their own time, in order to understand them in the first instance.
I propose to survey Israel's history mainly in terms of the work and role of the prophets, from Moses to Malachi. Of course, they were interacting with the temple priesthood and with the disciples of Machiavelli,...
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