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Palmetto Publishing All The Innocent Blood: Shed by Israel
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Page Publishing, Inc Spiritual Genocide The Reincarnation of Earth
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Xlibris Us The Seed That Fell from the Master's Hand
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£19.90
WestBow Press The Mind of Wisdom
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£23.70
Lulu.com Words of Divine Love to Berthe Petit
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£18.78
Palmetto Publishing Being Us: Perceiving God, a Radical View
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£10.99
Trafford Publishing Nobody but God: Testimonies of Faith Hope and
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Blurb Mengenal Keutamaan Dan Berkah Amal Ibadah Sedekah
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Blurb Meditations made simple: How to meditate upon the
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Blurb Inc Our Shadows, Our Light: A writing journey with
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Blurb Healing Journal: Lets get your power back
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Blurb Healing Journal: Lets get your power back
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Blurb Healing Journal: Lets get your power back
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Blurb Allah - Muslim Wedding Guest Book: Islam Family
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Blurb Heal Profoundly: A Graffiti Thug's Transformation
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Lulu.com Thiền Môn Nhật Tụng: Chùa
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Monarch Educational Services, L.L.C. Crossings: The Lightbearers Series
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Grey Willow Press Invocations of Light
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£10.31
Old Paths Publications, Inc The Church Age Saints in the Olivet Discourse: A
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Old Paths Publications, Inc El Evangelismo Personal: Un Estudio Breve del
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£10.64
Victor Ansor Publishing How to Cook Prayer: How to Cook Prayer with
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Macbeth Communications Bend: When Life Dares You to Break
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£11.64
Chapter 13 Publishing LLC Victory Is Mine Evidence Tartt: I, THE LORD
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£9.00
Gieschen Foundation Evangelion: A Chronological Harmony of the Four
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£10.79
Katamerismou Publishing Secrets of Broken Pottery: Seeing the Great
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Equinox Publishing Ltd The Insider/Outsider Debate: New Perspectives in
Book SynopsisThe distinction between “insiders” and “outsiders” in religious studies has become an area of fruitful discussion in recent years. This anthology aims to extend that discussion by gathering newly commissioned essays from a diverse range of scholars, spanning a variety of disciplines and approaches, including ethnography, anthropology, theology and education. The result is a book that is at once accessible and readable, while remaining scholarly. The Insider/Outsider Debate has implications for numerous methodological issues in the study of religion, such as the emic/etic distinction, the distinction between religion and spirituality, the notions of “believing without belonging”, the claim to be “spiritual but not religious” and the existence of multiple, complicated, contesting religious identities. A particular focus of the volume is providing critiques of these methodological issues within the most recent academic approaches to religion – particularly models of lived and vernacular religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Stephen E. Gregg and George D. Chryssides Part One: New Methodological Approaches in the Study of Religion 1. Relational Religious Lives: Beyond Insider / Outsider Binaries in the Study of Religion Stephen E. Gregg and George D. Chryssides 2. The Emics and Etics of Religion: What we Know, How we Know it, and Why this Matters Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh 3. The Death Pangs of the Insider/Outsider Dichotomy in the Study of Religion Ron Geaves, Cardiff University 4. Research Ethics Beyond the Binaries of Right and Wrong Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma 5. Taking the Body Seriously, Taking Relationalities Seriously: An Embodied and Relational Approach to Ethnographic Research in the Study of (Lived) Religion Nina Hoel, University of Oslo, Norway 6. Negotiating Blurred Boundaries: An Ethnographic and Methodological Consideration Fiona Bowie, Oxford University 7. On the Edge of the Inside - Contemplative Approaches to the Study of Religion Lynne Scholefield, St Mary’s University, Twickenham 8. On the (Im)possibility of Participant-Observation Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University 9. Who Researches? Who Changes? Christian Autoethnography and Muslim Pupil Identity in a Church of England Primary School Tom Wilson, Church of England 10. Imported Insider / Outsider Boundaries: The Case of Contemporary Chinese Christianity Researchers Naomi E. Thurston, Renmin University / University of Wales Part Two: Contested Identities in the Study of Religion 11. Close Encounters of a Guru Kind: Ethnographic Research as Encounters with the Cognitive Worlds of Others. Stephen Jacobs, University of Wolverhampton 12. Who is a Jew? New Approaches to an Old Question Dan Cohn-Sherbok, University of Wales 13. Between Institutional Oppression and Spiritual Liberation: The Female Ordination Movement in the Catholic Church and its Utilisation of Social Media Lyndel Spence, University of Sydney 14. Navigating Multiplicity in a Binary World: Complex Religious Identity in Java, Indonesia Katherine Rand, Claremont School of Theology 15. When it Gets Crowded under the Umbrella: An Examination of Scholarly Categorisation of Buddhist Communities in the United States Claire Miller Skriletz, Independent Scholar 16. Being Catholic since Vatican II: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-secular Times Andrew P. Lynch, University of Sydney / University of Western Sydney 17. Reflexive and Holistic Switchers: Older Women / Newer Commitments Janet B. Eccles, Independent Scholar 18. Scientology Inside Out: Complex Religious Belonging in the Church of Scientology and the Free Zone Stephen E. Gregg and Aled J. L. Thomas, The Open University 19. Moving out – Disengagement and Ex-membership in New Religious Movements George D. Chryssides 20. Both Outside and Inside: ‘Ex-Members’ of New Religions and Spiritualities and the Maintenance of Community and Identity on the Internet Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney
£31.30
CABI Publishing The Politics of Religious Tourism
Book SynopsisAddressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism. Existing work shows awareness that politics is present but the approach has been one of benign neglect, and/or a priori assumptions about the role of politics in the management of sacred sites. Previous literature is fragmented into various perspectives and approaches that best serve different disciplinary interests. By understanding the politics of religious tourism through the various perspectives and approaches from the discipline of political science, law, public policy, and other fields, this book: Focuses on how power is exercised regarding religious tourism. Looks at the governing institutions of religious tourism including the role of relevant governmental bodies such as ministries of tourism or national tourism boards, ministries of religion and/or culture. Covers the role and influence of religious governing institutions, such as state-supported church/mosque officials, and universities.This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of religious tourism, pilgrimage, as well as related subjects such as political science, economics, sociology, tourism, law studies, and religious studies.
£85.50
Olympia Publishers Family The Divine Enterprise
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£6.99
Four Courts Press Ltd A Supplement to a Dictionary of Irish Saints:
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£999.99
Ethics International Press Ltd Ethics, Sustainability and Fratelli Tutti:
Book SynopsisInspired by the challenging encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, issued by Pope Francis, the articles in this volume reflect on our collective responsibility to live together as brothers and sisters. Looking at the spiritual and moral foundations for a sustainable and viable lifestyle, the book urges us to introspection. The aim is to help us to live lives sustained by viable ethics, and open to others with hope and joy, in spite of the challenges that we face collectively and individually.
£67.99
Atlantic Books In the Name of God: A History of Christian and
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two worlds, or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed. Told through contemporary chronicles, stories and poems, Selina O'Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish persecutors and persecuted. From Umar, the seventh century Islamic caliph who laid down the rules for the treatment of religious minorities in what was becoming the greatest empire the world has ever known, to Magna Carta John who seriously considered converting to Islam; and from al-Wahhab, whose own brother thought he was illiterate and fanatical, but who created the religious-military alliance with the house of Saud that still survives today, to Europe's bloody Thirty Years war that wearied Europe of murderous inter-Christian violence but probably killed God in the process. This book is an essential guide to understanding Islam and the West today and the role of religion in the modern world.Trade ReviewA timely history... Sweeps through the centuries with panache. -- Tom Holland * Sunday Times *In a wide-ranging study that has urgent contemporary relevance, Selina O'Grady casts a cool eye over the battlefields of power, fanaticism and faith that have caused so much devastation in a world of competing beliefs. -- Malise Ruthven * Financial Times *This is a very important and highly illuminating book. Lucid, incisive and comprehensive, it raises one of the key questions of our time: in a world divided in so many ways, and most especially by religion, how are its peoples to find a way to live together? Through an examination of the history of tolerance and intolerance, and an analysis of the concept of tolerance itself, O'Grady asks whether 'tolerance' is even the right concept to use - and asks: if it is not, what is? * A. C. Grayling *This is an important book written with an engaging zeal to try to improve our world. It encompasses a deep cultural hinterland, a vast geographical landscape and a narrative of 1,700 years... This is history with a clear mission for our own times. * The Oldie *A tightly focused study of why various regimes have practised tolerance. * 'Books of the Year', Country Life *A dazzling, lucid history of evolving, tenuous religious toleration... This perceptive, masterly history will change how many readers think about toleration and the supposed clash between Christian and Muslim worlds. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *O'Grady's work will fascinate anyone wishing to plunge into the histories of Western Christianity and Euro-proximate Islam... She treads the narrow path between being mired in minutiae and grandly sweeping through events, and instead provides enlightening, entertaining stories while including key events for both Christianity and Islam... fans of history, religion, or ideas will revel in the comparative study of these two faiths, long kept apart in history books, whose pasts are inextricably intertwined. * Booklist *Table of Contents0: Introduction 1: The Birth of Persecution: The Roman Empire Turns Christian 2: Muhammad's Edict of Toleration 3: The Price of Toleration: The Dhimmi in the Islamic Empire 4: Islam's Inquisition 5: The Problems of Assimilation: Willing Martyrs 6: Austerity in England and the Papal Battle for Supremacy 7: The Crusades; Or, the Church Finds its Enemy 8: The Moneylender 9: Enemies Within: The Heretic, the Leper, the Sodomite and the Jew 10: The Mongols and the 'Closing of the Door' 11: The Black Death: An Experiment in Tolerance 12: Inquisitions and Expulsions 13: The Reformation's War Against the Catholic Church 14: The Ghetto 15: The Religious Wars of Europe 16: Sunnis vs Shiites 17: The Puritan who Fought the Puritans 18: America Writes God out of the Constitution 19: Robespierre's New Religion 20: Ibn Abd al-Wahhab vs the Islamic Enlightenment 21: Emancipation and the Failure of Tolerance 22: The Genocidal Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret
Book SynopsisEsotericism is the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge accessed through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history esoteric approaches to religion have often been in conflict with - and suffered at the hands of - more established forms of religious belief and practice. 'Western Esotericism' presents a very broad and engaging history of the people and ideas which have shaped occult history from antiquity to today. Throughout the history of esotericism the dynamic of concealment and revelation has characterized the search for secret knowledge. Pursued both publically and privately, esotericism has come to influence more mainstream religious practice and culture and has significantly shaped our understanding of modernity. Today, esotericism continues to be practised by a range of both established and new religious movements. 'Western Esotericism' presents the essential guide to one of the most fascinating, provocative, and sustained of religious traditions.Trade Review"Von Stuckrad is one of the most respected figures in the rich and blossoming field of Western esotericism. Impressive in breadth, analysis and clarity, this text is an excellent introduction to Western esotericism and a welcome addition to any undergraduate or graduate syllabus. Highly recommended." - Religious Studies Review "Combines chronological organization with an encyclopaedic richness." - The Journal of Religion "A handy orientation to newcomers to the vast field of esoteric studies - Stuckrad traces the historical reach of Gnosticism, hermeticism, alchemy, Kabbalah, Neoplatonism, Rosicrucians, Freemasonry and Theosophy into the modern world." - www.wordtrade.comTable of ContentsPreface I. Introduction: What is Esotericism? II. Esotericism in the Ancient World III. The Kabbalah: Understanding the Hidden in the Revealed IV. The Renaissance: Re-Inventing the Ancient World V. Esotericism in the Confessional Age VI. Esotericism, Enlightenment, Science VII. Institutionalized Esotericism: Secret Societies VIII. Pioneer of Modern Esotericism: The Theosophical Society IX. Esotericism and Modernity
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Gwasg Carreg Gwalch Malwan Bach Fel Fi ... yn Cloddio am Aur
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Berghahn Books Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions,
Book Synopsis The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. In eight well researched ethnographic accounts the authors analyze a range of missionary encounters as well as aspects of conversion and "anti-conversion" in different parts of the region, thus challenging the problematic idea that religious life after socialism involved a simple "revival" of repressed religious traditions. Instead, they unravel the unexpected twists and turns of religious dynamics, and the processes that have challenged popular ideas about religion and culture. The contributions show how conversion is rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new "capitalist experience" and document its unsettling effects on the individual and social level.Trade Review “Material deprivation and social dislocation remain defining features of post-Soviet societies. This volume adds much-needed depth to previous analyses of coping strategies and networks of support by exploring the moral dimension of individual subjective experience…[and] makes an original and important contribution to our understanding of post-socialist and postcolonial societies and speaks to the renewed interest in religion within the discipline.” · JRAI "... an unusually strong edited collection that will have an important impact on Post-Soviet studies but that will also find a high profile place for itself in the developing field of the anthropological study of Christianity … the first collection to focus on the spread of Protestantism, and particularly its Pentecostal and charismatic forms, in the Post-Soviet world." · Joel Robbins, University of California, San Diego “This book is an excellent, well written contribution to the study of religious change and spiritual encounters in post-communist Eurasia. It offers a persuasive analysis of conversion rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new post-Soviet era. It also attempts to relate the phenomena to broader theoretical debates on the quest for modernity…[It] should be essential for students of conversion and religious change in post-communist settings. Although it is targeted at informed academic audiences, the book could also prove to be interesting reading for curious wider audiences with an intellectual interest in various facets of the transformation processes across the former Soviet Union and the wider post-communist space.” · Europe-Asia StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 2. Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai Ludek Broz Chapter 3. Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism Virginie Vaté Chapter 4. Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion Laur Vallikivi Chapter 5. Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt Chapter 6. The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania Gediminas Lankauskas Chapter 7. Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan William Clark Chapter 8. Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 9. Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as ‘Travelling Culture’ Catherine Wanner Chapter 10. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism J.D.Y. Peel Notes on Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology
Book SynopsisMainstream Christian theology has valued the integrity of the body and the goodness of God reflected in creation. However, it has also asserted the complementarity of 'normal' male and female physiology. 'Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ' offers the first systematic theology of the intersexed body. The book analyses the theological implications of physical intersex conditions and their medical treatment. The medical assumption of what constitutes male and female bodies is shown to raise essential questions about the meaning of incarnation and bodiliness. The book argues for a theology that speaks to stigmatized and marginal bodies, examining the impact of such a theology on sex, marriage, sexuality, perfection, healing, and the resurrected body.Trade Review"Brings to light the mass confusion – uncertainty – surrounding intersex conditions in both medical circles and theological circles. This volume is highly recommended." – Religious Studies ReviewTable of Contents1: Introduction
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James Currey The Genocide against the Tutsi and the Rwandan
Book SynopsisPioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.
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KEVIN MAYHEW THROUGH
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Ethics International Press Ltd The Ethics of Gospels
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Gospels discusses philosophical ethics in the canonical Gospels, both in its normative (formal and material) dimension, and in a descriptive dimension (as science about morality). It argues that the ethics present in the Gospels has a universal and not denominational character, although is not reduced to it. The author argues that in the Gospels, Jesus made acceptance and the implementation of ethical goods, values and material norms dependent on the level of ethical awareness of His recipients.
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St Augustine's Press Bergson
Book SynopsisLeszek Kolakowski shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin's theory with his own beliefs about the nature of the universe. Bergson believed that time could be thought of in two different ways: as an abstract measuring device used for practical purposes, or as 'duree', the "real" time we actually experience. He also held that all matter is propelled by an internal 'elan vital', or life-drive, and that the life of the universe is constantly creative and unpredictable. On the basis of these ideas he constructed a system of thought that embraced his views on memory, matter, conscousness, movement, religious morality, and the nature of laughter. His pantheistic and dynamic vision of the universe, which emerged at a time of crisis in Western intellectual life, was symptomatic of the struggle between a rigid scientific derminism and the Christian tradition of a divine creation.Table of Contentsnotes, short biography of Bergson, bibliography, index
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NEW CITY New Horizons
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VERITE BOOK BY BOOK ISAIAH STUDY GUIDE
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Shollond Trust Celebrando lo que somos: Transcripciones editadas
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John Spencer Writes The Best of the Salty Cee Volume 1: Christian News Satire
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Filament Publishing Ltd The Difference: To know the difference is to be
Book SynopsisEnigmatic to her in nature, she spent years looking for the answer... The answer was out there, it had been looking for her. It's been looking for you...Now it's found you... Based on a true encounter I explain that we live in a world crafted from perspectives. It is not in our power to judge a situation right or wrong as we cannot or were never made competent to see the whole picture. To not see the whole picture is to not see the truth. (That's why the bible tells us we must lean not on our own understanding)I explain how arguments and wars are created where one person insists to press through their perspective on another and that when we can free ourselves from the judgments of others, it is this that will bring us the inner peace and the freedom to connect with our authentic self and become all that God has intended us to be.The book further explains that whilst we are busy bickering as to who/what is right or wrong, we miss the TRUTH - i.e. the outcome that has been pre-destined for us by an all knowing God. In essence we miss the purpose for that which we were created.Trade ReviewLisa Nichols refers to Valerie's 'Eve's Story' as written in The Blind Spot as 'phenomenal'. It's a story reminding us that 'determination, resiliency and perseverance is yours to access'...so that 'we can experience the extraordinary life'; Lisa Nichols Motivational Speaker Featured in The Secret, Oprah, CNN, Dr Phil, Larry King Live, Steve Harvey Show ; Valerie Campbell is an enlightened soul whose experience and work serves to simplify and explain some of life's great complexities. She writes from a place of experience that resonates with us all. I highly recommend her latest work. ;Doctor Bishop Wayne Malcolm Senior Pastor ICAN Ministries ;"A thought provoking and often inspiring work that looks at the challenges of navigating through life from a spiritual perspective." ;Donley Jack Programme Director of Applied Criminology, Canterbury Christ Church University ; Valerie is also the Author of She's Got That Vibe. 'You have a secret power and this book shows you how to harness and use it! 'She's Got That Vibe' uncovers an age-old secret. So brace yourself to be enlightened! ;Raymond Aaron New York Times Best-Selling Author, Branding Small Business for Dummies, One of the very few filmed for The Secret ; Valerie is such an inspirational speaker. She really does leave you wanting more. Refreshing, aspirational with such clarity in her delivery. A great speaker overall. Elaine Rhule Founder of Designer Cakes of London ; After reading The Difference I realised that Valerie was touching a subject that many of us who have become successful and those who have not become successful attack every day and that is 'self-sabotage'. This book allows you and forces you to focus on self-discovery. This book is a master-piece. I love her methodology on how she goes from the spiritual to the physical and makes it such an easy read. Bennie Randall Jr CEO Bshani Radio App/Investor ; Valerie teaches that stillness of the mind enables us to hear our spiritual expression, which views the world through a different lens. This creates space for empathy, compassion and understanding in our relationships with others, without diminishing our authentic self.Lorna Pamela Stewart Multi-award Winning Business and Leadership Consultant andMentor, CEO LEAP Consortium;Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface 11 Introduction 12 Find Your Inner Voice 17 The Enigma 1. The Question 19 2. The Answer 22 Different Perspectives 29 The Enigma Unfolds 3. The New Lens - The NDBRW Method 31 Insight 1 - The Tree 34 Insight 2 - The Zoom 37 Insight 3 - The House of Colours 39 Release Limiting Perspectives 43 4. The Reasoning Exercise 45 5. The Equation of God's Outcome 52 6. The Birthplace of Illusions 58 7. Back to Innocence 61 8. The Illusion: 'The Stolen' Money 66 Embrace Positive Perspectives 71 9. The Secret is in the 'I AM' 73 Recognition of Your I AM's 75 Your I AMs Opens Doors 77 Perfect in His Sight! 81 The Source of Personal Power 87 10. You Are Connected 89 Don't Think That You Are Separate... 90 11. God's All-Inclusive Love 92 Perfect Justice 93 How to Resolve Relationship Conflict 96 The Slice of Solomon's Sword 99 12. God is Your Source 101 You Are Re-Source 104 Re-Source In Action 107 Make Your Potential Visible 117 13. Competence 119 How Competent Are You? 119 God Gave Us Meaning 121 Release The Images 123 Remain In God's Hands 124 Personal Potential in Action 129 14. Your Voice Matters 131 Your Feelings Are a Voice 138 No Mr Right and No Mr Wrong 140 Closing Remarks 147 15. Summary 149 Becoming The Difference 149
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SPCK Paws Together for God
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OxfordFolio Prayer for the Day: Prayers during a Pandemic
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Yellow Dog Publishing The Golden Thread
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ATF Press The First Dominican Friars in Boksburg Brakpan
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