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Book SynopsisGenesis calls its readers into a vision of human community unconstrained by the categories that dominate modern thinking about identity. Genesis situates humanity within a network of nurture that encompasses the entire cosmosâonly then introducing Israel not as a people, but as a promise. Genesis prioritizes a human identity that originates in the divine word and depends on ongoing relationship with God. Those called into this new mode of belonging must forsake the social definition that had structured their former life, trading it for an alternative that will only gradually take shape. In contrast to the rigidity that typifies modern notions, Genesis depicts identity as fundamentally fluid. Encounter with God leads to a new social self, not a "spiritual" self that operates only within parameters established in the body at birth. In Belonging in Genesis , Amanda Mbuvi highlights the ways narrative and the act of storytelling function to define and create a community. Building on the emphasis on family in Genesis, she focuses on the way family storytelling is a means of holding together the interpretation of the text and the constitution of the reading community. Explicitly engaging the way in which readers regard the biblical text as a point of reference for their own (collective) identities leads to an understanding of Genesis as inviting its readers into a radically transformative vision of their place in the world.Trade ReviewAcademically rigorous and coherent -- Ryan T. O'Leary -- The Christian CenturyMbuvi has produced an engaging and challenging exploration of Genesis, one that focuses on often neglected aspects of Genesis (such as genealogies), while also challenging deeply embedded assumptions of Western readers. Though relatively brief, the study covers much ground, probing notions of identity in light of race, gender, ethnicity, and colonialism. -- Bradford Anderson -- Reading ReligionThis book is a fascinating literary reading of Genesis that is informed by scholarship on identity formation, oral cultures, and social anthropology and is recommended for scholars, preachers, teachers, and students of Genesis. -- Benjamin D. Giffone -- Review of Biblical LiteratureA quality study based on a clearly articulated approach of applying family narratives to Genesis. -- Danny Mathews -- Catholic Biblical QuarterlyA very welcome addition to recent scholarship about Genesis and about the politics of text and identity more generally. -- Megan Warner -- Journal of Theological Studies...this book asks important and timely questions about Genesis and contemporary concepts of difference. -- David M. Carr -- Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and TheologyTable of ContentsA Note on Terminology and Translation Acknowledgements 1. Playing by Different Rules: Reading Genesis through its Deferrals 2. (Un)conventional Genesis: Two Ways of Reading Identity and the Divine Word 3. Family Storytelling: The Relationship between Genesis and its Readers 4. The Theology of Genealogy: A Boundary Breaking Foundation for Identity 5. The Social Ladder and the Family Tree: Competing Approaches to Structuring Identity 6. Fruitfulness: The Emergence of a New Identity Beyond Insider/Outsider Dichotomies Postscript Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis“Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers.” In Girard’s mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else’s desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the loss of reciprocity between humans but from the transition, imperceptible at first but then ever more rapid, from good to bad reciprocity. In this landmark text, Girard continues his study of violence in light of geopolitical competition, focusing on the roots and outcomes of violence across societies latent in the process of globalisation. The volume concludes in a wide-ranging interview with the Sicilian cultural theorist Maria Stella Barberi, where Girard’s twenty-first century emphases on the continuity of all religions, global conflict, and the necessity of apocalyptic thinking emerge.

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Book SynopsisInterfaith initiatives are increasingly prevalent on college and university campuses around the country. In large part, this trend responds both to ongoing religious violence throughout the world and to increasing religious tension in the United States. As such, these interfaith initiatives often attempt to bolster interfaith collaboration and increase awareness of different religious cultures, identities, beliefs, and traditions. In this book, Edwards reviews the various goals and processes associated with the interfaith movement, and offers both warnings and suggestions for those who are interested in pursuing an approach to interfaith dialogue that is oriented toward social justice. In doing so, this book fills a critical gap in academic literature surrounding the impact of religious identity and interfaith relations on pedagogy, educational experiences, and campus climates.Through three descriptive case studies set in a large public university in the United States, Edwards explores the use of Intergroup Dialogue as a pedagogical model for interfaith dialogue. While the goal of this pedagogy is to increase student understanding of privilege, oppression, and social injustice pertaining to religious identity, the cases in this book demonstrate how and why social justice oriented interfaith dialogue can be easily derailed and, if so, may potentially have harmful implications for religious minorities. Accordingly, Edwards offers five necessary conditions for assuring that social justice oriented interfaith dialogue (which Intergroup Dialogue is intended to be) succeeds. By focusing on the unique perspectives of four particular student participants (all of whom have religious identities outside of the three dominant Abrahamic religions) Edwards also highlights the experiences of those from religious identity groups that are the most overlooked and under?represented in the discourse on interfaith dialogue.

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Book SynopsisInterfaith initiatives are increasingly prevalent on college and university campuses around the country. In large part, this trend responds both to ongoing religious violence throughout the world and to increasing religious tension in the United States. As such, these interfaith initiatives often attempt to bolster interfaith collaboration and increase awareness of different religious cultures, identities, beliefs, and traditions. In this book, Edwards reviews the various goals and processes associated with the interfaith movement, and offers both warnings and suggestions for those who are interested in pursuing an approach to interfaith dialogue that is oriented toward social justice. In doing so, this book fills a critical gap in academic literature surrounding the impact of religious identity and interfaith relations on pedagogy, educational experiences, and campus climates.Through three descriptive case studies set in a large public university in the United States, Edwards explores the use of Intergroup Dialogue as a pedagogical model for interfaith dialogue. While the goal of this pedagogy is to increase student understanding of privilege, oppression, and social injustice pertaining to religious identity, the cases in this book demonstrate how and why social justice oriented interfaith dialogue can be easily derailed and, if so, may potentially have harmful implications for religious minorities. Accordingly, Edwards offers five necessary conditions for assuring that social justice oriented interfaith dialogue (which Intergroup Dialogue is intended to be) succeeds. By focusing on the unique perspectives of four particular student participants (all of whom have religious identities outside of the three dominant Abrahamic religions) Edwards also highlights the experiences of those from religious identity groups that are the most overlooked and under?represented in the discourse on interfaith dialogue.

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Book SynopsisWhy God cares about your sex life. Everyone is talking about sex. Be true to yourself--love whomever and however you want. The world claims to be affirming and inclusive. But Jesus says to deny yourself. Is Christianity repressive? In How Should Christians Think about Sex?, Christopher Ash turns to the Bible to find the wisdom and beauty in God's good design. What is marriage? What is sexuality for? Only God's word makes sense of it all. Jesus' way is better, more liberating, and more affirming. Experience the freedom that comes through living not for your own gratification, but for God's glory. The Questions for Restless Minds series applies God's word to today's issues. Each short book faces tough questions honestly and clearly, so you can think wisely, act with conviction, and become more like Christ.

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Book SynopsisExperience life under Jesus' yoke. Everyone wants to succeed in life. But do you know what success looks like? Is true flourishing found in a busy life pursuing money, status, and experiences? Or is there a better way? In How Do Humans Flourish?, Danielle Sallade argues that the Christian life leads to thriving. Many burden under the yoke of worldly success, resulting in stress, anxiety, and exhaustion. But true flourishing can be found only in peace, and that begins with a right relationship with God. Learn what true success looks like. Discover how you can value work rightly, find your identity in Christ, and live with an attitude of dependence on God. You too can flourish. The Questions for Restless Minds series applies God's word to today's issues. Each short book faces tough questions honestly and clearly, so you can think wisely, act with conviction, and become more like Christ.

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Book SynopsisTemples have been constructed by sages, kings and people to serve as a channel where one can experience the divinity that has been consecrated. When our phone batteries lose charge they go out-this requires us to charge them by connecting them to a source of power. They are then back in action. Our lives in today's world and our karma makes us also lose our aim, mood or in other words our "battery" goes out. Temples and mantras then serve as the sources of power-in this case what we call as Shakti that can be seen as Ganesha or Shiva or Devi or Vishnu or Hanuman. Such temples also are centers of art, culture and economic growth sustaining the material and spiritual life of people. This book would be a compilation of sacred geometries and temple centers-a brief snapshot of the architecture, history and science of the spots. The temples will be given as per the directions: north, south, east and west with the temples grouped under each direction. The aim is to enable any seeker/traveler to gain access to select well-known and relatively lesser-known temples in India along with valid pointers. This will be the first such book presenting this data in this format.

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Book SynopsisBoth history and current events attest to the continued significance of religion in society. Despite the role and importance of the institution of religion, and the profound influence that religious organizations continue to exert, it occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. At the same time, organization theory has been criticized for its narrow focus on corporations and there have been calls to study a much broader range of organizational forms (e.g., Bamberger and Pratt, 2010). Interestingly, the small number of studies on religious organizations to have published have had a disproportionate impact on the field. This suggests that religious organizations deserve more attention, and that attending to them will have significant benefits for our understanding of organizations. This volume brings together leading organization theorists with an interest in religion. The aim is to consolidate and make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, as well as encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda.Table of ContentsReligion and organization theory. Research in the sociology of organizations. Religion and organization theory. Copyright page. List of Contributors. Advisory Board. Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations. God on management: The world’s largest religions, the “theological turn,” and organization and management theory and practice. Religion in organizations: Cognition and behavior. Myths to work by: Redemptive self-narratives and generative agency for organizational change. Organizational form, structure, and religious organizations. Pastor practices in the era of megachurches: New organizational practices and forms for a changing institutional environment. Divine institution: Max Weber’s value spheres and institutional theory. Productive resistance: A study of change, emotions, and identity in the context of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. women religious, 2008–2012. Serving two masters: Transformative resolutions to institutional contradictions. The devil’s advocate and the church: Building adaptable organizations. Organizing belief: Interfaith social change organizations in the religious-environmental movement. The institutional complexity of religious mutual funds: Appreciating the uniqueness of societal logics.

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Book SynopsisSurvey of the growth and development of the magnificent shrines which reached their apogee during the middle ages. The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating manifestations of medieval piety. It was intensely physical; saints were believed to be present in the bodily remains that they had left on earth. Medieval shrines were created inorder to protect these relics and yet to show off their spiritual worth, at the same time allowing pilgrims limited access to them. English Medieval Shrines traces the development of such structures, from the earliestcult activities at saintly tombs in the late Roman empire, through Merovingian Gaul and the Carolingian Empire, via Anglo-Saxon England, to the great shrines of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The greater part of the bookis a definitive exploration, on a basis that is at once thematic and chronological, of the major saints cults of medieval England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation. These include the famous cults of St Cuthbert, St Swithun, and St Thomas Becket - and lesser known figures such as St Eanswyth of Folkestone or St Ecgwine of Evesham. John Crook, an independent architectural historian, archaeological consultant, and photographer, is the foremost authority on English shrines. He has published numerous books and papers on the cult of saints.Trade ReviewThere is a veritable flood of information in this book. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL * HISTORY *There is much to praise in this elegantly written and beautifully produced account. For the student of medieval art or the educated enthusiast, this book is a sophisticated synthesis of an extraordinary amount of research in archaeology, hagiography, art history, architectural history, among other disciplines...It is indeed the go-to book on the subject. * JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION *Brings to his inquiry decades of expertise and many gems of knowledge quarried from the archives. Underpinned by learning and much shrine study, his detailed survey is also furnished with a valuable repository of plates and figures. [Readers] nevertheless will find his book a treasury of knowledge, which deserves attention as the fullest accessible survey of English medieval shrine work. * HISTORY *Will be of interest both to those who want to learn more about the cult of saints and shrine bases generally and to those who wish to research a specific shrine. Undoubtedly, this volume will quickly become established as the standard work on the subject, and, as such, thoroughly deserves a place on many a bookshelf. * CHURCH MONUMENTS *This comprehensive and authoritative book demonstrates once again John Crook's pre-eminent position as a scholar of the material history of the cult of the saints in the Medieval West. [It] shines a searchlight on this elusive but important subject. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *Effortlessly combines archaeology, art, architecture, hagiography and other documents to produce a compelling narrative. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *John Crook, Britain's foremost expert on shrines, here distils a lifetime's research into an essential synthesis. * BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY *This is a valuable resource for church historians and archaeologists, with its 53 black-and-white photos of excellent quality, mostly the work of the author. * CHURCH TIMES *This book will be warmly welcomed by readers with a specialist interest in medieval shrines, their origins, locations, associated ceremonies, designs, and fates. Dr Crook is the foremost authority on the subject, and this volume amply shows why. * VIDIMUS *Table of ContentsIntroduction Relics, Shrines, and Pilgrimage Graves, Shrines, and Crypts. The Physical Setting of Saints' Cults on the Continent 'But Lo! There breaks a yet more glorious day': Saints Cults in Early Anglo-Saxon England 'The Island of Saints.' Saints' Cults in Mid- to Late Anglo-Saxon England English Saints and the 'New Englishmen': Anglo-Saxon Shrines and Relics after the Norman Conquest Into the Twelfth Century: From Tomb to Shrine 'Giving Light to the Whole House': The New Enthusiasm for Saints' Cults in the Later Twelfth Century The Legacy of Thomas Becket: The Thirteenth Century The Final Flowering. Saints' Cults in the Later Middle Ages The Fate of Shrines at the Reformation Epilogue - English Shrines Today

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Book SynopsisThe title, Rediscovering Joy, derives from Galatians 4:15 (NLT). The Galatians had lost the joy of God’s blessing because they had departed from the truths of the gospel. The Reformation - and the book - is an invitation to rediscover the joy of the gospel. Despite the common claim that the Reformation is either out-dated or divisive, its rediscovery of the apostolic message was a rediscovery of joy - a message that is as relevant today as it was 500 years ago and 2,000 years ago. The book has a strong focus on biblical exposition and pastoral application.Trade Review‘easy-to-read’, ‘a great book to share with a friend’, ‘If you’re only going to read one Christian book this summer, make this the one!’ * Evangelicals Now *new insight into familiar passages a hugely helpful book * Premier Christianity *Table of Contents1. How to hear God's voice - Galatians 1 Reformation link: Scripture alone 2. How to win God's approval - Galatians 2 Reformation link: justification by faith alone through Christ alone 3. How to recognise God's people - Galatians 3 & 4:21-31 Reformation link: the marks of a true church 4. How to enjoy God's love - Galatians 4 Reformation link: the work of the Spirit 5. How to do God's will - Galatians 5-6 Reformation link: gospel virtue

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Book SynopsisThe Selfish Gospel The gospel of Jesus – it’s the good news with the power to shape a nation. And yet, for many, the church seems to have lost its transformative edge. But why? Looking past the symptoms to the root cause, junior doctor Freddie Pimm suggests a diagnosis: we have made the Gospel selfish. Thankfully, however, Jesus freely prescribes the treatment . . . Easy to relate to and full of biblical truth, The Selfish Gospel reminds us of the gospel’s greatest paradox: in order to save our lives, we must first lose them. Against the grain of our ‘it’s all about me’ society, this refreshing book explains how it is only when we let the gospel cost us and change us that we see the power of transformation: within ourselves, throughout the church and across our generation.Trade Review"Honest, challenging and encouraging" - Mike Pilavachi, Co-founder and leader of Soul Survivor -- Mike Pilavachi * Taken from Foreword *‘There’s so much truth in Freddie’s encouragement that we will find real freedom by looking less at ourselves and more at God.’ * Ali Martin, Soul Survivor *‘The Selfish Gospel provides a challenging call to change the lens through which we view the gospel and to see it for what it is: a life-changing, all-consuming call to follow Jesus wherever he leads.’ * Andy Croft, Soul Survivor *some pages are a sheer delight * Evangelicals Now *

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Book SynopsisLaw and religion, as a subdiscipline of law, has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, the complex relationship between law and religion cannot be fully understood with reference to legal research alone. This Research Handbook includes provocative chapters from experts on a range of concepts, perspectives and theories, drawing on a variety of disciplines, which can be used to further law and religion scholarship. Featuring chapters written by authors from a diverse range of backgrounds, the Handbook focuses on five main perspectives on law and religion: historical, philosophical, sociological, theological and comparative. Each chapter provides a new way of looking at law and religion which can complement and enhance a doctrinal legal understanding of the topic. Crucially, this Handbook also highlights the importance of recognising doctrinal legal study as an approach in itself, which will shape research questions and outputs accordingly. Providing an engaging and thoughtful introduction to the range of interdisciplinary approaches that can be taken to law and religion, this Handbook will be of interest to scholars in law and religion, theologians, sociologists, legal historians and political scientists. It will provide a rich foundation for future interdisciplinary research in this important area of study. Contributors include: L.G. Beaman, L. Bell, P. Billingham, C.G. Brown, J. Burnside, J. Chaplin, B. Clark, D. Dabby, N. Doe, D. Ezzy, M.A. Failinger, P. Fitzpatrick, D.J. Hill, B.C. Kane, J. Machielson, M. McIvor, T. Modood, P. Monti, A. Nazir, J. Neoh, L. Öztig, D. Perfect, S. Perfect, C. Roberts, R. Sandberg, S. Thompson, M. Travers, C. Ungureanu, D. Whistler, J. YorkeTrade Review'In the United Kingdom the study of law and religion is now an established sub-discipline with academic legal studies, itself an ever-expanding and ever-more adventurous part of the university. In this book Professor Sandberg and his colleagues from Cardiff University, an acknowledged centre for the study of law and religion, have brought together scholarship from a range of authors, mainly based in or from the United Kingdom, which attests to the vitality and breadth of work being done in the area.' --Anthony Bradney, Keele University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Snakepits & Sandpits Russell Sandberg Part I: Historical Approaches 2. Ecclesiastical Court Records for Social and Cultural History Bronach C Kane 3. Trial by Ordeal: An Interdisciplinary Approach Yields Fresh Insights Lindsey Bell 4. ‘Moved and Seduced by the Instigation of the Devil’: Witchcraft and the Law, 1450-1700 Jan Machielson 5. Secularisation and Law in Modern Societies Callum G Brown Part II: Philosophical Approaches 6. Philosophy, Law, and Religion Daniel Whistler and Daniel J Hill 7. Law, Religion, and Public Reason Paul Billingham and Jonathan Chaplin 8. Multicultural Political Theory Simon Thompson and Tariq Modood 9. Charles Taylor on Recognition, Inclusive Secularism, and Religion Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti 10. ‘Gods Would be Needed…’: Derrida on Law and Religion Peter Fitzpatrick Part III: Sociological Approaches 11. Interpretive Issues in Researching Law and Religion Max Travers and Doug Ezzy 12. The Lure of Luhmann: A Systems Theory of Law and Religion Russell Sandberg 13. Social Anthropology Méadhbh McIvor 14.Religion or Belief, Equality and Human Rights Law and the Media David Perfect and Simon Perfect Part IV: Theological Approaches 15. Biblical Law Jonathan Burnside 16. Political Theology and Legal Theory Joshua Neoh 17. Feminism Meets Law and Religion: Commonalities and Critiques Marie A Failinger Part V: Comparative Approaches 18. A Comparative Method for the Study of Law and Religion: Is this a Defensible Methodology? Brigitte Clark 19. Monotheism and the Death Penalty: Towards a Homogenous Exegesis for Abolition Jon Yorke and Amna Nazir 20. The Turkish Constitutional Court Rulings on the Headscarf: The Construction of Villains and Victims Laçin İdil Öztığ 21. Diversity in Death: A Case Study of a Muslim Cemetery Project in Quebec Dia Dabby and Lori G Beaman Index

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Book SynopsisManaging Religious Tourism provides a global view of the tools and resources used in demand and supply management, in the context of pilgrimage and religious tourism. With a focus on toolkits and best practices, the book reinforces the quality of service provision and offers a reflection on consumers' perspectives and what drives their purchasing decisions with regards to a variety of destinations. These central themes are complemented by an understanding of management responses to consumer behaviour and mobility, accessibility, individualism and tourism for both sacred and secular purposes. The book also examines the ways in which networks, partnerships and the conceptual stakeholder approach can be employed by religious tourism suppliers working with destination management organisations. The text promotes sustainable development and a triple bottom line focus, with all chapters supporting policy for framing development. Key features include: - Global perspective on tools as well as management approaches and techniques. - Emphasis on sustainability in connecting sacred and secular consumers. - Focus on promoting learning and development within this important tourism sector.Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Theory 2: Managing the Sacred: A Governance Perspective for Religious Tourism Destinations 3: Innovation, Religion and Managing Value Creation: The World Heritage Site of the ArchAbbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary 4: Managing St John’s – Working for the Greater Good Part II: Best Practice 5: Managing Visitors at Sacred Sites: The Case of Montserrat 6: Best Practice and Sacred Site Management: The Case of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah 7: Tackling the Problems of Deficient Data when Planning for Religious Tourism Management 8: Issues and Approaches in Managing Visitors to Pagan Sacred Sites Part III: Case Studies 9: Analysis of Territorial Development and Management Practices along the Way of St James in Galicia (Spain) 10: Managing Cultural Shift Within Religious Sites in UK and the Role of the Performing and Visual Arts as Transforming the Experiences of Visitors 11: Implications for Managed Visitor Experiences at Muktinath Temple (Chumig Gyatsa) in Nepal: A Netnography 12: The Impact of Development of Religious Tourism on the Host Community – A Case Study of Mount E’mei in China 13: Strategic Project Manresa 2022: Using Religious Tourism as a Keystone for the Revitalization of a Non-touristic and Non-religious City 14: Toolkit: Managing Relationship Marketing with Sacred and Secular Consumers

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them. It explores sacred journeys across both traditional religions such as Christianity and Islam, and newer forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities such as sport, music and food. Demonstrating to the reader the intrinsic elements and events that play a crucial role within the destination management process, it provides a timely re-assessment of the increasing interconnections between religion and spirituality as a motivation for travel. The book: - Includes applications, models and illustrations of religious tourism and pilgrimage management for converting theory into good practice; - Addresses theories of motivation and why travel to religious destinations has increased; - Explores key learning points from a selection of international case study perspectives. Providing researchers and students of tourism, religious studies, anthropology and related subjects with an important review of the topic, this book aims to bridge the ever-widening gap between specialists within the religious, tourism, management and education sectors.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION TO SPIRITUAL AND SACRED JOURNEYS 1: Introduction to Spiritual and Religious Journeys 2: The Role of Ritual in Sacred Journeys 3: Motivations of the Pilgrim to Attend the Annual Pilgrimage of Hajj 4: Islamic Motivation for Tourism and Contradictions of the American Tradition 5: From Spiritualism to a New Paradigm in Tourism: Spiritual Tourism and Motivations PART 2: MANAGING MOTIVATIONAL ELEMENTS OF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS 6: The Selfie in Islamic Pilgrimages as a Communication Tool in Hajj and Umrah 7: Spiritual Motivation for Religious Tourism Destinations 8: Pilgrim Tourist Motivations in Religious Heritage, Culture and Art 9: Diminishing Religious Cultural Heritage of Holy Makkah and Medina due to Commercialization of the Sacred Event 10: Managing the Physical Environment of the Sacred Tourist Destination PART 3: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS 11: Motivations to Visit Sacred Historical Objects: the Lindisfarne Gospels’ Visit to Durham 2013 – a Sacred Journey? 12: Visiting with a Mission(ary) – Engaging with Stakeholders at New Zealand Heritage Sites 13: The Pilgrim Goes to the Festival: Changes in Daily Life Caused by the Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abadia in Romaria, Brazil 14: Managing Catholic Churches and Sacred Sites for Protestant Visitors to Malta 15: The Ancient Wisdom and Motivation of Shams-i Tabrezi or Analogy of Contemporary Systems Science and Shams-i Tabrezi Ancient Wisdom 16: Inbound and Outbound Religious Tourism in Turkey 17: Walking the Way of St James: Spiritual Journeys to the Cathedrals of Sport

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Book SynopsisOffering an interdisciplinary, international and philosophical perspective, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores both perennial and recent legal issues that concern the modern state and its interaction with religious communities and individuals.Providing in-depth, original analysis the book includes studies of a wide array of nation states, such as India and Turkey, which each have their own complex issues centred on law, religion and the interactions between the two. Longstanding issues of religious liberty are explored such as the right of conscientious objection, religious confession privilege and the wearing of religious apparel. The contested meanings of the secular state and religious neutrality are revisited from different perspectives and the reality of the international human rights protections for religious freedom are analysed.Timely and astute, this discerning Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for both academics and researchers interested in the many topics surrounding law and religion. Lawyers and practitioners will also appreciate the clarity with which the rights of religious liberty, and the challenges in making these compatible with state law, are presented.Contributors include: R. Ahdar, F. Ahmed, R. Albert, R. Barker, B.L. Berger, J.E. Buckingham, J. Burnside, P. Dane, J. Harrison, M.A. Helfand, M. Hill, M. Kiviorg, A. Koppelman, I. Leigh, J. Neo, Y. Rosnai, R. Sandberg, S.D. Smith, P.M. Taylor, H.-M. ten Napel, K. Thompson, F. VenterTrade Review'Over the course of the last generation, the study of 'law and religion' has exploded in breadth, subtlety and significance. This Research Handbook provides its readers with a rich, varied, and sometimes provocative introduction to the field. Expert chapters not only shed new light on familiar topics, they also identify further avenues for fruitful scholarship. One is left with the sense that the most significant work still lies ahead - and also the intellectual tools to face that challenge.' --Julian Rivers, University of Bristol Law School, UKThe authors who have contributed so ably to this excellent volume are to be congratulated on scholarship of the highest quality, which treats a wide and rich range of issues at the centre of the field of law and religion today. Their contribution here will be of enormous value to all those who teach, study, and practise in this rapidly developing and important sphere of life.' --Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword John Witte, Jr Part I Law and Religion 1. Navigating Law and Religion: Familiar Waterways, Rivers Less Travelled and Uncharted Seas Rex Ahdar 2. The Sociological Dimension of Law and Religion Russell Sandberg Part II Jurisprudential Themes 3. Equality, Religion, and Nihilism Steve D Smith 4. Jeremy Bentham and the Problem of the Authority of Biblical Law Jonathan Burnside 5. Dworkin’s Religion and the End of Religious Liberty Joel Harrison 6. What Kind of Human Right is Religious Liberty? Andrew Koppelman Part III Religion-State Relations 7. Establishment and Encounter Perry Dane 8. Religion, Secularism and Limitations on Constitutional Amendment Richard Albert and Yaniv Roznai 9. Regulation of Religious Communities in a Multicultural Polity Jaclyn L Neo 10. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Unsettling of the Secular Benjamin L Berger 11. The Boundaries of Faith-Based Organizations in Europe Hans-Martien ten Napel 12. Enforcing Religious Law Farrah Ahmed Part IV Adjudicating Religion 13. When Judges are Theologians: Adjudicating Religious Questions Michael A. Helfand 14. The Justiciability and Adjudication of Religious Disputes Francois Venter Part V International Perspectives 15. Controversial Doctrine: The Relevance of Religious Content in the Supervisory Role of International Human Rights Bodies Paul M Taylor 16. Dangers of the Changing Narrative of Human Rights: Why Democracy and Security Need Religious Freedom Merilin Kiviorg Part VI Freedom of Religion Issues 17. Freedom of Religion and the Rise of Secularism: Struggles in the British Workplace Mark Hill QC 18. The Legal Recognition of Freedom of Conscience as Conscientious Objection: Familiar Problems and New Lessons Ian Leigh 19. Of Burqas (and Niqabs) in Courtrooms: The Neglected Women’s Voice Renae Barker 20. Trinity Western University’s Law School: Reconciling Rights Janet Epp Buckingham 21. The Persistence of Religious Confession Privilege A Keith Thompson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be considered pilgrimage-like, it covers theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage, pilgrimage to dark tourism sites, and experience design. A key resource for researchers and students of heritage, tourism and pilgrimage, this book will also be of great interest to those studying anthropology, religious studies and related social science subjects.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Negotiating Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage Chapter 2: The “Dark” Is Still Dark? The Evolution of Dark Tourism to Pilgrimage Destinations Chapter 3: Interpreting the Sacred in Dark Tourism Chapter 4: The Convergence of Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage Tourism: The Case of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia Chapter 5: Pilgrimages to Terror: The Role of Heritage in Dark Sites Chapter 6: Dark Heritage as a Basis for Dark Tourism Development in Slovenia Chapter 7: Im(possible) Dark Tourism in Bulgaria Chapter 8: From Burial Spaces to Pilgrimage Sites: Changing Role of European Cemeteries Chapter 9: The Sublime Darker Heritage Tourism Aspects at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta Chapter 10: Martyrdom and Dark Tourism in Carthage, Illinois Chapter 11: Lost in the Sea of Trees: Japan’s Aokigahara, Suicide, and Dark Tourism Chapter 12: Recreating the Dead: Darkest Tourism and Pilgrimage in Mormon Handcart Pioneer Trek Re-Enactments Chapter 13: Visiting Post Disaster Ruins: A Journey to Meaningful Experiences Chapter 14: Museums as In Populo Dark Tourism Sites: A case study of visitor Experience Chapter 15: The 10-Year Anniversary of the Civil Rights Pilgrimage: An Experiential Exploration into History, Diversity, Equality, and Equity Chapter 16: “Though I Walk Through the Valley”: Teaching Richard Wright through Experiential Learning Chapter 17: Dark Tourism or Pilgrimage in the Museum? Considering the Case of Emmett Till’s Casket Chapter 18: Finding Roots: Pop Culture Pilgrimage and the Affective Geographies of Kunta Kinteh Island Chapter 19: A Mass Grave and a Massacre: Encounters with Remembrances of Death at the Wounded Knee, South Dakota Chapter 20: Borough of the Dead: The Weight of Hip Hop’s History and Tourism’s Dark Pilgrimage to The Bronx Chapter 21: Dark Visits Chapter 22: Designing Experiences at Holocaust Memorial Sites

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction sets out the difficulty of defining religion itself and the subsequent impact this has on creating laws which regulate and protect it. Taking a global comparative approach, Frank S. Ravitch guides the reader in how this unique interaction plays out in differing legal systems including in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Providing further context by contrasting specific case studies, the book provides a rounded and coherent exploration of the complexities of law in relation to religion.Key Features:Addresses the many issues surrounding religious exceptions to general lawsConsiders the extent of separation between government and religion, and the role of courts in deciding religious questionsLooks at the ways in which law may govern discrimination by government or by private entities, based on religion or religious concernsExplores the multifaceted interactions between religion and law in many areas, including human rights; public schooling; health and property; tax exemptions; and clergy abuseThis foundational book offers a platform for researchers and students in the fields of law, political science, ethics, and religious studies. It also provides valuable insight for lawyers, judges and legislators with a focus on law and religion..Trade Review‘Advanced Introduction to Law and Religion is a major achievement in the US and comparative law and religion scholarship. Professor Ravitch crisply and insightfully synthesizes the history, major concepts, and current trends of the complicated world of church-state law in a single readable volume. Examining representative doctrinal areas, he places these in a truly global context by providing comparative analyses of alternate church-state models in Canada and the countries of the European Union as well as in Japan and other Asian countries too often neglected by Western scholars. The result is the perfect book for academics, graduate students, and others looking for sophisticated analysis beyond the introductory.’ -- Frederick Mark Gedicks, Brigham Young University Law School

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction sets out the difficulty of defining religion itself and the subsequent impact this has on creating laws which regulate and protect it. Taking a global comparative approach, Frank S. Ravitch guides the reader in how this unique interaction plays out in differing legal systems including in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Providing further context by contrasting specific case studies, the book provides a rounded and coherent exploration of the complexities of law in relation to religion.Key Features:Addresses the many issues surrounding religious exceptions to general lawsConsiders the extent of separation between government and religion, and the role of courts in deciding religious questionsLooks at the ways in which law may govern discrimination by government or by private entities, based on religion or religious concernsExplores the multifaceted interactions between religion and law in many areas, including human rights; public schooling; health and property; tax exemptions; and clergy abuseThis foundational book offers a platform for researchers and students in the fields of law, political science, ethics, and religious studies. It also provides valuable insight for lawyers, judges and legislators with a focus on law and religion..Trade Review‘Advanced Introduction to Law and Religion is a major achievement in the US and comparative law and religion scholarship. Professor Ravitch crisply and insightfully synthesizes the history, major concepts, and current trends of the complicated world of church-state law in a single readable volume. Examining representative doctrinal areas, he places these in a truly global context by providing comparative analyses of alternate church-state models in Canada and the countries of the European Union as well as in Japan and other Asian countries too often neglected by Western scholars. The result is the perfect book for academics, graduate students, and others looking for sophisticated analysis beyond the introductory.’ -- Frederick Mark Gedicks, Brigham Young University Law School

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Book SynopsisThis book records the ordeal of parish clergy in Essex who were the victims of Parliament's purge of the clergy in 1644-45.

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Book SynopsisEvidence gleaned from archaeology sheds dramatic new light on religious practices and identities between the later sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The post-medieval period was one of profound religious and cultural change, of sometimes violent religious conflict and of a dramatic growth in religious pluralism. The essays collected here, in what is the first book to focus onthe material evidence, demonstrate the significant contribution that archaeology can make to a deeper understanding of religion. They take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the spatial and material context of religious life, using buildings and landscapes, religious objects and excavated cemeteries, alongside cartographic and documentary sources, to reveal the complexity of religious practices and identities in varied regions of post-medieval Britain,Europe and the wider world. Topics covered include the transformation of religious buildings and landscapes in the centuries after the European Reformation, the role of religious minorities and immigrant groups in early modern cities, the architectural and landscape context of eighteenth and nineteenth-century nonconformity, and the development of post-medieval burial practices and funerary customs. Offering a unique perspective on the material remains ofthe post-medieval period, this volume will be of significant value to archaeologists and historians interested in the religious and cultural transformation of the early modern world. Contributors: Chris King, Duncan Sayer, Andrew Spicer, Philippa Woodcock, Matthias Range, Simon Roffey, Greig Parker, Jeremy Lake, Eric Berry, Peter Herring, Claire Strachan, Peter Benes, Diana Mahoney-Swales, Richard O'Neill, Hugh Willmott, Natasha Powers, Adrian Miles, Anwen Cedifor Caffell, Rachel Clarke, Rosie MorrisTrade ReviewContains valuable support material for the social historian and for those seeking more information on the funerary commemoration and burial practices in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. * CHURCH MONUMENTS *A useful and sophisticated volume which represents the current state of scholarship. * ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL *A useful contribution to a rapidly evolving field of study. * HUGUENOT SOCIETY JOURNAL *[An] enjoyable essay collection. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsForeword Conflict, Community and Custom: the material remains of post-medieval religion - Duncan Sayer Conflict, Community and Custom: the material remains of post medieval religion - Chris King 'Disjoynet, dismemberit and disuneited'. Church-building and re-drawing parish boundaries in post-Reformation Scotland: a case study of Bassendean, Berwickshire - Andrew Spicer Was original best? Refitting the churches of the diocese of Le Mans 1562-1598 - Philippa Woodcock The 'third sacrament': Lutheran confessionals in Schleswig [northern Germany] - Matthias Range Romantic Anachronisms?: Chantry chapels of the 19th century - Simon Roffey 'Strangers in a strange land': immigrants and urban culture in early modern Norwich - Chris King Expressions of conformity: identifying Huguenot religious beliefs in the landscape - Greig Parker Chapels and landscape in Cornwall - Jeremy Lake Church and chapel: focal points in Welsh and Manx landscapes - Harold Mytum 'But deliver us from evil': popular protest and dissent in the south-west woollen industry c.1760-1860 - Claire Strachan Meetinghouses of Puritan New England: the transatlantic passage, 1630-1800 - Peter Benes The organization of post-medieval churchyards, cemeteries and grave plots: variation and religious identity as seen in Protestant burial provision - Duncan Sayer The hidden material culture of death: coffins and grave goods in late 18th- and early 19th-century Sheffield - Diana Mahoney-Swales The hidden material culture of death: coffins and grave goods in late 18th- and early 19th-century Sheffield - Richard O'Neill The hidden material culture of death: coffin and grave goods in late 18th- and early 19th-century Sheffield - Hugh Willmott Nonconformist identities in 19th-century London: archaeological and osteological evidence from the burial grounds of Bow Baptist Chapel and the Catholic Mission of St Mary and St Michael, Whitechapel - Natasha Powers Nonconformist identities in 19th-century London: archaeological and osteological evidence from the burial grounds of Bow Baptist Chapel and the Catholic Mission of St Mary and St Michael, Whitechapel - Adrian Miles The General Baptists of Priory Yard, Norwich - Anwen Cedifor Caffell and Rachel Clarke Maidens' garlands: a funeral custom of post-Reformation England - Rosie Morris

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Book SynopsisVolume III of the "Spirituality and Ethics in Education" series bring together textual, empirical and pedagogical approaches to enriching spiritual education as a significant multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular influence in the modern world. The chapters presented have been selected from international contributions presented at the 3rd International Conference on Spiritual Education. The writers include prominent international researchers in the discipline from the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and China. The strengths of the book lie in its international appeal, research-based orientation, and interdisciplinary character. The book will be the first coherent presentation of spiritual education as a distinctive field of academic enquiry in its own right.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Cathy Ota and Clive Erricker; Spirituality and Religiosity in Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Schools: Implications for Religious School Communities; "And What Do the Children Say?" Children's Responses to Books About Spiritual Matters; North American Indian Spirituality in the World of Western Children: Neo-Colonialism in a Post-Colonial Society; Issues of Identity for 'Asian' Girls in Britain; Why Religious Teaching Goes Wrong: Grace and Play as the Basis of Spiritual Experience; Spirituality in Young Adolescents: Thinking Developmentally; The Spiritual and the Fantastical - George MacDonald's "Wise Woman"; Faith and Social Intimacy: Learning for Life; How Metaphors Structure Our Spiritual Understanding; The Chinese Approach to Learning: Chinese Calligraphy; Encountering Tradition in a Postmodern Context; Reading and Responding to Biblical Texts: Aesthetic Distance and the Spiritual Journey; The Spiritual Dimension of the Curriculum: What are school inspectors looking for and how can we help them find it?; Teachers' Values and Spiritualities: From Private to Public; Faith Education of Children in the Context of Adult ; Migration and Conversion: The Discontinuities of Tradition; Metaphors of Spiritual Education: Fight and Blessing; The Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisVolume III of the "Spirituality and Ethics in Education" series bring together textual, empirical and pedagogical approaches to enriching spiritual education as a significant multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular influence in the modern world. The chapters presented have been selected from international contributions presented at the 3rd International Conference on Spiritual Education. The writers include prominent international researchers in the discipline from the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and China. The strengths of the book lie in its international appeal, research-based orientation, and interdisciplinary character. The book will be the first coherent presentation of spiritual education as a distinctive field of academic enquiry in its own right.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Cathy Ota and Clive Erricker; Spirituality and Religiosity in Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Schools: Implications for Religious School Communities; "And What Do the Children Say?" Children's Responses to Books About Spiritual Matters; North American Indian Spirituality in the World of Western Children: Neo-Colonialism in a Post-Colonial Society; Issues of Identity for 'Asian' Girls in Britain; Why Religious Teaching Goes Wrong: Grace and Play as the Basis of Spiritual Experience; Spirituality in Young Adolescents: Thinking Developmentally; The Spiritual and the Fantastical - George MacDonald's "Wise Woman"; Faith and Social Intimacy: Learning for Life; How Metaphors Structure Our Spiritual Understanding; The Chinese Approach to Learning: Chinese Calligraphy; Encountering Tradition in a Postmodern Context; Reading and Responding to Biblical Texts: Aesthetic Distance and the Spiritual Journey; The Spiritual Dimension of the Curriculum: What are school inspectors looking for and how can we help them find it?; Teachers' Values and Spiritualities: From Private to Public; Faith Education of Children in the Context of Adult ; Migration and Conversion: The Discontinuities of Tradition; Metaphors of Spiritual Education: Fight and Blessing; The Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisAlthough interest in workplace spirituality continues to soar, the literature and empirical research on non-Western, non-Christian spirituality in entrepreneurship and leadership is almost non-existent. Mario Fernando's unique study fills the gap in the literature, exploring cross-cultural and religious distinctions of the contemporary meaning and enactment of spirituality in organizations. Case studies of thirteen influential, spiritually motivated Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim entrepreneurs are used to explore the significant impact of religion upon the management and leadership of an organization. The book concludes that although each entrepreneur's outward practice of spiritual leadership conformed to personal religious beliefs, these practices had two common aims: a connection with self, others and/or an ultimate reality, and a need to direct and motivate self and/or others to develop an organizational culture founded on a sense of shared community.This unique and fascinating work will strongly appeal to entrepreneurship, leadership and business and management researchers and scholars with a particular interest in the interplay between entrepreneurship and spiritual leadership.Trade Review'In this well informed, insightful and comprehensive study, Mario Fernando critically explores the complex and multiform interplay of management theory and practice, personal biographies, theologies of faith and cultural dynamics in order to elaborate and advance a coherent theory of spiritual leadership.' -- George Gotsis and Zoe Kortezi, Entrepreneurship and Innovation'In this example of science and theory meeting emerging reality, Mario Fernando delves into the complex dimensions of the interplay of the science of management, theologies of faith, and the dynamics of culture - to first understand and then construct and advance a theory of spiritual leadership. With real world insights and reflections from himself and others, he addresses theory to practice implications and cautions against creating just another fad. This insightful and thought-provoking book provides a timely read and focus for reflection for organizational leaders concerned with success in the new age economy and global society, and who seek a path to understand their own personal and pragmatic spiritual leadership grounding.' -- Gary D. Geroy, Colorado State University, US'The book will be an important contribution to the literature and will certainly open up some new avenues of research and inquiry.' -- Ralph L. Piedmont, Loyola College in Maryland, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Why Spiritual Leadership? 3. The Growing Recognition of the Spiritual Dimension in Emerging Leadership Theory 4. A Need for an Interfaith and Cross-cultural Perspective 5. The Research Context 6. The Participating Entrepreneurs 7. Leading Spiritually 8. Spiritual Leadership in Action 9. Cultural and Spiritual Contingencies of Spiritual Leadership 10. Preparing for Spiritual Leadership Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisDevelopment and Religion explores how the world's five major religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam - understand and practice 'development' through an examination of their sacred texts, social teaching and basic beliefs. Religious belief is a common human characteristic with eighty percent of the world's population professing religious faith. Observable in all societies, religious belief is pervasive, profound, persuasive and persistent. The premise of this book is that despite this, religion has long been ignored within mainstream development paradigms and by development practitioners (both locally and at the international level) resulting in sub-optimal development outcomes. Matthew Clarke argues that each religion offers useful insights into various issues concerning development that should be considered by donors, NGOs, and others seeking to improve the lives of the poor. Undergraduates and postgraduate students of development studies, religious studies and theology will gratefully welcome this highly regarded book.Contents: Foreword by Katherine Marshall; Preface; 1. The Religion - Development Nexus; 2. Hinduism - Dharma and Active Citizenship; 3. Buddhism - A Middle Way for Development; 4. Judaism - A Cry for Justice; 5. Christianity - Development as an Option for the Poor; 6. Islam: Equality and Action; 7. Conclusion; References; IndexTrade Review‘This is a book I have been waiting for. . . While religion may still reside outside the mainstream of development thinking, this book makes an important and significant contribution to addressing this weakness. It enables the reader to engage in this complex field with much greater understanding and insight.’ -- Rick James, Development in PracticeTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Katherine Marshall Preface 1. The Religion–Development Nexus 2. Hinduism: Dharma and Active Citizenship 3. Buddhism: A Middle Way for Development 4. Judaism: A Cry for Justice 5. Christianity: Development as an Option for the Poor 6. Islam: Equality and Action 7. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique and fascinating book illustrates that in moving the research agenda forward - despite whatever methodological pitfalls that may await in the attempt - the dynamics of religion must now be considered to be of central and abiding importance in the study of world politics. An illuminating case study of the World Bank s engagements with religion/faith communities, institutions and social movements provides insights into the current discourse on religion in international relations. John A. Rees argues that religion is of equal importance to other structures of international relations (IR), and questions where religion is operating in world politics rather than what religion is in an essential sense. He constructs a new model for differentiating three distinct discourses of religion in the theory and practice of world politics, which he applies to the IR sphere of international development, and encourages new thinking in the field by answering conceptual and methodological challenges in religion research. This book will prove an enlightening point of reference for academics and researchers in the fields of religion, world politics, international relations, and development studies, as well as for international organizations, development theorists and practitioners working in conjunction with faith-based organizations.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Scott M. Thomas Introduction 1. The Discourses of Religion in International Politics 2. Modelling Religion in International Relations 3. Religion and the Discourse of Development 4. Religion and the World Bank 5. Analyzing World Bank Faith and Development Partnerships 6. The World Faiths Development Dialogue (1998–2005) 7. Development and the Sacral Deficit Index

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Book SynopsisReligion was a central concern for two of the founding fathers of sociology -Weber and Durkheim- and two other pioneers of modern sociology - Marx and Freud- also made important contributions to our understanding of the role of the supernatural in social life. These two volumes of significant writings in the sociology of religion begin with statements of major theoretical positions. Parsons, Bellah, Berger and Luckmann are represented here, as are modern writers in the rational choice school. The changing place of religion has been a major concern for sociologists and the selections include 17 central texts in the debate over secularization. Other areas covered are the forms of religious organization; the nature of conversion, recruitment and commitment; new religious movements; religion and politics; and the links between religion, magic and rationality.Table of ContentsVolume I: Part I theories of religion; Part II Secularization. Volume II: Part I Church, sect, denomination; Part II Religion, magic and rationality; Part III Conversion, recruitment and commitment; Part IV New religious movements; Part V Religion and politics.

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Book Synopsis“This excellent work is written not just for experts, but for the average Christian who wants to know how his faith has to do with modern cosmological and atomic theories.

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Book SynopsisThough English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein , the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process of learning to read. While words typically frame and regulate our experience of art, the study also explains how pictures can contest the authority of the words we use to interpret art.Trade ReviewDuring the past 25 years, James Heffernan's nuanced and clear-eyed writings on words and images have firmly placed him among the finest practitioners of interartstic theory and criticism. This new volume reveals him at his very best. Picturacy should be required reading for anyone wishing to learn how--and how not--to read pictures. --Richard Wendorf, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian, The Boston AthenaeumWide-ranging, steadily insightful, and richly illustrated, Cultivating Picturacy offers both a method and a model for reading the visual image. Cultivating Picturacy will stand alongside the works of Norman Bryson, Nelson Goodman, and W. J. T. Mitchell as a fundamental contribution to the field of inter-art scholarship. -Ernest B. Gilman, New York UniversityJames Heffernan's Cultivating Picturacy is a treasure for scholars and students interested in the history, theory, and practice of text-image relations. The volume, beautifully produced and illustrated by Baylor University Press, contains a breadth of reference, richness of analysis, and limpid prose that are truly marvelous. It consists of fourteen essays (including the introduction), almost all published in the period 1988-2000, which, taken together, crown a distinguished career in what used to be rather quaintly called 'sister arts' criticism, but which is now, in the age of metastasizing visual-verbal media, among the most urgent topics of cultural history and aesthetics. -- Gillen D'Arcy Wood -- Romanticism and Victorianism on the NetFor two decades, James Heffernan has covered the intermedial field precisely by letting his favored topics flow smoothly into associated questions generated from them, one issue dovetailing transparently into another due to the engrossing, subtle clarity of the critic's prose. Having wondered at the start about 'why we have no word to denote the visual counterpart of literacy, no word that designates the capacity to interpret pictures' (1)--the ability or 'capacity,' that is, but also the grain of attention involved--literary scholar Heffernan not only gives us such a term but offers an extended case in point for its flexible understanding, telling application, and real aesthetic yield. Entitled by neologism, the book brings news in every chapter. -- Garrett Stewart -- European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures? 2. Speaking of Pictures: The Rhetoric of Art Criticism 3. Alberti on Apelles: Word and Image in De Pictura 4. Text and Design: Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience 5. Marginal Language: Word and Image in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion 6. Painting Against Poetry: Reynolds' Discourses and the Discourse of Turner's Art 7. Wordsworth, Constable, and the Poetics of Chiaroscuro 8. Self-Representation in Byron's Poetry and Turner's Art 9. Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film 10. Love, Death, and Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illlustrations of Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock 11. Hockney Remakes Hogarth: A Gay Rake Progresses to America 12. Peter Milton's Turn: Painting, Photography, and Printmaking at the Turn of the Millennium 13. Reza, Pollock, Richter: Language and Abstract Art Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe Gift of Story brings contemporary literature and film into conversation with the grand Christian narrative. This book examines the specific connections between contemporary cultural meta-narratives (the stories humans typically tell about themselves) and the ideas of hope found in Christianity. Despite postmodernism's skepticism about narrative, the dialogue with contemporary fiction, drama, music and film demonstrates that the Christian story can engender and sustain hope.Trade ReviewThe Gift of Story addresses a vital theme--that of Hope--in contemporary fiction, film, and philosophy, focusing on the Christian tradition as a response to the "postmodern" climate of fragmented hopes and fears at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book's essays find surprising expressions of hope in the novels and movies they examine, and are themselves efforts to find and express hope. --Will Katerberg, Calvin CollegeWritten from a realistic and well-informed Christian perspective, the authors--whose eyes are open to the tragedies and contradictions of life--make a convincing case that narrative can be a gift, a gift that even engenders hope. The book is incisive, provocative, and heartening. --Stephen T. Davis, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Section 1: The Postmodern Condition 1. Inventing Hope: The Question of Belief in Don DeLillo's Novels, Mark Eaton 2. Voices from Within: Gloria Anzaldúa, bell hooks, and Roberta Bondi, Anne-Marie Bowery 3. Time for Hope: The Sixth Sense, American Beauty, Memento, and Twelve Monkeys, D. Brent Laytham 4. Beyond Futility: American Beauty and the Book of Ecclesiastes, Robert K. Johnston Section 2: The Valley of Despair 5. Prosaic Grace: Doris Betts's Souls Raised from the Dead, Martha Greene Eads 6. Narrative Bones: Amy Tan's Bonesetter's Daughter and Hugh Cook's Homecoming Man, Elaine Lux 7. Hope from a Radio: Jurek Becker's Jakob the Liar , Eric Sterling 8. Friendship and Hope: Elie Wiesel's The Town Beyond the Wall, Carole J. Lambert Section 3: Resisting the Night 9. A Passion for the Impossible: Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin, Harold K. Bush, Jr. 10. The Prophetic Burden: James Baldwin as a Latter-Day Jeremiah, Kelvin Beliele 11. Reconciliation and Hope: Confessional Narratives in South Africa, Susan Van Zanten Gallagher Section 4: Adversity and Grace 12. Hope in Hard Times: Moments of Epiphany in Illness Narratives, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 13. Geographies of Hope: Kathleen Norris and David Lynch, Kevin L. Cole 14. Attunement and Healing: The Fisher King, Michael B. Herzog 15. The Gift of Grace: Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast, Maire Mullins Section 5: Hope and the Imagination 16. The Redress of Imagination: Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes, Barry Sloan 17. The Search for "Deeper Magic": J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis, Emily Griesinger 18. J. R. R. Tolkien: Postmodern Visionary of Hope, Ralph C. Wood Works Cited List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself?Table of Contents1. Humanism and Education2. Humanist Education3. Teaching Humanism4. Edward Said as Humanist Educator (with a Note on John Dewey)5. Going Back to College: The Survival of Unitarian Universalism Depends on It6. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities7. Confronting the Rising Danger of White Rage

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our understanding of this concept, its origins, and its development. This intercultural work brings together scholars from different disciplines and countries, including Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Iran, Brazil, and the Netherlands. It does more than share the results of their research and analysis. The volume also critically examines the contributions and limitations of this methodology. In addition, it also reflects on the new empirical and theoretical perspectives within the broader framework of the study of this concept. The concept of god is one of the most difficult to grasp. This volume offers new insights by focusing on the many different ways children depict god throughout the world. Readers will discover the importance of spatial imagery and color choices in drawings of god. They will also learn about how the divine's emotional expression correlates to age, gender, and religiosity as well as strategies used by children who are prohibited from representing their god.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Integrative model of children's representations of god in drawings (Pierre-Yves Brandt, Zhargalma Dandarova Robert, Grégory Dessart, Hanneke Muthert, Hanneke Schaap-Jonker).- Chapter 2. Anthropomorphizing and de-anthropomorphizing supernatural agency: From conceptual strategies to their theological implications( Grégory Dessart, Zhargalma Dandarova Robert, Pierre-Yves Brandt).- Chapter 3. Gender-typing god representations: Socio-normative constraints and ontological significance ( Grégory Dessart, Zhargalma Dandarova Robert, Pierre-Yves Brandt).- Chapter 4. Where gods dwell? Spatial imagery in children’s drawings of gods( Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert, Christelle Cocco, Grégory Dessart, Pierre -Yves Brandt).- Chapter 5. The colour of god(s): Early processing mechanisms of an all-powerful entity as depicted through colour choices in drawings of gods (Christelle Cocco, Christine Mohr, Domicele Jonauskaite, Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert, Pierre-Yves Brandt).- Chapter 6. Numerical analyses of children’s drawings of god(s): an approach based on computer vision and mathematical methods (Christelle Cocco, Raphaël Ceré).- Chapter 7. Emotional expression in children’s drawings of God according to age, gender and religiosity (Richard P. Jolley, Grégory Dessart).- Chapter 8. Different attachment styles in relation to children's drawings of God: a qualitative and quantitative exploration, (Hanneke Muthert, Hanneke Schaap-Jonker).- Chapter 9. Iranian children’s drawings of God: demographic and contextual considerations (Mohammad Khodayarifard, Reza Pourhosein, Shahla Pakdaman, Saeid Zandi).- Chapter 10. The first discoveries and the challenges of researching representations of gods in a continental country such as Brazil (Alberto Domeniconi Küntgen-Nery, Camila Mendonça Torres).- Chapter 11. Representing the gods of ancient Israel and Judah (Thomas Römer).- Chapter 12. The representation of God in Islam and its prohibition: strategies used by Iranian children in drawings of God (Zahra Astaneh).- Chapter 13. Natural and supernatural agents: children’s representations of gods and dead entities (Ramiro Tau).- Chapter 14. Shaping digital tools, equipping children drawings (Dominique Vinck, Pierre-Nicolas Oberhauser).- Chapter 15. An innovative open-access database: “Drawings of gods” ( Olga Serbaeva).- Chapter 16. Children’s drawings of gods: the dynamics and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration (Frédéric Darbellay).- Chapter 17. Contributions and limitations of the methodology of drawings for studying children's representations of god (Pierre-Yves Brandt, Zhargalma Dandarova Robert, Dominique Vinck, Frédéric Darbellay).

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. The Meaning of Life: A Conceptual Belief whose Implications Transcend Itself.- Chapter 2. Similitudo deitatis and Neuroscience. Understanding Intellectual Nature as Divine.- Chapter 3. From Neurotheology to Theoneuroscience: moral choice, dark night, uncanny valley, and the image of God.- Chapter 4. From Neuroethics to Neurotheology. Some Epistemological and Anthropological Perspectives.- Chapter 5. Theology and the neurosciences: Time for a balance.- Chapter 6. Within the Eye of the Hurricane: Between secularisation and extremism - Why Theology and Churches Should Know about Credition.- Chapter 7. Decentering and the metaxu.- Chapter 8. Challenges in Neuroscientific Research on Religion.- Chapter 9. NDE phenomenon and Neuroscience of Religion.- Chapter 10. Future of Neuroscience of Religion.- Chapter 11. God in the brain. Neuroscience and religious information processing.- Chapter 12. Neuroscience of Religious Experience – Between Subjectivity and Objectivity.- Chapter 13. Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? - Pluralists Lessons about Brain and Mind from Psychiatry.- Chapter 14. Integrating Neuroscientific Models of Belief with Established Frameworks in Formal Epistemology.- Chapter 15. Theistic Religious Experience and the Naturalistic Objection from the Neuroscience of Religion.

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Book SynopsisCelebrating a decade of progress in the fast developing field of management, spirituality and religion, this book provides the crème de la crème of academic scholarship in this crucial field of interest that lies in the intersection of religion/spirituality with management and organization studies, bridging the humanities, the social sciences and business and management. The very best articles that won the coveted ‘best paper of the year’ award, sponsored by the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada and published in the top ranked interdisciplinary Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, illustrate the development of thinking over the past decade, showcasing diverse theoretical orientations and methodological approaches, written by the leading scholars in the field. This authoritative collection will be a valued addition to university libraries as much as to specialized interest groups. The book will be serving as key text for teaching and a ‘must read’ for anyone wishing to inform themselves of this growing field of scholarship.

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Trade ReviewIn a world where we increasingly believe our own publicity about our benevolence, we need prophetic voices which challenge this lie. In a world where we are increasingly dazzled by our own technological capacity, we need compassionate voices which call our attention to the unseen and unheard of our world. In a world where we are increasingly seduced into giving reductive answers to complex questions, we need intelligent voices which can operate with nuance. Joshua Smith is one of these voices, and his intelligent, compassionate and prophetic analysis of the potential and problems of violent technologies deserves a wide readership."" —Revd Helen Paynter, PhD, Tutor in Biblical Studies and Coordinator of Theological Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College""Prescient, sobering, and clairvoyant . . . this book unpacks the psychological, gendered, and global history and future of violent tech for those of us in a gaming chair, church pew, or design lab. Smith brings together unlikely, but necessary conversation partners—feminist and womanist theologians, ancient and modern philosophers, technologists and scientists—to respond to this urgent ethical concern."" —Kate Ott, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological SeminaryTable of Contents Foreword by Elke Schwarz Introduction CHAPTER 1. Violence + Technology = Violent Technology CHAPTER 2. Of Violent Technology and Texts CHAPTER 3. DARPA and Death Machines: A Love Story CHAPTER 4. The Gaming of Death and Violence CHAPTER 5. Just War and Violent Technologies Conclusion: Guns to Gardens Appendix Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of “childhood” in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. Giuseppe Bolotta’s analysis employs “childhood” as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok’s poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people’s efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. The book shows how “marginal childhoods” and the “cultural technologies of childhood” – schools, religious agencies, NGOs – reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand’s larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people’s increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society’s generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that “childhood” is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state’s rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societiesTrade ReviewThis splendidly original and meticulously documented exploration of the constricted life chances of Bangkok’s slum children illuminates the problems of youth and class in a world shaped by karmic concepts of destiny and hierarchy. Gracefully written and resonant with compassionate insight, it deserves a wide readership. – Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Siege of the Spirits

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume starts from the perspectives of Beijing in how it sees that religion should serve the interests of the state. From China’s viewpoint, religion should act as a stabilizing force of society, or else the Christian Churches will lose their reason for existence. This might be incomprehensible to Western Christians, who believe in the freedom of religion and their right to embrace their faith. This collection of articles represents the concerted efforts of Chinese, Italians, and an American—who live in China, Europe, and the United States and belong to different disciplines, such as History, Religious Studies, and Language Studies—to promote a better understanding of the Catholic Church in the world and in China.Table of ContentsPART I: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.- The Catholic Church in China in the 1980s: Identity, Loyalty, and Obedience.- The Canossian Sisters in Hong Kong and Beyond: Protection, Education, and Emancipation of Women.- PART II: THE BIBLE.- Reading and Praying with Sigao Shengjing (Studium Biblicum Version).- The Use and Reception of Sigao Shengjing (Studium Biblicum Version) by Catholic Communities in China.- PART III: EVANGELIZATION.- Catholic Fishermen in the Qingpu District of Shanghai.- Between Survival and Subordination: Jiangnan Catholics in the 1950s.- A Letter From an ex-Altar Boy to Late Fathers.

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