Religious issues and debates Books
Bristol University Press Religion and Health Care in East Africa
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in East Africa. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health outcomes.Trade Review"This book will fascinate scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and erudite readers alike. The authors leverage an impressive array of original evidence to present a persuasive argument about the relationship between spiritual and physical practices. This matters, and it makes for compelling reading." Ron E. Hassner, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface Religion, health care, and Africa Background knowledge, theorizing, and evidence Uganda Mozambique Ethiopia What have we learned? Conclusion
£77.39
Bristol University Press Religion and Belief Literacy
Book SynopsisThis book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. It provides a clear pathway for engaging well with religion and belief diversity in public and shared settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction The broken chain of learning: the crisis of religion and belief literacy and its origins Policy framings of religion and belief: consolidating the muddle Religion and belief in Religious Education Religion and belief across schools Religion and belief in university practices Religion and belief in university teaching and learning Religion and belief in professional education and workplaces Religion and belief in community education and learning The future of religion and belief literacy: reconnecting a chain of learning
£75.99
Bristol University Press Religion and Belief Literacy
Book SynopsisThis book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. It provides a clear pathway for engaging well with religion and belief diversity in public and shared settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction The broken chain of learning: the crisis of religion and belief literacy and its origins Policy framings of religion and belief: consolidating the muddle Religion and belief in Religious Education Religion and belief across schools Religion and belief in university practices Religion and belief in university teaching and learning Religion and belief in professional education and workplaces Religion and belief in community education and learning The future of religion and belief literacy: reconnecting a chain of learning
£25.64
Bristol University Press Reimagining Faith and Abortion
Book SynopsisProviding perspectives from the global North and South, faith leaders, scholars and activists demonstrate the complex connections between faith and abortion, how women and pregnant people are positioned in society and how morality is claimed and challenged.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Kellie Turtle and Fiona Bloomer 2. Redeemed by reproduction? Exploring compulsory motherhood and abortion stigma - Selina Palm 3. Suspending judgement: exploring pedagogical approaches that centre the contextual embodied experiences of those affected in the process of sexual reproductive health and rights decision making and ethical reflection - Charlene van der Walt 4. Pastoral guidelines through a reproductive justice lens - Emilie Weiderud 5. Abortion in Malaysia: challenges and necessity - Syarifatul Adibah 6. The power of religious voice in abortion law reform advocacy: inter-faith approaches to abortion law reform in Malawi - Brian Ligomeka 7. Abortion and faith in Latin America: an interfaith perspective - María de los Ángeles Roberto 8. Sri Lanka: abortion and Buddhism – a conversation with Dakshitha Wickremarathne - Dakshitha Wickremarathne and Fiona Bloomer 9. Reflections on faith-based abortion advocacy as the US faces a future without Roe: a conversation with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Kellie Turtle 10. Marking the absence of an embodied theology: an analysis of how people of faith talk about abortion in Northern Ireland - Nóirín MacNamara and Fiona Bloomer 11. Seeds of hope in progressive Christian discourse on abortion in Northern Ireland - Kellie Turtle 12. Faith voices for reproductive justice in Northern Ireland - Kellie Turtle and participants from Faith Voices for Reproductive Justice 13. Conclusion - Kellie Turtle and Fiona Bloomer
£72.00
The University of North Carolina Press The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Book SynopsisAlthough Christian believers agreed that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. This book tells how most Americans were radically divided in their interpretations of what God was doing in and through the Civil War.
£23.70
University of Toronto Press And in Our Hearts Take Up Thy Rest
Book SynopsisIn his seminary classes and his writings, Frederick Crowe, SJ (19152012) sought to understand anew the eternal identity of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s role in the Church’s life. Despite Crowe’s fame as a professor of Trinitarian theology and his groundbreaking work on Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of complacent love as an analogy for the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession, no book has ever been published on this influential Canadian Jesuit, who established centres around the world dedicated to stuyding the theological writings of Bernard Lonergan, SJ (190484). Drawing on Crowe’s published works and archival materials, Eades emphasizes how Crowe’s Trinitarian pneumatology creatively extended Lonergan’s theology of the Holy Spirit. Making use of Crowe’s own historical methodology, Eades looks for the emergence of new and significant questions about the Holy Spirit in Crowe’s works.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Methodology Overview Crowe's Confidence in the Psychological Analogy Crowe’s Writings 1. Frederick Crowe, SJ: Dean of First Generation Lonergan Disciples Early Years: New Brunswick and Jesuit Vocation A Brief Sketch of Lonergan and Crowe’s Interactions The Influence of Lonergan’s Writings on Crowe’s Pneumatology Part I (1953–1968): Searching for the Proprium of the Holy Spirit 2. Appropriating Aquinas on Love: Proprium Emerging as a Theme What Is Complacency? Application of Complacency to the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit 3. Basil Helps to Extend the Search into the Economy of Salvation Background to Crowe’s 1965–6 Doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity Conceiving the Personal Properties of the Three in the Godhead as Never Before Discerning the Personal Property of the Three in the World Part II (1969–84): Reversing the Relation of the Two Divine Missions 4. Who Provides the Context: The Son or the Spirit? Background: The Relation of the Divine Missions in Crowe’s Earlier Thinking The Need to Rethink the Relation of the Missions Full Thematization of the Reversal of the Missions 5. Arguing with Church Authorities as Helping to Reverse the Missions Crowe’s Struggle with the Magisterium Rethinking of the Role of the Spirit in Relation to the Son’s Mission Part III (1985–2000): The Holy Spirit as the First Person in the Trinity 6. Intentionality Analysis: Paving the Way for Rethinking Trinitarian Order Crowe’s Early Explanations of the Psychological Analogy Emergence of the Question of the Holy Spirit’s Firstness 7. Hiding His Goal: Crowe’s Reordering of the Three Persons Crowe’s Stated Reasons for Rethinking the Order of the Divine Persons Trying to Win a Hearing: First Set of Concepts Winning a Proposal: Second Set of Concepts Pedagogical Purpose of the Two Sets of Concepts Conclusion: Crowe’s Contribution as a Trinitarian Pneumatologist The Root and Unity of the Three Stages Stage One (1953–1968): Crowe’s Doctrine of Complacency Stage Two (1969–1984): Evaluation of Crowe’s Reversing of the Missions Stage Three (1985–2000): Evaluating Crowe’s Methodological Contribution A Final Word Notes Bibliography Index
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Athens and Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThis book argues that tensions between Jewish and Christian doctrine may be lessened if texts are regarded as philosophical frameworks of exploration as opposed to ethical commitments.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophy and Theology 2. God, Humans, and Nature 3. Humans and Nature 4. Philo and Plato 5. Maimonides and Aristotle 6. Kant’s Challenge to Theology Notes Bibliography Index
£79.05
University of Toronto Press Athens and Jerusalem
Book SynopsisWhat is the relation of philosophy and theology? This question has been a matter of perennial concern in the history of Western thought. Written by one of the premier philosophers in the areas of Jewish ethics and interfaith issues between Judaism and Christianity, Athens and Jerusalem contends that philosophy and theology are not mutually exclusive. Based on the Gifford Lectures David Novak delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 2017, this book explores the commonalities and common concerns that exist between philosophy and theology on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Where are they different and where are they the same? And, how can they speak to one another?Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophy and Theology 2. God, Humans, and Nature 3. Humans and Nature 4. Philo and Plato 5. Maimonides and Aristotle 6. Kant’s Challenge to Theology Notes Bibliography Index
£33.30
University of Toronto Press The Human Paradox
Book SynopsisThe Human Paradox shows how the nature of the human is structured by the conflicting human values and virtues that have shaped Western culture, and are visible across the world today.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: The Human Paradox 1. Where to Begin? 2. Union and Non-Union 3. The Lens of the Virtues 4. The Virtues of Self-Assertion 5. The Virtues of Reverence 6. The Human Paradox 7. Paradox Breeds Paradox 8. The Paradoxes of Self-Assertion 9. The Paradoxes of Reverence 10. Four Families of Virtues Part Two: The Human Paradox in a Human World 11. Society 12. Politics 13. Organizations 14. Psychology 15. Philosophy 16. Religious Life 17. Civilization Conclusion
£72.25
University of Toronto Press Heideggers Being
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Studies 1. Pindar’s “Gold” and Heraclitus’s “Kosmos” as Being Itself 2. In the Black Notebooks: The “Turn” Away from the Transcendental-Phenomenological Positioning of Being and Time to the Thinking of Being as Physis and Aletheia 3. Heidegger’s Manifold Thinking of Being: In Honor of Prof. William J. Richardson 4. Athena, Art, and Overcoming the Egoity of Our Age 5. Mythos, Being, and the Appropriation of a Religious Tradition 6. On Heidegger’s Heraclitus Lectures: In Nearness of a Process Metaphysics? 7. The Path through Heidegger’s Thought: Interview with FILOZOFIA Part II: Translation 8. “Martin Heidegger’s Thinking and Japanese Philosophy” by Kōichi Tsujimura and “Reply in Appreciation” by Martin Heidegger Part III: Reflections and Impressions 9. Heidegger and the Earliest Greeks 10. Heidegger, Phenomenology, and Metaphysics 11. Why “Phenomenology” Inevitably Slides toward Idealism/Subjectivism/Constructivism 12. Heidegger’s “Clearing” Is Not Identical with the Human Being 13. Heidegger, Max Müller, and Metaphysics: “Heidegger Remains a Metaphysician” 14. Heidegger, Plato, and “Light” 15. Hegel and the Inexhaustible Depth of “Things” 16. Facticity Only in the Light of Eternity 17. Another Suggestion on Thinking: Heidegger and Whitehead 18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on Wholeness as the Telos of the Human Being 18. Heidegger and C.G. Jung on “Opposites” 20. Heidegger and Melville 21. Heidegger and a Robert Frost Poem 22. The Unspeakable Mystery of All Things 23. A “Hermetic Saying” and the Hermetic Tradition 24. Heidegger and Walt Whitman 25. Heidegger and the Limit of Language – and Rumi 26. Thomas Aquinas, “God,” and the “Godhead of God” Afterword A Note on the Text and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe Acknowledgments Notes Index
£23.39
University of Toronto Press The Dervishes of the North
Book SynopsisThe Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sufi Communities in Canada 2. Sama‘, Shab-i ‘arus, and Rituals of Remembrance 3. The Politics of Consumption: The Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions of Rumi 4. Gender Dynamics in Sufi Rituals, Praxis, and Authority Epilogue Bibliography
£52.70
University of Toronto Press The Dervishes of the North
Book SynopsisThe Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sufi Communities in Canada 2. Sama‘, Shab-i ‘arus, and Rituals of Remembrance 3. The Politics of Consumption: The Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions of Rumi 4. Gender Dynamics in Sufi Rituals, Praxis, and Authority Epilogue Bibliography
£23.39
University of Massachusetts Press The Child Cases: How America's Religious
Book SynopsisWhen a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provide her daughter with medical care, choosing instead to rely on spiritual healing. During the next few years, a half dozen other children of Christian Science parents died under similar circumstances. The children’s deaths and the parents’ trials drew national attention, highlighting a deeply rooted, legal/political struggle to define religious freedom.Through close analysis of these seven cases, legal historian Alan Rogers explores the conflict between religious principles and secular laws that seek to protect children from abuse and neglect. Christian Scientists argued - often with the support of mainline religious groups - that the First Amendment’s “free exercise” clause protected religious belief and behaviour. Insisting that their spiritual care was at least as effective as medical treatment, they thus maintained that parents of seriously ill children had a constitutional right to reject medical care.Congress and state legislatures confirmed this interpretation by inserting religious exemption provisos into child abuse laws. Yet when parental prayer failed and a child died, prosecutors were able to win manslaughter convictions by arguing - as the U.S. Supreme Court had held for more than a century - that religious belief could not trump a neutral, generally applicable law. Children’s advocates then carried this message to state legislatures, eventually winning repeal of religious exemption provisions in a handful of states.
£22.75
Information Age Publishing Identifying as Christian in an Alien Public Arena
Book SynopsisAlthough Christianity is the world’s largest religion, there is confusion over what it means to be Christian within contemporary society. For individuals it is difficult to find, form, or receive a Christian identity, let alone maintain one within a secular world. Within organizations such as the church and professions there is often a disconnection between public and private identities and the reality of being Christian in our culture. For society there is the problem of disparate portrayals of Christianity, the marginalized status of Christianity with an associated lack of influence of Christians on our society, and the ongoing shaping of Christian identity by the public arena itself. Associated questions are: should Christians try to engage in, and even shape, the public arena and if so, how?This volume examines the problem of confused and misunderstood Christian identity in a post-Christian age. It suggests ways of shaping Christian identity for the benefit of individuals and for the common good. The importance of well-formed Christian identities is illustrated by research and analysis of selected professions so that the public life of Christians can be more fulfilling and effective.This book will be valuable for all those who are interested in religious identity within a secular society. People of faith and religious organizations will benefit from a penetrating analysis of what it means to be Christian today. Similarly, those whose work involves the church, counseling, education and the performing arts will find specific applications that address concerns about faith in the workplace.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Identifying as Christian in an Alien Public Arena
Book SynopsisAlthough Christianity is the world’s largest religion, there is confusion over what it means to be Christian within contemporary society. For individuals it is difficult to find, form, or receive a Christian identity, let alone maintain one within a secular world. Within organizations such as the church and professions there is often a disconnection between public and private identities and the reality of being Christian in our culture. For society there is the problem of disparate portrayals of Christianity, the marginalized status of Christianity with an associated lack of influence of Christians on our society, and the ongoing shaping of Christian identity by the public arena itself. Associated questions are: should Christians try to engage in, and even shape, the public arena and if so, how?This volume examines the problem of confused and misunderstood Christian identity in a post-Christian age. It suggests ways of shaping Christian identity for the benefit of individuals and for the common good. The importance of well-formed Christian identities is illustrated by research and analysis of selected professions so that the public life of Christians can be more fulfilling and effective.This book will be valuable for all those who are interested in religious identity within a secular society. People of faith and religious organizations will benefit from a penetrating analysis of what it means to be Christian today. Similarly, those whose work involves the church, counseling, education and the performing arts will find specific applications that address concerns about faith in the workplace.
£82.80
Liverpool University Press Religion in India: Past and Present
Book SynopsisThe religious map of India is notoriously complex; not only are there indigenous traditions in great variety, but imported faiths such as Islam and Christianity have been added to the mix. Lawrence A. Babb helps the non-specialist navigate this variety. He provides an account of the subcontinent’s principal religions, focusing on how they began, what they teach, what they have become, and how religion fits in modern India’s national life. The book assumes no previous knowledge of Indian institutions or history, and is designed to give readers a big picture, leaving the fine points to the more specialized books. The perspective of the book is historical, tracing India’s religious evolution from the Indus-Valley period (c. 2600-1900 BCE) to the present. With the Indus Valley civilization as its starting point, the author covers the development of Vedic religion, the emergence of dissenting traditions, Buddhism and Jainism, the development of Hinduism and the coming of Islam to the subcontinent. The book’s concluding chapters deal with the impact of colonialism on Indian religions, the role of religion in the independence struggle, and the riddle of religion’s place in the Republic of India’s national identity. This textbook is designed to be used in university-level courses dealing with India and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to a general readership interested in South Asia and to travellers visiting the region.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1: The Vedic Age and Its Legacies; 2: Dissenters; 3: Hinduism; 4: Islam and After; 5: Religion and the Raj; 6: A Secular State; 7: Religion and National Identity. References. Index.
£42.68
Liverpool University Press Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite
Book SynopsisThe first complete translation of the Bible into English was produced by the followers of John Wyclif in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; it is known in two versions, very literal and more idiomatic, and, despite being banned within 25 years of its completion, survives today, complete or partial, in around 250 copies. The organization of the enterprise almost certainly was initiated in Oxford, and reflects in many ways contemporary scholarly interests. The gospel commentaries of the present study represent a spin-off from the processes of translation: they use the literal text, and attach to it English translations of patristic and later biblical exegesis. The book considers the background to the copies that survive, the precise sources that lie behind the vernacular, and the ways in which older texts were scrutinized and modified to fit a later medieval audience; a section looks at the uses that, so far, have been traced. No part of the commentaries has so far been printed: this study concludes with some extracts from all sections of the compilation, chosen to amplify the claims of the discussion and to illustrate the commentaries' varied methods.Trade ReviewReviews 'This will be a major publication ... The editorial complexities in these voluminous Wycliffite texts would defeat most scholars, and few, perhaps none, are as well-qualified as Hudson to edit them. It is unlikely that there will be an edition of the Glossed Gospels undertaken in the near future, and it would be an immense bonus to have as many substantial extracts as possible available in an easily accessible authoritative edition. The study of late medieval English religious and intellectual culture is currently developing rapidly; this study, along with the edited extracts, promises to constitute a major primary intervention in the field.' Kantik Ghosh, Trinity College, University of Oxford'Doctors in English constitutes an important primary intervention in the study of late medieval English religious and intellectual culture.'Kantik Ghosh, Journal of Ecclesiastical History'This volume is a vital new study of an important and thus far un-edited group of texts, which will be crucial for those working on religious and intellectual culture in the late medieval period.'Medium Aevum Table of ContentsList of Plates Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Description of the manuscripts 3 Biblical text, its layout and its origin 4 The commentaries, their texts, basis, sources and methods (a) Long Matthew, þe firste exposicioun (b) The commentaries dependent on Catena aurea: (i) short Matthew (ii) long Luke, short Luke (iii) short John (iv) short Mark (c) The York text and its relation to the texts in (a) and (b); its evidence for the existence of long versions of Mark and John, and for a long version of Matthew dependent on Catena aurea. 5 The 'topics' in York and the other commentaries, their makeup and sources. 6 The uses made of the commentaries in other texts. 7 Conclusions, suggestions and questions (a) The Prologues and Epilogue (b) Editing the commentaries (c) Lollard texts? (d) Translation or translations? (e) Processes of compilation (f) Related texts? (g) Origins of the commentaries, date, place, context. Texts: extracts from the commentaries: brief explanation of editorial method 1.(a) Matthew 11:12-15 from A and from Ad (b) Matthew 22:1-3 from AL and Y (c) Matthew 23:29-31 from A and from Ad 2.(a) Luke 10:1-7 from K and from B (b) Luke 12:1-3 from K and from B 3.(a) John 6:1-7 from B and from Y 4.(a) Mark 4:13-20 from Ad (b) Mark 8:1-9 from Ad and from Y (c) Mark 12:38-44 from Ad 5. (a) Matthew 4:1-8 from Y (b) passages from Abbeville in Y and in Ad 6. Topics (a) De sacramento altaris from AL and CUL Ff.6.31 (b) De confessione (extract) from K and Y (c) De officiis prelatorum (extract) from Y and B 7. Odo (a) attached to Mark 10:31 from Ad (b) attached to sermon on 9 Trinity in Y (c) in sermon for 2 Advent from Y, and attached to Mark 16:21-7 from Ad Appendixes (a) The problems of using modern editions of three Latin sources for the English commentaries. (b) The structure and coverage of Odo of Chateauroux in Oxford MS Balliol College 37. Bibliography Index
£109.50
CABI Publishing Risk and Safety Challenges for Religious Tourism
Book SynopsisTravellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised, where annual religious festivals are commemorated with mass gatherings lasting for days and large crowds require detailed disaster management plans. Beginning with a general section on risk management, covering areas such as disaster management, terrorism, crime and security, the book then delves deeper into specific issues and challenges. It reviews important topics such as understanding the behaviour of crowds, how to perform a risk assessment for a sacred space, and travelling in what some would regard as an increasingly hostile world. Examining critically all risk and safety challenges in this area of management, the book: - Includes a full section of global case studies, as well as discussion questions for each chapter, encouraging readers to translate theory into good practice. - Offers critical thinking on risk, vulnerability and long-term development for mass gatherings. - Covers the importance of disaster management practices and offers practical advice for ensuring attendees' safety. Mitigating risk at mass gathering events and festivals is an area that still needs further research, but this book brings together current thought and provides a valuable reference for those studying religion, tourism and events, as well as event organizers, emergency and hospital services, and local authorities.
£46.98
CABI Publishing Religious Tourism in Asia: Tradition and Change
Book SynopsisThe Asia-Pacific region is considered the world's religious core, with the greatest number of pilgrims and travellers to religious events for both international and domestic tourism. It is estimated that there are approximately 600 million national and international religious and spiritual voyages in the world, of which over half take place in Asia. This book focuses on tourism and sacred sites in Asia. Contemporary case studies of religious and pilgrimage activities provide key learning points and present practical examples from this 'hub' of pilgrimage destinations. They explore ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations and new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities. It will be of interest to researchers within religious, cultural, heritage and Asian tourism. Key features include: - An Asian perspective on a growing area of tourism. - Case studies from across the continent. - Full-colour images of pilgrimage sites and key destinations bring the topic to life.Table of Contents1: Religious Tourism and Sacred Sites in Asia 2: The Rise of Heritage and Religious Tourism to Sacred Sites in Oman 3: Entrepreneurship for Religious Tourism in Mumbai, India 4: Spiritual Tourism in Sufism in South Asia 5: Religious Tourism in Azerbaijan: Current Challenges 6: The Sacred in Caves and Mountains: Animist and Christian Interfaces in the Philippines 7: Religious Tourism in the Ideological Framework of Chinese Tourism Education 8: Religious Tourism: The Beginning of a New Era with Special Reference to India 9: Pilgrimage and Historical Tourism on West Java: Learning about History 10: To Own the Sacred, to Control the People: Maha¯bodhi Temple Complex, Bodhgaya¯, India 11: Branding the Buddha’s Birthplace: Exploring Nepal’s Potential to Become a Destination of Global Buddhist Tourism 12: Religious Migrations in Contemporary Central Asia 13: Religious Festival in Tourism: A Comparative Perspective of the Aobao Festival 14: To Brand Gandhara, the Ancient Buddhist Centre: Pakistan’s Potential to Develop Buddhist Tourism 15: Nankana Sahib as ‘A Symbol of Religious Coexistence’ 16: The Destination Marketing Development of Religious Tourism in Uzbekistan: A Case Study 17: Religion and Religious Tourism: A Case Study of Kerala
£46.98
Liverpool University Press Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite
Book SynopsisThe first complete translation of the Bible into English was produced by the followers of John Wyclif in the last quarter of the fourteenth century; it is known in two versions, very literal and more idiomatic, and, despite being banned within 25 years of its completion, survives today, complete or partial, in around 250 copies. The organization of the enterprise almost certainly was initiated in Oxford, and reflects in many ways contemporary scholarly interests. The gospel commentaries of the present study represent a spin-off from the processes of translation: they use the literal text, and attach to it English translations of patristic and later biblical exegesis. The book considers the background to the copies that survive, the precise sources that lie behind the vernacular, and the ways in which older texts were scrutinized and modified to fit a later medieval audience; a section looks at the uses that, so far, have been traced. No part of the commentaries has so far been printed: this study concludes with some extracts from all sections of the compilation, chosen to amplify the claims of the discussion and to illustrate the commentaries' varied methods.Trade ReviewReviews 'This will be a major publication ... The editorial complexities in these voluminous Wycliffite texts would defeat most scholars, and few, perhaps none, are as well-qualified as Hudson to edit them. It is unlikely that there will be an edition of the Glossed Gospels undertaken in the near future, and it would be an immense bonus to have as many substantial extracts as possible available in an easily accessible authoritative edition. The study of late medieval English religious and intellectual culture is currently developing rapidly; this study, along with the edited extracts, promises to constitute a major primary intervention in the field.' Kantik Ghosh, Trinity College, University of Oxford'Doctors in English constitutes an important primary intervention in the study of late medieval English religious and intellectual culture.'Kantik Ghosh, Journal of Ecclesiastical History'This volume is a vital new study of an important and thus far un-edited group of texts, which will be crucial for those working on religious and intellectual culture in the late medieval period.'Medium Aevum Table of ContentsList of Plates Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Description of the manuscripts 3 Biblical text, its layout and its origin 4 The commentaries, their texts, basis, sources and methods (a) Long Matthew, þe firste exposicioun (b) The commentaries dependent on Catena aurea: (i) short Matthew (ii) long Luke, short Luke (iii) short John (iv) short Mark (c) The York text and its relation to the texts in (a) and (b); its evidence for the existence of long versions of Mark and John, and for a long version of Matthew dependent on Catena aurea. 5 The 'topics' in York and the other commentaries, their makeup and sources. 6 The uses made of the commentaries in other texts. 7 Conclusions, suggestions and questions (a) The Prologues and Epilogue (b) Editing the commentaries (c) Lollard texts? (d) Translation or translations? (e) Processes of compilation (f) Related texts? (g) Origins of the commentaries, date, place, context. Texts: extracts from the commentaries: brief explanation of editorial method 1.(a) Matthew 11:12-15 from A and from Ad (b) Matthew 22:1-3 from AL and Y (c) Matthew 23:29-31 from A and from Ad 2.(a) Luke 10:1-7 from K and from B (b) Luke 12:1-3 from K and from B 3.(a) John 6:1-7 from B and from Y 4.(a) Mark 4:13-20 from Ad (b) Mark 8:1-9 from Ad and from Y (c) Mark 12:38-44 from Ad 5. (a) Matthew 4:1-8 from Y (b) passages from Abbeville in Y and in Ad 6. Topics (a) De sacramento altaris from AL and CUL Ff.6.31 (b) De confessione (extract) from K and Y (c) De officiis prelatorum (extract) from Y and B 7. Odo (a) attached to Mark 10:31 from Ad (b) attached to sermon on 9 Trinity in Y (c) in sermon for 2 Advent from Y, and attached to Mark 16:21-7 from Ad Appendixes (a) The problems of using modern editions of three Latin sources for the English commentaries. (b) The structure and coverage of Odo of Chateauroux in Oxford MS Balliol College 37. Bibliography Index
£31.81
James Currey Islam in Uganda: The Muslim Minority, Nationalism
Book SynopsisExamines the historical, political, religious, and social dynamics of Muslim minority status in Uganda, and important themes of pre- and post-colonial political community, religion and national identity. Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no consensus as to who was responsible. In this book Joseph Kasule seeks to explain this by examining the colonial and postcolonial history of the Muslim minority and questions of Muslim identity within a non-Muslim state. Challenging prevalent scholarship that has homogenized Muslims' political identity, Kasule demonstrates that Muslim responses to power have been varied and multiple. Beginning with the pre-colonial political community in Buganda, and Muteesa I's attempted Islamization of the country using Islam as a centralizing ideology, the author discusses how the political status of Islam and Muslims in Uganda has been defined under successive regimes. Muteesa I's Islamization faltered when Christianity entered Buganda in the latter half of the 19th century, resulting in division between Muslim and Christian sections. The colonial period created a new type of political project that defined the Muslim question as one of representation, and Kasule discusses how this laid the foundation for a politics of Muslim containment within a predominantly Christian power. He examines contrasting urban-based Muslim organizations and rural expressions of Islam; tension between representative claims of Muslim leaderships within the demand for Muslim autonomy; and the rise of new reform groups. As these splits turned violent, 'new' Muslim 'publics' emerged around opposing centres of Muslim power which sought different resolutions to their minority situation. East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi): Makerere Institute of Social ResearchTrade ReviewKasule's work will stand the test of time and become a reference for the future of African studies in general and more particularly the Islamic identity of Uganda. The author must be applauded for his scholarly contribution to this field of study. -- Abdul Hai * Islamic Literary Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Islam in Pre-Colonial Buganda 3. Muslim Communities in the Colonial Era 4. Milton Obote Founds his Muslim Alliance 5. Idi Amin Attempts to Islamize the State 6. Islamic Reform and Intra-Muslim Violence 7. NRM Statecraft and Muslim Subjects 8. Conclusion
£75.00
SPCK Publishing A Time to Live: The case against euthanasia and
Book SynopsisA well-informed presentation of the case against assisted suicide, with reference to politics, society and medicine. This book addresses the the foundational imperative that cherishes life under all circumstances. This is about the choice of the kind of world we want to live in - a Christian heritage which is likely to be squandered. George Pitcher reaffirms the view that death is part of life: there is a long tradition of the acceptance of suffering. By contrast, the modern alternative - right to die becomes duty to die - looks utilitarian, the culling of the weak. There are worrying implications for the provision of care. We are being asked to consider the economics of suicide. Despite recent advances in palliative care there is a sad lack of investment, made worse by this callous approach. In Oregon and Holland, where euthanasia is licensed, there has been a marked fall in palliative care. George Pitcher concludes with a strong celebration of life, in which death plays its part. He argues that this approach empowers medical staff and leads to the regeneration of pastoral care.Trade Review“This is perhaps the most important book on the subject of `assisted dying’ that we have yet seen. It combines unmistakeable realism and compassion with acute moral argument and an unsparing analysis of the very disturbing record of various attempts in other countries to control the effects of legislating for physician-assisted death. An absolutely essential read for all concerned with what is probably the sharpest moral and legal question of our time.” – The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Rowan Williams * Via author *George Pitcher’s book is such a timely and helpful contribution to the debate. He charts accurately the rise of the individualistic culture that lies at the root of calls for `assisted dying’ and he exposes eloquently the reality rather than the spin of what has been happening in the American State of Oregon, so beloved of British would-be reformers, as well as Holland. He then proceeds to give a much-needed exposition of how euthanasia law has developed and how it works in Britain today, concluding with the revised prosecution policy that has recently appeared from the Crown Prosecution Service – a policy whose robustness must have come as a serious disappointment to the euthanasia lobby. Mr Pitcher then turns to the medical scene, rebutting the facile argument that, if we can put down our pets when they are ill, we should do the same for our fellow humans. He exposes the intriguing paradox that campaigning for euthanasia and assisted suicide has increased almost in parallel with modern medicine’s ability to relieve suffering and questions why `assisted dying’, if it ever it were to be legalised, has to be part of health care. It is an excellent book and I hope it will be widely read by everyone who has an interest in this subject. Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff FRCP, FRCGP. -- Baroness Finlay * Via author *Robust and polemical … a journalist working at his best. -- Robin Gill * The Church Times *Eloquently dismisses the need for legislation enacting assisted suicide. -- Carl Farnworth * Church of Scotland Magazine *He examines thoroughly the legal arguments and examines with full documentation the situation in other countries, notably Holland and Switzerland. -- Richard Carter * The Reader *
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UNSW Press Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia
Book SynopsisIn this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia’s best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately rejected belief – most simply can’t see why they need to be bothered with religion at all. He contends that vehement campaigning against theistic belief is the product of growing disdain for religious fundamentalism and a vigorous commitment to personal autonomy. Losing My Religion contends that God is certainly not dead but that Australia’s religious landscape will continue to change as the battle for hearts, minds and spirits continues. Published on the sesquicentennial of the first release of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), this book will provoke debate about what matters to Australians.Winner Australian Christian Book of the Year 2010
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Ave Maria University Press Thomism and Predestination: Principles and
Book SynopsisThere is perhaps no aspect of traditional Thomistic thought so contested in modern Catholic theology as the notion of predestination as presented by the classical Thomist school. What is that doctrine, and why is it so controversial? Has it been rightly understood in the context of modern debates? At the same time, the Church’s traditional affirmation of a mystery of predestination is largely ignored in modern Catholic theology more generally. Why is this the case? Can a theology that emphasizes the Augustinian notion of the primacy of salvation by grace alone also forego a theology of predestination?Thomism and Predestination: Principles and Disputations considers these topics from various angles: the principles of the classical Thomistic treatment of predestination, their contested interpretation among modern theologians, examples of the doctrine as illustrated by the spiritual writings of the saints, and the challenges to Catholic theology that the Thomistic tradition continues to pose. This volume initiates readers— especially future theologians and Catholic intellectuals—to a central theme of theology that is speculatively challenging and deeply interconnected to many other elements of the faith.
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Texas Review Press Genesis in Japan: The Bible Beyond Christianity
Book SynopsisGenesis in Japan rises from a journal of reflections that were collected by the author while teaching the Bible to Japanese university students in Tokyo. It relates the diverse responses to the Bible that rebound, subtly but forcefully, back to the teacher from these students—extraordinary responses, in that they are simple, pure, ordinary, and entirely disorienting.Teaching and learning the Bible in Japan has led the author to another view of the Bible, one that stands in stark contrast with the Bible in the Bible-heavy culture that was the author’s beginning at a small crossroads in central South Carolina.
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Springer Verfassungskonforme Islamismusprävention
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Islamismus als fundamentalistischer Islam.- Prävention.- Stand der Forschung zu Zielen der Islamismusprävention.- Vorgaben der Fördermittelgeber.- Eigene Untersuchung zu Präventionszielen.- Islamismusprävention und Religionsfreiheit, Art. 4 Abs. 1, Abs. 2 GG.- Fazit.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Trivent Publishing Violent Tech: A Philosophical and Theological Reflection
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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ISEAS Freedom of Religion in Malaysia: The Situatuation
Book SynopsisArticle 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), published by the United Nations in 1948, states that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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Nowtilus Grandes misterios del cristianismo
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OUP USA Bible Now
Book SynopsisFor millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on important social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a variety of debates--without knowing what the Bible actually says about the issue in question. In The Bible Now, two respected biblical scholars tell us carefully what the Bible says or does not say about a wide range of issues--including homosexuality, abortion, women''s status, capital punishment, and the environment. In fascinating passages that shed new light on some of today''s most passionate disputes, the authors reveal how the Bible is frequently misunderstood, misquoted, mistranslated, and misused. For instance, those who quote the Bible in condemning homosexuality often cite the story of Sodom, and those who favor homosexuality point to David''s lament over the death of Jonathan. But as the authors show, neither passage is clearly about homosexuality, and these texts do not offer solid fTrade ReviewA refreshingly no-nonsense, authorative work. * Robert A. Segal, Times Higher Education *Richard Friedman and Shawna Dolansky make a fresh contribution to some very stale debates * John Barton, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: Homosexuality ; Chapter 2: Abortion ; Chapter 3: Women's Status ; Chapter 4: Capital Punishment ; Chapter 5: The Earth ; Epilogue
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Oxford University Press SECULAR BEATS SPIRITUAL C The Westernization of the Easternization of the West
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religious Liberty and the Law Theistic and NonTheistic Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya Constructing Sacred Placeness Deconstructing the Great Case of 1895
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Subalternity and Religion The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia Intersections Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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Taylor & Francis The Struggle for Jerusalems Holy Places
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Taylor & Francis The Struggle for Jerusalems Holy Places
Book SynopsisThe Struggle for Jerusalemâs Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places. Reflecting the broad disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, this book provides perspectives from architecture, urbanism, and politics, and provides in-depth investigations of historical, ethnographic and policy-related case studies. The research is substantiated by fieldwork carried out in Jerusalem over the past ten years as part of the ESRC Large Grants project âConflict in Citiesâ. By analysing new dynamics of radicalisation through land seizure, the politicisation of parklands and tourism, the strategic manipulation of archaeological and historical narratives and material culture, and through examination of general appropriation of Jerusalemâs varied rituals, memories and symbolism for factional uses, the book reveals how possibilities of co- existence are Trade Review"This book is an interdisciplinary, rich and important study...it opens up some newdirections of understanding urban conflicts nowadays."Haim Yacobi CITY, 2015, VOL. 19, NO. 4, 579–584Table of ContentsIntroduction 2. Sacred Space in Modern Times: Jerusalem's Paradoxes 3. Jerusalem’s Holy Basin: From History to Settlement 4. David’s City in Palestinian Silwan: Towards the Tipping Point 5. The Rise of Political Islam 6. UNESCO and the Limits of International Agency 7. Holy Places and the Living City 8. Conclusion: Remaking Jerusalem
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Promoting Peace Inciting Violence The Role of Religion and Media Media Religion and Culture
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