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by Michel Clasquin-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
In this book you will learn about a variety of religions. You will be able to indicate where they can be found today, where they come from and how they came to South Africa and developed further once they were here. You will also be able to give a rough estimate of how many members each religion has...
To Have a Center
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In this new edition of his powerfully original work, Schuon covers an array of metaphysical, cosmological, and anthropological subjects. In the book’s signature essay, entitled “To Have a Center”, the author surveys the ambiguous phenomenon of modern genius, showing how Western humanistic society...
by Mitch Edwards, Karen Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
The creation force in the universe existed long before the names Hindu, Christian and Jew were used. At some point, personal liberation will be outside the boundaries of conformity. This book sets out to explain Christ’s mystical influences, and then a direct comparison between Hindus’ supreme teaching...
Divine Entreaty
Prayers for Public and Diverse Settings
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Divine Entreaty is a great resource for all who are called upon to offer prayer for gatherings that include people from diverse backgrounds. The prayers written by Dr. Menz provide us with sensitivity training and show that he is both a verbal artist and philosopher.Suellen Mazurowski, JD; Hilton...
by Isabella Price
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Throughout the ages we’ve asked: What is the nature of the universe? How did it originate? Where do we humans come from and what is our place in this universe? Both science and religion provide some answers to these fundamental questions that continue to haunt us.In the Beginning: Creation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Modern constitutionalism as an idea and practice is facing great uncertainty in current times. Scholarly debates focus predominantly on constitutions beyond the state, while the predicament of domestic constitutionalism is much less considered. This volume contributes to a theoretically informed analysis...
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
Universality in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is twofold:...
Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control
An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
About this Book In this book Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control, the writer assesses what appears to be an increasing trend in big/rich country approach to immigration. Whether deliberately or incidentally, Caribbean peoples especially the would-be migrants, are being subjected to an elaborate...
With Reverence for the Word
Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. The vast literature written during the medieval period is one of both great diversity and numerous cross-cultural similarities. These essays explore this rich heritage of biblical and qur'anic interpretation.
The Seductions of Pilgrimage
Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places,...
The End of God-Talk
An African American Humanist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists....
Making Equal Rights Real
Taking Effective Action to Overcome Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Making Equal Rights Real brings together leaders from around the world who have been working effectively to increase equal economic and social rights, ranging from rights in the workplace to property ownership and education. The contributors tell the detailed stories of effective approaches to implementing...
How to Believe in God
Whether You Believe in Religion or Not
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In How to Believe in God, Clark Strand, an accomplished master of both Eastern and Western mystical practices, takes on the most troublesome and provocative passages from Judeo-Christian scripture, transforming the Bible into a manual of spiritual liberation for the twenty-first-century seeker. Offering...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Constitutional History, Institutions and Constitutional Change,...