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Globally known as Amma, meaning «Mother,» Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the «hugging saint,» a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day ten thousand people are embraced by the guru one at a time, events that routinely last ten to twenty hours without any rest for her. Although she was born in 1953 as a low-caste girl in a South Indian fishing village,...
| Автор | Amanda J. Lucia |
The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) was called the «backwoods William Blake» and the «Andy Warhol of the South,» and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious significance of Finster’s work within the context of the American «outsider art» tradition. Finster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was not until he received a revelation from God...
| Автор | Norman J. Girardot |
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to «sell» abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative «just say no» approach to a...
| Автор | Christine J. Gardner |
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion’s power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it?<BR />  <BR /><I>Terror in the Mind of God</I>, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world’s major religious traditions: European...
| Автор | Mark Juergensmeyer |
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.<BR />  <BR /> Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume<BR /><UL><LI>gives increased...
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Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa’s political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. Wild Religion analyzes indigenous rituals of...
| Автор | David Chidester |
The nation–particularly in Exodus and Numbers–is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the many anthropomorphisms by which a collective character named «Israel» springs to life. She explores the representation of communal motives, hidden desires, collective anxieties, the drama and suspense...
| Автор | Ilana Pardes |
"The Halfords' book is an achievement. For the first time ever, any Westerner who reads English can obtain a real insight into the plots and stories, the texts and characteristics of Kabuki dramas, and in terms which a Western-trained mind can readily understand. For this the entire Kabuki world must be grateful." <b>— From the Foreword by Faubion Bowers, author of <i>Japanese Theatre</i> and <i>Theatre in the East</i>...
| Автор | Aubrey Halford |
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live their lives in simplicity.This is perhaps the best introduction to Zen and the life of the Zen monk. By means of a direct and succinct description of the training that a Zen Buddhist monk undergoes, Dr. Suzuki has given us the most precise picture possible of Zen in life.The forty-three illustrations give a unique value to the book. The artist, Zenchu...
| Автор | Daisetz T. Suzuki |
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the 20th century. While a practitioner in the Nyingma lineage, he held empowerments and teachings from many traditions and was a strong supporter of the Rimey non-sectarian movement. This Rimey Lama Chopa is a liturgical guruyoga text encompassing all stages of the Path to Enlightenment, with special emphasis on the Eight Chariots Rimey lineages. Lama Chopa is one of the central esoteric practices of...
| Автор | Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche |
Lama Chopa is a practice of guru devotion special to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In Sanskrit, lama is guru, and chopa is offering, so Lama Chopa translates into English as “offering to the spiritual guide.” In the Gelugpa tradition, there are many guru yoga sadhanas, but Lama Chopa is the most popular and sacred text. A special practice of Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelugpa School, Lama Chopa was compiled by the first Panchen Lama, Panchen Lozang Chokyi Gyaltsen...
| Автор | Panchen Lozang Chokyi Gyaltsen |
This commentary is based on the six bardos teachings from a series of hidden treasure texts known as the Profound Dharma of Natural Liberation through the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Ones (Zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol), discovered by the great terton Karma Lingpa in the fourteenth century. The word “bardo,” made popular in the West through the English translation of the Bardo Thodol or The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which also belongs to the same series of treasure texts,...
| Автор | Master Shek-wing Tam |
From the beginning of Charles Prebish’s involvement with Buddhism in 1965, Buddhism has made huge inroads on the North American continent, and world-wide, both in terms of its scholarship and globalization. He has been fortunate enough to know and work with an incredible group of brilliant scholars who remain alive: Luis Gómez, Lewis Lancaster, Donald Swearer, Frank Reynolds, Stanley Weinstein, Jeffrey Hopkins, Robert Thurman and others. Unfortunately, none of these great scholars seems as yet...
| Автор | Charles Prebish |
Luther's theology of the cross has impacted major theologians and centuries of theology, including the present, and yet it is weakened by its reactionary theological determinism, reductionism, and understandable failure to properly integrate fluid, melioristic, and pro-creation kingdom eschatology. N. T. Wright's revolutionary cross, articulated in The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion, is a brilliant and clarion new creation eschatological...
| Автор | D. K. Matthews |
For the 75th anniversary of The Protestant Hour and Day1 ministry, host Peter Wallace has gathered dozens of inspiring excerpts from the most powerful sermons. Some of the most effective preachers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are featured, representing the historic mainline Protestant churches and a diverse variety of voices. Diana Butler Bass, Michael Curry, Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, Juan Carlos Huertas, and many more offer their perspectives on topics such as...
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NATURAL AWAKENING goes behind the curtains of Dr. Peter Fenner’s highly distinctive nondual teachings. It reveals in great detail and clarity the subtle and sometimes mysterious skillful methods he uses in his workshops, trainings, public presentations and coaching to swiftly awaken people to the liberating freedom of nondual, panoramic awareness. Peter has a unique ability to reflect on the deep processes involved in his nondual transmission, especially the nuances of language, deep feelings...
| Автор | Peter G. Fenner |
Launch Your Life brings Biblical characters and modern-day parables to life. It covers the topics of self-help, life and career planning, Biblical character studies, and Biblical daily living principles. It is unique in that it brings together a Biblical view of career and life-planning for young adult to older Christians, with the practical tools of self-assessment, resume writing, and early career planning. In the process of completing this book, readers will: Formulate a dream in the context...
| Автор | Philip E. Bruns |
Are you ready to become a parent? Lisa rushed out the door when Holy Spirit nudged her heart to ask one simple question, “Why aren’t you praying for this baby”? Britney was 20 weeks pregnant and praying every week as our Loving Father handcrafted each organ inside her tiny baby’s body had never entered Lisa's mind. But in that instant, everything aligned.<br> <br> <i>“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm...
| Автор | Lisa Z. Blady |
This book addresses the financing principles that led to the financial crisis using a Protestant Christian worldview. It addresses the cause for the continuation of the crisis, and it reviews the various events during the last four years of the crisis. This book also shows how these principles have played out, while providing an assessment of our economic future. Furthermore, this work explains the different worldviews present in the Financial Crisis, and discusses the Bible's role in...
| Автор | Philip J. Clements |
Amazing how a small choice can change your life forever. Luke feels he has his dream job being an astrophysicist at the Houston Aerospace Engineering Center preparing for the upcoming Mars mission. He even has a blooming romance with Sarah, a physician where he works. Life in 2089 is good—couldn’t be better. Until … until he makes that fateful choice. The decision to pick up that small piece of paper containing three simple letters plunges him into a conspiracy, forces him to face the world as...
| Автор | Randy C Dockens |
Since the beginning, men and women have desired happiness. Why is it that so few have discovered it? Happiness is a treasure that is available to all and yet it remains elusive for most. The tragedy of life is not that it ends to soon, but that we wait so long to begin. As a young man Chad Kneller was lost and depressed, running 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction. «By age 28 I had ruined every area of my life and it seemed like my story was over,» he says. «I was ready to end it all.”...
| Автор | Chad Kneller |
Out of chaos comes chaos. Edvin wants to get into Swedish Special Forces and marry the girl of his dreams. All seems within his reach until the whole world literally falls apart. His girlfriend dies in a plane crash, his sister-in-law loses her unborn baby, as well as does every parent in the world. All children and selected people just vanish from the earth throwing the world into chaos. In the midst of this chaos, a new type of leader emerges who has great personal skills and ideas in how to...
| Автор | Randy C Dockens |
The danger intensifies. Luke and his friends must decide what to do with the sixty-year-old banned artifact they have stolen from the secret vault of The Six. Luke almost regrets finding it, for it bothers him to have something which has been forbidden for so many years, but he reluctantly joins the others to try and find the answers they seek from its contents. It is supposed to give them answers to the why behind the deception of the mind manipulation, the reason for the discrepancies found in...
| Автор | Randy C Dockens |
I was in the prime of my life. I was a successful orthopedic surgeon with a great family, a practice in a growing suburban area, and all the benefits of the American Dream. Then I was given a diagnosis of malignant lung cancer. My world was shattered, everything upended in the confusion of confronting such a terrible disease. And all of this was occurring amid the questioning of my spiritual beliefs and my relationship with God. I hope you choose to go with me through this struggle. To see how...
| Автор | Danny K. Corbitt |