By Jörn Kiefer

By Helaine Silverman (auth.), Helaine Silverman (eds.)

Cultural history is fabric – tangible and intangible – that indicates a culture’s historical past or legacy. It has develop into a venue for contestation, ranging in scale from protesting to violently claimed and destroyed. yet who defines what's to be preserved and what's to be erased? As cultural historical past turns into more and more major the world over, the variety of concerns for serious research and, confidently, mediation, come up. the problem stems from quite a few teams: spiritual, ethnic, nationwide, political, and others come jointly to assert, applicable, use, exclude, or erase markers and manifestations in their personal and others’ cultural historical past as a way for announcing, protecting, or denying severe claims to energy, land, and legitimacy. Can cultural history be good controlled and promoted whereas even as saved inside of parameters in an effort to lower contestation? The instances herein rage from Greece, Spain, Egypt, the united kingdom, Syria, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Balkans, Bénin, and vital America.

By Marcel Helbig, Thorsten Schneider

Beeinflussen Religionen und Religionsgemeinschaften – vermittelt über Lebensführung, Werthaltungen, Minderheitenstatus, gemeinschaftliche Aktivitäten und Ressourcen – den Bildungserfolg von Kindern in industrialisierten Gesellschaften? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen knüpfen die Autoren unter anderem an die in den Nachkriegsjahren in Westdeutschland geführten Diskussionen zum katholischen Bildungsdefizit und zur Kunstfigur des „katholischen Arbeitermädchens vom Lande“ sowie an amerikanische Studien zur Bedeutung von Aktivitäten in Religionsgemeinschaften für die Generierung von Sozialkapital an. In dem Buch werden neue Analysen zu den 1960er Jahren in Westdeutschland, aktuelle Befunde zu Deutschland und Ergebnisse zu 19 europäischen Ländern präsentiert. Das Buch enthält somit eine umfassende examine zum Zusammenhang von faith und Bildung und räumt dabei auch mit einigen Mythen dieser Forschungsrichtung auf.

By Ahmad Y. (Ahmad Yusuf) al-Hassan, Donald R. (Donald Routledge) Hill

By Ócha'ni Lele

Whereas many books were released approximately Santeria, The secrets and techniques of Afro-Cuban Divination is the 1st to supply entire details on the best way to solid the Diloggun, together with beginning, examining, and shutting the oracle, and the way to provide a accomplished examining. With an in depth dialogue approximately why every one prayer is obtainable and perception into the metaphysical center of the faith, this booklet will deliver these looking the knowledge of the Diloggun toward the residing Orishas than they've got ever been.

By Richard Smoley

The luck of books corresponding to Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves past a doubt that there's a super thirst at the present time for locating the hidden truths of Christianity – truths which can were misplaced or buried via institutional faith during the last millennia.

In Forbidden religion, Richard Smoley narrates a well-liked heritage of 1 such fact, the traditional esoteric faith of gnosticism, which flourished among the 1st and fourth centuries A.D., yet whose legacy continues to be even this day, having survived secretly during the a while.

By Ursula Ulrike Kaiser, Hans-Gebhard Bethge

This pupil version offers an entire German translation of the approx. 50 manuscript texts came across in Nag Hammadi in addition to the textual content of the Codex Berolinensis 8502. For this 3rd variation, the quantity was once corrected and up-to-date, and it has additionally been elevated via the inclusion of 2 texts from the Codex Tchacos first released in 2007. those texts, more often than not originating from the second and third centuries, are one of the most crucial manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century and are of inestimable value for students in religious study and the background of early Christianity.

In dieser handlichen Studienausgabe werden die vollständige Übersetzung der ca. 50 Schriften des Handschriftenfundes von Nag Hammadi sowie der Texte des Codex Berolinensis 8502 zugänglich gemacht. Für die nun dritte Auflage wurde der Band korrigiert und aktualisiert sowie um zwei Texte des erst 2007 veröffentlichten Codex Tchacos erweitert. Die Studienausgabe bietet die vollständige Übersetzung der Texte, während Einleitungen und Anmerkungen in gekürzter shape bzw. in Auswahl präsentiert sind. Die mehrheitlich im 2. und three. Jahrhundert entstandenen Texte gehören zu den wichtigsten handschriftlichen Neuentdeckungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie sind insbesondere für das Studium der Bibelwissenschaften und der frühen Kirchengeschichte von kaum zu überschätzender Bedeutung.

By Marta Moreno Vega

Lengthy cloaked in protecting secrecy, demonized via Western society, and distorted via Hollywood, Santería is ultimately rising from the shadows with an envisioned seventy five million orisha fans all over the world. within the Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling real tale of her trip from lack of knowledge and skepticism to initiation as a Yoruba priestess within the Santería faith. This unforgettable religious memoir unearths the long-hidden roots and traditions of a centuries-old religion that originated at the beaches of West Africa.

As an Afro-Puerto Rican baby within the ny barrio, Marta paid little heed to the storefront botanicas packed with religious paraphernalia or to the Catholic saints with overseas names: Yemayá, Ellegua, Shangó. As an grownup, looking for a faith that will replicate her racial and cultural history, Marta used to be resulted in the best way of the Saints. She got here to understand Santería in detail via its prayers and rituals, drumming and dancing, trances and divination that spark sacred therapeutic strength for kinfolk, religious progress, and repair to others. Written by means of person who is a professor and a santera priestess, The Altar of My Soul lays sooner than us an electrifying and encouraging faith--one handed down from new release to iteration that vitalizes the sacred power essential to construct a relations, a group, and a powerful, loving society.

By Maimonides Maimonides

ISBN: 0486203514

Great vintage of medieval Judaism, significant try and reconcile published faith — Pentateuch, commentaries — and Aristotelian philosophy. tremendously vital in all Western idea. contains lifetime of Maimonides, research of The advisor, indexes of quotations from Scripture, Talmud. Unabridged Friedlander translation. 50-page creation. "...a nice impression on Jewish and Christian scholasticism." — Jewish Civic Press.

By Bronwen Forbes

Are you dwelling in—or relocating to—a small neighborhood and brooding about how you'll slot in, hook up with different Pagans, and reside your ideals in peace? This splendidly distinct publication is full of how one can nourish your Pagan soul in small cities, suburbs, and anywhere open air the town limits. in addition to Bronwen Forbes' personal studies, Pagans from close-knit groups around the state supply hard-won knowledge and recommendation on all facets of staying actual to your self and your spirituality.

—Starting a coven or examine group
—Getting in addition to non-Pagan neighbors
—How to discover and make ritual tools
—Celebrating the Sabbats
—Home decoration
—Dating non-Pagans
—Following Pagan etiquette
—When and the way to bare your beliefs
—Raising Pagan children

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