Category: Religion

By Michael S. A. Graziano

By Simone Laqua-O'Donnell

Girls and the Counter-Reformation in Early sleek Münster examines how ladies from diverse social backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. the focal point is on Münster, a urban within the north of Germany, which used to be uncovered to robust Protestant impacts which culminated within the infamous Anabaptist state of 1534. After the defeat of the unconventional Protestants, the town was once back to Catholicism and a stringent programme of reform used to be enforced.
By reading concubinage, piety, marriage, deviance, and convent reform, middle problems with the Counter-Reformation's quest for renewal, this interesting examine exhibits how ladies participated within the social and non secular alterations of the time, and the way their lives have been formed through the Counter-Reformation. applying learn into the political, spiritual, and social associations, and utilizing a magnificent number of resources, Simone Laqua-O'Donnell engages with the best way girls skilled the hot religiosity, morality, and self-discipline that used to be brought to town of Münster in this turbulent time.

By Peter J. Ahrensdorf

This e-book seeks to revive Homer to his rightful position one of the imperative figures within the historical past of political and ethical philosophy. via this clean and provocative research of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's knowing of the easiest existence, the character of the divine, and the character of human excellence. based on Ahrensdorf, Homer teaches that human greatness eclipses that of the gods, that the contemplative and compassionate singer eventually surpasses the heroic warrior in grandeur, and that it's the courageously wondering Achilles, now not the unswerving Hector or perhaps the wily Odysseus, who comes closest to the humane knowledge of Homer himself. because of Homer, of the designated gains of Greek civilization are its notable get together of human excellence, as should be visible in Greek athletics, sculpture, and nudity, and its singular wondering of the divine, as may be visible in Greek philosophy

By John Calvert

Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was once an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with constructing the theoretical foundation for radical Islamism within the publish colonial Sunni Muslim global. missing a natural realizing of the leader's existence and paintings, the preferred media has conflated Qutb's ethical function with the goals of bin encumbered and al-Qaeda. he's frequently portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and recommend of homicide. This publication rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his notion in the context of his time. knowledgeable on social protest and political resistance within the glossy center East, in addition to Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb's existence from the small village during which he was once raised to his execution on the behest of Abd al-Nasser's regime. His learn continues to be delicate to the cultural, political, social, and fiscal conditions that formed Qutb's thought-major advancements that composed some of the most eventful sessions in Egyptian heritage. those years witnessed the total flush of Britain's tutelary regime, the arrival of Egyptian nationalism, and the political hegemony of the loose officials. Qutb rubbed shoulders with Taha Husayn, Naguib Mahfouz, and Abd al-Nasser himself, even though his Islamism initially had little to do with faith. in simple terms in line with his harrowing adventure in criminal did Qutb come to treat Islam and kufr (infidelity) as oppositional, antithetical, and for this reason together specific. Calvert exhibits how Qutb repackaged and reformulated the Islamic background to pose a problem to authority, together with those that claimed (falsely, he believed) to be Muslim.

By Chris Mooney

By Jacques Derrida

Acts of faith, compiled in shut organization with Jacques Derrida, brings jointly for the 1st time a few Derrida's writings on faith and questions of religion and their relation to philosophy and political tradition. The essays talk about non secular texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, in addition to spiritual thinkers equivalent to Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and contain items spanning Derrida's profession. the gathering comprises new essays via Derrida that seem right here for the 1st time in any language, in addition to a considerable advent by way of Gil Anidjar that explores Derrida's go back to his personal "religious" origins and his makes an attempt to carry to mild hidden spiritual dimensions of the social, cultural, ancient, and political.

By Victor J. Stenger

A few authors have famous that if a few actual parameters have been just a little replaced, the universe might not aid lifestyles, as we all know it. this means that existence relies sensitively at the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the universe recommend author god deliberately calibrated the preliminary stipulations of the universe such that existence in the world and the evolution of humanity might finally emerge? In his in-depth and hugely obtainable dialogue of this interesting and arguable subject, the writer seems to be on the facts and springs to the other end. He unearths that the observations of technology and our bare senses not just exhibit no proof for God, they supply proof past an inexpensive doubt that God doesn't exist.

Maintaining with the Bible's many characters and occasions could be tough, even daunting. yet this specific and complete combination of maps, charts, plans, photos and textual content bargains assist in discovering your means throughout the lands of the Bible from antiquity to the current day. prepared chronologically and using contour maps and satellite tv for pc photos, the hot Bible Atlas combines geographical and old aspect in a colourful, large-format e-book important for all scholars and readers of the Bible. Edited by means of J. J. Bimson, J. P. Kane, J. H. Paterson, D. J. Wiseman and D. R. W. wooden.

By Erika Rummel

This e-book offers with the influence of the Reformation debate in Germany at the so much well-liked highbrow stream of the time: humanism. even though it is correct that humanism motivated the process the Reformation, says Erika Rummel, the dynamics of the connection are greater defined through asserting that humanism was once co-opted, maybe even exploited, within the non secular debate.

By J. Anderson Thomson

During this groundbreaking quantity, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, deals a succinct but accomplished research of the way and why the human brain generates spiritual trust. Dr. Thomson, a hugely revered working towards psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the elements and reasons of non secular trust within the similar method any scientist may examine the flow of astronomical our bodies or the evolution of existence over time—that is, as a merely average phenomenon. supplying compelling facts from psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and similar fields, he, with Ms. Aukofer, provides an simply obtainable and particularly convincing case that god(s) have been created by means of man—not vice versa. With this narrow quantity, Dr. Thomson establishes himself as a must-read philosopher and prime voice at the primacy of cause and technological know-how over superstition and faith.