The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress

The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress

Author: Gerdientje Jonker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9004305386

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What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met. This title is available in its entirety in Open Access.


White Too Long

White Too Long

Author: Robert P. Jones

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1982122870

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"WHITE TOO LONG draws on history, statistics, and memoir to urge that white Christians reckon with the racism of the past and the amnesia of the present to restore a Christian identity free of the taint of white supremacy"--


Religious Diversity and Religious Progress

Religious Diversity and Religious Progress

Author: Robert McKim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1108587968

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What is someone who has a perspective on religious matters to say about those who endorse other perspectives? What should they say about other religions? For example, might some of their beliefs be true? What stage are we human beings at in our religious development? Are we close to maturity, religiously speaking, so that most of the important religious ideas and innovations there will ever be have already appeared? Or are we starting out in our religious evolution, so that religious developments to date are merely the first rude efforts of a species in its religious infancy?


Progress and Religion

Progress and Religion

Author: Christopher Dawson

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0813218195

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Progress and Religion was perhaps the most influential of all Christopher Dawson's books, establishing him as an interpreter of history and a historian of ideas.