Understanding World Religions

Understanding World Religions

Author: David Whitten Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1442226447

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Understanding World Religions introduces students to major worldviews—including Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Marxist—through the lens of justice and peace. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout. After an introduction to key themes in studying world religion, chapters help students explore major traditions today. Each chapter takes a similar approach, examining several dimensions of each tradition—experiential and emotional, social and institutional, narrative or mythic, doctrinal and philosophical, practical and ritual, and ethical and legal. Chapters feature profiles of major peacemakers or groups to bring the traditions to life. Profiles range from Gandhi and Martin Luther King to Thich Nhat Hanh and Dorothy Day. Further chapters explore liberation theologies, active nonviolence, and just war theory. The second edition features a broader framework than the first edition and includes new material on non-religious ethical norms, Islamophobia, colonial evangelization, religion in China, and an updated examination of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Understanding World Religions remains a powerful introduction to major worldviews with an emphasis on practical connections to peace and justice.


Songs of Messiah

Songs of Messiah

Author: Michael Adi Nachman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9781475949575

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Every single true prophet in the Bible came singin in the name of one true G-d the Father of Yahushua the Messiah whose name is Yahuah. Yahuah, G-d of Abrham, the God of Yitzhak the God of Yaaqob is his name. From Noah with whom Yahuah made a covenant to Jesus (Yahushua) whom Yahuah made into a covenant, they all came in that name. If you can not read Hebrew but wonder what the Bible says in Hebrew, this book is for you. There are literally hundreds of passages in Hebrew and Greek written out in letters of the English alphabet. If you then take those scriptures and make a melody and sing them to Yahuah you will learn the word as the Holy Spirit actually had it written. You will access the ten commandments in Hebrew, the declaration of Yahuah's unity in Hebrew. Some of the most beautiful Psalms of David in Hebrew all using the English alphabet. This book is unique for those who are hungry for justice and righteousness; hungry for more of prophecy and the prophetic word; hungry for the fear of Yahuah. The Holy Spirit will use this book to speak to leadership saying "This is the way, walk in it". Get this book and get blessed by Yahuah who made all things. Get this book and get ready for the age to come and the rebuilding of the temple by 2037 if my calculations are correct! Start singing the songs of Messiah in Hebrew today!


Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall

Author: Phyllis Chesler

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1580237355

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An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality “Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.” —from the In Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice Jewish ritual in its precincts. This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world—known as the Women of the Wall—to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the Western Wall. Eyewitness accounts of physical violence and intimidation, inspiring personal stories, and interpretations of legal and classical Jewish (halakhic) texts bring to life the historic and ongoing struggle that the Women of the Wall face in their everyday fight for religious and gender equality.


JFK's Death and the Kabbalah

JFK's Death and the Kabbalah

Author: Joseph Scovitch

Publisher: Fultus Corporation

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1596821310

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Basic psycho-pop retelling of the JFK-Dallas story of 1963. We find here strong emphasis on alternative aspects and elements of the Sefirotic Kabbalah, mystic esoterica, meta-history, crypto-spiritualism, quasi-eidetic imagery, secret arcane formula, and related akashic trivia. A remarkable and unforgettable reading assignment and literary investigation, with many new insights, noetic asides, and unexpected surprises.