What Religions are in Our Neighbourhood? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Religions are in Our Neighbourhood? write by Jean Mead. This book was released on 2012-09-30. What Religions are in Our Neighbourhood? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title shows how to investigate religions in your neighborhood by looking at maps and directories, doing a survey at school, searching for clues on a local walkabout, or by visiting places of worship and interviewing representatives of different religions.
Significant Others
Significant Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Significant Others write by Monte Cox. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Significant Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A generation ago, most Americans had little or no contact with Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or any other adherents of non- Christian religions. Now our culture is much more pluralistic. In addition to these “others,” many Westerners, disenchanted with Christianity, are more inclined than they were a generation ago to dabble in new spiritual alternatives that were not as readily available here before. Many Christians feel intimidated by these changes. Many Christians don’t know how to engage their newest non- Christian neighbors in conversation, partly because they feel ignorant about the religions practiced by others. Significant Others seeks to fill this knowledge gap so readers will become more acquainted with the religious backgrounds of devout non- Christians they are meeting, as well as with the growing number of American people who claim no religious affiliation at all. Each chapter outlines the major world religions according to their significant founders or leading figures, significant beliefs and practices, significant sects and developments, and significant points of contact and points of contrast with Christian faith.
What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition
What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition write by Micah Greenstein. This book was released on 2019-10-08. What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition organizes the three belief systems, asking the same questions of each: When and where did each originate? What are the sacred writings? What kind of leaders does each have? What are their most essential beliefs? New sections explore current ethical questions and issues, including the deliberate use of misinformation about Islam to bolster power and generate fear and the recent rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes. By introducing the common aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the authors make understanding their genuine differences and their many similarities much more possible.
My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious, Encounter, Growth, and Transformation
My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious, Encounter, Growth, and Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious, Encounter, Growth, and Transformation write by Jennifer Howe Peace. This book was released on 2012. My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious, Encounter, Growth, and Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interreligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of border-crossing, and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings. How has this new situation of religious diversity impacted the way we understand the religious other, ourselves, and God? Can we learn to live together with mutual respect, working together for the creation of a more compassionate and just world? Contributors include: Mary Boys, Rita Nakishima-Brock; Arthur Green; Ruben Habito; Paul Knitter; Michael Lerner; Eboo Patel; Judith Plaskow; Paul Raushenbush; Arthur Waskow; and many more.
The Neighborhood of Gods
The Neighborhood of Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neighborhood of Gods write by William Elison. This book was released on 2018-12-10. The Neighborhood of Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world’s collective imagination—as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighborhood streets are indeed shared with local gods and guardian spirits. In The Neighborhood of Gods, William Elison examines the link between territory and divinity in India’s most self-consciously modern city. In this densely settled environment, space is scarce, and anxiety about housing is pervasive. Consecrating space—first with impromptu displays and then, eventually, with full-blown temples and official recognition—is one way of staking a claim. But how can a marginalized community make its gods visible, and therefore powerful, in the eyes of others? The Neighborhood of Gods explores this question, bringing an ethnographic lens to a range of visual and spatial practices: from the shrine construction that encroaches on downtown streets, to the “tribal art” practices of an indigenous group facing displacement, to the work of image production at two Bollywood film studios. A pioneering ethnography, this book offers a creative intervention in debates on postcolonial citizenship, urban geography, and visuality in the religions of India.
