Students, Scholars and Saints
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Jewish religious education
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Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Jewish religious education
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Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2001-01-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520224809
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520020276
Middle East officially Near East.
Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0811229874
A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.
Author : Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Publisher : Turath Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1906949417
A common misunderstanding that deters people from practicing Islam is the idea that Islamic Teachings are difficult to practice. Alongside this, there are many opportunities a person comes across on a daily basis to amass reward for the Hereafter, but which one missed due to lack of knowledge. Easy Good Deeds is a valuable book that details many good deeds that a person can easily practice without any major effort. The author has highlighted actions over a wide spectrum of areas, ranging from worship to social conduct, all of which entail minimum effort but reap abundant rewards nonetheless. This concise work will help readers appreciate the importance of many righteous actions, realize how easy it is to perform them, and ultimately imbue them with the spirit to practice Islam in its entirety. Translated by Shaykh Javed Iqbal Mufti Taqi ‘Uthmani is one of the leading Islamic scholars living today. Author of more than 40 books, he is an expert in the fields of Islamic law, Economics, and Hadith. For the past 35 years, he has been teaching at the Darul-Uloom in Karachi which was established by his father Mufti Muhammad Shafi, the late Grand Mufti of Pakistan. He also holds a degree in law and has sat as a Judge at the Shari’ah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He is a consultant to several international Islamic financial institutions and has played a key part in the move toward interest-free banking and the establishment of Islamic financial institutions. He is the deputy chairman of the Jeddah-based Islamic Fiqh Council of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
Author : Hugh Ross Williamson
Publisher : Arkive Editions
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781933184623
Sixty-three Saints of the Western Church from the 1st to the 20th Century Saints are the men and women who best love Christ and His Church. They may be kings or queens, statesmen or soldiers, scholars, visionaries, workmen or beggars. They teach us the real meaning of human history, and they show us how to live in any walk of life or set of circumstances. Included in this anthology are famous saints Francis of Assisi, Dominic, Joan of Arc, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila but also more obscure ones, such as Raymond Lull and Hugh of Lincoln. Many of these saints were martyrs, killed in periods of persecution. Others died trying to bring the knowledge of Christ to pagan tribes. Yet others built up the Church through their example and their teaching, but were never called upon to shed their blood.
Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Thomas W. Simpson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469628643
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.
Author : Richard P. McBrien
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061763659
This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's Lives of the Saints is the perfect concise, handy reference for scholars, students, and general readers.
Author : Ronald Jay Morgan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780816521401
"Ronald Morgan examines the collective function of the saint's Life from 1600 to the end of the colonial period, arguing that this literary form served not only to prove the protagonist's sanctity and move the faithful to veneration but also to reinforce sentiments of group pride and solidarity. When criollos praised americano saints, he explains, they also called attention to their own virtues and achievements."--BOOK JACKET.