The Religion of Fools?
Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
Publisher : Oxford Journals Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Anthony Smith
Publisher : Oxford Journals Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Bill Medley
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780780958
As a religious sceptic, Bill Medley investigates the five major world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, from a layman's perspective. He attempts to see what can be known, if anything, about a 'God' or an 'afterlife' from logic and tangible evidence. Originally written as a letter to his sister-in-law, in Religion is For Fools! he shares his findings with her and tries to address her objections. Bill Medley worked as a professional entertainer for fifteen years. His stand-up comedy routines sometimes included satires on religion. Here he gives it a more serious examination. 'Absolutely brilliant! ... If all those who argue over religion had a copy of this book it would revolutionise the relationship between me and my bank manager.' Bill Medley 'This book has dramatically changed my whole attitude towards typing.' Diana Medley (wife)
Author : Nick Page
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444703382
Fools. Rebels. Ignorant peasants. That's how the Roman world saw the first Christians. Led by fishermen, tax collectors and renegade Pharisees, the first Christians shunned power and welcomed the poor and uneducated. Roman commentators mocked their upside-down values, but the apostle Paul - himself a Roman citizen, and a Pharisee to boot, affirmed that 'God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.' Its followers were persecuted and its leaders killed, yet this ragged collection of lowly tradesmen, women, slaves - and a smattering of turncoat high-born Jews - created a movement that changed the world. How did this happen? How did the kingdom of fools conquer the mighty empire that was Rome? In this fascinating new biography of the early church, Nick Page sets the biblical accounts alongside the latest historical and archaeological research, exploring how the early Christians lived and worshipped - and just why the Romans found this new branch of the Jewish faith so difficult to comprehend. THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS is a fresh, challenging, accessible portrait of a movement so radical, so dangerous, so thrillingly different that it outlasted the empire that tried to destroy it and went on to become the driving force of our cultural development - and claims more followers today than ever before in history.
Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830898506
Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.
Author : Sergey A. Ivanov
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191515140
There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In this pioneering study Sergey A. Ivanov examines the phenomenon of holy foolery from a cultural standpoint. He identifies its prerequisites and its development in religious thought, and traces the emergence of the first hagiographic texts describing these paradoxical saints. He describes the beginnings of holy foolery in Egyptian monasteries of the fifth century, followed by its high point in the cities of Byzantium, with an eventual decline in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. He also compares the important Russian tradition of holy fools, which in some form has survived to this day.
Author : Charles L Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781602583665
Campbell and Cilliars walk the fine line between the ugliness and beauty of the gospel and challenge readers toward a deeper engagement with its unsettling message.--Angela Dienhart Hancock, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary "Theology Today"
Author : Vikash Singh
Publisher : South Asia in Motion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503600379
The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees--called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians--are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish pursuit, but a means to master their anxieties and attest their good faith in unfavorable social conditions. Vikash Singh walked with the pilgrims of the Kanwar procession, and with this book, he highlights how the procession offers a social space where participants can prove their talents, resolve, and moral worth. Working across social theory, phenomenology, Indian metaphysics, and psychoanalysis, Singh shows that the pilgrimage provides a place in which participants can simultaneously recreate and prepare for the poor, informal economy and inevitable social uncertainties. In identifying with Śiva, who is both Master of the World and yet a pathetic drunkard, participants demonstrate their own sovereignty and desirability despite their stigmatized status. Uprising of the Fools shows how religion today is not a retreat into tradition, but an alternative forum for recognition and resistance within a rampant global neoliberalism.
Author : John Saward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192132307
This title, by John Saward, explores foolishness and fools in Catholic and Orthodox spirituality.
Author : Youval Rotman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0674057619
Prologue. Insanity and religion -- Part I. Sanctified insanity: between history and psychology -- The paradox that inhabits ambiguity -- Meanings of insanity -- Part II. Abnormality and social change: early Christianity vs. rabbinic Judaism -- Abnormality and social change -- Socializing nature: the ascetic totem -- Epilogue. Psychology, religion, and social change
Author : Robert Trivers
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465027555
Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.