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Jacob Deshazer: Forgive Your Enemies (Christian Heroes Then & Now)
by Janet Benge Geoff BengeThree thousand feet above China, it was Jake's turn to jump. He slid his pistol, knife, and ration packets into the pockets of his leather jacket and edged toward the open hatch of the B-52 bomber. He checked the tension on the harness of his parachute, made sure the handle of the ripcord was free, and then began lowering himself out of the hatch and into the darkness. One of the famous Doolittle Raiders who first attacked Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Jacob DeShazer knew this one-way mission was dangerous. Indeed, it led to his capture as a prisoner of war. Beaten, malnourished, and alone in his cell, Jacob was given a Bible - and far away from home, this American soldier became a Christian. After the war, Jacob returned to Japan and served his former enemy for thirty years as a missionary. His testimony of forgiveness and reconciliation - of love over hate - inspires a powerful gospel message for our lives today.
Jacob Green’s Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
by S. Scott RohrerPart biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading loyalist spokesman in America. Both men were towering intellects who were shaped by Puritan culture and the Enlightenment, and both became acclaimed writers and leading figures in New Jersey—Green for the rebelling colonists, Chandler for the king. Through their stories, this book examines the ways in which religion influenced reform during a pivotal time in American history.
Jacob Neusner on Religion: The Example of Judaism (Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion)
by Aaron W HughesJacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the first full critical assessment of his thought on the subject of religion. Aaron W. Hughes delineates the stages of Neusner's career and provides an overview of Neusner's personal biography and critical reception. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Neusner specifically, or in the history of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and philosophy of religion more broadly.
Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast (Key Thinkers In The Study Of Religion Ser.)
by Aaron W HughesBiography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only conducted by—and of interest to—religious adherents to one which now flourishes in the secular setting of the university. He is also one of the most colorful, creative, and difficult figures in the American academy. But even those who disagree with Neusner’s academic approach to ancient rabbinic texts have to engage with his pioneering methods. In this comprehensive biography, Aaron Hughes shows Neusner to be much more than a scholar of rabbinics. He is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and was an outspoken political figure during the height of the cultural wars of the 1980s. Neusner’s life reflects the story of what happened as Jews migrated to the suburbs in the late 1940s, daring to imagine new lives for themselves as they successfully integrated into the fabric of American society. It is also the story of how American Jews tried to make sense of the world in the aftermath of the extermination of European Jewry and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and how they sought to define what it meant to be an American Jew. Unlike other great American Jewish thinkers, Neusner was born in the U.S., and his Judaism was informed by an American ethos. His Judaism is open, informed by and informing the world. It is an American Judaism, one that has enabled American Jews—the freest in history—to be fully American and fully Jewish.
Jacob the Baker
by Noah Benshea"Well, will he do it?" she asked Samuel, as if Jacob weren't there. Samuel turned to Jacob. "Well, will you do it? Will you let us have some of your ideas for the bread?" Jacob grinned. "Only arrogance guards what it doesn't own!" Samuel nodded to the lady. "He'll do it." The lady returned her focus to Jacob. "Thank you," she said. ... Jacob traced his path to work on the way home. He traveled within. A small, frozen puddle of water, caught by a rock, huddled next to a curb and drew his attention. "An eternity is any moment opened with patience," he reminded himself. Then he raised the tip of his boot and pushed down on the layers of ice. He could feel the pressure of the lady's request that morning in the bakery. (from the book)
Jacob's Bell: A Christmas Story
by John SnyderFor readers of Richard Paul Evans and Melody Carlson comes JACOB'S BELL, a heartwarming Christmas story about how an unlikely friendship between an old man and a little girl saved a family.Sometimes the road to forgiveness and restoration can be a rocky one. Set in Chicago and Baltimore in 1944 with flashbacks to the 1920s, JACOB'S BELL follows Jacob MacCallum on his arduous journey to redemption. At one time, Jacob had it all: wealth, a wonderful family and a position as one of the most respected businessmen in Chicago. Then he made some bad decisions and all that changed. For the past twenty years he lived in an alcohol-induced haze, riddled with guilt for the dreadful things he had done to his family and his role in the untimely death of his wife. Estranged from his children and penniless, he was in and out of jail, on the street and jumping freight trains for transportation. Realizing he needed a drastic change, Jacob embarked on a journey to find his children, seek their forgiveness, and restore his relationship with them. Befriended by a pastor at a Salvation Army mission, he struggled to transform his life. Yet finally he overcame his demons, but not without a fair number of setbacks. Jacob became a Salvation Army Bell Ringer at Christmastime. While ringing his bell on a street corner one snowy day, he met a young girl who, through a series of strange coincidences, led him back to his children and facilitated Jacob's forgiveness just in time for Christmas. Author John Snyder pens a story of love, hardship, and reconciliation that will leave readers filled with Christmas joy.
Jacob's Daughter (Jacob's Daughters #1)
by Samantha BayarrTwenty-eight-year-old LIZZIE BARLOW is running from her past and present mistakes. Not knowing which direction to go, she finds herself hiding out in the same Amish community in which she grew up. With her ten-year-old daughter Abby, in tow, she fears her secrets will catch up to her. When ABBY discovers her real father may be living just down the road from where they are staying, she sets off on an adventure to meet him. What she doesn't know are the many secrets that her mother never shared with her--the same secrets that will turn her life upside down. JACOB YODER is an Amish widower, trying to raise his ten-year-old son, when his past shows up on his doorstep unexpectedly, threatening to change his life forever. Will life ever be the same for Lizzie and Jacob again? Or will their mistakes change everything?
Jacob's Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England
by Ruth NisseJewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Latin and Hebrew adaptations and translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali in which the patriarch has a vision of the Diaspora, a shipwreck that scatters the twelve tribes. The Christian narrative is linear and ends in salvation; the Jewish narrative is circular and pessimistic. For Ruth Nisse, this is an emblematic text that illuminates relationships between interpretation, translation, and survival.In Nisse’s account, extrabiblical literature encompasses not only the historical works of Flavius Josephus but also, in some of the more ingenious medieval Hebrew imaginative texts, Aesop’s fables and the Aeneid. While Christian-Jewish relations in medieval England and Northern France are most often associated with Christian polemics against Judaism and persecutions of Jews in the wake of the Crusades, the period also saw a growing interest in language study and translation in both communities. These noncanonical texts and their afterlives provided Jews and Christians alike with resources of fiction that they used to reconsider boundaries of doctrine and interpretation. Among the works that Nisse takes as exemplary of this intersection are the Book of Yosippon, a tenth-century Hebrew adaptation of Josephus with a wide circulation and influence in the later middle ages, and the second-century romance of Aseneth about the religious conversion of Joseph’s Egyptian wife. Yosippon gave Jews a new discourse of martyrdom in its narrative of the fall of Jerusalem, and at the same time it offered access to the classical historical models being used by their Christian contemporaries. Aseneth provided its new audience of medieval monks with a way to reimagine the troubling consequences of unwilling Jewish converts.
Jacob's Way
by Gilbert Morris"The army makes a man hard sometimes. I remember a young girl no more than ten who gave me a glass of buttermilk just outside of Chancellorsville. I still remember that. I guess that’s all my life is. Some pictures fading out behind me, and there’s not much before me." Reisa listened as he spoke. She knew that he was a man who longed for goodness, and longed for friends, and perhaps even a wife and family. Finally she said, "I hope you find your way, Ben. God is real, and love is real." Fleeing a bloody pogrom that threatens their tiny Russian village, Reisa Dimitri and her grandfather, Jacob, sail the ocean to a new life in America. They are swiftly embraced by New York’s Jewish community. But God has other plans that will call them far from the familiar warmth and ways of their culture. Accompanied by their huge, gentle friend, Dov, Reisa and Jacob set out to make their living as traveling merchants in the post-Civil-War South. There, as new and unexpected friendships unfold, the aged Jacob searches for answers concerning the nature of the Messiah he has spent a lifetime looking and longing for. And there, the beautiful Reisa finds herself strangely drawn to Ben Driver--a man with a checkered past, a painful present, and a deadly enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Fast-paced and tender by turn, Jacob’s Way is a heartwarming novel about human love, divine faithfulness, and the restoration of things that had seemed broken beyond repair.
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
by Trevor HerriotThe award-winning author of River in a Dry Land explores the Nature that we - and our religions - sprang from The Genesis story of Jacob, the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with a spirit has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in Jacob's Wound. He sees it as a struggle between Jacob and his wilder twin brother, Esau, whose birthright Jacob has swindled. The central idea of Herriot's brilliantly written, observant, and groundbreaking book is the wound that Jacob, the farmer, the civilized man, suffered in vanquishing Esau, the hunter, the primitive man. And the central question posed is whether we, as Jacob did with Esau, can eventually reconcile with the wildness we conquered and have been estranged from for so long.As if ambling through the author's beloved Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan, Jacob's Wound takes readers on an untrodden path through history, memoir, science, and theology. Along the way, Herriot tells us stories of the past and present that illuminate what we once were and what we have become. It's a measured journey motivated by curiosity rather than by destination, and at every turn there is insight and beautiful writing.
Jacob: He Wrestled with God (God's People)
by Michael A WoldtWho was Jacob in the Bible?The story of Jacob is the heartbreaking narrative of a dysfunctional family. Jacob was the son of Isaac and Rebekah, who deceived Isaac into giving his birthright to him—instead of to Esau, Jacob’s older brother. After receiving his brother’s birthright through conspiracy and deception, Jacob feared for his life and fled to a faraway land. Despite all this, God was with Jacob.Jacob’s story is an essential part of biblical history. It has meaning for you today as well. Through this book, you’ll be reminded that God is in control of all things—even when people work against his will.If you’re wondering who Jacob was, or want to know how Jacob’s faith journey impacts your own, this book is for you!Jacob is part of the God’s People series by Northwestern Publishing House. It’s a wonderful collection about the lives and times of some of God’s chosen people. Plots and settings have been taken directly from the Bible, and each book features beautifully detailed, full-color illustrations.
Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 (McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies)
by Michael J. ConnollyIn the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Compared with similarly aligned protest movements of the era – socialism, anarchism, nihilism, populism, and progressivism – the rise of Jacobitism receives little attention.Born in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Jacobitism had been in steep decline since the mid-eighteenth century. But between 1880 and 1910, Jacobite organizations popped up across Britain, then spread to the United States, publishing royalist magazines, organizing public demonstrations, offering Anglo-Catholic masses to fallen Stuart kings, and praying at Stuart statues and tombs. Michael Connolly explains the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism, places it in context, and reveals its significance as a response to and a driver of the political forces of the period. Understanding the Jacobite movement clarifies Victorian Anglo-American anxiety over liberalism, democracy, industrialization, and emerging modernity. In an age when worries over liberalism are again ascendant, Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 traces the complex genealogy of this unease.
Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II
by Karma Ben-JohananA revealing account of contemporary tensions between Jews and Christians, playing out beneath the surface of conciliatory interfaith dialogue. A new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God. In a few carefully phrased statements, two millennia of deep hostility were swept into the trash heap of history. But old animosities die hard. While Catholic and Jewish leaders publicly promoted interfaith dialogue, doubts remained behind closed doors. Catholic officials and theologians soon found that changing their attitude toward Jews could threaten the foundations of Christian tradition. For their part, many Jews perceived the new Catholic line as a Church effort to shore up support amid atheist and secular advances. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary rabbinical literature, Karma Ben-Johanan shows that Jewish leaders welcomed the Catholic condemnation of antisemitism but were less enthusiastic about the Church’s sudden urge to claim their friendship. Catholic theologians hoped Vatican II would turn the page on an embarrassing history, hence the assertion that the Church had not reformed but rather had always loved Jews, or at least should have. Orthodox rabbis, in contrast, believed they were finally free to say what they thought of Christianity. Jacob’s Younger Brother pulls back the veil of interfaith dialogue to reveal how Orthodox rabbis and Catholic leaders spoke about each other when outsiders were not in the room. There Ben-Johanan finds Jews reluctant to accept the latest whims of a Church that had unilaterally dictated the terms of Jewish-Christian relations for centuries.
Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century
by Carl Mitcham Helena M. Jerónimo José Luís GarciaThis volume rethinks the work of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) on the centenary of his birth, by presenting an overview of the current debates based on Ellul's insights. As one of the most significant twentieth-century thinkers about technology, Ellul was among the first thinkers to realize the importance of topics such as globalization, terrorism, communication technologies and ecology, and study them from a technological perspective. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses Ellul's diagnosis of modern society, and addresses the reception of his work on the technological society, the notion of efficiency, the process of symbolization/de-symbolization, and ecology. The second analyzes communicational and cultural problems, as well as threats and trends in early twenty-first century societies. Many of the issues Ellul saw as crucial - such as energy, propaganda, applied life sciences and communication - continue to be so. In fact they have grown exponentially, on a global scale, producing new forms of risk. Essays in the final section examine the duality of reason and revelation. They pursue an understanding of Ellul in terms of the depth of experience and the traditions of human knowledge, which is to say, on the one hand, the experience of the human being as contained in the rationalist, sociological and philosophical traditions. On the other hand there are the transcendent roots of human existence, as well as "revealed knowledge," in the mystical and religious traditions. The meeting of these two traditions enables us to look at Ellul's work as a whole, but above all it opens up a space for examining religious life in the technological society.
Jacques Lacan and American Sociology: Be Wary of the Image (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
by Duane RousselleIn this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of “capitalist discourse,” Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the “symbolic” within the mental and social lives of the individual subject. The psychoanalytic aspect of the social bond remained theoretically undeveloped in the American context. Instead it is the “image,” a product of the imaginary, which takes charge over any symbolic function. This intervention into pragmatic sociology seeks to recover the tradition of “grand theory” by bringing psychoanalytical and sociological discourse into fruitful communication with one another.
Jaded
by Varina DenmanAs a child, Ruthie was shunned by the local congregation. Thirteen years later, Ruthie's heart begins to stir when an attractive single preacher arrives. But their relationship is bitterly opposed--unearthing a string of secrets which threaten to turn the church, the town, and her world upside-down.Jaded is the rare novel that is both love story between a woman and man ... and God and His church. Plunging deep into the waters of shame, forgiveness and restoration, it will resonate with every woman who's experienced a loss of heart ... and a thirst for hope.
Jadid al-Islam: The Jewish “New Muslims” of Meshhed (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
by Raphael PataiIn 1839, Muslims attacked the Jews of Meshhed, murdering 36 of them, and forcing the conversion of the rest. While some managed to escape across the Afghan border, and some turned into true believing Muslims, the majority adopted Islam only outwardly, while secretly adhering to their Jewish faith. Jadid al-Islam is the fascinating story of how this community managed to survive, at the risk of their lives, as crypto-Jews in an inimical Shi'i Muslim environment. Based on unpublished original Persian sources and interviews with members of the existing Meshhed community in Jerusalem and New York, this study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam--"New Muslims."
Jagat Karta Kaun?: जगत कर्ता कोण?
by Dada Bhagwanअनादि काळापासून जगाची वास्तविकता जाणण्यासाठी मनुष्य प्रयत्नशील आहे. परंतु तो खरे काय ते जाणू शकलेला नाही. मुख्यतः वास्तविकतेत, ‘मी कोण आहे ? या जगाला चालविणारा कोण आहे? तसेच जगाचा रचनाकार कोण आहे ?’ हे जाणून घ्यायला हवे. प्रस्तुत संकलनात खरा कर्ता कोण आहे, हे रहस्य उघड केले आहे. सामान्यतः काही चांगले झाले तर ‘मी केले’ असे तो मानतो आणि वाईट झाले तर दुसऱ्यावर आक्षेप घेतो की ‘त्याने बिघडविले.’ नाही तर ‘माझी ग्रहदशा बिघडली आहे’ असे बोलतो, किंवा ‘देवाने केले’ असा आरोप पण करतो. या सर्व राँग बिलीफस् (चुकीच्या मान्यता) आहेत. देव काय असा पक्षपात करणारा आहे का, की तो आपले नुकसान करील ? हे जग कोणी बनविले ? जर कोणी बनविणारा असेल तर मग त्याला कोणी बनविले? मग त्या बनविणाऱ्याला कोणी बनविले ? म्हणजे या गोष्टीचा अंतच नाही. आणि दुसरा असाही प्रश्न पडतो की, जर त्याला जग बनवायचेच होते तर त्याने असे जग का बनविले की ज्यात सर्व दुःखीच आहेत ? कोणीच सुखी नाही ? म्हणजे त्याची मौज आणि आमची शिक्षा, हा कसला न्याय? या काळात कर्त्या संबंधीचा सिद्धांत पहिल्यांदाच विश्वाला यथार्थपणे परम पूज्य दादा भगवानांनी दिला आहे, आणि तो असा आहे की जगात कोणीही स्वतंत्र कर्ता नाही. या जगाला रचणारा किंवा चालविणारा कोणीही नाही. हे जग सायंटिफिक सरकमस्टेन्शियल एविडन्सने चालत आहे. ज्याला परम पूज्य दादाश्री ‘व्यवस्थित शक्ती’ असे म्हणतात. जगात कोणीही स्वतंत्र कर्ता नाही, परंतु सगळे नैमित्तिक कर्ता आहेत, सगळे निमित्त आहेत. गीतेत पण श्रीकृष्णाने अर्जुनाला सांगितले होते, हे अर्जुना! तू युद्धात निमित्तमात्र आहेस, तू युद्धाचा कर्ता नाहीस. प्रस्तुत पुस्तिकेत कर्ता कोण, याचे रहस्य परम पूज्य दादाश्रींनी साध्या सरळ भाषेत, हृदयात उतरेल अशा प्रकारे समजावून सांगितले आहे.
Jagat Karta Kaun?: जगत कर्ता कौन?
by Dada Bhagwanअनादी कल से जगत की वास्तविकता जानने की मनुष्य की लालसा है मगर वह सही जान नहीं पाया है| मुख्यत: वास्तविकता में मैं कौन हूँ, इस जगत को चलाने वाला कौन है तथा इस जगत का रचयिता कौन है, यह जानना है| प्रस्तुत संकलन में सच्चा कर्ता कौन है, यह रहस्य खुल्ला किया गया है| आमतौर पर अच्छा हुआ तो ‘मैंने किया” मान लेता है और बुरा हुआ तो दूसरे पर आक्षेप देता है कि ‘इसने बिगाड़ दिया|’ नहीं तो ‘मेरी ग्रह दशा बिगड़ गयी है’बोलेगा या तो ‘भगवान् ने किया’ ऐसा भी आक्षेप दे देता है| यह सब रोंग मान्यताएं हैं| भगवांन क्या पक्षपात करने वाला है कि आपका नुकसान करे? यह दुनिया किसने बनाई? अगर बनाने वाला होता तो उसको किसने बनाया? फिर उसको भी किसने बनाया? याने उसका अंत ही नहीं है| और दूसरा यह भी प्रश्न पैदा होता है कि दुनिया उसको बनानी ही थी, तो फिर ऐसी कैसी दुनिया बनाई कि जिसमे सभी दुखी हैं? किसी को भी सुख नहीं है? उसकी मज़ा और अपनी सजा, यह कैसा न्याय?! इस काल में करता सम्बन्धी का सिद्धांत पहली बार विश्व को यथार्थ स्वरुप में परम पूज्य दादा भगवान् ने दिया है और वह यह है कि इस दुनिया में कोई स्वतंत्र कर्ता नहीं है| इस दुनिया को रचने वाला या चलाने वाला कोई भी नहीं है| यह जगत चलता है, वह साइंटिफिक सरकमस्टेन्शियल एविडेंस से चलता है| जिसको परम पूज्य दादाश्री ‘व्यवस्थित शक्ति’ कहते हैं| जगत में कोई भी स्वतंत्र करता नहीं है, मगर, सब नैमितिक कर्ता हैं, सभी निमित हैं| गीता में भी भगवान श्रीकृष्ण ने अर्जुन को कहा था कि, "हे! अर्जुन! तू इस युद्ध में निमित मात्र है, तू युद्ध का कर्ता नहीं है| प्रस्तुत पुस्तिका में करता का रहस्य परम पूज्य दादाश्री की सादी, सरल भाषा में दिल में उतर जाए, इस तरह से समझाया गया है|
Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart: The Real-life Initiation of an Everyday Shaman
by Ya'Acov Khan‘Shaman’, meaning ‘intermediary between spirit and the natural world’, has become a much overused word in the West. It’s not a job title one can give oneself, and in indigenous societies, a shaman is usually born to this role. Ya’Acov Darling Khan is one of the few westerners who have been acknowledged as shamans by indigenous elders or teachers.After being hit by lightning, Ya’Acov took a 30-year journey into the heart of shamanism to seek his own healing, and to learn how he could serve others with the wisdom he acquired through his experiences. He has studied with indigenous teachers from the Arctic Circle to the USA and South America, and has taken part in ceremonies in such diverse locations as Welsh caves to the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Nowadays, Ya’Acov continues to study and regularly journeys to the Ecuadorean Amazon to work alongside the Achuar and Sápara people.For thousands of years, shamans helped the people in their communities remain in balance with themselves, each other, the natural world and the spirit world. This beautifully written book is not only a powerfully honest, humorous and inspiring memoir, but a guidebook for those from many cultures and walks of life wishing to return to their indigenous roots, and be part of midwifing a more benign human presence here on Earth as part of a new dream.
Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
by Emily PieriniThe Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds light on the ways in which mediumistic development in the Vale do Amanhecer is used for therapeutic purposes and informs notions of body and self, of illness and wellbeing.
Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
by Emily PieriniThe Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds light on the ways in which mediumistic development in the Vale do Amanhecer is used for therapeutic purposes and informs notions of body and self, of illness and wellbeing.
Jailhouse Rock
by Glynis BelecThis book retells the story of the jailing of Paul and Silas and their miraculous release (Acts 16:22-40). The Arch Book series tells popular Bible stories through fun-to-read rhymes and bright illustrations. This well-loved series captures the attention of children, telling scripturally sound stories that are enjoyable and easy to remember. Other Arch books are available in this library.
Jainism and Environmental Philosophy: Karma and the Web of Life (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)
by Aidan RankinEnvironmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspectives of the West. At national and global levels, environmental policy-makers tend to work according to Western-based methodologies. At the same time, emergent or developing economies are profoundly affected by the issues they address, including air pollution, rapid urban expansion, habitat loss and climate change. If environmental awareness, and the policies that stem from it, are to have a lasting global impact, it is important that non-Western voices are heard in their own right, and not merely as adjuncts of Western-led agendas. Jain thought is a useful case study of a system of values in which environmental protection and the idea of a ‘web of life’ are central, but which has evolved in India independently of Western environmentalism. This book describes and explains Jain environmental philosophy, placing it in its cultural and historical context while comparing and contrasting with more familiar or ‘mainstream’ forms of ecological thought. It will also show how this thought translates into practice, with an emphasis on the role of environmental concerns within the business and commercial practices of Jain communities. Finally, the book examines the extent to which Jain ideas about environmental protection and interconnectedness have universal relevance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, sustainable business and economics, environmental policy, and Jainism.
Jainism and Environmental Politics (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)
by Aidan RankinThis book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice. Aidan Rankin begins with a description of the ideas and principles that distinguish Jainism from other Indian (and western) philosophies. He goes on to compare and contrast these principles with those of current environmental politics and to demonstrate the specific ways in which Jain ideas can assist in driving the movement forward. These include the reduction of material consumption, the ethical conduct of business within sustainable limits, and the avoidance of exploitative relationships with fellow humans, animals and ecosystems. Overall, the book argues that Jain pluralism could be a powerful tool for engaging non-western societies with environmental politics, allowing for an inclusive approach to a global ecological problem. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental philosophy, comparative religions and Jainism.