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L’étude des religions dans les écoles

L’étude des religions dans les écoles

L’expérience américaine, anglaise et canadienne
by Fernand Ouellet
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L'étude des religions a-t-elle sa place dans un système scolaire public lorsque la société et l'école sont de plus en plus marquées par le pluralisme idéologique? C'est à cette question que l'ouvrage tente de répondre en analysant les diverses tentatives qui visent à introduire dans les écoles américaines, anglaises et canadiennes une f …

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Craving and Salvation

Craving and Salvation

A Study in Buddhist Soteriology
by Bruce Matthews
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tagged : rituals & practice, soteriology, buddhist

Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries.
A thorough grasp of the function of craving in religious life is strategic to an understanding of Buddhism, yet its role in …

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The Biblical Politics of John Locke

The Biblical Politics of John Locke

by Kim Ian Parker
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tagged : philosophy, religion, politics & state, religious

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke …

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From Sermon to Commentary

From Sermon to Commentary

Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia
by Eliezer Segal
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The Bible has always been vital to Jewish religious life, and it has been expounded in diverse ways. Perhaps the most influential body of Jewish biblical interpretation is the Midrash that was produced by expositors during the first five centuries CE. Many such teachings are collected in the Babylonian Talmud, the monumental compendium of Jewish la …

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Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity

Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity

Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson
edited by Stephen G. Wilson & Michel Desjardins
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Can archaeological remains be made to “speak” when brought into conjunction with texts? Can written remains, on stone or papyrus, shed light on the parables of Jesus, or on the Jewish view of afterlife? What are the limits to the use of artifactual data, and when is the value overstated? Text and Artifact addresses the complex and intriguing is …

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Playing a Jewish Game

Playing a Jewish Game

Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE
by Michele Murray
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Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews?

Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity …

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Clothed in Integrity

Clothed in Integrity

Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry
by Barbara Paleczny
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Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes global trends. The resurgence of sweatshops affects the working poor in both first- and third-world countries.

Paleczny assesses the responsibility of …

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Beyond Mysticism

Beyond Mysticism

by James R. Horne
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This study of the meaning and the experience of mysticism is a product of the author's personal interest in mysticism and his reflection, as a philosopher, on some of the philosophical questions raised by mysticism is a "a psychological process which occurs with varying degrees of intensity in everyone's life" and the observation that this process …

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Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World

Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson
edited by Phyllis D. Airhart; Marilyn J. Legge & Gary L. Redcliffe
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Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics. His abiding interest in social ethics and in religious engagement with public issues is reflected in his life’s work — seeking …

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Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima

Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima

edited by Terence L. Donaldson
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We know how the story of the Roman Empire ended with the "triumph" of Christianity and the eventual Christianization of the Roman Mediterranean. But how would religious life have appeared to an observer at a time when the conversion of the emperor was only a Christian pipe dream? And how would it have appeared in one particular city, rather than in …

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Modernity and Religion

Modernity and Religion

edited by William Nicholls
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"It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition."

What is modernity—a philosophical outlook or a set of ideas? What is modernization —a social process? Is modernity the same as sec …

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Le messianisme de Louis Riel

Le messianisme de Louis Riel

by Gilles Martel
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Le premier mai 1876 Louis Riel écrivait à Mgr Courget: "Le Saint-Espirt m'a dit: Tu es le Messie de Gloire humaine que la Maison de Jacob s'attendait à trouver dans le Verbe incarné".

A la suite de quel cheminement psychologique et sous la pression de quels facteurs sociaux Louis Riel en arriva-t-il à cette convition? Quelle fut l'évolution de …

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