Religion's New Violence, Ctd (Andrew Sullivan)
A reader dissents: I have the same view of Slavoj Zizek that you do, roughly: he's much overrated, and generally full of himself (he's the media's idea of a philosopher, but decidedly not the genuine article). He's Marxist to the...
MUSLIMS IN (BERLIN) GERMANY : School Rioting & Welfare
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Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (Phoenix Books) $15.60 “In four brief chapters,” writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, “I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan.”Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing a… |
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SYMBOLS, MEANING, AND THE SACRED QUEST: Spiritual Awakening in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Stories $6.99 Are you on a personal spiritual quest? Then this book is for you.Would you like to discover the ‘How To’ lessons for Spiritual Awakening that lie hidden in the wonderful myths and legends of the Western Tradition? Then this book is for you.Are you fed up with bigotry and violence? In a world where religious differences often trigger hatred and war, here is a book that celebrates the Beauty, De… |
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Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source (Icon Editions) $3.50 The art of the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that faith’s specific spiritual needs. And much of this symbolic language predates any of the Abrahamic faiths entirely.In Our Sacred Signs, Ori Soltes traces the interconnectedness of religious symbols such… |