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Journey into Europe : Islam, immigration, and identity
An unprecedented, richly detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in Europe and the place of Islam in European history and civilization.
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Global Visions of Violence
In Global Visions of Violence , the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians.
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Jewishness and Beyond
Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary's government steadily
dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish
communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The
state's concerted efforts to \"Magyarize\" Jews promoted Hungarian
language, culture, and sensibilities, but did not officially
require Jews to abandon their faith. Nevertheless, tens of
thousands of Hungarian Jews converted to Christianity during this
era, with conversion rates continuing to rise even as Judaism
gained full legal equality.
Jewishness and Beyond addresses the apparent
contradiction between these two trends. Despite the egalitarian
promises and laws of Hungary's liberal nationalist government, the
administration and traditional elites as a whole maintained a
persistent bias against Jews that spurred particularly high
conversion rates among the community's upper echelons. While
Christians never forgot converted Jews' origins and increasingly
thought of them in racialized terms, they also valued and generally
rewarded conversion and the symbolic gesture of baptism. Conversion
was an uneven and ever-shifting process in which gender and
occupation played key roles, and where the actual percentage of
converts within the total Hungarian Jewish population contrasted
sharply with both Christian and Jewish perceptions of its frequency
and spread.
Jewishness and Beyond , which can be read as an
introduction to the identity dilemmas of Hungarian Jews in the age
of emancipation, reveals the motivations and strategies behind the
conversions of Hungarian Jews, the complex reactions within and
outside of their communities, and converts' own grappling with
conversion's expected and unforeseen outcomes.
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Cambodian evangelicalism : cosmological hope and diasporic resilience
A fascinating ethnographic look at the practice, uses, and complexities of Christianity in post-genocide Cambodia.
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Children and Childhood in World Religions
While children figure prominently in religious traditions, few books have directly explored the complex relationships between children and religion. This is the first book to examine the theme of children in major religions of the world.
Each of six chapters, edited by world-class scholars, focuses on one religious tradition and includes an introduction and a selection of primary texts ranging from legal to liturgical and from the ancient to the contemporary. Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child's relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children today.
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Motherhood as Metaphor
Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women's voices and experiences are the primary data for thinking about interfaith engagement? Motherhood as Metaphor draws on three historical encounters between women of different faiths: first, the archives of the Maryknoll Sisters working in China before the Second World War; second, the experiences of women in the feminist movement around the globe; and third, a contemporary interfaith dialogue group in Philadelphia. These sites provide fresh ways of thinking about our being human in the relational, dynamic messiness of our sacred, human lives. Each part features a chapter detailing the historical, archival, and ethnographic evidence of women's experience in interfaith contact through letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews of women in interfaith settings. A subsequent chapter considers the theological import of these experiences, placing them in conversation with modern theological anthropology, feminist theory, and theology. Women's experience of motherhood provides a guiding thread through the theological reflections recorded here. This investigation thus offers not only a comparative theology based on believers' experience rather than on texts alone, but also new ways of conceptualizing our being human. The result is an interreligious theology, rooted in the Christian story but also learning across religious lines.
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Blaming the Jews
In recent years Western countries have seen a proliferation of
antisemitic material in social media, and attacks on Jews such as
that on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Much of
this has stemmed, not from personal hostility to Jews on the part
of this or that individual, but from a resurgence in groups at both
ends of politics of the ancient delusion that \"the Jews\"
collectively dominate world affairs and lie at the root of all the
world's evils.
In Blaming the Jews author Bernard Harrison, offers a
new and unique analysis of this second and far more dangerous form
of antisemitism and its persistence as a cultural phenomenon.
Questioning the assumption that antisemitism affects or targets
only Jews, he demonstrates that, allowed to go unrecognised or
unchecked, antisemitism is potentially damaging to us all.
In a world where rhetoric is fashioned on stereotypes and driven
by political ideology, Harrison argues it is our responsibility to
be vigilant in exposing the delusions of antisemitism and their
consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.
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The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence
The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence breaks new ground by articulating the state of knowledge in the area of childhood and adolescent spiritual development. Featuring a rich array of theory and research from an international assortment of leading social scientists in multiple disciplines, this book represents work from diverse traditions and approaches - making it an invaluable resource for scholars across a variety of disciplines and organizations.
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After the baby boomers
Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion--are not so well understood. It is this next wave of post-boomers that Robert Wuthnow examines in this illuminating book.
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Sustaining Faith Traditions
Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions.
The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today's immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. And rather than a flexible, labor-based economy hungry for more workers, today's immigrants find themselves in a post-industrial segmented economy that allows little in the way of class mobility.
In this comprehensive anthology contributors draw on ethnography and in-depth interviews to examine the experiences of the new second generation: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants. Covering a diversity of second-generation religious communities including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews, the contributors highlight the ways in which race, ethnicity, and religion intersect for new Americans. As the new second generation of Latinos and Asian Americans comes of age, they will not only shape American race relations, but also the face of American religion.
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