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Torah Queeries

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A modernized, queer reading of the TorahIn the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the world’s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a "bent lens". With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight previously neglected perspectives.This incredibly rich collection unites the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, including some of the most central figures in contemporary American Judaism. All bring to the table unique methods of reading and interpreting that allow the Torah to speak to modern concerns of sexuality, identity, gender, and LGBT life. Torah Queeries offers cultural critique, social commentary, and a vision of community transformation, all done through biblical interpretation. Written to engage readers, draw them in, and, at times, provoke them, Torah Queeries examines topics as divergent as the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the experience of the Exodus, the rape of Dinah, the life of Joseph, and the ritual practices of the ancient Israelites. Most powerfully, the commentaries here chart a future of inclusion and social justice deeply rooted in the Jewish textual tradition.A labor of intellectual rigor, social justice, and personal passions, Torah Queeries is an exciting and important contribution to the project of democratizing Jewish communities, and an essential guide to understanding the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
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Fervent Embrace

Caitlin Carenen

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175 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h11min.
When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo recognizing the Israeli government within eleven minutes. Today, the U.S. and Israel continue on as partners in an at times controversial alliance—an alliance, many argue, that is powerfully influenced by the Christian Right. In The Fervent Embrace, Caitlin Carenen chronicles the American Christian relationship with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant and then evangelical support for Zionism.In the aftermath of the Holocaust, American liberal Protestants argued that America had a moral humanitarian duty to support Israel. Christian anti-Semitism had helped bring about the Holocaust, they declared, and so Christians must help make amends. Moreover, a stable and democratic Israel would no doubt make the Middle East a safer place for future American interests. Carenen argues that it was this mainline Protestant position that laid the foundation for the current evangelical Protestant support for Israel, which is based primarily on theological grounds.Drawing on previously unexplored archival material from the Central Zionist Archives in Israel, this volume tells the full story of the American Christian-Israel relationship, bringing the various “players”—American liberal Protestants, American Evangelicals, American Jews, and Israelis—together into one historical narrative.
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Sustaining Faith Traditions

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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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Goodbye Religion

M. Smith Jesse

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203 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h32min.
Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. Goodbye Religion explores why there has been such an upswing among those who identify as nonreligious, and what the societal implications are of this move towards less religiosity. Utilizing nationally representative data and more than a hundred in-depth interviews with people who leave their religion behind, Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith examine the variety of social, psychological, and environmental conditions behind the exiting process, as well as what people do with the time they used to devote to religious observance. They show that for most people who leave, abandoning religion is not a crisis, and does not generally disrupt their health, charitable giving, or volunteering. Drawing on the data, Cragun and Smith argue that the fears among some that massive religious exit will result in a decline in family values or less civic engagement are unfounded, and that those who become nonreligious remain engaged in society and continue to strive to make the world a better place. At a time where more and more individuals are questioning the implications of our increasingly secular society, Goodbye Religion offers an engaging and fascinating analysis into what religious exiting—and secularization broadly—means for American society.
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Affiche du document Éducation et évangélisation au Congo-Brazzaville

Éducation et évangélisation au Congo-Brazzaville

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Première partie  : ÉVANGÉLISATION DU CONGO : REPÈRES, DÉFIS DE LA FOI ET PERSPECTIVESMGR MARIE HIPPOLYTE CARRIE ET MGR PHILIPPE PROSPER AUGOUARD, PÈRES FONDATEURS DE L’ÉGLISE DU CONGO (1883-1921) de Armand Brice IBOMBOL’ÉGLISE ET L’ÉTAT EN RÉPUBLIQUE DU CONGO de Justin SINGHAÉVANGÉLISATION ET POLITIQUE EN CONTEXTE DE DÉCOLONISATION : LES CONDITIONS D’ÉMERGENCE D’UN NATIONALISME SCIENTIFIQUE AU CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE (1960-1965) de Fred Olichet BIYELALES RELIGIONS DE L’ÉVEIL DANS LA RECOMPOSITION DES IDENTITÉS URBAINES À BRAZZAVILLE (CONGO) de Alexis TOBANGUIL’INTERCULTURALITÉ À L’ÉPREUVE DE LA FOI : LE CAS DE L’ŒUVRE DE MONTLIGEON de Nazaire MABANZADeuxième partie  : L’ÉDUCATION CATHOLIQUE – D’HIER À AUJOURD’HUI : LE SYSTÈME ÉDUCATIF AUX PRISES AVEC LA RÉALITÉ SOCIALEL’ŒUVRE ÉDUCATIVE DES MISSIONNAIRES CATHOLIQUES ET SON IMPACT À BOUNDJI DE 1900 À 2000 de  Zéphirin SAHTERTULLIEN ET L’INCULTURATION DE L’ÉVANGILE de Alain Francis NGOMBELES ÉCOLES CATHOLIQUES DANS LE PAYSAGE CULTUREL D’AUJOURD’HUI de Armel BADI BILOMBO
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La Bible commentée à la portée de tous

Didier Sfez

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« Au commencement... » C'est ainsi que débute ce voyage dans le temps, à l'origine de la construction du monde. Ces pages nous invitent à revisiter les grandes étapes de l'histoire de l'humanité jusqu'à notre époque contemporaine et les premiers pas de l'État d'Israël. À travers cet ouvrage initiatique, l'auteur a décidé de laisser une trace pour son fils ainsi qu'un chemin plus accessible à tous ceux désireux de connaître la Bible et l'histoire en général de façon concise. Accompagné d'illustrations, ce livre permet ainsi à chacun de se familiariser avec le texte sacré, condensé ici et agrémenté de nombreux commentaires talmudiques.
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La réception théologique et philosophique de l'Islam en Europe à l'époque moderne

Bah Alioune

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Cet ouvrage questionne les perceptions et les représentations théoriques dominantes de l'islam en Europe depuis la fin de l'influence arabe en Espagne et le début de la présence territoriale des Turcs en Europe jusqu'à notre époque. D'un point de vue théologique, les études révèlent que le sujet islamique est bien présent dans les oppositions entre humanistes et réformistes, mais également entre ceux-ci et les catholiques. Le lien de l'islam avec la modernité soulève les questions de la laïcité et plus globalement de la sécularisation.
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Living Buddhism

L. Cassaniti Julia

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232 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h54min.
With a beautiful blend of stories, research, and her own field experience, Julia Cassaniti unlocks the secrets of creating calmness and the power of letting go. Living Buddhism is a must-read for everyoneâ•expert and nonexpert alikeâ•interested in how our cultures shape our emotional lives. — Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, coauthor of Social PsychologyIn Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment, and intention as they are translated into everyday practice in contemporary Thailand. Although most lay people find these philosophical concepts difficult to grasp, Cassaniti shows that people do in fact make an effort to comprehend them and integrate them as guides for their everyday lives. In doing so, she makes a convincing case that complex philosophical concepts are not the sole property of religious specialists and that ordinary lay Buddhists find in them a means for dealing with life’s difficulties. More broadly, the book speaks to the ways that culturally informed ideas are part of the psychological processes that we all use to make sense of the world around us.In an approachable first-person narrative style that combines interview and participant-observation material gathered over the course of two years in the community, Cassaniti shows how Buddhist ideas are understood, interrelated, and reinforced through secular and religious practices in everyday life. She compares the emotional experiences of Buddhist villagers with religious and cultural practices in a nearby Christian village. Living Buddhism highlights the importance of change, calmness (as captured in the Thai phrase jai yen, or a cool heart), and karma; Cassaniti’s narrative untangles the Thai villagers’ feelings and problems and the solutions they seek.
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De l'attente à l'espérance

Jean Isidore Nkondog

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174 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h10min.
Es-tu celui qui doit venir ou devons-nous en attendre un autre ? Cette interrogation est d'abord juive et a fait l'objet de nombreuses annonces plus ou moins conciliables dans l'histoire du peuple hébreu. Elle est ensuite celle des chrétiens. Rhétorique, car précédée de nombreuses professions de foi, et nous plongeant dans une controverse entre juifs et chrétiens. Peut-on convaincre les juifs, à partir du témoignage néotestamentaire, que Jésus est le messie qu'ils attendent, par le seul recours à la Bible hébraïque ? Peut-on convaincre les chrétiens, à partir de la Bible juive, que Jésus n'est pas le messie juif à travers une confrontation avec les textes néotestamentaires ? Cette question est enfin celle des Africains et ne saurait se limiter à une querelle judéo-gréco-romaine. En quoi la vie de Jésus nous invite-t-elle à le considérer comme messie pour nous aujourd'hui en Afrique ? La structuration de cette problématique n'est pas une exploration périlleuse dont le but ne serait que d'attiser frénétiquement une antique querelle qui divise chrétiens et juifs depuis le Ier siècle de notre ère. J. I. Nkondog postule qu'une approche synergétique est préférable à un intégrisme stérile pour résoudre un problème qui ne tient sa résistance qu'à des malentendus historiques devenus architectoniques. Le terrain du débat et ses théologoumènes sont les saintes Écritures, sans méprise, ni distorsion, ni détérioration, ni ajout. Le débat est délicat et mortel. Ce sont les préambules de cette controverse que Nkondog se propose d'examiner dans cet ouvrage. Le débat est ouvert...
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Affiche du document Pleine lumière sur l'Évangile de Thomas

Pleine lumière sur l'Évangile de Thomas

Charles Rittmeyer

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Très tôt, le théologien suisse Charles Rittmeyer se heurte aux distorsions de vingt siècles d'interprétations, ce qui lui vaut la fronde des théologiens traditionnels. S'il est consacré pasteur en 1948, il sera destitué cinq ans plus tard, accusé « de ne pas prêcher la foi commune ». La démarche, choisie et exploitée par Rittmeyer ne permet-elle qu'une nouvelle interprétation – subjective comme toutes les autres – ou sa façon d'aborder les textes autorise-t-elle une reconstitution-compréhension objective – donc définitive, indiscutable parce que parfaitement fondée – de l'enseignement de Jésus ? Rompu aux questions de méthode par sa formation d'ingénieur, Rittmeyer suivit un cheminement analytique logique qu'il développa dans « Les Paroles cachées de Jésus de l'Évangile selon Thomas, interprétées à la lumière de la Pensée de Jésus telle qu'elle se présente dans les évangiles canoniques de Matthieu, Marc, Luc et Jean ». Ce sont ces feuillets mensuels, parus entre 1962 et 1971, que le Fonds en faveur des activités du pasteur Rittmeyer propose dans cette édition unique et raccourcie. Un hommage indispensable à un théologien moderne, résolument en avance sur son temps.
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Religion Is Raced

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Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first centuryWhen White people of faith act in a particular way, their motivations are almost always attributed to their religious orientation. Yet when religious people of color act in a particular way, their motivations are usually attributed to their racial positioning. Religion Is Raced makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center White Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as a raced phenomenon. When we overlook the role race plays in religious belief and action, and how religion in turn spurs public and political action, we lose sight of a key way in which race influences religiously-based claims-making in the public sphere.With contributions exploring a variety of religious traditions, from Buddhism and Islam to Judaism and Protestantism, as well as pieces on atheists and humanists, Religion Is Raced brings discussions about the racialized nature of religion from the margins of scholarly and religious debate to the center. The volume offers a new model for thinking about religion that emphasizes how racial dynamics interact with religious identity, and how we can in turn better understand the roles religion—and Whiteness—play in politics and public life, especially in the United States. It includes clear recommendations for researchers, including pollsters, on how to better recognize moving forward that religion is a raced phenomenon.With contributions by Joseph O. Baker, Kelsy Burke, James Clark Davidson, Janine Giordano Drake, Ashley Garner, Edward Orozco Flores, Sikivu Hutchinson, Sarah Imhoff, Russell Jeung, John Jimenez, Jaime Kucinskas, Eric Mar, Gerardo Martí, Omar M. McRoberts, Besheer Mohamed, Dawne Moon, Jerry Z. Park, Z. Fareen Parvez, Theresa W. Tobin, and Rhys H. Williams.
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Religion on the Battlefield

E. Hassner Ron

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152 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h54min.
How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced modern militaries in the timing of attacks, the selection of targets for assault, the zeal with which units execute their mission, and the ability of individual soldiers to face the challenge of war. Religious ideas have not provided the reasons why conventional militaries fight, but religious practices have influenced their ability to do so effectively. In Religion on the Battlefield, Hassner focuses on the everyday practice of religion in a military context: the prayers, rituals, fasts, and feasts of the religious practitioners who make up the bulk of the adversaries, bystanders, and observers during armed conflicts. To show that religious practices have influenced battlefield decision making, Hassner draws most of his examples from major wars involving Western militaries. They include British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, U.S. pilots in World War II, and U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hassner shows that even modern, rational, and bureaucratized military organizations have taken—and must take—religious practice into account in the conduct of war.
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Religion on the Battlefield

E. Hassner Ron

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233 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h55min.
How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced modern militaries in the timing of attacks, the selection of targets for assault, the zeal with which units execute their mission, and the ability of individual soldiers to face the challenge of war. Religious ideas have not provided the reasons why conventional militaries fight, but religious practices have influenced their ability to do so effectively. In Religion on the Battlefield, Hassner focuses on the everyday practice of religion in a military context: the prayers, rituals, fasts, and feasts of the religious practitioners who make up the bulk of the adversaries, bystanders, and observers during armed conflicts. To show that religious practices have influenced battlefield decision making, Hassner draws most of his examples from major wars involving Western militaries. They include British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, U.S. pilots in World War II, and U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hassner shows that even modern, rational, and bureaucratized military organizations have taken—and must take—religious practice into account in the conduct of war.
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Homegrown Radicals

Youcef Soufi

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147 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h50min.
The powerful story of how the War on Terror created the conditions for the emergence of a novel theory of jihadOn March 7th, 2007, three Muslim university students left their small city on the Canadian Prairies, seemingly without a trace. In the ensuing months, their disappearance raised fears among Canadian and US security agencies that the men had become “radicalized,” posing a grave threat to national security. From presidential briefings and targeted drone assassinations to a politically charged trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, the men’s story sheds new light not only on the figure of the “radical,” but also on the “moderate” Muslim, represented by a community forever changed by the men’s departure.Homegrown Radicals offers a case study of the complex entanglements of the radical and moderate Muslim in post-9/11 North America. Youcef Soufi brings these figures together in uneasy tension, providing insight into how state violence has inextricably tied them together. Focusing on the radicalization of the three Muslim students, the book traces the general sense of affective injury among North American Muslims over the loss of Muslim life in Western military campaigns overseas.In this context, a new theory of jihad rooted in a Muslim utopian imagination emerged, marking a significant rupture with premodern Islamic thought. The three “radicals” were among thousands of Anglophone Muslims who found this new theory compelling as both a diagnosis and a solution to the violence unleashed in the War on Terror. The book examines how and why this theory resonated, as well as its consequences for the men’s families, friends, and Muslim community.Homegrown Radicals highlights how post-9/11 Islamophobia has operated through the conceptual blurring of the line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslims, and asks what alternative forms of solidarity may transcend the violent boundaries of the nation-state.
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Lift Every Voice and Swing

A. Booker Vaughn

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188 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h21min.
Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate SchoolsExplores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth centuryBeginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress for other African Americans. In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism, religious authority for African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals—such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams—inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos. Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression, in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American religious culture. He draws on the heretofore unexamined private religious writings of Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams, and showcases the careers of female jazz artists alongside those of men, expanding our understanding of African American religious expression and decentering the Black church as the sole concept for understanding Black Protestant religiosity. Featuring gorgeous prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing will change the way we understand the connections between jazz music and faith.
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Production of American Religious Freedom

Finbarr Curtis

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220 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h45min.
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce, challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social power.The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in America from The Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national forms of identity. A chapter on Al Smith considers how the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party challenged Protestant views about the separation of church and state. Moving later in the twentieth century, the book analyzes Malcolm X’s more sweeping rejection of Christian freedom in favor of radical forms of revolutionary change. The final chapters examine how contemporary controversies over intelligent design and the claims of corporations to exercise religion are at the forefront of efforts to shift regulatory power away from the state and toward private institutions like families, churches, and corporations. The volume argues that religious freedom is produced within competing visions of governance in a self-governing nation.
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Sanctified Sisters

Wiley Legath Jenny

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167 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h05min.
The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.
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Fear Itself

Ann Gordon

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An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern lifeFrom moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms.Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear.Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.
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Varieties of Nonreligious Experience

P. Baggett Jerome

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161 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h1min.
A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up roughly 5 percent of the American religious landscape, comprising a larger population than Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus combined. In spite of their relatively significant presence in society, atheists are one of the most stigmatized groups in the United States, frequently portrayed as immoral, unhappy, or even outright angry. Yet we know very little about what their lives are actually like as they live among their largely religious, and sometimes hostile, fellow citizens. In this book, Jerome P. Baggett listens to what atheists have to say about their own lives and viewpoints. Drawing on questionnaires and interviews with more than five hundred American atheists scattered across the country, The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience uncovers what they think about morality, what gives meaning to their lives, how they feel about religious people, and what they think and know about religion itself. Though the wider public routinely understands atheists in negative terms, as people who do not believe in God, Baggett pushes readers to view them in a different light. Rather than simply rejecting God and religion, atheists actually embrace something much more substantive—lives marked by greater integrity, open-mindedness, and progress.Beyond just talking about or to American atheists, the time is overdue to let them speak for themselves. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in joining the conversation.
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Jésus de Nazareth contre Jésus-Christ - Tome II & III

André Sauge

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« Jésus de Nazareth n’est pas l’inventeur du christianisme ; celui dont les Églises sont héritières a été mis en place au début du second siècle ; il diverge radicalement du “christianisme” de la première génération et donc de celui de Paul. » André Sauge, après un premier tome consacré aux récits de la mort de Jésus de Nazareth, poursuit ici son travail d’analyse textuelle, soumet les sources disponibles à la sagacité de son regard critique et se livre à une véritable enquête sur la « fabrique » du Nouveau Testament. Faisant suite à Jésus de Nazareth contre Jésus Christ, dans lequel l’auteur s’attachait à la figure historique de Jésus, La Fabrique du Nouveau Testament est une enquête au long cours (qui peut aussi se lire indépendamment), tout autant qu’une invite adressée au lecteur – convaincu comme l’auteur qu’à l’occasion d’une étude critique il n’existe pas de texte sacré – à pénétrer dans l’officine judaïque où s’est élaboré le christianisme.
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