By Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, William C. Chittick

ISBN-10: 0823225844

ISBN-13: 9780823225842

The Mosque is a longer meditation on a size of Islam unusual to such a lot Western readers. The mosque, Rusmir Mahmut?cehaji?c argues, isn't really an analogue of the Christian church, now not least simply because in Islam there isn't any priesthood and no institutionalized hierarchy. fairly, each Muslim is his or her personal priest, andmost spiritual tasks are played in the house. The functionality of the mosque is hence dispersed all through society and, certainly, through the flora and fauna to boot. The Arabic note from which English mosque derives potential actually position of prostration-the position one plays the day-by-day ritual prayer of submission to God, so that it will turn into a visitor on the desk God has despatched all the way down to take place himself. That desk can also be the world's mosque, the realm as mosque. one of several tragic sufferers of the Bosnian genocide are its mosques; greater than one thousand have been destroyed. part of the fundamental cloth of Bosnian existence used to be replaced. With this publication, Rusmir Mahmut?cehaji?c seeks to rebuild the spirit and majesty of every mosque that used to be destroyed, the religious grace it lent the Bosnian landscape.Beautifully composed, elegantly written and built, it is a fundamental textual content of Islamic spirituality, via some of the most major Muslim ecu voices of our age . . . . A booklet to be again to back and again.-Adam B. Seligman, Boston UniversityThis paintings by way of one of many best highbrow figures of Bosnia is among the most interesting written within the English language at the religious value of the mosque. It speaks the language of common spirituality and is ready to open a door for Western readers to the connection among the mosque, as understood outwardly, and the interior mosque, that's the center. The ebook additionally displays in so much stylish language the truth of a land the place mosques, church buildings, and synagogues have stood part via aspect over the centuries, each one bearing witness in its personal option to the Presence of the One.-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington collage

By S. Hamilton

By Ahmad Atif Ahmad (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230619568

ISBN-13: 9780230619562

ISBN-10: 1349376310

ISBN-13: 9781349376315

By Woodhead, Linda

ISBN-10: 0203398491

ISBN-13: 9780203398494

ISBN-10: 0203399404

ISBN-13: 9780203399408

ISBN-10: 0415217830

ISBN-13: 9780415217835

ISBN-10: 0415217849

ISBN-13: 9780415217842

By G. W. Trompf

ISBN-10: 0521416914

ISBN-13: 9780521416917

During this bold examine, the 1st monograph on faith and "the common sense of retribution," Professor Trompf exhibits how quite a few points of "payback," either destructive and optimistic, give you the top indices to an realizing of Melanesian perspectives of existence. The booklet explores the explanations why humans "pay again" and opens up a complete new size within the cross-cultural research of human awareness. the writer conducts his readers throughout the most intricate anthropological competition on the earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

By Robert Brown

Writer: London, D. Bogue; [etc., and so on. topics: Zoroastrianism faith Notes: this can be an OCR reprint. there's various typos or lacking textual content. There aren't any illustrations or indexes. in case you purchase the final Books variation of this ebook you get loose trial entry to Million-Books.com the place you could make a choice from greater than one million books at no cost. you can even preview the publication there.

By Slavica Jakelic, Lori Pearson

ISBN-10: 9004123172

ISBN-13: 9789004123175

This quantity brings jointly different voices from numerous fields inside of non secular and theological experiences for a talk in regards to the right items, ambitions, and techniques for the examine of faith within the twenty-first century. It methods those questions when it comes to the newest modern demanding situations, debates, and advancements within the box, and gives a discussion board within which contending views are confirmed and contested by means of their proponents and competitors. participants handle themes akin to: the relationship among the ‘normative’ and the ‘scientific’ techniques to the examine of faith, the which means of faith in a context of globalization, the relation among non secular reports and non secular traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural stories of spiritual phenomena, and the way forward for gender stories in faith.

By Robert E. Van Voorst

ISBN-10: 0495503878

ISBN-13: 9780495503873

ANTHOLOGY of global SCRIPTURES is a complete choice of scriptures from the key international religions, together with: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in addition to scriptures from more moderen spiritual events. The textual content provides scripture readings in context, supplying you with a framework that exhibits how each one faith is really practiced at the present time, in addition to its historical past, teachings, association, ethics and rituals. The readings are supported by means of introductions, learn questions, glossaries, and proposals for additional interpreting, supplying extra instruments for overview.

By Gary Lease

ISBN-10: 3110143232

ISBN-13: 9783110143232

Booklet by way of hire, Gary