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Religions in the World

Uses an 'issues-based' approach Carefully researched and planned to help you create 'religious literate' and interested studentsExplores religious questions, meanings, and interactions in a thematic way covering the real concerns of today's worldBook A: Religions in the World A challenging book that offers a thought-provoking response to how religions interact with the world today. A book covering the essence of six world religions: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. This book is a course companion especially suitable for Years 7-9. It may be used alongside existing 'Religion for Today' titles and forthcoming titles for Key Stage 3.

A book covering the essence of six world religions: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. This book is a course companion especially suitable for Years 7-9.

World Religions Today

The twenty-first century is witnessing a resurgence and globalization of religion. Around the world, religion has become an increasingly more important and pervasive force in personal and public life, and faith and politics now play a powerful role in international affairs. Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, World Religions Today explores major religious traditions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and East Asian religions--as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. Moving beyond the almost exclusively historical perspective of many books in the field, this text takes a fresh approach, using solid historical coverage of the various religious traditions as a framework to help students understand how faiths have evolved to the present day. It connects today's religions to their classical beliefs and practices but also shows how these religions have responded to and been transformed by the modern world. To help students grasp what might be "new" about the emerging era of religious life in the 21st century, the authors open each discussion with a contemporary scenario of religious experience that illustrates the tensions between pre-modern views and modernity. World Religions Today includes a general introduction that provides essential background information for students and features many pedagogical aids including timelines, maps, numerous illustrations, questions for discussion, and a glossary of key terms. Ideal for undergraduate courses in world religions and comparative religion, World Religions Today emphasizes the interconnectedness of faith, culture, politics, and society, providing a peerless examination of the diverse ways in which contemporary human beings are religious.

Moving beyond the almost exclusively historical perspective of many books in the field, this text takes a fresh approach, using solid historical coverage of the various religious traditions as a framework to help students understand how ...

Medieval Women's Visionary Literature

These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, mothers, wandering teachers, founders of religious communities, and reformers, the selections reveal how medieval women felt about their lives, the kind of education they received, how they perceived the religion of their time, and why ascetic life attracted them.

These pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century.

Understanding Other Minds

Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Why do children with autism have such trouble developing normal social understanding of other people's feelings? This new edition updates the field by linking autism research to the newest methods for studying the brain.

Like the first edition, this completely updated and revised text still focuses on the "theory of mind" hypothesis -- an important new psychological approach to autism -- and provides an invaluable discussion about the nature of what is ...

The Anti-Intellectual Presidency : The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush

Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series of robotic repetitions of talking points and sixty-second soundbites, largely designed to obfuscate rather than illuminate? In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. Lim argues that the ever-increasing pressure for presidents to manage public opinion and perception has created a "pathology of vacuous rhetoric and imagery" where gesture and appearance matter more than accomplishment and fact. Lim tracks the campaign to simplify presidential discourse through presidential and speechwriting decisions made from the Truman to the present administration, explaining how and why presidents have embraced anti-intellectualism and vague platitudes as a public relations strategy. Lim sees this anti-intellectual stance as a deliberate choice rather than a reflection of presidents' intellectual limitations. Only the smart, he suggests, know how to dumb down. The result, he shows, is a dangerous debasement of our political discourse and a quality of rhetoric which has been described, charitably, as "a linguistic struggle" and, perhaps more accurately, as "dogs barking idiotically through endless nights." Sharply written and incisively argued, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency sheds new light on the murky depths of presidential oratory, illuminating both the causes and consequences of this substantive impoverishment.

14 Lawrence Jacobs and Robert Shapiro agree that politicians have learned anti
-intellec- tualism, noting that they “rarely count on directly persuading the public
of the merits of their position by grabbing the public's attention and walking it ...

The Sufi Orders in Islam

A Practical English grammar