Disruptive Religion
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Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1136666109 |
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Religion has long played a central role in many social and political movements. Solidarity in Poland, anti-apartheid in South Africa, Operation Rescue in the United States--each of these movements is driven by the energy and sustained by the commitment of many individuals and organizations whose ideologies are shaped and powered by religious faith. In many cases, religious resources and motives serve as crucial variables explaining the emergence of entire social movements. Despite the crucial role of religion in most societies, this religious activism remains largely uninvestigated. Disruptive Religion intends to fill this void by analyzing contemporary social movements which are driven by people and organizations of faith. Upon a firm base of empirical evidence, these essays also address many theoretical issues arising in the study of social movements and disruptive politics.
Author | : Tozer A. W. |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1459614712 |
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The word ''faith'' is common these days, but placing one's faith in God is a weighty action, uncommonly fraught with consequence and, by His design, inconvenience. Faith in God is reassuring and comforting only insofar as believers trust Him - and that depth of trust is the mark of a mature Christian who has allowed faith to intrude on his life and shift his gaze away from his own aims, needs and desires. This is nothing if not a painful and disturbing process. A Disruptive Faith is A. W. Tozer's never-before-published teaching on what he termed ''faith that perturbs'' - faith that contradicts the unbelieving man and threatens the complacency of the Christian. The renowned pastor and teacher insists in these pages that genuine faith breeds dissatisfaction with this life, by God's design; it weans us from this temporary life and prepares us for the life to come. Readers will learn to be content with this faith-inspired discontent and to experience a fresh hope for eternity with God.
Author | : A.W. Tozer |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441267425 |
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The word faith is common these days, but placing one's faith in God is a weighty action, uncommonly fraught with consequence and, by His design, inconvenience. Faith in God is reassuring and comforting only insofar as believers trust Him--and that depth of trust is the mark of a mature Christian who has allowed faith to intrude on his life and shift his gaze away from his own aims, needs, and desires. This is nothing if not a painful and disturbing process. A Disruptive Faith is A.W. Tozer's never-before-published teaching on what he termed "faith that perturbs"--faith that contradicts the unbelieving man and threatens the complacency of the Christian. The renowned pastor and teacher insists in these pages that genuine faith breeds dissatisfaction with this life, by God's design; it weans us from this temporary life and prepares us for the life to come. Readers will learn to be content with this faith-inspired discontent and to experience a fresh hope for eternity with God.
Author | : Traci C. West |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664229597 |
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This book brings to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women. Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins not with generic philosophical concepts but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and economically marginalized.
Author | : Richard K. Fenn |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2003-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780631212416 |
Download The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future. Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium. Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology. Edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion Accessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.
Author | : Alan Noble |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830881093 |
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2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year - Accessible Theology 2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award ★ Publishers Weekly starred review We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits—and devices—that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"—an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.
Author | : Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0800697944 |
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Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades; his landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities.
Author | : Laura Stivers |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 145141286X |
Download Disrupting Homelessness Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute toward homelessness. Others promote home ownership for low-income households. Stivers criticizes both approaches and assesses to what extent these approaches buy into our culture's dominant ideologies on housing and homelessness, and whether they promote justice and liberation for the least well off. She then outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness and prophetically to aim to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community.
Author | : Colin Ferreira |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781954521957 |
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Ready to experience a deeper relationship with God? It seems everything is being shaken in the world these days. But God is in the midst of the disruption and working it for our good in His great wisdom, not only in political and social arenas, but also within the Church. As a matter of fact, we are in this disruptive place because of the present state of His Church. As a result of this severe shaking, false religious beliefs and structures are being exposed and dismantled. It is not a time for tweaking the old. God is doing a new work to reform his Church. Out of it all, a reformed Church will arise filled with confident and powerful sons and daughters of God. In Disrupting Religion, Colin Ferreira uses Scripture to expose lies Satan has used, and so many have believed, that sound good, but actually keep us from enjoying a deeper relationship with our Heavenly Father.
Author | : Linell E. Cady |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134153058 |
Download Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia shows how this region is the site of recent and emerging democracies, a high degree of religious pluralism, the largest Muslim populations in the world, and several well-organized terrorist groups, making understanding of the dynamics of religious conflict and violence particularly urgent. By bringing scholars from religious studies, political science, sociology, anthropology and international relations into conversation with each other, this volume brings much needed attention to the role of religion in fostering violence in the region and addresses strategies for its containment or resolution. The dearth of other literature on the intersection of religion, politics and violence in contemporary South and Southeast Asia makes the timing of this book particularly relevant. This book will of great interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, security studies and conflict studies.