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Penguin Workshop
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2024.
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"In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history-more than five thousand years of complicated history-all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in this...
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Convergent Books
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[2024]
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"A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community-from Glennon Doyle's "favorite faith writer" and the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer. It's hard to leave a faith that has raised us. Maybe it's even harder to stay. But what can feel impossible is living in the tension. Living with...
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A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment.
After introducing the book's major themes, the volume introduces and builds upon an analysis of Weber's...
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The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?...
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God has set the stage for our life story to be acted out on and with the gift of a free will, it's up to each of us to decide what role we want to play; wilderness wanderers as the Israelites of ancient times, so close to the Promised Land yet not permitted to enter; or a believer in God's eternal promises fulfilled in Christ. There are only two options.
God does have a plan for humanity; he has set forth a calendar, established a timetable; and...
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When asked, "what did you learn at Sunday School today", my four-year old daughter replied, "Just another fairy tale about Jesus." I suddenly realized I could not teach what I did not understand clearly myself. The verse, Mathew 7:7,8, came to mind. Thus, began my lifelong search to find universal truths in all the world's respected religions.
I wanted to know how to explain and teach logically the mysteries and wonder of life to children in our...
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"El Legado de Nana Buruku: Entretejiendo los Hilos de la Creación y la Fertilidad" invita a los lectores a adentrarse en el fascinante mundo de la religión yoruba, explorando la rica mitología que rodea a la venerada deidad Nana Buruku. A través de las páginas de este libro, los lectores descubrirán la historia, los mitos y la influencia de Nana Buruku en la cosmogonía yoruba.La narrativa se sumerge en la antigüedad, desentrañando la conexión...
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"El Resplandor del Arco Iris: Misterios de Oshumare" es un viaje fascinante hacia las profundidades de la mitología yoruba, explorando los misterios y la esencia única de la deidad Oshumare. A través de estas páginas, los lectores se sumergirán en un mundo lleno de colores vibrantes, simbolismo sagrado y enseñanzas espirituales.Desde las raíces ancestrales de la cultura yoruba hasta las prácticas contemporáneas, el libro ofrece una visión...
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The first collection to distinguish religion's role in the creation of race and ethnic categories
Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity is the first collection devoted to demonstrating the role that religion and myth have played in the creation of the categories of "race" and "ethnicity."
When scholars approach religion and race, they tend to focus on such issues as how African Americans have expressed Christianity, or how Japanese...
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"Sombras Místicas: El Arte del Vudú Oculto" sumerge a los lectores en un mundo donde la magia y lo sobrenatural se entrelazan con la realidad. En las profundidades de la oscuridad, se revela la antigua práctica del vudú, desentrañando sus secretos más oscuros y sus poderes inexplorados.La historia sigue a un protagonista que, cautivado por la fascinación de lo desconocido, se embarca en un viaje intrépido hacia los rincones más recónditos...
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All men born by women have one battle or the other. We are all bound by Satan from the creation and we all need to be loosed and only Yeshua HaMashiach can truly loose man and loose man indeed. All other freedom which is not from God will end up in hell. Many of us have life but not life in abundant, many of us are free but not free indeed.The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. There are things and truth you need...
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The prophets of the Old Testament were speaking, in the first instance, to the people of their own time. This means that we need to locate the prophets in the history of their own time, in order to understand them in the first instance.
I propose to survey Israel's history mainly in terms of the work and role of the prophets, from Moses to Malachi. Of course, they were interacting with the temple priesthood and with the disciples of Machiavelli,...
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What used to be a serpent in the book of Genesis, is now leviathan in the book of Job and in the book of Revelation it has become the dragon.As the end is fast approaching Satan is not having enough time on his side to accomplish his aim of taking as many as he could to hell. His aim is to take all to hell but he has failed for many are dead as saints already and there are still saints around, nevertheless he is not slowing down. Unknowingly the mark...
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"El Camino de la Pureza: Travesía Espiritual con Obatalá" es una obra que nos sumerge en el fascinante mundo de la religión yoruba, explorando la figura venerada de Obatalá, el Orisha de la pureza y la sabiduría. A través de relatos cautivadores, esta narrativa transporta a los lectores a un viaje espiritual donde la luz de Obatalá ilumina caminos de virtud y autoconocimiento.En este libro, se entrelazan mitos antiguos, tradiciones sagradas...
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In this book, the authors discuss how increasing intimacy in marriage allows both partners to approach issues of communication, power, anger, and faith more creatively and effectively. With exercises tested by dozens of couples in marriage and family therapy and a clear discussion of contemporary perspectives on marriage, this book is an indispensable resource for couples.
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The truth about the end time is that the end time does not end the world but ends the circle of a sinful world and it is the beginning of the new and sinless world thus the new earth and the new heaven. There are two types of tribulations, general tribulations from Satan and great tribulations from God. The mark of the beast will be made manifest during the tribulation of Satan and is already here. No rapture before the great tribulation but after...
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An experienced teacher of the prophetic materials provides students with an accessible entre into this fascinating aspect of Hebrew Bible studies.
The author begins by asking five basic questions about Israelite prophecy and the prophetic books.
Do the prophetic books witness to a real phenomenon of prophecy in Israel?
What is the relationship of the "classical" or "writing" prophets to the "pre-classical" prophets?
Where do we look for the origins...
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"El Susurro de Oggun: Entre Hojas de Hierro y Caminos de Batalla" es una cautivadora obra que nos sumerge en el misterioso y poderoso mundo de Oggun, una deidad venerada en la tradición afrodescendiente y la santería. A través de las páginas de este libro, los lectores explorarán los mitos, leyendas y rituales que rodean a Oggun, el dios de la guerra y la metalurgia.La narrativa se teje con habilidad, llevando a los lectores por caminos inexplorados...
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We are calling this 'the saint maker series' because everyone that has read it has developed a greater love and devotion to Our Lord than they had before. The morning mediation is to be done sometime in the morning. The evening in the evening and the spiritual reading section either midday or whenever possible. When broken up these are very short in time but try not to rush it. The Lent volume covers everyday from Septuagesima to Holy Saturday along...
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