Crossing Religious Frontiers

Crossing Religious Frontiers
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1935493558

How should we view religions that are different from our own? In a world where misunderstandings and disagreements between cultures and faiths are commonplace, this fascinating book, the first in a new series called Studies in Comparative Religion, helps us put other faiths in context and addresses the problem of encountering conflicting religious forms. Featuring 23 fascinating articles from religious scholars and the personal accounts of the remarkable individuals who have lived theses encounters first hand.

Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean

Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean
Author: Dionigi Albera
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253016908

“Will spark debate . . . and hopefully further research into points of contact between the monotheistic religions, and others.” —The Levantine Review While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain intercommunal and interreligious contact among groups. Heterodox, marginal, and largely ignored by central authorities, these practices persist despite aggressive, homogenizing nationalist movements. This volume challenges much of the received wisdom concerning the three major monotheistic religions and the “clash of civilizations,” as contributors examine intertwined religious traditions along the shores of the Near East from North Africa to the Balkans.

The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History

The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History
Author: Andrew F. Walls
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608331822

Walls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of

Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie

Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie
Author: Yvette Rocheron
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783906768311

"This volume consists of selected papers from a conference organised under the aegis of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France at the University of Leicester in September 2000"--P. [9].

Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy

Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1935493094

This introduction to the writings of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the pre-eminent spokesman of the Perennialist or Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought, is the first book to present a comprehensive study of his intellectual and spiritual message. In addition to a clear explanation of Schuon's message of metaphysics and the great religions, Oldmeadow includes an overview of Schuon's paintings and poetry, and insights on prayer and virtue in the spiritual life.

Touchstones of the Spirit

Touchstones of the Spirit
Author: Harry Oldmeadow
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1936597039

This book explores three themes: the timeless messages of traditional Religion; the modern obscuration of this perennial Wisdom; and the spiritual encounter between East and West. Topics include the Australian Aborigines, the Bodhisattva in Buddhism, and key Perennialist figures such as Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Huston Smith. Characterizing modernism as "a spiritual disease which is spreading like a plague across the globe," Oldmeadow offers insightful criticisms of Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and what he calls the "false prophets of modernity."

Religion on the Move!

Religion on the Move!
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004243372

How do religions spread in today’s world, where Christian missions have lost influence and modern nations have replaced colonial empires? Religion on the Move! is a collection of essays charting new religious expansions. Contemporary evangelists may be Nigerian, Korean, Brazilian or Congolese, working at the grassroots and outside the mainstream in Pentecostal, reformist Islamic, and Hindu spiritual currents. While transportation and media provide newfound mobility, the mission field may be next door, in Europe, North America, and within the "South," where migrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America settle. These essays, using perspectives from religious studies, ethnography, history and sociology, show that immigrants, women, and other disempowered peoples transmit their faiths from everywhere to everywhere, engaging in globalization from below. Contributors include: Afe Adogame, Shobana Shankar, Matthew Forrest Lowe, Dyron B. Daughrity, Janel Kragt Bakker, Rebecca Catto, Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Shuma Iwai, Albert Wuaku, Hakano Abdi Wario, Ramzi Ben Amara, Rebecca Y. Kim, Annalisa Butticci, Heidemarie Winkel, Anderson H M Jeremiah, Olufunke Adeboye, Mark Shaw, Marilia Fiorillo, Musa. O. Adeniyi, Daniëlle Koning, Susanne Kröhnert-Othman, Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Matthew Kustenbauder, Damien Mottier, and Bolaji Bateye.