Educating in the Divine Image

Educating in the Divine Image
Author: Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1611684587

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social science, and psychology, as well as personal interviews, the authors show how traditional (mainly Orthodox) day school education continues to re-inscribe gender inequities and socialize students into unhealthy gender identities and relationships. They address pedagogy, school practices, curricula, and textbooks, as along with single-sex versus coed schooling, dress codes, sex education, Jewish rituals, and gender hierarchies in educational leadership. Drawing a stark picture of the many ways both girls and boys are molded into gender identities, the authors offer concrete resources and suggestions for transforming educational practice.

Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India
Author: Diana L. Eck
Publisher: Anima Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1981
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

"Drawing from topics of religion in India such as bhakti, puja rituals, and spirit posessions, these essays offer a close study of the physical representations of god as the central feature of Hinduism. A valuable tool for students of anthroplogy and the philosophy and history of religion." --

Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047441656

The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.

Waiting on the Word

Waiting on the Word
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848258003

For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

The Men's Section

The Men's Section
Author: Elana Maryles Sztokman
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1611680808

A provocative look at the inner world of Orthodox Jewish men who attend partnership synagogues

The Divine Curriculum

The Divine Curriculum
Author: Edward Price
Publisher: Wisdom Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781960250506

Imagine the existence of an ancient, all-embracing, Divinely-conceived plan that is binding together the world's great religions, unfolding over time according to rational principles and guiding humanity toward an ultimate, meaningful purpose. We can learn about this plan from a curriculum created by God in a classroom comprised of all creation.The Divine curriculum is integrated, progressive and never-ending because the knowledge and grace of God cannot be exhausted. The Divine Curriculum series tells the 4000-year story of how God has been educating humanity from ancient times unto the present day. This universal, sweeping tale is told through the lens of a unifying framework that strives to glimpse the ultimate objective of the Divine curriculum, the universal mission and purpose of all of creation. And according to Edward Price, the story has really just begun.

The Divine Coloring Book

The Divine Coloring Book
Author: Christine Joy Amagan Ferrer
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781098353643

The Divine is a multicultural 100-page coloring book for people of all ages (especially the child in all of us) inspired by folklore and spirituality from the Philippines (Diwatas), Haiti (Lwas of Vodou) and Brazil (Orixás of Candomble and deities of the Indigenous Brazilian Tupi Tribe). Thirteen divinities from each culture are represented, along with the folklore and symbolism associated with each of the divinities. Included throughout the book are inspirational quotes, mindfulness activities for children, and poetry featuring Eniafe Isis of All Her Words, Aimee Amparo, and Haitian songs by Daniel "Brav" Brevil. 40 full-page, 8.5x11 illustrations. Artists include: Andre Hora, Gabrielle Tesfaye, Fermina Caragay Armstrong, Salima Silagon Saway, Grace Bio, Rahana Dariah, Zachary "Bodinho" Present, Stephen Hamilton, Cece Carpio, Nikila Badua/MamaWisdom1, Wisthon Thime, Dee Jae Pa'este, Ubi Maya, Mitzi Ulloa, Rodney Sanon and Laylie Frazier. While many of us grew up with mythologies about Greek and Roman gods, as well as stories like Cinderella, Little Mermaid and Robin Hood, few of us have been exposed to the stories included in The Divine--stories that have been passed down from generation to generation through traditional dance, music, and oral storytelling. The Divine draws a connection between the cultures and beliefs of these diasporas, in hopes of giving them the attention they deserve. From the Americas to Africa to the islands, let's continue to carry and pass down the wisdom that lies in these stories. This book is something meant to grow with and meet the reader where they are. Read and color for yourself, or do it with a little one. Mindfulness activities are meant for children and adults to do together. The poetry, quotes and songs are meant for older youth and adults. And the folklore/symbolism is meant for older youth and grown-ups to read with little ones. Every people, every culture has its own way of honoring the sacred and the spiritual. When we apply the wisdom of these stories to our everyday lives, we discover a deeper relationship to the world around us. Before our lives began, before we believed, the Divine has been both within us and outside of us.

A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal

A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal
Author: Steven M. Studebaker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137480165

This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular. Steven M. Studebaker considers Western and American decline from a theological and, specifically, Pentecostal perspective. The volume proposes and develops a Pentecostal political theology that can be used to address and reframe Christian political identity in the United States. Studebaker asserts that American Christians are currently not properly engaged in preventing America’s decline or halting the shifts in its core values. The problem, he suggests, is that American Christianity not only gives little thought to the state of the nation beyond a handful of moral issues like abortion, but its popular political theologies lead Christians to think of themselves more as aliens than as citizens. This book posits that the proposed Pentecostal political theology would help American Christians view themselves as citizens and better recognize their stake in the renewal of their nation. The foundation of this proposed political theology is a pneumatological narrative of renewal—a biblical narrative of the Spirit that begins with creation, proceeds through Incarnation and Pentecost, and culminates in the new creation and everlasting kingdom of God. This narrative provides the foundation for a political theology that speaks to the issues of Christian political identity and encourages Christian political participation.

Teaching the World

Teaching the World
Author: Gabriel Etzel
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1433691604

More and more seminaries, Christian universities, and Bible colleges are opting to train future ministers and missionaries online. What happens when the movement toward online education is shaped by pragmatic or financial concerns instead of Scripture and theology? Ministry training can be reduced to a mere transfer of information as institutions lose sight of their calling to shape the souls of God-called men and women in preparation for effective ministry. How might online ministry training look different if biblical and theological foundations were placed first? Teaching the World brings together educators from a wide range of backgrounds and from some of the largest providers of online theological education in the world. Together, they present a revolutionary new approach to online theological education, highly practical and yet thoroughly shaped by Scripture and theology.