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Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
epub |eng | | Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Expansions to the Holy Mosque in Mecca A postcard of Medina (date unknown) shows that the city had grown in comparison with the map on page 12. The sa’y or ...
( Category: Cities March 23,2020 )
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ by James Stalker
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:James Stalker

CHAPTER XIII. THE GROUPS ROUND THE CROSS In the last chapter we saw the Son of Man nailed to the cursed tree. There He hung for hours, exposed, helpless, but ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 23,2020 )
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism by Carl McColman
epub |eng | | Author:Carl McColman

The two kinds of pagan rituals are known among Wiccans and many other pagans as Sabbats and Esbats. Sabbats are related to the sun and occur at eight specified times ...
( Category: Paganism March 23,2020 )
The Ring of Truth by Doniger Wendy;
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Doniger, Wendy;

Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers The tale of the Vizier’s daughter raises the issue of sexual deficiency. In other tales of clever wives that we have considered, too, the sexual ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology March 23,2020 )
The Faith Club by Priscilla Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Priscilla Warner

“That’s beautifully expressed, Suzanne,” Priscilla reassured me as I finished reading. “But I have to tell you that I was also really moved by what you said about 9/11 last ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 23,2020 )
The Making of Buddhist Modernism by McMahan David L.;
epub |eng | 2005-03-14 | Author:McMahan, David L.;

Classical and Medieval Buddhist Views of Nature Dependent Origination in Classical Pali Literature The Buddha, as is often repeated, said he taught only two things: suffering and the end of ...
( Category: Sociology March 23,2020 )
The Great Indian Conspiracy by Dr. Praveen Tiwari
epub |eng | 2019-11-28 | Author:Dr. Praveen Tiwari

19 Islamic Extremism, Politics and Terrorism Aseemanand’s alleged confession preposterously suggested that some Muslims youth could have planted bombs in Malegaon at the behest of Hindu conspirators. It was stated ...
( Category: World March 23,2020 )
Religion in an Age of Science by Ian G. Barbour
epub |eng | | Author:Ian G. Barbour

CHAPTER 6 Evolution and Continuing Creation The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859 was the most important event in an intellectual revolution that continues to ...
( Category: Psychology March 23,2020 )
The Digital God by Indick William
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Indick, William

Iconoclasm I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.—Leviticus 26:29–31 ...
( Category: Sociology March 23,2020 )
Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology by Tennent Timothy C
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Tennent, Timothy C. [Tennent, Timothy C.]

Shinran and the Rise of True Pure Land Buddhism Shinran Shonin lived during one of the most remarkable transitions in Japanese history: from the Heian age (794 – 1185) to ...
( Category: Sociology March 23,2020 )
A State of Mixture by Payne Richard E
epub |eng | | Author:Payne, Richard E.

A POTENT PAST The hagiographers of Karka and Arbela created new histories of noble lineage that trace northern Mesopotamian houses from authoritative ancient figures. Their accounts were artifacts of the ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 23,2020 )
Abraham by Frances Worthington
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Frances Worthington

THE RANSOM On the morning after God had requested the sacrifice of Abraham’s only son, Ishmael and Abraham rose early. Calling for two servants to accompany them, Abraham saddled a ...
( Category: Baha'i March 23,2020 )
Boundaries of Toleration by Taylor Charles Stepan Alfred
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Taylor, Charles, Stepan, Alfred

NOTES I would like to thank the participants of the seminar on toleration at Columbia University with whom I discussed prior versions of this chapter. Moreover, I would like to ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 23,2020 )
The History of American Higher Education by Geiger Roger L
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Geiger, Roger L.

LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES In 1868 Cornell University opened as the land grant institution of New York State. The following year Charles W. Eliot began his 40-year presidency of Harvard. And, ...
( Category: History March 23,2020 )
Mind in the Balance by B. Alan Wallace
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

PHILOSOPHICAL SKEPTICISM With the rise of behaviorism in the early twentieth century, subjective experience in general and consciousness in particular were marginalized due to the insistence that the scientific study ...
( Category: Meditation March 23,2020 )

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