Bridging The Sacred

Author : Nicole Redvers, N.D.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623173371

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The Science of the Sacred by Nicole Redvers, N.D. Pdf

Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidence-based research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processes Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the world--from sweat lodges and fermented foods to Ayurvedic doshas and meditation. Organized around various sciences, such as physics, genetics, and microbiology, the book explains the connection between traditional medicine and current research around epigenetics and quantum physics, for example, and includes over 600 citations. Redvers, who has traveled and worked with Indigenous groups around the world, shares the knowledge and teachings of health and wellness that have been passed down through the generations, tying this knowledge with current scientific advances. Knowing that the science backs up the traditional practice allows us to have earlier and more specific interventions that integrate age-old techniques with the advances in modern medicine and technology.

Author : G. Clarke,M. Jennings,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230371262

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Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations by G. Clarke,M. Jennings,T. Shaw Pdf

This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, and questions traditional secularism that has underpinned development policy and practice in the North.

Author : John Courtney Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878405712

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Bridging the Sacred and the Secular by John Courtney Murray Pdf

This collection brings together for the first time the theological essays of a 20th-century philosopher renowned for his defense of civil religious freedom. In this volume of essays, previously scattered among various periodicals over the course of thirty eyars, J. Leon Hooper, SJ, presents a selection of Murray's theological writings that outlines and highlights the integrity of Murray's moves toward a public theological discourse.

Author : Joseph Naft
Publisher : Joseph Naft
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780978610906

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The Sacred Art of Soul Making by Joseph Naft Pdf

"Deep within each of us dwells the source of peace, purpose, and love. Yet we live in the chaotic dissonance of the superficial layers of our hearts and minds. A sea of the most precious spiritual energies surrounds us, inside and out, yet our thirst remains unquenched, our souls malnourished and unformed." (from the Introduction). Bridging East and West, "The Sacred Art of Soul Making" addresses the central questions of spiritual practice with the depth and subtlety they require and with unexpected clarity. As Westerners raised in Christianity or Judaism progress in their Eastern practices, they often find themselves drawn back toward their own religious roots and the search for the Divinity. They may rediscover their need for a personal relationship with the Divine, for the practice of prayer, openness to conscience and the understanding of will found in the monotheistic religions. Many people have not engaged Eastern meditative practices out of devotion to their own religion. Those may well find the inner work forms of presence and meditation, stripped of cultural trappings, to be important adjuncts to the practice of prayer, helping open the way to the sacred depths sought in Western religions. This authentic, substantive, and multi-faceted spirituality for our time begins where we are and ultimately takes us beyond consciousness, toward the abode of the sacred. That sacredness can touch and transform each of us, if we make the necessary, devoted effort. This book helps make that possible.

Author : Peter DeHaan
Publisher : Peter DeHaan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781948082914

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Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide by Peter DeHaan Pdf

Do you want to invite God into every part of your day? Learn how to see Jesus in all facets of your life—from faith and family to finances and full-time work. Christian spirituality isn’t just about attending church on Sunday. Instead, it takes practice to discover God’s hand in every part of your day and recognize his presence. In Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide: Celebrating the Spirituality of Everyday Life, you can learn how to experience biblical Christianity in all seasons. Through an informal, memoir-style collection of stories, you’ll acknowledge, discover, and celebrate God in every aspect of your day. Join author Peter DeHaan as he shows us how to bridge the sacred-secular divide by offering us personal illustrations and real-life examples of how we can see God in the everyday. Whether in work, health, family, or holiday celebrations, you’ll discover how to appreciate the blessings, challenges, and insights God reveals to you no matter what season you’re in. In Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide, you’ll discover how to: - embrace God’s presence each day - celebrate the unique family and purpose God gave you - practice seeing God in His creation - uncover God’s hand in the details of our personal struggles - explore how you can live a more holistic and balanced life Through these short, insightful narratives on faith, family, work, seasons, holidays, creation and more, you’ll explore how to celebrate the everyday spiritual aspects of life so that you can rediscover the everyday spirituality of yours. Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide includes a discussion guide for a small group study or personal application. Learn to embrace God’s presence in your everyday reality so that you can pursue a balanced, passionate, and prioritized life with Jesus. Begin Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide and discover how God is working in your world. Get your copy today. [This book was first published as Woodpecker Wars.]

Author : Michael Barnett,Janice Gross Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199916030

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Sacred Aid by Michael Barnett,Janice Gross Stein Pdf

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement originally focused on conversion, in time more secular concerns came to dominate. By the end of the nineteenth century, increasingly professionalized yet nominally religious organization shifted from reliance on the good book to the public health manual. Over the course of the twentieth century, the secularization of humanitarianism only increased, and by the 1970s the movement's religious inspiration, generally speaking, was marginal to its agenda. However, beginning in the 1980s, religiously inspired humanitarian movements experienced a major revival, and today they are virtual equals of their secular brethren. From church-sponsored AIDS prevention campaigns in Africa to Muslim charity efforts in flood-stricken Pakistan to Hindu charities in India, religious groups have altered the character of the global humanitarian movement. Moreover, even secular groups now gesture toward religious inspiration in their work. Clearly, the broad, inexorable march toward secularism predicted by so many Westerners has halted, which is especially intriguing with regard to humanitarianism. Not only was it a highly secularized movement just forty years ago, but its principles were based on those we associate with "rational" modernity: cosmopolitan one-worldism and material (as opposed to spiritual) progress. How and why did this happen, and what does it mean for humanitarianism writ large? That is the question that the eminent scholars Michael Barnett and Janice Stein pose in Sacred Aid, and for answers they have gathered chapters from leading scholars that focus on the relationship between secularism and religion in contemporary humanitarianism throughout the developing world. Collectively, the chapters in this volume comprise an original and authoritative account of religion has reshaped the global humanitarian movement in recent times.

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789523690592

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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature by Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki Pdf

National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.

Author : Lata Mani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136518355

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SacredSecular by Lata Mani Pdf

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach yield in analysing neoliberal globalisation or Hindu fundamentalism? Is a dew drop sacred, or is it secular? In today’s charged atmosphere many believe that the sacred is best kept firmly apart from the realm of the secular. SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique offers a contrasting view. It argues that the two are indivisible and can productively interweave in illuminating key contemporary issues. Essays investigate the quotidian (trash, cut flowers), the philosophical (advaita, karma), the economic (work, globalisation) and the political (war, violence). Mani invites us to rethink the prevailing view that secularism is the only progressive response to religious authoritarianism. SacredSecular proposes a conceptual approach in which body, mind, heart, nature, matter and spirit are not merely equals, but equally crucial to crafting an inclusive vision and practice. This book addresses several audiences: scholars of contemporary Indian society and culture, spiritual practitioners striving to integrate their practice with their politics, and all those interested in contemplating the present and what it portends for our collective future.

Author : Christian Overman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Work
ISBN : 0974342521

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God's Pleasure at Work by Christian Overman Pdf

Author : Yesu Vi
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456649425

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Bridging the Sacred by Yesu Vi Pdf

Step Through Time: Embrace Ageless Wisdom in Your Journey Imagine a thread that weaves through the tapestry of time, connecting ancient truths with the heartbeat of the modern world. "Bridging the Sacred: Echoes of Scripture in Modern Wisdom" is not just a book--it's a portal to a conversation centuries in the making. Every page invites you into a sacred dance between the past and the present, enabling a dialogue that enriches the soul and challenges the mind. Within this volume, you'll embark on an extraordinary quest, one that rekindles the enduring legacy of scriptural teachings and reveals their profound relevance to our everyday lives. Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Voices introduces you to the whispers of Proverbs resonating in today's culture, while The Psalms Reimagined take you on a poetic journey from despair to hope, echoing the eternal human condition. Unearth the power of storytelling with modern retellings in Parables and Their Place in Today's World, and confront contemporary ethical dilemmas by reflecting on the timeless virtues highlighted in the Sermon on the Mount and Modern Ethics. Connect more deeply than ever before through the scope of Letters of Paul and Contemporary Communication, and discover a cultural keystone amidst the fascinating weave of Symbols from Revelation in Popular Culture. As you delve further, chapters such as The Wisdom Books and Psychological Insights offer a new lens to view personal suffering and resilience, while The Prophets' Messages in Social Justice Movements emphasize a clarion call for change that we continue to hear and heed in current times. "Bridging the Sacred" invites you not merely to read but to participate--to find your voice in the chorus of generations. Explore Sacred Songs in Secular Spaces and consider the emotional power of hymns outside church walls, or traverse the evolving landscape of faith and nature within The Creation Narrative and Environmental Awareness. This book empowers you to draw from the well of history to quench the thirst of the now.On this pilgrimage of understanding, walking the sacred bridges of wisdom is an exhilarating adventure. Turn the page, and the next step in your spiritual and intellectual evolution awaits. Are you ready to cross the threshold and be transformed by the "Echoes of Scripture in Modern Wisdom"? The journey is yours to begin.

Author : Donald B. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442668546

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Sacred Feathers by Donald B. Smith Pdf

Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in preserving their land and their rights. Donald B. Smith’s biography of this remarkable Ojibwa leader shows how well those early lessons were learned and how Jones used them to advance the welfare of his people. A groundbreaking book, Sacred Feathers was one of the first biographies of a Canadian Aboriginal to be based on his own writings – drawing on Jones’s letters, diaries, sermons, and his history of the Ojibwas – and the first modern account of the Mississauga Indians. As summarized by M.T. Kelly in Saturday Night when the book was first published in 1988, “This biography achieves something remarkable. Peter Jones emerges from its pages alive. We don’t merely understand him by the book’s end: we know him.”

Author : Michelle LeBaron
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787966157

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Bridging Troubled Waters by Michelle LeBaron Pdf

Bridging Troubled Waters is about a robust and holistic approach to resolving conflict. It begins where much of the currently accepted theory and practice in the field leaves off. Like a hand pulling back the curtain from parts of us that have been closeted away, this book reveals ways we can use more of ourselves in addressing conflict. Moving beyond the analytic and the intellectual, it situates our efforts at bridging conflict in the very places where conflict is born--relationships. From relationships come connection, meaning, and identity. It is through awareness of connection, shared meaning, and respect for identity that conflicts are transformed.

Author : Linda Stout
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807043095

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Bridging the Class Divide by Linda Stout Pdf

Again and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead. It can be done. Linda Stout herself grew up in poverty in rural North Carolina and went on to found one of this country's most successful and innovative grassroots organizations, the Piedmont Peace Project. Working for peace, jobs, health care, and basic social services in North Carolina's conservative Piedmont region, the project has attracted national attention for its success in drawing leadership from within a working-class community, actively encouraging diversity, and empowering people who have never had a voice in policy decisions to speak up for their own interests. The Piedmont Peace Project demonstrates that new ways of organizing can really work. Bridging the Class Divide tells the inspiring story of Linda Stout's life as the daughter of a tenant farmer, as a self-taught activist, and as a leader in the progressive movement. It also gives practical lessons on how to build real working relationships between people of different income levels, races, and genders. This book will inspire and enrich anyone who works for change in our society.

Author : Amy Blackthorn
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411531

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Sacred Smoke by Amy Blackthorn Pdf

A guide to using smoke and scents to create a positive, healing home for you and your family. Aromatherapist and long-time herbalist Amy Blackthorn offers the essential tools for creating sacred space—a safe space free of negative energies—using herbs, incense, smoke, and other practices. “No matter your faith,” writes Amy Blackthorn, “practicing with sacred smoke is a powerful way to make your intentions known and support change in your life. . . . An argument between friends can be hashed out over calming lavender smoke. A home can find prosperity in the embrace of burning clove powder. Space can be consecrated with the grace and devotional power of cedar. Every ritual or occasion can be tailored to the language of scent.” Written in an accessible style, free of jargon, Sacred Smoke has everything you need to know to get started on your practice of purification and cleansing, including: The importance of self-care How to keep your home and family safe How to protect your home while you are away Adding crystals to your cleansing practice Using essential herbs and recipes for creating cleansing smoke Sacred Smoke is an essential guide for anyone seeking to practice the ritual use of cleansing and clearing to protect and heal themselves, their home, and their family.

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310104933

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Bridging Theory and Practice in Children's Spirituality by Zondervan, Pdf

Bridging Theory and Practice in Children's Spirituality explores the different contexts, methods, and situations that influence and foster a child's spirituality and faith development. Through a blend of theoretical understanding held in tension with practical application, it equips those who are in, or being prepared for, the varied contexts where children are spiritually formed. It represents a broad range of Christian expression writing from a Christ-centered perspective that furthers the conversation about the next steps in children's spirituality and faith development. Moving beyond the basics of faith nurture and what makes for effective ministry, this resource deepens our understanding of the practices in children's lives by bringing together the best of theory and practice and includes contributions from: Dr. Scottie May (Wheaton College) Dr. Kevin Lawson (Biola University) Dr. Erik Carter (Vanderbilt University) John Roberto (Vibrant Faith) Dr. Dana Kennamer Pemberton (Abilene Christian University) Dr. Shirley Morganthaler (Concordia University - Chicago) Dr. Holly Catterton Allen (Lipscomb University) Dr. Robert Keeley (Calvin College and Calvin Seminary) Dr. Mimi Larson (Wheaton College) Lacy Finn Borgo ( Renovaré Institute) and others. Pastors, professors, seminary students and children's ministry leaders and practitioners all believe that nurturing a child's spiritual development is important. Yet often they are unsure about which current trends should be embraced. This book will help equip these people with the grounding needed to evaluate trends and with specific suggestions for moving forward. With short, accessibly written chapters it helps pastors and leaders stay up to date with current trends and is an excellent resource for teaching in college and seminary classrooms.