From Belonging To Belief

Author : Julie McBrien
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822983057

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From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away the multiple layers that have shaped the return of public Islam in the region. She explores belief and nonbelief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. McBrien shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites: a Soviet-era cleric who continues to hold great influence; popular television programs; religious instruction at wedding parties; clothing; celebrations; and others. Through ethnographic research, McBrien reveals how moving toward Islam is not a simple step but rather a deliberate and personal journey of experimentation, testing, and knowledge acquisition. Moreover she argues that religion is not always a matter of belief—sometimes it is essentially about belonging. From Belonging to Belief offers an important corrective to studies that focus only on the pious turns among Muslims in Central Asia, and instead shows the complex process of evolving religion in a region that has experienced both Soviet atheism and post-Soviet secularism, each of which has profoundly formed the way Muslims interpret and live Islam.

Author : JULIE. MCBRIEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887194455

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ENG: From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away the multiple layers that have shaped the return of public Islam in the region. She explores belief and nonbelief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. McBrien shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites: a Soviet-era cleric who continues to hold great influence; popular television programs; religious instruction at wedding parties; clothing; celebrations; and others. Through ethnographic research, McBrien reveals how moving toward Islam is not a simple step but rather a deliberate and personal journey of experimentation, testing, and knowledge acquisition. Moreover she argues that religion is not always a matter of belief--sometimes it is essentially about belonging. RUS: Эта книга -- тонкое этнографическое исследование ислама и секуляризма в постсоветской Центральной Азии на примере небольшого городка Базар-Кор- гон на юге Кыргызстана. С помощью этнографического подхода Джули Макбрайен показывает, что переход местных жителей к исламу -- это сознательный и личный путь экспериментов, испытаний и приобретения знаний.

Author : Abby Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191618130

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Believing in Belonging by Abby Day Pdf

Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries. Starting from a qualitative study based in northern England, and then broadening the data to include other parts of Europe and North America, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'. The concept of 'performative belief' helps explain how otherwise non-religious people can bring into being a Christian identity related to social belongings. What is often dismissed as 'nominal' religious affiliation is far from an empty category, but one loaded with cultural 'stuff' and meaning. Day introduces an original typology of natal, ethnic and aspirational nominalism that challenges established disciplinary theory in both the European and North American schools of the sociology of religion that assert that most people are 'unchurched' or 'believe without belonging' while privately maintaining beliefs in God and other 'spiritual' phenomena. This study provides a unique analysis and synthesis of anthropological and sociological understandings of belief and proposes a holistic, organic, multidimensional analytical framework to allow rich cross cultural comparisons. Chapters focus in particular on: the genealogies of 'belief' in anthropology and sociology, methods for researching belief without asking religious questions, the acts of claiming cultural identity, youth, gender, the 'social' supernatural, fate and agency, morality and a development of anthropocentric and theocentric orientations that provides a richer understanding of belief than conventional religious/secular distinctions.

Author : Avril Maddrell,Alan Terry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317060314

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Sacred Mobilities by Avril Maddrell,Alan Terry Pdf

This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities. Drawing on rich, situated case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection discusses what mobility in the social sciences, arts and humanities can tell us about movements and journeys prompted by religious, more broadly ’spiritual’ and 'secular-sacred' practices and priorities. Problematizing the fixity of sacred places and times as territorially and temporally bounded entities that exist in opposition to ’profane’ everyday life, this collection looks at the intersection between the embodied-emotional-spiritual experience of places, travel, belief-practices and communities. It is this geographically-informed perspective on the interleaving of religious/ spiritual/ secular notions of the sacred with the material and more-than-representational attributes of associated mobilities and related practices which constitutes this volume’s original contribution to the field.

Author : Abby Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199577873

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Believing in Belonging by Abby Day Pdf

Drawing on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'.

Author : Nora Krug
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781476796635

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Belonging by Nora Krug Pdf

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).

Author : Joshua Dolezal
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609382391

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Down from the Mountaintop by Joshua Dolezal Pdf

A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents’ quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, and Uruguay. Yet even as he sought to understand his place in the world, he continued to yearn for his mountain home. For more than a decade, Doležal taught in the Midwest throughout the school year but returned to Montana and Idaho in the summers to work as a firefighter and wilderness ranger. He reveled in the life of the body and the purifying effects of isolation and nature, believing he had found transcendence. Yet his summers tied him even more to the mountain landscape, fueling his sense of exile on the plains. It took falling in love, marrying, and starting a family in Iowa to allow Doležal to fully examine his desire for a spiritual mountaintop from which to view the world. In doing so, he undergoes a fundamental redefinition of the nature of home and belonging. He learns to accept the plains on their own terms, moving from condemnation to acceptance and from isolation to community. Coming down from the mountaintop means opening himself to relationships, grounding himself as a husband, father, and gardener who learns that where things grow, the grower also takes root.

Author : William L. Sachs,Michael S. Bos
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819229007

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A Church Beyond Belief by William L. Sachs,Michael S. Bos Pdf

Addresses “belonging before believing” and other new patterns for remaking congregations As we move beyond the “emergent” or “missional” church paradigm, pastors and other church leaders are discovering a new reality: people (especially younger generations) are coming to church not as believers, but to find a place to belong—with or without faith. This book describes the dilemma and the distractions that currently prevent congregations from being the place where that sense of belonging can unfold and guide newcomers in the discovery of faith. The authors argue that despite elaborate talk of change, spirituality, transformation, and conflict resolution, congregations are still mired in old patterns of belonging. Using broad-based career experiences, surveys of religious life, historical precedent, and insights from social psychology about what it means to belong today, the book suggests new and effective approaches to help churches make vital connections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814615988

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Belief and Belonging by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351904841

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Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland by Claire Mitchell Pdf

Has conflict in Northern Ireland kept political dimensions of religion alive, and has religion played a role in fuelling conflict? Conflict in Northern Ireland is not and never will be a holy war. Yet religion is more socially and politically significant than many commentators presume. In fact, religion has remained a central feature of social identity and politics throughout conflict as well as recent change. There has been an acceleration of interest in the relationship between religion, identity and politics in modern societies. Building on this debate, Claire Mitchell presents a challenging analysis of religion in contemporary Northern Ireland, arguing that religion is not merely a marker of ethnicity and that it continues to provide many of the meanings of identity, community and politics. In light of the multifaceted nature of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Mitchell explains that, for Catholics, religion is primarily important in its social and institutional forms, whereas for many Protestants its theological and ideological dimensions are more pressing. Even those who no longer go to church tend to reproduce religious stereotypes of 'them and us'. Drawing on a range of unique interview material, this book traces how individuals and groups in Northern Ireland have absorbed religious types of cultural knowledge, belonging and morality, and how they reproduce these as they go about their daily lives. Despite recent religious and political changes, the author concludes that perceptions of religious difference help keep communities in Northern Ireland socially separate and often in conflict with one another.

Author : Kevin Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744091137

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A Kids Book About Belonging by Kevin Carroll Pdf

A clear explanation of what belonging is, and how to accept and understand who you are. This is a kids book about belonging. It tackles what it’s like when you feel like you belong to a group or family or team, and what it’s like when you don’t. It addresses what it feels like when you don’t fit in, or when it may feel like others don’t want you around. This book teaches kids aged 5-9 how to incorporate the feeling of belonging into their lives. The feeling of belonging is something that everyone strives for, which is why it’s important to know how to belong to yourself and love who you are, and how that helps you to belong anywhere. A Kids Book About Belonging features: - A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages. - A friendly, approachable, yet empowering, kid-appropriate tone throughout. - An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic. Tackling important discourse together! The A Kids Book About series are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic. A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way. With a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs, made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

Author : Patrick Q. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629721816

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Planted by Patrick Q. Mason Pdf

Author : Sebene Selassie
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062940674

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You Belong by Sebene Selassie Pdf

"A POWERFUL WORK OF SPIRITUALITY AND ANTI-RACISM"—Publishers Weekly "IF YOU READ ONE BOOK IN 2020, MAKE IT THIS ONE."—Tricycle From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other You are not separate. You never were. You never will be. We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we certainly don’t always practice it. In fact, we often practice the opposite—disconnection and domination. From unconscious bias to “cancel culture,” denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom. In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yourself and others. To belong is also to acknowledge injustice, reckon with history, and face our own shadows. Full of practical advice and profound revelations, You Belong makes a winning case for resisting the forces that demand separation and reclaiming the connection—and belonging—that have been ours all along.

Author : Aswin Sarang
Publisher : Aswin Sarang
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Belief Bible - Volume 2 by Aswin Sarang Pdf

Welcome to Volume 2 of 'The Belief Bible', your continued journey towards self-discovery and personal transformation. Building on the foundation laid in the first volume, this book delves deeper into the power of positive affirmations and the practice of intentional mindset shifts. In this volume, we explore new themes and areas of life, including acceptance, adventure, affection & ambition, etc. Each affirmation has been meticulously crafted to help you break through barriers and overcome challenges that may have held you back. This book also introduces advanced exercises designed to help you apply these affirmations in real-life scenarios. These exercises, easy to integrate into your daily routine, are aimed at fostering a proactive attitude and empowering you to take decisive steps towards your goals. Readers of 'The Belief Bible: Volume 1' have reported profound changes in their lives, attributing their success to the regular practice of these affirmations. Whether you're aiming to enhance your personal relationships, boost your health, elevate your career, or improve your financial situation, this book provides the tools you need.

Author : Paul D. Lowe
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781787920194

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Blessed Beyond Belief by Paul D. Lowe Pdf

16 Diverse Life Topics 22 Contributing Authors Foreword by Cory Lopes-Warfield Blessed Beyond Belief: My Messages to Multi-Millions is a captivating book that brings together an impressive host of influential coauthors – each a prominent change-maker in their respective field – to share their unique perspectives on pressing global issues. Through their collective wisdom, the book presents a panoramic view of the challenges and opportunities that define our world today. Drawing on their extensive experiences and expertise, these experts and influencers provide insightful analyses, personal anecdotes, and innovative real solutions to address these complex challenges. Even simple, red pencils, telling stories, acts of kindness, giving a child a ball, and, of course, in nearly every chapter, the power of singing a song. No topic is off-limits and the conversations in the sixteen chapters based on podcasts are spontaneous. The book is a testament to the power of collaboration and diverse viewpoints from world game-changers, as it seamlessly weaves together narratives from different cultures, regions, and walks of life, with a heavily American emphasis. These stories not only shed light on the urgency of these global issues, but also inspire readers to take action and contribute to positive change so that we all can be Blessed Beyond Belief.