Holy Ignorance

Author : Roy Olivier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190257156

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Holy Ignorance by Roy Olivier Pdf

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. The secularization of society was supposed to free people from religion, yet individuals are converting en masse to fundamentalist faiths, such as Protestant evangelicalism, Islamic Salafism, and Haredi Judaism. These religions either reconnect adherents to their culture through casual referents, like halal fast food, or maintain their momentum through purification rituals, such as speaking in tongues, a practice that allows believers to utter a language that is entirely their own. Instead of a return to traditional religious worship, we are now witnessing the individualisation of faith and the disassociation of faith communities from ethnic and national identities. Roy explores the options now available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalisation or homogenisation will further divide believers from their culture.

Author : Roy Olivier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190257439

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Holy Ignorance by Roy Olivier Pdf

Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. The secularization of society was supposed to free people from religion, yet individuals are converting en masse to fundamentalist faiths, such as Protestant evangelicalism, Islamic Salafism, and Haredi Judaism. These religions either reconnect adherents to their culture through casual referents, like halal fast food, or maintain their momentum through purification rituals, such as speaking in tongues, a practice that allows believers to utter a language that is entirely their own. Instead of a return to traditional religious worship, we are now witnessing the individualisation of faith and the disassociation of faith communities from ethnic and national identities. Roy explores the options now available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalisation or homogenisation will further divide believers from their culture.

Author : Ephraim Radner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Holy Spirit
ISBN : 1481310798

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A Profound Ignorance by Ephraim Radner Pdf

"Charts the rise of pneumatology alongside developments in modern history and proposes an alternate doctrine of the Spirit to address perennial existential questions"--

Author : Romina Yalonetzky
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644697443

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Gente como Uno by Romina Yalonetzky Pdf

In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as “Los Manzanos” (“The Apple Trees”) but whose name changes to “Maimonides” (the Jewish sage) depending on which sign you look at. As she takes us on a stroll through this six-block street and its different names, Dr. Romina Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersection between Peruvian and Jewish identity, elucidated through the varied voices and experiences of Peruvian Jews. This book sheds a novel light on both Jewish and Peruvian identities.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551991764

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God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Author : Joseph Green PILKINGTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026975320

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The Spiritual Garland, Being Extracts from English Sacred Writers Illustrative of the Truths of Christianity. Selected and Arranged by J. G. P. by Joseph Green PILKINGTON Pdf

Author : Christopher Yuan
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780735290921

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Holy Sexuality and the Gospel by Christopher Yuan Pdf

From the author of Out of a Far Country, which details his dramatic conversion from an agnostic gay man who put his identity in his sexuality to a Bible professor who now puts his identity in Christ alone, comes a gospel-centered discussion of sex, desire, and relationships. Dr. Christopher Yuan explores the concept of holy sexuality--chastity in singleness or faithfulness in marriage--in a practical and relevant manner, equipping readers with an accessible yet robust theology of sexuality. Whether you want to share Christ with a loved one who identifies as gay or you're wrestling with questions of identity yourself, this book will help you better understand sexuality in light of God's grand story and realize that holy sexuality is actually good news for all.

Author : Olivier Roy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231542036

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In Search of the Lost Orient by Olivier Roy Pdf

Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political Islam. But he is not only a scholar—he is also a traveler. Roy's keen and iconoclastic insights emerge from a lifetime of study combined with intrepid exploration through Afghanistan and Central Asia. In this book-length interview, Roy tells the lively and colorful story of his many adventures and discoveries in a variety of social and political settings and how they have come to shape his understanding of the Islamic world and its complex recent history. In Search of the Lost Orient is a candid, personal account of the experiences that led Roy to challenge his youthful ideas of an untouched, romanticized East and build a new intellectual framework to better understand and cohabit with the religions, politics, and cultures of the East, West, North, and South. In conversation with Jean-Louis Schlegel of the French magazine Esprit, Roy offers insight into the key themes of his career. Roy's immersion in the complexities of many Central Asian territories started him on his critique of the idea of an essentialized Islam. Alongside tales of backpacking from Paris to Kabul, his Afghan decade during the Soviet invasion, and official travel to post-Soviet Central Asia in the 1990s, Roy reflects on the nature of political and humanitarian engagement in this part of the world. He recounts his formative years, education, and developing political commitments and speaks to his evolving place within France's shifting intellectual and religious cultures. This book outlines Roy's lifelong practice—a combination of deliberate research goals and chance encounters—that examines Islam, immigration, and, more broadly, the future of cultures, religions, and secularism in the face of globalization. Both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue through some of the world's pivotal places, In Search of the Lost Orient offers a striking testimony to the many facets of an exceptional thinker.

Author : Lorenzo Scupoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600088721

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Repr. The spiritual conflict and conquest, by J. Castaniza. Ed. by canon [J.] Vaughan by Lorenzo Scupoli Pdf

Author : Juan de Castañiza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Christian life
ISBN : BML:37001101249055

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The Spiritual Conflict and Conquest by Juan de Castañiza Pdf

Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600080428

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Halcyon hours: poems by Kenelm Henry Digby Pdf

Author : Olivier Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
ISBN : 9781849046985

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Jihad and Death by Olivier Roy Pdf

Islamic State has replaced Al Qaeda as the great global threat of the twenty-first century, the bogeyman we have all come to fear. But Daesh started as a local movement, rooted in the resentment of the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria. It is they who have lost most in the geo-strategic shift in the balance of power in the region over the last thirty years, as Iranian-backed Shias have mobilised politically and advanced on the social and economic fronts. How has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and to attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this compelling intervention into the debate about Islamic State's origins and future prospects, the renowned French sociologist of religion, Olivier Roy, argues that the group mobilised a highly sophisticated narrative, reviving the myth of the Caliphate and recasting it into a modern story of heroism, death and nihilism, using a very contemporary aesthetic of violence, well entrenched amid a youth culture that has turned global and violent.

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600067321

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We and Our Neighbours Or The Records of an Unfashionable Street. A Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011986655

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We and Our Neighbors by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

Author : Nadia Marzouki,Duncan McDonnell,Olivier Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 184904516X

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Saving the People by Nadia Marzouki,Duncan McDonnell,Olivier Roy Pdf

Critical look at the new wave of right-wing populist movements that are using religion to mobilise people. Western democracies are experiencing a new wave of right-wing populism that seeks to mobilise religion for its own ends. With chapters on the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Israel, Saving the People asks how populist movements have used religion for their own ends and how church leaders react to them. The authors contend that religion is more about belonging than belief for populists, with religious identities and traditions being deployed to define who can and cannot be part of `the people¿. This in turn helps many populists to claim that native Christian communities are being threatened by a creeping and highly aggressive process of Islamisation, with Muslims becoming a key `enemy of the people¿. While Church elites generally condemn this instrumental use of religions, populists take little heed, presenting themselves as the true saviours of the people. The policy implications of this phenomenon are significant, which makes this book all the more timely and relevant to current debate.