Prophet Of Reason

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861547371

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'An outstanding intellectual biography.' Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts here. Soon he’s reading Newtonian science and the radical ideas of Voltaire and Volney: he loses his religion, turning away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, as civil war rages in Syria, he finds a new faith – Evangelical Protestantism. His obstinate polemics scandalise his community. Then, in 1860, Mishaqa barely escapes death in the most notorious event in Damascus: a massacre of several thousand Christians. We are presented with a paradox: rational secularism and violent religious sectarianism grew up together. By tracing Mishaqa’s life through this tumultuous era, when empires jostled for control, Peter Hill answers the question: What did people in the Middle East actually believe? It’s a world where one man could be a Jew, an Orthodox Christian and a Sunni Muslim in turn, and a German missionary might walk naked in the streets of Valletta.

Author : Nancy K. Stalker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824832261

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Prophet Motive by Nancy K. Stalker Pdf

From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871–1948) transformed his mother-in-law’s small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the mainstream media, Oomoto quickly became the fastest-growing religion in Japan of the time. In telling the story of Onisaburô and Oomoto, Nancy Stalker not only gives us the first full account in English of the rise of a heterodox movement in imperial Japan, but also provides new perspectives on the importance of "charismatic entrepreneurship" in the success of new religions around the world. She makes the case that these religions often respond to global developments and tensions (imperialism, urbanization, consumerism, the diffusion of mass media) in similar ways. They require entrepreneurial marketing and management skills alongside their spiritual authority if their groups are to survive encroachments by the state and achieve national/international stature. Their drive to realize and extend their religious view of the world ideally stems from a "prophet" rather than "profit" motive, but their activity nevertheless relies on success in the modern capitalist, commercial world. Unlike many studies of Japanese religion during this period, Prophet Motive works to dispel the notion that prewar Shinto was monolithically supportive of state initiatives and ideology.

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Author : Nancy K. Stalker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824864040

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Prophet Motive by Nancy K. Stalker Pdf

From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871–1948) transformed his mother-in-law’s small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the mainstream media, Oomoto quickly became the fastest-growing religion in Japan of the time. In telling the story of Onisaburô and Oomoto, Nancy Stalker not only gives us the first full account in English of the rise of a heterodox movement in imperial Japan, but also provides new perspectives on the importance of "charismatic entrepreneurship" in the success of new religions around the world. She makes the case that these religions often respond to global developments and tensions (imperialism, urbanization, consumerism, the diffusion of mass media) in similar ways. They require entrepreneurial marketing and management skills alongside their spiritual authority if their groups are to survive encroachments by the state and achieve national/international stature. Their drive to realize and extend their religious view of the world ideally stems from a "prophet" rather than "profit" motive, but their activity nevertheless relies on success in the modern capitalist, commercial world. Unlike many studies of Japanese religion during this period, Prophet Motive works to dispel the notion that prewar Shinto was monolithically supportive of state initiatives and ideology.

Author : Jean Calvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X000386573

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Commentaries on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations by Jean Calvin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026631357

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Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah ... By Rev. Albert Barnes ... Edited and Carefully Corrected by Rev. Ingram Cobbin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781782740858

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet is a modern classic. Written in English and first published in 1923, the book has gradually become a global bestseller, its wise words a favourite. Beautifully produced in a traditional Chinese binding and with a timeless design, The Prophet is an accessible yet spiritual book to be cherished.

Author : Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Bible
ISBN : WISC:89094599057

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The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah by Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbach Pdf

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : MINN:31951D019832433

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026960990

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Commentaries on the First Twenty Chapters of the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. By John Calvin. Now First Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated with the French Version, by Thomas Myers. [With the Text in Latin and English.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Ackerman
Publisher : ICS Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780935216301

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Elijah, Prophet of Carmel by Jane Ackerman Pdf

Members of the three monotheistic faiths have always told stories of what the prophet Elijah has done and is still expected to do in sacred history. He is perhaps most appreciated by members of the Carmelite Order, known for its contemplative and pastoral orientation. Elijah is considered their legendary founder and traditional patron. Carmelites rank him as one of their greatest spiritual models. Their coat of arms displays his flaming sword, Mount Carmel, and Elijah's proclamation, "With zeal I have been zealous for the Lord God of Hosts." This book inquires into this deep appreciation. It examines the linkage between the Order and the prophet over time. More Information Beginning with the oldest knowledge we have about Elijah, coming from Scripture, Elijah Prophet of Carmel briefly sketches his role in the three faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It then turns to what the distant, but influential, Christian antecedents of the Carmelite Order, the desert hermits and the early Fathers, wrote about the zealous man of God. As the Carmelite Order was founded, achieved its corporate identity, and changed over time, so did its views of its legendary model. Interaction between storytelling about Elijah and Carmelites' understanding of themselves continues even to the present. As thoughts from the past about the prophet continue to influence them, both Teresian Carmelites and Carmelites of the Ancient Observance of our times are developing a brand-new tradition of him, the tradition of Elijah's double charism.

Author : John Calvin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773562940

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Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah Ð Volume II by John Calvin Pdf

Author : Bishop R. S. Walker Ministries
Publisher : Bishop/Prophet Rodney Walker
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0970948441

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The Renaissance Prophet's Manual by Bishop R. S. Walker Ministries Pdf

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Author : Joseph Smith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2826 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547780557

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History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith Pdf

History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a semi-official history of the early Latter Day Saint movement during the lifetime of founder Joseph Smith. It is largely composed of Smith's writings and interpretations and editorial comments by Smith's secretaries, scribes, and after Smith's death, historians of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The history was written between 1839 and 1856. It was later published in its entirety with extensive annotations and edits by B. H. Roberts as History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first six volumes of this work cover the "History of Joseph Smith" from his birth in 1805 to his death in 1844. Volume seven covers the material from immediately after Smith's death in June 1844 until the church's first general conference in Salt Lake City. Volume 1: 1805 – December 1833 Volume 2: January 1834 – December 1837 Volume 3: January 1838 – July 1839 Volume 4: July 1839 – May 1842 Volume 5: May 1842 – August 1843 Volume 6: September 1843 – June 1844 Volume 7: June 1844 – October 1848

Author : Khalil Gibran
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783849652760

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The Prophet by Khalil Gibran Pdf

'The Prophet' consists of 26 fables written by the poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. The chapters deal with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. 'The Prophet' ist one of the most translated books in the world and has been translated into more than 100 languages.