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一五二五年，宗教改革の渦中，幼児洗礼を拒むキリスト教の一派が誕生した．異端として迫害されながらも聖書の教えを守り，非暴力を貫いた彼らの信仰は，戦争の止まない現代に生きる私たちに何を語りかけるのか．

Una mirada profunda y completa del islam y su legado, esencial para comprender una de las religiones más influyentes del mundo Durante siglos, se ha distorsionado la imagen del islam en el imaginario occidental. A través de un enfoque histórico, Karen Armstrong invita al lector a romper con...

Religion has fascinated people for centuries. But with so many faiths practiced by so many followers, it can be difficult to understand why one religion believes one thing while another believes something entirely different. This guide gives you everything you need to know to sort through the...

For thousands of years, humans have reported encounters with gods, angels, demons, spirits, and other non-human intelligences. Modern science dismissed them as hallucinations. Religion demanded belief. Both explanations failed."Beyond the Gods" offers a third path.

Experience the pioneer trail in a different way as you get the perspective of a pioneer mother with young children written by her fourth-great-granddaughter, who also happens to be a mother with children the same age. Eliza Cusworth was born to a wealthy family in Almondbury, England. A few years after her miraculous conversion, her husband died. On his deathbed, he urged Eliza to move to Utah and raise her children amongst the saints. This book tells the story of ELIZA’s FIRE from her mischievous youth, to the wondrous day when her family is sealed in the Manti temple.

Wes Howard-Brook is an award-winning author known for his books “Come Out My People!” and “Empire Baptized.” These works provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Bible and church history, focusing on the struggle between what he terms the “Religion of Creation” (represented by the prophets and Jesus) and the “Religion of Empire” (which St. Paul refers to as the Powers and Principalities throughout history). In "Creation or Empire," Howard-Brook offers a concise overview of the key themes presented in his previous volumes.

仏教といえば、「悟りをめざす清らかな教え」というイメージを持っている人が多いと思います。ところが、仏教のはじまりは、そんなイメージとは正反対。あまりに人間臭く危険なドラマに満ちていました。

This very short introduction offers listeners a superb overview of the teachings of the Buddha, as well as a succinct guide to the integration of Buddhism into daily life.  

El libro de Vivencias, que fue escrito para edificación de la Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de Jesucristo Internacional, es una obra que, además, expone múltiples experiencias relacionadas con el amor al Creador de todo cuando existe, su búsqueda incansable durante décadas y la manifestación del Dios viviente en este tiempo. La autora abre su corazón en estas páginas, en las que se destaca la enseñanza del Autor de la vida y la invitación permanente a perseverar en los caminos del Señor.

This book will help you appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life, recognize the key traditions and festivals of the Shinto year, understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto rituals, and gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto politics and nationalism.

The Qur'an, recited daily by over 2 billion Muslims, is the final revelation sent by God (Allah) to mankind, conveyed over 23 years to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the Angel Gabriel. It speaks directly in the first person as the verbatim word of God, addressing: the nature of God, mankind's responsibilities, and the afterlife. Additionally, it features the Islamic stories of Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Joseph and many other prophets!

This Very Short Introduction to Moses Maimonides surveys his many intellectual, literary, and professional ventures. Born in Islamic Cordoba, he ultimately settled in Cairo, where he served as jurist and civic leader and a highly esteemed physician with responsibilities at the Fatimid and Ayyubid courts, even as he deepened his philosophical-theological pursuits. He moved seamlessly between specialized, private, and public Jewish and Muslim spheres.

Day after day we read of the caliphate and the Qur'an, of Sunni and Shi'a, Salafis and Sufis, integration and isolation, radicals and refugees. Almost a quarter of the world's populate is Muslim. It is clear that understanding the modern world requires knowing something about Islam. But while much is said and written about Islam and the global trends and historic events connected to it, little attention is given to placing these phenomena within their greater historical, religious and intellectual context.

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future.

Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and ethnic origin of Jewish people, Solomon explores how the religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days of the Bible.

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.

This comprehensive, accessible and factual guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. Celebrating the scientific, literary and artistic achievements of the Islamic Golden Age and the ideas of philosophers and theologians across the centuries, it opens a window on the Islamic world.

Noted journalist Yardena Schwartz draws on her extensive research and wide-ranging interviews with both sides to tell a timely, eye-opening story. She expertly weaves the war between Israel and Hamas into a historical framework, demonstrating how the conflict today cannot be understood without the context of ground zero of this century-old war, which began long before the occupation, the settlements, or the state of Israel ever existed.

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.