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The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the millennium. This book brings together pronouncements, edicts and scriptures written by apocalyptic movements, to offer a look into their belief systems.
Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, this book shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials.
In a well-known hadith, Muhammed advises Muslims that, "On the day of Resurrection, you will be called by your names and the names of your fathers; so keep beautiful names". This dictionary of Muslim names lists the Arabic, Persian, or Turkish spelling, along with the English transliteration.
In a well-known hadith, Muhammed advises Muslims that, "On the day of Resurrection, you will be called by your names and the names of your fathers; so keep beautiful names". This dictionary of Muslim names lists the Arabic, Persian, or Turkish spelling, along with the English transliteration.
Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abu Nuwas was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this ......
Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide
A volume that provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts. It also shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent.
Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide
Drawing on historical and ethnographic sources, this volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent.
