Títulos en Estudios religiosos

Join Professor David Brakke, an award-winning Professor of History at The Ohio State University, for Understanding the New Testament. In these 24 eye-opening lectures, he takes you behind the scenes to study not only the text of the New Testament, but also the authors and the world in which it was created. You will explore Jewish lives under Roman occupation, reflect on the apocalyptic mood of the first and second centuries AD, witness the early Christians’ evangelism beyond the Jewish communities, and witness the birth of a faith that continues to shape our world today.

Orthodoxy is the dominant form of Christianity in Greece, Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Its practices are largely unfamiliar in the West and have remained essentially unchanged since the earliest days of the faith. This lucid introduction outlines the tenets, nature, and holy days of Orthodox belief with the Western listener in mind. It describes the physical church, especially icons, services, and common practices, and it offers advice to visitors on how to conduct themselves so that they are accepted and feel comfortable.

The Kings of Israel and Judah is an expansive history of the many kings mentioned in The Books of Kings and Chronicles. For this reason, it is an often cited book for any scholar of Jewish and Christian history.

En utilisant principalement les archétypes du guérisseur, du mystique et de l'amant, Caroline Myss nous présente le pouvoir de la visualisation symbolique, un nouveau langage d'interprétation spirituel, qui nous aide à mieux nous comprendre, et comprendre notre mission de vie. Apprendre à interpréter symboliquement les modèles archétypes qui influencent notre énergie est un complément naturel au travail avec les chakras.

In this audiobook, you will discover how to enrich your life with the power of universal life force. Connecting your senses with the energy of your soul to bring healing into the world, you can master the techniques of Reiki and invite balance, well-being, and harmony into your everyday life. You will learn a variety of techniques, meditations, and hand positions for channeling Reiki. You will learn how it works, why it works, and the way it benefits all things in life. Today’s society is changing, and so is our understanding of our possibilities. Reiki is in you. Bring it forward.

We live in a world where strongman politics are rising, neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary voters feel helpless to effect change, resulting in outbreaks of populist anger, and traditional platforms for debate are losing their viability as readers source information online. In this short and vital polemic, progressive thinker and activist Billy Bragg argues that accountability is the antidote to authoritarianism and that without it, we can never truly be free.

Redécouvrez l'Ancien Testament en cent citations choisies pour leur force d'enseignement dans l'ensemble de ses livres. Chacune est une occasion de découverte transformatrice, rapproche de la sagesse et permet de rentrer en profondeur dans la pensée chrétienne ; rassemblées dans un format accessible et pratique, elles nourriront votre réflexion et son illustration, par des passages moins connus mais tout aussi percutants.

In the sixth volume of the Swans Are Not Silent series, John Piper celebrates the importance of poetic effort by looking at three influential Christians whose words magnificently display a commitment to truth and a love of beauty. Examining the lives of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis, Piper helps us appreciate the importance of carefully crafted words by exploring how Christians can use them to testify to God's glory, wonder at his grace, and rejoice in his salvation.

In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth.

Il respiro è la più importante di tutte le nostre funzioni corporee. Tutte le funzioni corporee dipendono dalla respirazione. Noi dipendiamo dal respiro per vivere, così come da corrette e sane abitudini di respirazione per mantenere la massima vitalità. La respirazione profonda e consapevole secondo la filosofia Huna è il principale modo per accumulare mana (l'energia vitale dell'Universo) e per riconnetterci allo spirito divino. Con la tecnica guidata scoprirai come la respirazione Huna possa essere la base per sviluppare abitudini sane.

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world.

Once in a generation, a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read or heard - a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.

On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules.

The key to understanding the Arab world today - and in the future - is unlocking its past. John McHugo takes the reader on a journey through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. He covers the mission of the Prophet Muhammad, the expansion of Islam, medieval and modern conflicts, the interaction with Western ideas, the struggle to escape foreign domination, the rise of Islamism, and the end of the era of dictators.

In this powerful audiobook by the acclaimed spiritual leader and best-selling writer, one he calls his "most important", he analyzes the profound spiritual, moral, and political crisis in the contemporary world. He says that he "considers that the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." His finding is simple: Our world is on the brink of the abyss.

> God Speaks Again is an introduction to the Bahá'í Faith and a must-read for those who are on the spiritual path seeking independent investigation of truth, as well as those Bahá'ís who would like to expand their knowledge of the Bahá'í Faith, including its history and principles. Bahá'ís believe that religions come from the same source and are, in essence, successive chapters of one religion from God. The Bahá’í’ Faith is a recognized independent world religion attracting increasing attention - and a growing number of followers.

El anticristo propugna la superación del nihilismo y del cristianismo.

Ombre in Vaticano, il Papa si riprende il portafoglio: Il caso del cardinal Becciu, bonifici a società di famiglia e milioni spariti offshore, di Massimiliano Coccia; La caduta del cardinale Becciu e la linea rossa tra fede e potere, di Paolo Garimberti; Becciu, la rete dei finanzieri vicini al porporato svelato da un pentito della segreteria, di Massimiliano Coccia; Quei milioni tolti all'Africa, di Gianluca Di Feo; Il terremoto di Bergoglio: la Segreteria di Stato resta senza portafoglio, di Paolo Rodari; Vaticano, sette uomini sotto accusa.

La decisione di trasformare di nuovo Santa Sofia in una moschea ha implicazioni non solo sulla politica interna turca ma anche sullo scenario internazionale. Le nuove sfide del 'sultano' Erdogan.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.