Títulos en Estudios religiosos

Hoy en día con un simple vistazo a los diferentes perfiles en las redes sociales podemos ver las descripciones que hacemos de nosotros mismos. Las redes pueden visibilizar, incluso sin quererlo nuestros sentimientos, nuestras emociones y relaciones; en qué ocupamos el tiempo libre, cuáles son nuestros gustos o disgustos... ¿Todo ese conjunto de información corresponde con nuestra identidad? Lo que hacemos o tenemos habla de nosotros, ¿pero representa verdaderamente quién soy?

¿Pero cómo se llegó de aquella historia en la Biblia - una joven judía dando a luz al mesías de Israel en un pesebre en la ciudad de Belén - a la Navidad moderna? La respuesta es que están ahí porque, a lo largo de veinte siglos, hubo una cadena de acontecimientos, personajes, tradiciones orales, obras artísticas que se unieron para hacer de la Navidad la estación para compartir, abrazarse, reencontrar a la familia, dar regalos y mucha azúcar a los niños....

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam - perhaps the first such portrait in half a century - unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.

La mitología de la civilización azteca, que gobernó el centro de México en los años 1400 y principios de 1500, representaba una unión de grandeza y pavor. El mundo fue creado y destruido en el mito, y los dioses magníficos lucharon entre sí. todos los dias artículo: color, número, deidad, día de el calendario adquirió un significado particular ya que cada uno estaba vinculado con una deidad. La vida religiosa azteca varió desde manteniendo estatuillas de arcilla del dios en el hogar a asistir a elaboradas ceremonias públicas que involucran sacrificios humanos.

This is a highly comprehensive introduction to the Talmud, the age-old storehouse of Jewish wisdom. Bokser covers the long history of the Talmud, from its origin in the Babylonian exile, its growth through the five centuries after the Roman destruction of the Temple, and the later persecution of the Talmud. The book covers a number of high-level topics, including social ethics and personal morality, with numerous examples from the Talmud. Ben Zion Bokser was one of the major Conservative rabbis of America.

Registrazione della conferenza tenuta a Firenze nel 2009 da Marco Ferrini, direttore del Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta, nella quale l'esperto di cultura vedica crea un affascinante parallelo tra la prima grande opera della letteratura italiana e il poema sacro più importante dell'epica induista. Divina Commedia e Bhagavad-Gita, universali monumenti del pensiero occidentale e orientale, dialogano tra loro, svelando inattese analogie tra le due culture, solo apparentemente distanti.

Buddhism is practiced by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, from Tibetan caves to Tokyo temples to redwood retreats. To an outside viewer, it might be hard to see what they all have in common. In Buddhism, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and American Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron map out with clarity the convergences and the divergences between the two major strains of Buddhism - the Sanskrit traditions of Tibet and East Asia and the Pali traditions of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.

Finally! A clear, concise, and informative overview of the beliefs and practices of the world’s great world religions. As both a wellspring of hope and an author of tragedy, religion has profoundly shaped the great civilizations of human history. An unequivocal force in the ancient world, religion continues to fire the imagination of millions in our own time and remains a fascinating index of human aspiration and creativity.

Take a spiritual journey with one of the leading living Jesuit retreat masters: Fr. Joseph Tetlow, SJ (PhD Brown University.) In this 12-conference program, Fr. Tetlow draws from decades of experience with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. He will guide you to choose Christ in the world, discover your authentic desire under God, and seek God in all things. Designed to fit into your own schedule, his retreat gives you the flexibility to take an Ignatian retreat over the course of a few days or months.

Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do. "Let your life speak" is a time-honored Quaker admonition to live one's life as witness to the deepest truths one knows. But as Parker Palmer explains, those words can also mean "listen to your life, and let it tell you what your truth is."

Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

Wayne Dyer nous propose des témoignages touchants qui dévoilent l'immense pouvoir de l'amour, de l'harmonie et de l'amabilité. Son propos est une invitation à placer nos énergies collectives au service de la paix et non à celui d'une lutte incessante avec l'existence. Dans ce titre audio à la fois pratique et profondément inspirant, Wayne Dyer appuie sa rédaction sur les conseils précieux de la prière de Saint François d'Assise, laquelle offre une introduction incomparable pour l'ouvrage le plus spirituel de Wayne W. Dyer à ce jour.

Huit pratiques spirituelles qui transformeront votre vie :s'aimer, être soi-même, être responsable, être honnête, tenir parole, suivre son cœur, être en paix, rester présent. Utilisez les clefs de cet enregistrement pour ouvrir les portes de votre vie. Emportez-les partout avec vous. Servez-vous-en aussi souvent que possible. Elles vous aideront à transformer votre expérience. La peur s'estompera et l'amour inconditionnel rayonnera. Lorsque vous vous éveillerez à l'être que vous êtes, votre entourage en fera de même.

Basado en textos escritos por el mismo Papa Francisco, este audiolibro habla de cuál es el pensamiento del Papa en torno a temas y problemas centrales de nuestro mundo actual, como la familia, el amor, la educación, el miedo, la fe o las guerras. Es clara y contundente su denuncia del amor al dinero, del uso del nombre de Dios para justificar injusticias, de la explotación del hombre por el hombre, que nos hace percibir un cambio en el mensaje y papel de la iglesia católica ante los problemas de la humanidad.

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.  

As we all know, and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called "Hitler's Pope", the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and power. But what if these long-held beliefs were all wrong?

From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works by Descartes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Heidegger, and Nietzsche also show how philosophy helped shape the thinking and events of the last 150 years.

Everything needed to understand and appreciate the traditional Latin mass! Extremely informative, yet very easy to listen to! This book explains prayer by prayer, what happens at the Latin Mass and why. Why is the Mass in Latin, the use of silence, bells, specific colors, etc. - and how we participate. Reviews are very enthusiastic! Ties in beautifully with Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio opening the door to the universal celebration of the Latin Mass.

Chakras es el resultado de 30 años de investigación, estudio y práctica terapéutica en donde Marián de Llaca sostiene que este conocimiento no es exclusivo de India, sino un saber compartido por las diferentes culturas del mundo. Por eso, cada capítulo está aderezado con simbología mexicana prehispánica con la intención de abrir un camino que permita al lector ampliar la visión que hasta ahora ha tenido sobre el tema.

Self-care is the practice of taking an active role in protecting one's own well-being and happiness. In order to do so, we must get in touch with who we are at our core. Only then can we realize how we need to show up in the world—how we want to express, without any apologies, our most authentic selves. Lessons from the Empress focuses on what the tarot can teach us about ourselves and provides exercises to strengthen our confidence in our own creative expression.