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American and European societies have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of religious edifices, and outbreaks of violence. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine contributes fuel to the aggressive debate in Western societies and creates the need for measured discussion about religion, fear, prejudice, otherness,...
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It has been described as "the greatest church history ever written outside of North America!" When the Pentecostal Awakening came to Chile, it caused an explosion that was heard throughout the country. It was followed by the expulsion of the Pentecostals from their churches, just as happened in the United States and other countries around the world. This is the story of just how it occurred in Chile; before, during and after, from 1817 to 1984. In...
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Riots and Religion in Newfoundland delves into the history of conflict between our English and Irish ancestors, a controversial topic that has been overlooked, diminished, or completely ignored in many history books. David Dawe retraces the foundation of Newfoundland's religious history and explains how the battle between the English Protestants and the Irish Roman Catholics continued from the old country to the New World. This book will take you...
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This book covers the history of humanity from the garden of Eden to present day and how humans find a way to ignore the rules of God and society which eventually leads to their demise either physically or spiritually. The author uses personal experience and events of the last half century combined with Biblical application to bring the reader to an awareness of why people act the way they do when it doesn't seem to make sense. Prophecy in the Scriptures...
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The Xaverian Missionaries of the United Kingdom and the United States organized an international conference of dialogue and exchange between humanists, atheists, and religious believers. This journal is a compilation of the presentations and reflections that built bridges of understanding and challenge to both the atheists and the theists. It is hoped this journal will encourage others to come together in respectful dialogue, seeking the common ground...
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Our missionary brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, husbands, and wives would travel thousands of miles to share the gospel to people in faraway lands. They are willing to sacrifice all to share the love of God with these people. Times are changing. Now, God is bringing people from foreign lands right to our shores. Is this a new mission? What is His reason?
Unfortunately, the present political climate and rhetoric are making it extremely difficult,...
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Three young women go to help rebuild Afghanistan for different personal reasons. Their mission is largely successful until they are kidnapped. In meeting with the natives - both the good and the bad, and in interacting with one another in good times, and bad times, they discover love beyond themselves. Overshadowing them is an Afghan warrior-princess, who is as much a part of the controversies in the land as she becomes a part of theirs. There is...
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Les sectes fermées peuvent constituer un environnement o des enfants subissent des mauvais traitements qui sont justifiés par une idéologie religieuse. Les jeunes vivant dans ces communautés isolées doivent alors être protégés, mais intervenir en milieu sectaire est ardu et beaucoup plus complexe qu'on peut l'imaginer.
Quels sont les défis auxquels sont confrontés les professionnels des services sociaux quand ils ont à intervenir auprès...
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Since heretics have positively revolutionized history and ecclesiastical dogma, we ought to praise and celebrate their lives. Whether we agree with their theology or not, we ought to emulate their bravery and boldness. If you would like to honor Martin Luther, Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, and Peter Waldo, make sure to read this book.26 pages; 25 poems.
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Terrorism could be the heading of the running chapter in human history though strife had always been its grand title. Assorted terrorist groups, to espouse their parochial causes, have been targeting their ideological opponents with utter cynicism but with articulated grievances and identified opponents besides defined terror zones that are amenable for containment and redressal and / or both, at some stage or the other.
But what of the jihadi terrorism,...
31) The Impact of Ethnic, Political, and Religious Violence on Northern Nigeria, and a Theological Re
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This publication seeks to challenge established thinking about the causes of violence in Northern Nigeria. It explores immediate and long-term effects of that violence through reflection, study, and survey of previous research. The fundamental argument within is that ethnic, political and religious violence has affected Christian perspective and core values and thus has hampered efforts towards just peacemaking.
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The Battle of Vision is an end-time manual with a clarion call to every believer to prepare the way of the LORD. This book will help you to understand the need for Vision from GOD alone. The book of Proverbs, Chapter 29 verse 18 states "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." This is not just a book. It is spiritual guide and living source for your spirit and soul. This book will challenge you. You will...
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The world today is filled with angry voices, voices that often call for isolation and even violence against those who differ from us by race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle.
At the same time there are many voices that call for us to change, to make peace, to open ourselves up to others and hear what they're saying. Most of these voices bring religious arguments to bear on the issue. Rev. Janice Springer goes a step, indeed...
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As you read through the Bible, you will notice that God is telling the stories of how He dealt with people through the ages. One common theme runs through all of history. That theme includes three events that seem to happen to everyone who chooses to follow Him. First, they are sinners. Without God's help, they cannot obey Him and receive His blessing. Second, they all seem to go through some form of trial, persecution, or suffering. Third, they turn...
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The Blessing Exchange is a 21-day devotional and journal designed to uphold, encourage, and challenge God's people through Godly devotion and journaling. This tool will nurture, empower, and support while accomplishing their God-given potential through personally connecting with scripture for meaningful reflective application in various aspects of life.
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Acclaimed journalist Dennis Covington examines how faith and violence shape our world.
In war zones witnessing widespread conflict, what makes life at all worth living? When chaos becomes a way of life in places where religion and violence intersect, what do people hold on to? If religious belief is, as Christopher Hitchens argues, the cause of wars and genocide, then is faith the cure?
Dennis Covington pursued answers to these questions for...
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This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents-Asia, Africa, and Europe-non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic) in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to legal and financial oppression, as well as social isolation. Extensive primary and secondary source materials, many translated here for the first time into...
40) Live in infamy
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"It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death."--Publisher's...
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