Islam, Christianity, and tradition : a comparative exploration / / Ian Richard Netton [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457343803321
• Autore: Netton Ian Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2006
• ISBN: 0-7486-5311-2; 9786610762521; 1-280-76252-7; 0-7486-3025-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 297.124
• Soggetti: Authority - Religious aspects - Christianity; Authority - Religious aspects - Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- ; 1. Preparation for a threefold sieve -- ; 1.1. Whose agenda for the twenty-first century? -- ; 1.2. The twentieth century revisited : surveys and approaches -- ; 1.2.1. The way of the historian of religion -- ; 1.2.2. The way of the anthropologist -- ; 1.2.3. The way of the traveller -- ; 1.3. Methodologies for a new millennium -- ; 1.3.1. Phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger : object -- ; 1.3.2. Semiotics and Eco : sign -- ; 1.3.3 Theology and Eliade : the sacred -- ; 1.3.3.1 The sacred and the profane -- ; 1.3.3.2. Mircea Eliade, the sacred and Islam -- ; 1.4. Case studies -- ; 1.4.1. Case study ground zero : object -- ; 1.4.2. Case study ground zero : sign -- ; 1.4.3. Case study ground zero : the sacred -- ; 1.5. Samuel Huntington revisited -- ; 1.6. Conclusion.; ; 2. Orthodoxy and heterodoxy : worn vocabulary explored -- 2.1. Rejecting the terms : Baldick contra Popovic and Veinstein -- ; 2.2. Christianity : sources of authority and right doctrines -- ; 2.2.1. The authority of the ekklēsía (1). Arius and Arianism -- ; 2.2.2. The authority of the ekklēsía (2). Augustine, Manichaeism and the flesh rejected -- ; 2.3. Readings : Christianity -- ; 2.3.1. Readings : Christianity -- ; 2.3.1. Reading the phenomena of Christianity -- ; ; 2.3.2. Reading the signs of Christianity -- ; 2.3.3. Reading the sacred in Christianity -- ; 2.4. Islam : sources of authority and right doctrines -- ; 2.4.1. The authority of the text (1) : Ibn Ḥanbal and the text transcendent -- ; 2.4.2. The authority of the text (2) : Al-Ghazālī and the Ismāʻīlī Imām -- ; 2.5. Readings : Islam -- ; 2.5.1. Reading the phenomena of Islam -- ; 2.5.2. Reading the signs of Islam -- ; 2.5.3. Reading the sacred in Islam -- ; 2.6. Conclusion.; ; 3. The flight to tradition : a paradigm of return and denial -- ; 3.1. Christian tradition : definitions and distinctions -- ; 3.2. Shadow and spirit : the Second Vatican Council -- ; 3.2.1. Pre-conciliar : Pascendi and Divino Afflante Spiritu -- ; 3.2.2. Intra-conciliar : Dei Verbum and John XXIII -- ; 3.2.3. Post-conciliar : the spirit and practice of Marcel Lefebvre -- ; 3.3. Sunna : definitions and distinctions -- ; 3.4. Neo-Ijtihād and return to the Salaf -- ; 3.5. Tradition, purification, Kénōsis and return -- Notes -- Bibliography of works cited -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Contemporary media sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. In comparing the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity, key themes are explored such as the roles of authority, fundamentalism, the use of reason, and ijtihad (independent thinking).

The Impact of Microorganisms on Consumption of Atmospheric Trace Gases

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910261140603321
• Autore: Claudia Knief
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frontiers Media SA, 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Collana: Frontiers Research Topics
• Soggetti: Microbiology (non-medical)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Gases with a mixing ratio of less than one percent in the lower atmosphere (i.e. the troposphere) are considered as trace gases. Numerous of these trace gases originate from biological processes in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. These gases are of relevance for the climate as they contribute to global warming or to the troposphere's chemical reactive system that builds the ozone layer or they impact on the stability of aerosols, greenhouse, and pollutant gases. These reactive trace gases include methane, a multitude of volatile organic compounds of biogenic origin (bVOCs) and inorganic gases such as nitrogen oxides or ozone. The regulatory function of microorganisms for trace gas cycling has been intensively studied for the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane, but is less well understood for microorganisms that metabolize molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide, or bVOCs. The studies compiled in this Research Topic reflect this very well. While a number of articles focus on nitrous oxide and methane or carbon monoxide oxidation, only a few articles address conversion processes of further bVOCs. The Research Topic is complemented by three review articles about the consumption of methane and monoterpenes, as well as the role of the phyllosphere as a particular habitat for trace gas-consuming microorganisms, and point out future research directions in the field. The presented scientific work illustrates that the field of microbial regulation of trace glas fluxes is still in its infancy when one broadens the view on gases beyond ; methane and nitrous oxide. However, there is a societal need to better predict global dynamics of trace gases that impact on the functionality and warming of the troposphere. Upcoming modelling approaches will need further information on process rates, features and distribution of the driving microorganisms to fulfill this demanding task.