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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480572903321

Autore

Harris Brian

Titolo

When faith turns ugly : understanding toxic faith and how to avoid it / / Brian Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Keynes, England : , : Paternoster, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78078-341-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Disciplina

248.86

Soggetti

Religious addiction - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Jekyll or Hyde: More Than a Minor Dilemma; A Perplexing Problem; Intra- and Inter-Faith Differences; Faith as an Opiate; Faith as Illusion; Faith as Poisonous; Some Ways Forward; On Not Defending Fundamentalism; In Conversation with Victor Owuor; To Ponder and Discuss; 2 What about Other Religions?; Getting Going; When Faiths Encounter Each Other; But the Bible Is Not Sympathetic to Other Faiths . . .; But I Believe My Faith Is True . . .; What about Different Versions of Our Own Faith?

In Conversation with Lloyd PorterTo Ponder and Discuss; 3 Marx: Faith as Escapism; Religion, the Opiate of the Masses?; Is Worship Escapism?; Is a Contemplative Lifestyle Escapism?; Seven Risks to Watch Out For; In Conversation with Travis Fitch; To Ponder and Discuss; 4 Freud: Faith as Illusion; A Father Christmas Faith?; Extrinsic, Intrinsic and Quest Religious Orientations; The Explanatory Power of the Christian Metanarrative; What Does This Mean?; In Conversation with Yvonne Kilpatrick; To Ponder and Discuss; 5 Hitchens: Faith as Poisonous; An Encouraging Story; Attitudes to Avoid

Systemic RisksRegaining the Right to Be Prophetic; In Conversation with Deborah Hurn; To Ponder and Discuss; 6 And What About . . . ? Some Other Temptations; A Worrying Story; Leadership Traps; Forgetting That People Matter; Cultivating Burnout; Muddled Thinking; In



Conversation with Dianne Tidball; To Ponder and Discuss; 7 Contours for a Transforming Christian World View; The Link between Belief and Lifestyle; Six Common Problem Areas; Piecing This Together; In Conversation with Stephen O'Doherty; To Ponder and Discuss; 8 Life-Serving Faith: Transformed Individuals; The Big Picture

What 'Whole in Christ' Might Look Like: An Orthopathy FilterWhen Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy and Orthopathy Meet: Ten Signs; Putting It Together; In Conversation with Rob Furlong; To Ponder and Discuss; 9 Life-Serving Faith: The Global Impact; A Heartening Claim; Snapshots from the Early Church; Contemporary Options; In Conversation with Phillip Nash; To Ponder and Discuss; 10 Theology Matters: The Case for a Core Conviction; Some Background; Why This Topic?; Discovering Grenz; The Case for a Core Conviction; In Conversation with Becky Oates; To Ponder and Discuss

11 A Closing Portrait: The Jesus QuestionThe Jesus Question; The 'I Am' Claims; In Conversation with Peter Christofides; To Ponder and Discuss; Bibliography; Endnotes

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787623903321

Titolo

Islamic reform in South Asia / / edited by Filippo Osella, Caroline Osella [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-316-09988-1

1-107-27330-7

1-107-27194-0

1-107-27403-6

1-107-27729-9

1-107-27852-X

1-107-27527-X

1-139-38278-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 509 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

297.0954/09051

Soggetti

Islam - South Asia - History

Islamic renewal - South Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The equivocal history of a Muslim reformation / Faisal Devji -- Islamic reform and modernities in South Asia / Francis Robinson -- Reform Sufism in South Asia / Pnina Werbner -- Breathing in India, c. 1890 / Nile Green -- The enemy within: Madras and Muslim identity in North India / Arshad Alam -- Islamism and reform in Kerala, South India / Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella -- Piety as politics amongst Muslim women in contemporary Sri Lanka / Farzana Haniffa -- The changing perception of three Muslim men on the question of saint worship over a 10-year period in Gujarat, Western India / Edward Simpson -- Women, politics, and Islamism in Northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- Violence, reconstruction, and Islamic reform: studies from the Muslim "ghetto" / Rubina Jasani -- Reading the Qurʼan in Bangladesh: the politics of belief among Islamic women / Maimuna Huq -- "Cracks in the mightiest fortress": Jamaat-e-Islami's changing discourse on women / Irfan Ahmad -- Islamic feminism in India: Indian Muslim women activists and the reform of Muslim personal law / Sylvia Vatuk -- Disputing contraception: Muslim reform, secular change, and fertility / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffery -- Cosmopolitan Islam in a diasporic space: foreign resident Muslim women's halaqa in the Arabian peninsula / Attiya Ahmad -- Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: women, democracy, and the transformation of Islamist politics / Elona Shehabuddin -- Secularism beyond the state: the state and the market in Islamist imagination / Humeina Iqtidar.

Sommario/riassunto

The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates Sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist - if not altogether demonised as terrorist.