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Opening the doors of wonder [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on religious rites of passage / / Arthur J. Magida
| Opening the doors of wonder [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on religious rites of passage / / Arthur J. Magida |
| Autore | Magida Arthur J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 203/.82 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ritual
Rites and ceremonies Religions |
| Soggetto non controllato |
age ceremonies
american religion bar mitzvahs bat mitzvahs buddhism cat stevens christianity christians confirmations deepak chopra elie wiesel evolution hindu hinduism huston smith islam jewish people judaism julia sweeney muslims religion religious rites of passage religious studies rites of passage roz chast scared thread ceremonies shahadas spiritual theology united states of america yusuf islam zen jukai ceremonies |
| ISBN |
1-282-36057-4
9786612360572 0-520-94171-3 1-60129-524-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: Sometimes, The Magic Works -- 1. The Descent Of The Spirit -- 2. Bob Abernethy: No Fundamental, Life-Changing Experience -- 3. Chinua Achebe: What Makes Someone Give Up Their Religion? -- 4. Huston Smith: Religion Saturated The House -- 5. Julia Sweeney: That Soldier-Of-Christ, Slap-Across-The- Face Stuff Is Sick -- 6. Jim Zogby: The Wal-Mart-Ization Of The Church -- 7. What, Really, Is A Man? -- 8. Leon Botstein: I'M Tone-Deaf To Belief -- 9. Roz Chast: I Was Like A Spy. Like A Closet Jew -- 10. Rabbi Harold Kushner: I Wanted To Make My Parents Proud -- 11. Letty And Abigail Pogrebin, Mother And Daughter: "You Are A Woman" Meant "You Do The Dishes" -- 12. Ram Dass: Mushrooms Gave Me What I Could Have Had At My Bar Mitzvah -- 13. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin: Israel And I Came Of Age Together -- 14. Elie Wiesel: I Am Not God's Policeman -- 15. The Thread Of Life -- 16. Deepak And Gotham Chopra, Father And Son: Religion Is Frequently Idiotic -- 17. Waking Up -- 18. Roshi John Daido Loori: Born A Buddha. Die A Buddha -- 19. Robert Thurman: I Looked Like Henry Miller In Drag -- 20. Allah Is One -- 21. Coleman Barks: Just Being Sentient Is Cause For Rapture -- 22. Dr. Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens): Floating On A Cloud Of Mercy -- 23. Michael Wolfe: I Feel Like A Monotheist With Extra Credentials -- Epilogue: Would Anyone Riding By On A Horse Even Notice? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784407603321 |
Magida Arthur J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin
| Transforming Terror : Remembering the Soul of the World / / Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.325 |
| Soggetto topico |
Violence -- Prevention
Terrorism - Psychological aspects Terror - Prevention Terrorism Violence Emotional intelligence |
| Soggetto non controllato |
activist
amos oz bombing civilians comparative religion compassion conflict crusade daniel ellsberg desmond tutu fatema mernissi forgiveness fritjof capra george lakoff healing holy war huston smith islam jack kornfield jihad mahmoud darwish nonfiction pacifism peace political leaders redemption religious war riane eisler sociology terrorism terrorist violence terrorist terry tempest williams violence war on terror world peace |
| ISBN |
1-283-27811-1
9786613278111 0-520-94945-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Transforming Terror -- Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. A Deeper Look -- CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism -- Civilian casualties: The New Frontline -- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War -- Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 -- U.S. Nuclear Terrorism -- The Truth of War -- Afternoon -- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons -- The First Car Bomb -- Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims -- Casida of the Lament -- An Injured Child -- Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention -- Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought -- The American Psyche after September 11 -- On Religion and Terrorism -- The Spiritual Source of Islam -- Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism -- Lynched for No Offense -- Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America -- Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 -- I Have Come to This Earth -- CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery -- Writings for a Liberation Psychology -- Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11 -- Be Ahead of All Parting -- The Deeper Wound -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Just One Story -- Unfolding -- The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons -- The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade -- Under Bombardment in Beirut -- I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work -- Interrupted Subjects -- Not a Pass -- Peace -- Shantideva's Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama) -- We Are Fields before Each Other -- CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth -- How to Cure a Fanatic -- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness -- A Ritual to Read to Each Other -- Terror Comes Full Circle -- He Would Need Some Shoes -- Thoughts for the Times on War and Death -- Our Culture's Divided Soul -- The Denial of Death -- The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 -- Against Certainty -- Another Kind of Heroism -- On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom -- PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0 -- CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair -- Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat -- An Interview by David Montenegro -- In a Dark Time -- Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- The Testing-Tree -- Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul -- A Terrible Love of War -- Morphologies of Silence -- overcoming cruelty -- Eulogy for The Martyred Children -- CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III) -- Naming the Perpetrator -- There Was no Farewell -- Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness -- Half-life of a Despot -- Moby Dick -- Crises of the Republic -- A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) -- The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) -- Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers -- Rape as a War Crime -- The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA -- Zoroastrian Prayer -- CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence -- Terror, Domination, and Partnership -- The Crowned Cannibals -- The Mind as Erotic Weapon -- The Birth of Plea sure -- A Woman's Side of the Story -- Please Listen to the Women of Iraq -- Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan -- Behind Bars -- Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence -- She Cannot Be Lost to Me -- Joining Prayers -- Serenity -- Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize -- Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe -- CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace -- Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama -- From Them to Us -- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation -- Falling Bodies -- Forgive Us -- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? -- Sustainability, Security, and Peace -- Wilenska -- On Forgiveness -- Good Friday World -- A Heart as Wide as the World -- A Task -- The Table of Peace -- The Courage to Wait -- Buddhist Meditation on Compassion -- In My Soul -- CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation -- Hope in The Dark -- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion -- Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future -- Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence -- Candles in Babylon -- On Citizen Diplomacy -- A New World Diplomacy -- On Courage and Resistance -- War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can't Heal Hatred -- The Courage to Love -- At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace -- The Greatest Danger -- Thanks but No Thanks -- The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty -- The Generation of Trust -- Contributor Biographies -- Credits |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789634503321 |
| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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