Ergebnis für "Les Contes" in Religiöse Studien

In Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues that during this time of religious ferment, religious seekers could, in turn, play the missionary or the convert. The dynamic of religious rivalry inexorably led toward sexual and gender disruption.

In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims' definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow.

Dans la spiritualité amérindienne, toutes les formes de vie sont liées les unes aux autres et significatives. L'être humain, qui dans la philosophie occidentale domine la nature, n'est plus ici le seul donneur de sens. Il est convié au respect et à l'admiration, attitudes qui l'ouvrent aux riches mystères de l'existence. Tel est l'esprit de ce petit livre audio né d'une contemplation amoureuse de la faune, de la flore et des traditions ancestrales.