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Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning Time's Arrow' by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger. Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World. Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs. The most powerful - and most feared - organisation in the world is the Library, in charge of expunging the written records of events, which have no longer happened. When a powerful black leader is reborn, the Library's one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart. But in this counter-clock year of 1998 it isn't that simple... This eerie and unforgettable premise encapsulates Philip K Dick's ambitious and inimitable approach to fiction writing. The attempts of his characters to cope with the bizarre reality of a world that runs backwards while their minds run forwards like ours, operate as a stunning critique of the way in which we perceive our own civilization.
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"This celebratory volume tells the story of the late Russel Hayman Botman who died suddenly early in his second term as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University. Botman's story is told from his earliest childhood years until his last day as rector. The nature of tributes and celebratory volumes is that it can never be exhaustive. It tells a rich story from limited perspectives. It, however, serves as invitation, stimulus and inspiration to others connected to Botman to also tell their stories about his story. If this story succeeds in fulfilling that role, it has served its purpose"--Back cover.
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"La vie au sein d'une secte n'est pas ce que l'on imagine ni ce que l'on peut nous en présenter à travers certains médias. La réalité de ces groupes est tout autre. Alors, qu'est-ce qu'une secte ? Qui la dirige ? Comment se présente son dirigeant ? Quelles sont ses motivations ? Comment s'assure-t-il l'adhésion de ses adeptes ? Quels sont les procédés qu'il met en œuvre pour les assujettir ? Quels sont les effets de ces procédés sur le psychisme ? C'est à toutes ces interrogations que répond cet ouvrage. La première partie présente le phénomène sectaire dans ses généralités ainsi que l'historique de la lutte anti-secte en France. Une seconde partie, tout en préservant l'anonymat des personnes, et en ne citant aucun nom de secte, présente divers dirigeants de secte, chacun rencontré lors d'un seul entretien clinique mené dans le cadre d'une expertise judiciaire afin d'analyser certains aspects de leur personnalité. Puis est ensuite abordée la question de la mise en état de sujétion psychologique en identifiant les procédés aliénants et leurs effets sur la psyché. Enfin, une dernière partie expose la pratique dévoyée de la psychothérapie dans les sectes."-- Provided by publisher.
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This title tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of religion. It explores such themes as the contexts in which religious leaders move, leadership in communities of faith, leadership as taught in theological education and training, religious leadership impacting social change and social justice, and more. Topics are examined from multiple perspectives, traditions, and faiths.
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A travers la voix de ces rayonnants missionnaires, Dieu parle aux quatre coins du monde. Caroline Pigozzi est allée à leur rencontre chez eux, dans les cathédrales, les temples, les synagogues... dans les villes et les territoires qui leur sont confiés. Au-delà du faste et du protocole qui parfois les entourent, ces ambassadeurs de Dieu sont d'abord les serviteurs de leur Foi, ceux qui arrachent nos religions au passé et les conjuguent au présent. Voici la charismatique Sœur Emmanuelle livrant de surprenantes confidences, les cardinaux Poupard et Dziwisz, grandes figures du Vatican, le Primat des Gaules le cardinal Barbarin, le cardinal Patriarche de Venise Scola et le Pasteur Baty, personnalités marquantes des Églises occidentales catholique et protestante. L'émouvant dernier entretien avec Jean-Marie cardinal Lustiger. Sa Sainteté le Patriarche œcuménique de Constantinople Bartholomée Ier, primat d'honneur de l'orthodoxie, et Sa Sainteté le Patriarche de Moscou Alexis II, puissant chef de l'Église orthodoxe de toutes les Russies. Le Prieur général Delfieux, fondateur des Fraternités monastiques de Jérusalem et aussi l'Aga Khan et le Grand Rabbin Sitruk, imposants leaders religieux dans l'univers de l'islam et du judaïsme. Et si Dieu était plus actuel que jamais ?
Religious leaders --- Chefs religieux --- Interviews --- Entretiens
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On the life and achievements of Śrīdharasvāmin, celebrated religious leader of medieval India.
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In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve - what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face. ... All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869-1948), nearly all of them have focused on the national, political, social, economic, educational, environmental, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search of spiritual liberation. Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi's spiritual life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of Gandhi's life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhi's inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in karma and rebirth, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of history's most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the spirit helped liberate millions.
Statesmen --- Religious leaders --- Religious life --- Gandhi,
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"Jesus Among Giants: Religious Biographies in Comparative Context compares and contrasts Jesus to Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Laozi, Moses, and Muhammad in terms of their missions and messages. The foundational religious figures are introduced in their particular socio-political context, on their own terms, in their own words, within the canons of their respective sacred scriptural traditions. Each chapter features the biography of a foundational religious figure, their teachings, a comparative analysis, and a suggestion about what Christians might learn from other foundational religious characters. It is a courageous new approach to comparative religion as a confrontational conference of conflicting claims in search of uncommon insights into truth. It observes striking similarities and discerns distinguishing differences but does not harmonize or hierarchize competing visions into a single coherent version of truth. Rather, it exposes and respects differences for the sake of determining the unique identity of each religious figure featured. There is no avoiding controversy and conflict among the foundational figures of the world's religions. Religious Identities are forged in the face of differences. To adequately appreciate any one spiritual giant requires understanding them all. To know who Jesus is means knowing who he isn't. Readers are invited to face the facts and fictions, myths and messages, claims and counter-claims that clearly distinguish Jesus among giants"--
Christianity and other religions --- Religions --- Religious leaders
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