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• 1. Introduction: what we know and don't know about religious-based generosity--
• 2. The charitable consequences of institutions and rituals in Catholicism and Islam--
• 3. Generosity, public goods provision and religious beliefs in Catholicism and Islam: an experiment--
• 4. The meaning of religion to Catholics and Muslims--
• 5. Religious beliefs, prosociality and connections to others--
• 6. Belief, belonging, and giving in Catholic parishes and Muslim associations--
• 7. Religious minorities and collective goods provision--
• 8. Does the welfare state undermine the generosity of Catholics and Muslims?--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Using an innovative methodological approach combining field experiments, case studies, and statistical analyzes, this book explores how the religious beliefs and institutions of Catholics and Muslims prompt them to be generous with their time and resources. Drawing upon research involving more than 1,000 Catholics and Muslims in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, the authors examine Catholicism and Islam in majority and minority contexts, discerning the specific factors that lead adherents to help others and contribute to social welfare projects. Based on theories from political science, economics, religious studies and social psychology, this approach uncovers the causal connections between religious community dynamics, religious beliefs and institutions, and socio-political contexts in promoting or hindering the generosity of Muslims and Catholics. The study also provides insight into what different religious beliefs mean to Muslims and Catholics, and how they understand those concepts.
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• Part I. The nature and purpose of the community
• The nature and purpose of the Christian community (the Church) / Gavin D'Costa
• The nature and purpose of the community (Ummah) in the Qurʼan / Abdullah Saeed
• Scripture dialogue I : God's people, Israel and the Church : Exodus 19:1-6; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Romans 11:28-32
• Scripture dialogue II : the Umma and earlier religious communities
• Qurʼan 2:120-145; 3:113-115; 5:65-66
• Scripture dialogue III : the nature and purpose of the Church : Ephesians 4:1-16; Matthew 28:16-20
• Scripture dialogue IV : the nature and purpose of the Umma : Qurʼan 2:143; 3:110; 5:48
• Part II. Unity and disunity in the life of the community
• Unity and disunity in the life of the community : perspectives on Christian desires for communion and experiences of division (or, the history of the church in half a chapter!) / Lucy Gardner
• Unity and disunity in the life of the Muslim community / Feras Hamza
• Scripture dialogue V : unity and disunity in the Church : John 17:20-24; 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
• Scripture dialogue VI : unity and disunity in the Umma
• Part III. Continuity and change in the life of the community
• Continuity and change in the life of the community : Muslims' changing attitudes to change / Ahmet Alibasic
• Modern theological approaches to continuity and change in the life of the Church : an overview of modern Christian ecclesiology / Brandon Gallaher
• Scripture dialogue VII: continuity and change in the church : Acts 15:1-29
• Scripture dialogue VIII : continuity and change in the Umma : Qurʼan 2:142-144; Hadith
• Part IV. Reflection
• Conversations in Doha / Lucinda Mosher.

The Community of Believers offers the proceedings of the 2013 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars under the stewardship of Georgetown University. These essays consider such themes as the Church as mystical body of Christ versus the Church as proclamation; the roots and uses of the term ummah and its development over time; Christian desires for communion, experiences of division, and approaches to unity; the history of Muslim disunity; twentieth-century Christian ecclesiology and its responses to a post-Christendom and post-Christian world; and the Arab Spring as a case study for contemplating accommodationism, conservatism, reformism, and fundamentalism as Muslim strategies to address the pressures of modernism. The volume also includes texts and commentaries used in the seminar's discussions of each topic and a concluding essay summarizing the tone, content, and style of participant exchanges throughout the seminar.
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• Contents: In Memoriam: Thomas Sizgorich (1970-2011)-- Introduction, Arietta Papaconstantinou. Principles: Christian conversion in late antiquity: some issues, Averil Cameron-- Christians and others: the conversion ethos of late antiquity, Polymnia Athanassiadi-- Competing religious conversions and re-conversions in contemporary Mongolia, Vesna A. Wallace. Practice I Raison d'Etat: From unholy madness to right-mindedness: or how to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian, Simon Corcoran-- From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang: the rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in late antique Eurasia, Antonello Palumbo-- The diffusion, persecution and transformation of Manichaeism in late antiquity and pre-modern China, Samuel N.C. Lieu. Practice II Human Ambiguities: Narratives of violence: confronting pagans, Christopher Kelly-- Mind the gap: accidental conversion and the hagiographic imaginary in the first centuries A.H., Thomas Sizgorich +-- Rural converters among the Arabs, Elizabeth Key Fowden-- Conversion, apostasy, and penance: the shifting identities of Muslim converts in the early Islamic period, Uriel Simonsohn. Practice III Symbols and Institutions: The Rabbinic conversion to Judaism-- The Rabbinic conversion of Judaism, Mosche Lavee-- How to get rid of Venus: some remarks on Jerome's Vita Hilarionis and the conversion of Elusa in the Negev, Konstantin M. Klein-- Conversion and environment in East Asia - The case of Buddhism, Max Deeg. Building Jerusalem: The conversion of Aelia Capitolina to Christianity in the 4th century, Jan Willem Drijvers-- A Christian city with a major Muslim shrine: Jerusalem in the Umayyad period, Robert Schick. References-- Primary sources-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: to Christianity at its start, and to Islam at the other end. Challenging the opposition between the two stereotypes of Islamic conversion as an intrinsically violent process, and Christian conversion as a fundamentally spiritual one, the papers seek to isolate the behaviours and circumstances that made conversion both such a common and such a contested phenomenon. The spread of Buddhism in Asia in broadly the same period serves as an external comparator that was not caught in the net of the Abrahamic religions. The volume is organised around several themes, reflecting the concerns of the initial project with the articulation between norm and practice, the role of authorities and institutions, and the social and individual fluidity on the ground. Debates, discussions, and the expression of norms and principles about conversion conversion are not rare in societies experiencing religious change, and the first section of the book examines some of the main issues brought up by surviving sources. This is followed by three sections examining different aspects of how those principles were - or were not - put into practice: how conversion was handled by the state, how it was continuously redefined by individual ambivalence and cultural fluidity, and how it was enshrined through different forms of institutionalization. Finally, a topographical coda examines the effects of religious change on the iconic holy city of Jerusalem.
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• Who represents Islam? / Evelyne A. Reisacher
• How Muslims shape and use Islam: towards a missiological understanding / Warrick Farah
• The donkey and the straw: reaching South Asian Sufis with the gospel / Kevin Higgins
• Secular Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Ted Esler
• Egalité, fraternité, and cous-cous: ministry to Muslims in the context of a resurgent Islam and French laïcité / Rick Kronk
• Biblical approaches to the Nurcu Gülen movement in Turkey / Yakup Korkmaz
• Magical mystical Muslims: Sufi-oriented Islam and African traditional religion / Robin Dale Hadaway
• Ordinary Muslims in Pakistan and the gospel / Warren Larson
• Ministry to Hui Muslims in China: an approach to dual-layered cultural settings / Enoch Jinsik Kim
• Context as flypaper: the island of Java in Indonesia / Michael A. Kilgore
• Liberating liminality: mission in the North African Berber context / Patrick Brittenden
• Russified Muslims of the former Soviet Union / Gene Daniels
• The queen's Muslims?: Muslim identities in the UK / Phil Rawlings
• In the shadow of a Buddhist temple: Muslims in Thailand / Alan Johnson
• Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin: Muslims in northwestern China / CG Gordon
• Muslim youth in a glocal world / Arthur Brown
• Adaptive missiological engagement with Islamic contexts / Warrick Farah
• Conclusion: learning from the margins / Gene Daniels.

• Who represents Islam? / Evelyne A. Reisacher
• How Muslims shape and use Islam: towards a missiological understanding / Warrick Farah
• The donkey and the straw: reaching South Asian Sufis with the gospel / Kevin Higgins
• Secular Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Ted Esler
• Egalité, fraternité, and cous-cous : ministry to Muslims in the context of a resurgent Islam and French laïcité / Rick Kronk
• Biblical approaches to the Nurcu Gülen movement in Turkey / Yakup Korkmaz
• Magical mystical Muslims : Sufi-oriented Islam and African traditional religion / Robin Dale Hadaway
• Ordinary Muslims in Pakistan and the gospel / Warren Larson
• Ministry to Hui Muslims in China : an approach to dual-layered cultural settings / Enoch Jinsik Kim
• Context as flypaper : the island of Java in Indonesia / Michael A. Kilgore
• Liberating liminality : mission in the North African Berber context / Patrick Brittenden
• Russified Muslims of the former Soviet Union / Gene Daniels
• The queen's Muslims? : Muslim identities in the UK / Phil Rawlings
• In the shadow of a Buddhist temple : Muslims in Thailand / Alan Johnson
• Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin : Muslims in northwestern China / CG Gordon
• Muslim youth in a glocal world / Arthur Brown
• Adaptive missiological engagement with Islamic contexts / Warrick Farah
• Conclusion: learning from the margins / Gene Daniels.

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Spiritual roots
• 3. From Gerlingen to Islington (1820-1846)
• 4. With Johann Ludwig Krapf (1846-1855)
• 5. From Cairo to Zanzibar (1851-1859)
• 6. Fruits and loss
• 7. Lonely and enduring (1866-1875)
• 8. The last passages (1875-1876)
• 9. Language worker
• 10. The context of Muslim slavery
• 11. Missionary
• 12. Herald
• Bibliography
• Appendix I: Salimini's Chichewa
• Appendix II: A history of Chchewa lexicography
• Index.

• L'adoration chrétienne
• L'adoration dans la Bible
• Quelques scènes d'adoration dans la Bible
• L'objet de l'adoration
• L'adoration comme un ordre de Dieu
• Les gestes bibliques d'adoration
• Les mots de l'adoration biblique
• Une éthique biblique de l'adoration
• Le temple, lieu privilégié de l'adoration biblique
• L'adoration dans l'Église
• L'adoration dans l'Église des premiers siècles
• Chez les Pères du désert
• Chez les Pères de l'Église
• Saint Augustin d'Hippone (354-430)
• L'adoration au Moyen-Âge
• Saint Benoît de Nursie (480-540)
• Saint Patrice ou Patrick (vers 389-461)
• Clovis (465-511) et saint Rémi (437-533)
• Saint André de Crète (660-740)
• Saint Jean Climaque (675-749)
• Saint Jean Damascène (vers 650-vers 750)
• Vers l'An mil
• Saint François d'Assise (1186-1226)
• L'adoration pour saint Dominique (1170-1221)
• L'adoration et ses gestes chez trois auteurs des XIIe-XIIIe s.
• Le culte d'adoration envers l'Eucharistie
• Saint Ignace de Loyola (1491-1556)
• L'adoration au temps de la Réforme catholique
• Le concile de Trente (1545-1563)
• Le geste tridentin de l'adoration
• L'adoration aux XIXe et Xe siècles
• Saint Jean-Marie Vianney (1786-1859)
• Bienheureux Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
• Les Christeros, au Mexique
• Avant Vatican II
• L'adoration dans l'Église depuis le concile Vatican II
• Au lendemain du concile Vatican II
• Au temps du pape Jean-Paul II (1978-2005)
• Au temps du pape Benoît XVI (élu en 2005)
• L'adoration selon saint Thomas d'Aquin
• Dans le Contra Gentiles, l'adoration du Dieu unique
• Comment notre âme est orientée vers Dieu par certaines choses sensibles (Q.119)
• Comment le culte de latrie ne doit être rendu qu'à Dieu (Q.120)
• L'adoration dans la Somme théologique
• L'adoration du Dieu de Jésus-Christ
• L'adoration du Christ et ses manifestations
• L'adoration du Christ par les mages
• L'adoration du Corps et du Sang du Christ dans l'Eucharistie
• L'adoration dans ses Commentaires de l'Écriture
• Commentaires des Épîtres aux Éphésiens et aux Philippiens
• Commentaire sur l'Évangile selon saint Jean
• L'adoration musulmane
• L'adoration dans le Coran
• Le message des prophètes
• Les appels à l'adoration de Noé
• Les appels d'Abraham à l'adoration
• Les appels de Moïse à l'adoration
• Les appels de David à l'adoration
• Les appels de Jésus à l'adoration
• Les appels des prophètes arabes à l'adoration
• Les appels de Muhammad à l'adoration
• L'adoration comme un ordre divin
• L'objet de l'adoration dans le Coran
• Les corollaires de l'adoration dans le Coran
• Les femmes adoratrices dans le Coran
• Les controverses avec les gens du Livre au sujet de l'adoration
• L'interdiction de l'adoration des anges, des démons et des idoles.
• Le châtiment de ceux qui refusent à Dieu l'adoration
• Prééminence de la prosternation parmi les gestes d'adoration
• Les mots de l'adoration
• Une manière coranique d'adorer ?
• L'adoration en islam
• L'adoration chez quelques théologiens jusqu'au début du XXe siècle

• Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), un fondateur du fondamentalisme islamique
• Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhâb (1703-1792), le fondateur du wahhabisme
• Muhammad `Abduh (1849-1905), un fondateur du réformisme
• L'adoration à travers trois auteurs contemporains
• Abû al-A`lâ al-Mawdûdî (1903-1979)
• Yûsuf al-Qaradâwî (né en 1926)
• Muhammad Asad (1900-1992)
• L'adoration et la salât
• Les gestes d'adoration dans l'islam
• L'adoration selon Fakhr al-dîn al-Râzî
• Présentation du texte commenté
• Le développement du texte
• Les sources de ce commentaire
• Un petit traité sur l'adoration
• Commentaire de "C'est Toi [seul] que nous adorons" (Fâtiha, 5)
• L'adoration ne s'adresse qu'à Dieu
• L'adoration est une confirmation du monothéisme
• L'adoration conduit à l'évocation de Dieu avant celle du serviteur
• L'adoration est un acte communautaire
• L'adoration relativise toute autre activité
• L'adoration est une reconnaissance de la souveraineté de Dieu
• L'adoration est un acte intermédiaire entre la louange et la demande
• L'adoration comme lieu de rencontre
• Les conditions de l'adoration
• Des lieux propices à l'adoration : église, mosquée, chambre
• Des temps et du temps
• Un minimum de silence extérieur
• Une nécessaire participation du corps
• Des gestes posés
• Une orientation
• Les conditions intérieures
• De la simple prosternation à l'acte d'adoration
• Un acte d'adoration chrétien
• Du bienfait de la prière cultuelle ou liturgique
• Ses fruits, ses effets et ses prolongements
• Les fruits intérieurs
• Les fruits extérieurs
• Des effets communs
• L'adoration libère
• Les prolongements et les modes différents de l'adoration chrétienne et de l'adoration musulmane
• Dieu se rend proche de ceux qui l'adorent
• Convergences et divergences
• Les convergences dans l'adoration
• Un même objet d'adoration
• Des gestes semblables
• Un geste réservé à Dieu
• Une même expérience
• Les divergences dans l'adoration
• L'objet de l'adoration
• Le mystère de Dieu
• Au niveau de l'adorant
• Au niveau de ses gestes
• Existe-t-il une adoration sans amour de Dieu ?
• Une certaine communion dans l'adoration ?
• Peut-on prier avec des musulmans ?
• L'adoration dans les relations islamo-chrétiennes dans l'enseignement de l'Église
• Avant le concile Vatican II
• Le concile Vatican II et les musulmans sur ce sujet
• L'attitude des papes depuis Vatican II
• Paul VI (1963-1978)
• Bienheureux Jean-Paul II (1978-2005)
• Benoît XVI (élu en 2005).

"L'adoration est une prosternation de l'esprit et du corps devant la divinité. Elle traduit à la fois une reconnaissance de Dieu et une volonté de soumission à son égard. Si les chrétiens et les musulmans, à la suite des juifs, adorent un seul Dieu, ils le font cependant de deux manières différentes. Les premiers lui rendent ce culte à la lumière de la Bible et de l'enseignement de l'Église et notamment de ses saints et de ses théologiens, tel Thomas d'Aquin. Les seconds, à la lumière du Coran, de la tradition musulmane et de ses grands théologiens, tel al-Râzî. Cependant, outre un monothéisme fondamental, un esprit d'adoration et des gestes souvent semblables doivent les conduire au moins à un silence respectueux et parfois admiratif quand ils sont témoins de la prière de l'autre."--P. [4] of cover.

• part 1. Statistics & reasons why millions of Muslims are converting to Christianity
• part 2. The amazing story of a professor of Islamic studies, who rejected Islam and says Jesus is lord
• part 3. Nations seeking to ban Islam, why and how Islam is dying, most evil teaching of Islam, Satanic verses...

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Making Sense of the Context
• 3. Methodology and Description of Kyrgyz Christians
• 4. Approaches to the Study of Religious Conversion
• 5. Religious Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion
• 6. The Social and Cultural Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion
• 7. Life Situations, Solutions and Explanations
• 8. Living out a Minority Kyrgyz Christian Identity in a Majority Muslim Kyrgyz World
• 9. Religious Conversion and the Re-construction of Ethnic Identity Epilogue Appendices.
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Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.
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