Religiøs fundamentalisme

Det nyfødte pigebarn Frmesk er ikke ønsket af sin far på grund af sit køn. Hun er tilmed mærket for livet med en lille kridhvid hårtot på sin barneskaldede isse. Er det et tegn fra Allah? Er hun velsignet eller forbandet? Frmesks farmor insisterer på, at hun bliver omskåret med det samme, men Frmesks mor frygter, at hun er for lille og svag til at kunne overleve indgrebet. Endnu mere frygter hun sin mand og truslen om, at han vil skaffe den lille af vejen. Da hans voldelige adfærd intensiveres, er hendes eneste udvej at sætte barnet i pleje hos sine egne forældre. Frmesks mormor er dødevasker. Hun tager sig af de kvinder, som ingen andre vil begrave - kvinder dræbt i vanære og skam. Frmesks morfar er pensioneret oberst, og til forskel fra sin kone læser han ikke kun i Koranen, men besidder et mangfoldigt bibliotek. Det er et kærligt hjem, som dog kun for en tid er i stand til at skærme Frmesk mod den fysiske og psykiske overlast, der ubønhørligt nærmer sig fra alle sider i et Kurdistan præget af krig, folkedrab og had. DØDEVASKEREN er en voldsom roman om et ekstremt udsat pigeliv.

En ung pige flygter fra konflikten i Somalia med sin mor og søskende, og de ender i Roskilde. Efter en tid som overbevist muslim og somalier vil den begavede, smukke Baraka assimileres. Hun har mødt Esther, en ældre jødisk kvinde, der betror hende historien om sin egen forvandling fra tjekkisk holocaust-overlever til den danske overklassekvinde Rosa. Baraka vil forvandle sig selv, koste hvad det vil. Hun bliver til Maria og bor i en lille ærkedansk provinsby, gift med en ansat fra det lokale byggemarked. Efter nogle år som husmor og studerende dér leder hendes stærke opdrift og udlængsel hende til USA, hvor hun bliver stjerne i en stor tv-serie. Men hun længes efter sin muslimske kultur og vender hjem til sin mor, der nu bor på Nørrebro. I København arbejder hun i Røde Kors, og her møder hun den asylsøgende dreng Umar med palæstinensisk baggrund. Hun føler sig uforståeligt stærkt knyttet til Umar. Lidt efter lidt tegner der sig et ubrydeligt mønster imellem de tre mennesker fra hver sin verdensdel og fra hver sin tidsalder. Et andet menneske, et andet liv er skrevet i tre spor: Barakas/Marias, Esthers/Rosas og Umars, men Baraka er fortæller igennem hele bogen. Hun er stærkt troende muslim, omskåret, som den somaliske tradition byder, og stolt af det. Omskæringen har ikke dæmpet hendes seksuelle begær, tværtimod, og hun mærker hele sit liv andres stærke begær efter hende. Sofie Jama er født i Somalia i 1982 og kom til Danmark, da hun var 14 eller 15 år. Hun har studeret kulturformidling og arabiske sprog på Aarhus Universitet og arbejder i dag som oversætter for de danske myndigheder og som forfatter. Hun skriver jævnligt for Dagbladet Information. Sofie Jama bor i Sydhavnen i København. Et andet menneske, et andet liv er hendes litterære debut.

Ekstremist og tidligere bandemedlem afslører terrorplaner og viser vejen tilbage til samfundet.Had er et magtfulgt redskab og en trofast følgesvend. I størstedelen af sit ekstreme liv har Yaqoub Ali været drevet af had.Mit had er en hudløst ærlig og kritisk biografi om ekstremisme, had og håb. Og en afsløring af terrorplaner mod Dronningens slot Rosenborg i København, som blev stoppet af PET.Det er fortællingen om at vokse op i et krigshærget Irak, komme til Danmark og vælge en kriminel livsbane, om afsoning i fængslet og blive formand for jihadister i Kaldet til Islam.Hadet drev ham til at hjernevaske unge muslimer til ekstremisme, opfordrer til terror, undertrykke sin familie og i sidste ende rejse til Syrien for at kæmpe for Kalifatet.En ny fængselsdom og mødet med en socialrådgiver blev begyndelsen på et nyt liv med familien. Og forsøget på et farvel til det had, der har styret alt - men som også er det eneste, han ved, han er virkelig god til.

End Time Politics shows how popular beliefs about God's impending judgment on the world--rooted in millenarian ideologies, Cold-War grandstanding, racial antipathy, and nuclear build-up--shaped an economic movement that led to white evangelicals' unflinching support of Donald Trump.

'Compellingly explains the anti-trans alliance of radical feminists and conservative evangelicals. Intellectually rich yet accessible' Pippa Catterall, Professor, University of Westminster and Chair of AIDS Memory UK'We live in a time when anti-trans politics is becoming increasingly dehumanising and dangerous. Reading this illuminating book will help the open-minded, open-hearted Christian reader hear, encounter, and love their trans neighbours. I learned much from this book' David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer UniversityFor decades, conservative evangelicals and so-called gender critical feminists have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond?In Gender Heretics, Rebecca Jane Morgan tackles this reactionary alliance head on. With unique insight, she explores how theological arguments snaked their way from anti-trans feminist tracts into the everyday practices of evangelical churches today, and how the unlikely alliance remains strong in spite of seemingly irreconcilable worldviews. Shedding light on the roots of today's transphobic backlash, she provides crucial tools to overcome it, offering a hopeful way forward for Christians and advocating for a full recalibration of evangelical thought on gender identity and trans activism.Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist and evangelical Christian, a historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Australian National University).

The themes of Naturocracy could be interesting for a wider audience around the globe; reading it requires no specialised academic background. Not getting attached to anything or anyone is tremendously important in order to grasp the essence of the book. Those who think rationally and who do not want their daily lives to be dictated by others may find it a valuable read.This book is about religious brokers who deceive and control people in the name of God. It raises many basic questions about the role of religio-politicians who divide humankind in the name of religion to create disharmony among peaceful people in a society. Religion is a completely personal affair. Nobody needs any religious traders to know what is right and what is wrong. Each human being can understand the language of nature independently without explanation from any spoken human languages.I have striven to unearth what makes people religious. Those who do not even understand what a tiny creature like the humble bee is, how can they define its creator? I have always wondered about this. If the creator of this mysterious universe had given any holy book for mankind to follow, then he would have clarified the existing fragmentary or contradictory statements in it. But how can preachers clarify and even correct the words of the Almighty? How did they know the mind of God when they did not know about themselves? Can there be any greater sinners than those who lie and commit crimes under the religious umbrella? Against the evils of society, there should be a nature-inspired political platform for my motherland where people of all colours and creeds can live together in harmony without imposing their religious convictions on others.Who is ruling a country is not so important for the ordinary people, but how it is being ruled is of paramount importance. The economic scale, which measures the rich and poor countries of the world, is inappropriate to measure the joy and sorrow of their people. Common people all over the earth believe in living in true peace and happiness rather than with material comforts. The more we interfere with nature, the more we will suffer for it. The root of this is the relentless desire for more pleasure and power. We must respect and accept natural laws as we are not above the laws of nature. In nature, there is no such thing as rich or poor. People in the financial economy are arbitrarily putting a monetary value on the natural economy which makes the natural economy unsustainable.Once you have the picture in your mind's eye, you will lucidly understand that the greatest damage being done to our planet today is being done by humans. On no account must we work anymore against nature but together with it.

"I needed these poems to cut through my own looping thoughts and to invite me to sit with my own grief, pain, anger, and-surprisingly-my joy at breaking free."-D.L. Mayfield, author of Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our TimesAfter author Marla Taviano wrote unbelieve, a book of poems chronicling her faith deconstruction, her plan was to move on from white evangelical Christianity to bigger, lovelier, more all-embracing thoughts. But she couldn't do it. Why? Because she was still jaded-and knew there was work left to do.For those of us who are picking up pieces of life and faith and figuring out how to heal and move forward, jaded: a poetic reckoning with white evangelical christian indoctrination is a collection of poems-short, thoughtful, brave, and spicy-about getting stuff off our chests. Covering topics like evangelical scare tactics, sex and purity, patriarchy, white supremacy, and how the church treats the queer community, these poems say more in fewer words and with zero sugar-coating. With an appendix jam-packed with books to read on your journey, this is a book that will open you up and take you forward. Warning: you might not be able to put it down.Jaded is this former good Christian girl's offering-a labor of anger and love. We might not need to stay here forever, but we need this now.

Two unprecedented, striking developments form part of the reality of many Latin Americans. Recent decades have seen the dramatic rise of a new religious pluralism, namely the spread of Pentecostal Christianity - Catholic and Protestant alike - and the growth of indigenous revitalization movements. This study analyzes these major transitions, asking what roles ethnicity and ethnic identities play in the contemporary process of religious pluralism, such as the growth of the Protestant Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal movements, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the indigenous Maya movement in Guatemala. This book aims to provide an understanding of the agenda of religious movements, their motivations, and their impact on society. Such a pursuit is urgently needed in Guatemala, a postwar country experiencing acrimonious religious competition and a highly contentious debate on religious pluralism. This volume is relevant to scholars and students of Latin American Studies, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Practical Theology, and Political Sciences.

In Square Peg, well-respected educators, pastors, and ministry leaders demonstrate the distinct differences between Wesleyan theology and Fundamentalism through historical, biblical, scientific, and theological exposition.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Praktische (Ethik, Ästhetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, ...), Note: 6/6, Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg (Schweiz), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Religiöser Fundamentalismus ist spätestens seit dem 11.September 2001 ein Schlagwort in der medialen und politischen Debatte. Vor allem im islamischen Kontext wird Fundamentalismus in Politik und Medien oftmals mit Gefahr und Rückwärtsgewandtheit assoziiert und als Gegensatz zu einer aufgeklärten, ¿modernen¿ und westlichen Weltanschauung kontrastiert. Doch nicht nur Journalisten und Politiker, sondern auch Wissenschaftler setzen sich mit dem Phänomen des Fundamentalismus auseinander, wobei der Begriff gerade unter Wissenschaftlern umstritten ist. Sehr verschiedene Bewegungen werden gemeinhin als fundamentalistisch bezeichnet. Verfechter des Fundamentalismuskonzeptes, u.a. der Soziologe Martin Riesebrodt, Sivan, Tibi oder Marty/Appleby sind sich darin einig, dass all diese Bewegungen eine Gemeinsamkeit aufweisen; sie stellen eine Reaktion auf die Moderne dar. Wenn diese Reaktion auf die Moderne aber als einziges Kriterium genommen wird, so können viele Phänomene in diese Kategorie fallen, die schwer miteinander vergleichbar sind. Beispiele dafür sind die Ablehnung der Priesterweihe der Frau, die Muslimbrüder in Ägypten, die iranische Revolution unter Khomeini oder das Tragen des Kopftuches in Westeuropa. Auch nichtreligiöse Bewegungen, wie Widerstände gegen demokratische Mehrheitsentscheidungen in Fragen von Werten und Normen oder Kritik an konkreten Missständen des kapitalistischen Wirtschaftssystems oder müssten mitgezählt werden. Ob der Fundamentalismusbegriff dann noch als wissenschaftliche Abgrenzungskategorie taugt, sei dahingestellt. Diese Seminararbeit will ganz allgemein hinterfragen, was für ein Modernisierungsverständnis den Theorien zugrunde liegt, welche Fundamentalismus als Reaktion auf die Moderne bezeichnen. Des Weiteren soll betrachtet werden, welche Implikationen und Probleme eine Gegenüberstellung von Fundamentalismus und Moderne mit sich bringt. Besonderes Augenmerk soll dabei auf den ¿islamischen Fundamentalismus¿ gelegt werden, da dieser in der allgemeinen Debatte oftmals nicht nur als Reaktion auf die Moderne, sondern explizit als Reaktion auf den Westen charakterisiert wird. In einem ersten Schritt wird die Entwicklung des Fundamentalismus-Begriffes umrissen. In einem zweiten Schritt werden dann das Konzept der westlichen Moderne und die Theorie des Clash of Civilizations erläutert, um in einem dritten Schritt festzustellen, inwieweit Fundamentalismus als Reaktion auf die Moderne betrachtet werden kann.

"The Evangelical Catechism" is a valuable resource for pastors, new church members, and confirmation classes, and is widely used by United Church of Christ congregations. Originally authorized by the Evangelical Synod of North America (which brought the catechism into the twentieth century) it focuses on the following essentials: the Ten Commandments; the Attributes of God; the Apostles' Creed; prayer; the sacrament of Holy Baptism; and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. This revised edition has been refreshed with a more modern approach for United Church of Christ congregations in the twenty-first century.

Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the foundations of democracy.In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country's social problems.With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.

In the past twenty-five years, liberation theology has emerged as one of the most influential, challenging, and controversial movements in modern theology. Whether in its Asian, African, Latin American, or African-American forms, liberation theology has undertaken to reexamine the dimensions of Christian faith from the perspective of the marginalized and oppressed.Here, at last, is a collection of readings from a cross-section of the world's leading exponents of liberation theology, designed to offer an overview of liberation theology and its central themes. Topics included are methodology, christology, ecclesiology, and spirituality. Each chapter includes a helpful introduction and questions for discussion, making this an ideal introductory text for students, as well as scholars and other general readers.Contributors:Maria Pilar AquinoTissa BalasuriyaDominique BarbeClodovis BoffLeonardo BoffErnesto CardenalChung Hyun KyungJames H. ConeJean-Marc ElaIvone GebaraGustavo GutierrezMary HuntSallie McFagueMary John MananzanCarlos MestersAnne Nasimiyu-WasikeSun Ai ParkJon SobrinoCharles Villa-VicencioYong Ting Jin

This stunning #1 bestseller rips the covers off the 13 point plan by the New Age leadership to seduce us into accepting a Global Government and a One World Religion. Contains over 600 actual quotes from New Age Leaders which unveil the complete "Plan" of the New Age-their step-by-step, hidden agenda for world domination. From the government, to the entertainment industry, to public schools, and the infiltration of many Christian churches, Texe Marrs conclusively shows that the New Age leadership has declared an all-out spiritual war against Christian believers.

Die Beitrage des Bandes untersuchen in einem mediengeschichtlichen Zugriff die Anfangsphase der franzosischen Religionskriege. Sie rucken das Geschehen der Jahre vor der Bartholomausnacht (1572) ins Zentrum der Betrachtung und thematisieren die vielgestaltigen medialen Erscheinungsformen gesellschaftlicher Konfliktkommunikation. Eine von der Forschung bislang wenig beachtete Zeit der dramatischen Geschichte Frankreichs in der zweiten Halfte des 16. Jahrhunderts wird so mit einem bislang nicht systematisch erprobten methodischen Zugang bearbeitet.

"Prinsessens døtre" giver et interessant indblik i dens samtid, men bogen vidner også om en barsk virkelighed, som stadig eksisterer, og den rummer et nødråb til Vestens civilisation fra en modig kvinde skjult bag slør.Prinsesse Sultana fortæller igen om sit liv i dette andet bind af Prinsesse-serien gennem sin amerikanske veninde, forfatteren Jean Sasson. Sultana er dybt splittet over den virkelighed, hun lever i i Saudi Arabiens overklasse. På den ene side er hun loyal over for kongehuset og islam. På den anden side oprøres hun over den brutale undertrykkelse, kvinderne i Saudi-Arabien stadig udsættes for.Undertrykkelsen findes også i kongehuset, hvor enhver prinsesse er andenrangs i forhold til en prins. Sultanas to døtre har begge gjort oprør på hver deres måde. Den ene gennem et utilladeligt forhold til en veninde. Den anden ved en skræmmende form for religionsvanvid. Kun sønnen giver håb for fremtiden i et samfund, hvor et enevældigt styre og det frygtede religiøse politi, mutawa, kontrollerer alt og alle.Den amerikanske forfatter Jean Sasson (f. 1950) har skrevet en lang række anmelderroste bøger om saudiarabisk kultur og kvindeliv. Da hun i en årrække arbejdede på et hospital i Riyadh, kom hun tæt ind på livet af en prinsesse fra den saudiarabiske kongefamilie. Det er denne prinsesses historie, Jean Sasson beretter om i den populære serie af bøger om prinsesse Sultana og kvinderne bag slør i Saudi-Arabiens ypperste elite.