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Rethinking the Religious Factor in Foreign Policy
The authors of this book analyze the mechanisms and strategies that allow specific religious actors to affect the foreign policy agenda and decisions of the countries in which they are active. Paying special attention to events and phenomena that have had a decisive impact on regional and global development, this book provides an international outlook on how the activities of religious actors can influence foreign policy. The research subject was inspired by the idea of identifying what dynamics are occurring and whether there are any discernible trends.
Introduction à la littérature berbère. 1. La poésie
This volume contains selected papers presented at a conference on Orthodox Christianity and its contemporary European setting. The conference was held in England, at the University of Leeds, in June 2001 and drew together historians, theologians, philosophers, specialists in theological education and political scientists. Countries with an Orthodox Christian history were well represented, as well as Orthodoxy in the diaspora and other Christian confessions by representatives from Western Europe and the United States and Canada. The coherence of Orthodox Christianity and contemporary threats to its coherence formed one main strand for reflection, but discussion also broadened out to consider ...
Orthodoxy and the Cold War
Explores the dynamics between Orthodoxy and politics in Romania, providing an accessible narrative on church-state relations from the establishment of the state in 1859 to the rise of Ceau?escu in 1965. The book argues that Romanian national communism had an ally in a strong Church, and analyzes religious diplomacy with actors in the West.
Christianity in Western and Northern Europe
Although the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East, Europe and Christianity have an exceptional relationship, since most Europeans perceive Christianity as a Western - more precisely, as a European - religion. The region has seen rapid social change in the 21st century, set off by factors including energy crisis and environmental awareness, poverty and exclusion, falling birthrates and increased migration, changing attitudes to sexuality, gender and family life, and challenges to Europe's idea of itself and place in the global order. Amidst all this flux, this volume focuses on one particular issue: the rapidly changing profile of the Christian faith that has shaped the life of the European continent for a millennium and more.At a time when patterns of Christian life and worship appear to be dying out, yet traces of new life are also appearing, this volume maps out the current reality of Christianity in Western and Northern Europe with all its questions and uncertainties.
Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy
Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent and polemicist during the early age of Lutheran orthodoxy, and played a major role in the reform and administration of several German cities during the late Reformation. As well as offering an introduction to Heshusius's writings and ideas, this volume explores the wider world of late-sixteenth-century German Lutheranism in which he lived and worked. In particular, it looks at the important but inadequately understood network of Lutheran clergymen in North Germany centred around universities such as Rostock, Jena, Königsberg, and Helmstedt, and territories such as Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, in the years after the promulgat...
Justification and Participation in Christ
The unity of the early Lutheran reformation, even in the central themes such as justification, is still an open question. This study examines the development of the doctrine of justification in the works of the prominent first and second generation Lutheran reformers from the viewpoints of divine participation and effectivity of justification. Generally, Luther’s idea of Christ’s real presence in the believer as the central part of justification is maintained and taught by all Reformers while they simultaneously develop various theological frameworks to depict the nature of participation. However, in some cases these developed models are contradictory, which causes tension between theologians resulting in the invention of new doctrinal formulations.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
Are there any lessons Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners? This book argues that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past. Taking a broad definition of transitional justice as their starting point, contributors provide fresh assessments of the history commission, court trials, public identifications of former communist perpetrators, commemorations, and unofficial artistic projects that seek to address and redress the legacies of communist human rights violations. Theoretical and practical questions regarding the continuity of state agencies, the sequencing of initiatives, their advantages and limitations, the reasons why some reckoning programs are enacted and others are not, and these measures’ efficacy in promoting truth and justice are answered throughout the volume. Contributors include seasoned scholars from Romania, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and current and former leaders of key Romanian transitional justice institutions.
Suuria ja pieniä totuuksia
Elämänmakuisia totuuksia Kokoelma eri kirjoittajien omia ja lainaamia totuuksia. Sanontoja, oivalluksia, ajatelmia, mietelmiä, mietelauseita ja runonpätkiä. Juhlavia ja arkikielisiä ilmaisuja elämästä. Laidasta laitaan. Oman elämän päivityksiin, lahjakirjaksi kaikenikäisille. Suuria ja pieniä totuuksia Elämästä Elämän tarkoituksesta Elämänohjeista Onnellisuudesta Rakkaudesta Ystävyydestä Unelmista Yksinäisyydestä Surusta Vapaudesta Luonnosta Koirista ja muista eläimistä Äideistä ja isistä Ikääntymisestä Kirjoista ja kirjoittamisesta
Sydänten piispa Irja Askola
Rakastettu lasikaton puhkoja. Muistelmateos vie syvälle Irja Askolan elämään ja kokemuksiin ja raottaa hänen ajattelunsa taustoja. Kuinka karjalaisesta pikkutytöstä, yksinhuoltajaäidin tyttärestä kehittyi naisten ja vähemmistöjen oikeuksien puolustaja, tarkkanäköinen runoilija ja kansan rakastama, syvällinen teologi? Miten elämä johdatti Suomen ensimmäiseksi naispuoliseksi piispaksi, ja millainen tie lasikaton läpi oli? Teoksessa Irja Askola kertoo vihkimysjuhlan riemukkaista tunnelmista, syövän sairastamisen syövereistä, ahdistuksesta äidin haudan äärellä sekä hänelle merkityksellisistä ihmisistä. Askolan omien sekä monien aikalaisten tarinoiden kautta piirtyy monipuolinen kuva hänen elämänsä käänteentekevistä kokemuksista, piispavuosien iloista ja paineista – sekä Irja Askolan persoonasta, joka on jättänyt jäljen monen ihmisen sydämeen. Heli Pruuki on teologian tohtori ja psykoterapeutti, joka on kirjoittanut yleistajuisia tietokirjoja tunteiden kohtaamisesta sekä perheen ihmissuhteista. Pruuki on kirjoittanut kirjoja myös lapsille.
Kolme kiloa maissia
Kun hätä on suuri, tuleeko kukaan apuun? Kriisin kohdatessa humanitaarinen apu pelastaa henkiä, lievittää hätää ja ylläpitää ihmisarvoa. Apuun lähtevillä on kovat vaatimukset: on varauduttava kaikkeen. Jouni Hemberg työskenteli uransa aikana muun muassa Suomen suurimman kansainvälisen katastrofiavun ja kehitysyhteistyöjärjestön johtajana. Hänen uransa käynnistyi Neuvostoliiton romahdettua ja rautaesiripun murruttua. Avustusmatkat Romanian lastenkoteihin ja Afrikan jättimäisille pakolaisleireille tai lääkkeiden kuljetukset tuntemattomaan paikkaan Mongoliaan Antonov-kuljetuskoneella olivat henkisesti vaativia ja fyysisesti vaarallisia. Tapaamiset Valkoisessa talossa, ne...
