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More moral than God

taking responsibility for religious violence

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially. Although violence in the name of religion has been around for centuries, there is increasing need to examine the roots of religious violence, with the hope of working for peace. In More Moral than God, Charlene Burns takes a unique look at the psychological motivations behind religious violence. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and theology, Burns illuminates the interplay between our images of God, our individual egos, and our collective selves, and brings to light the degree to which each of us can and must take responsibility for the religious landscape. In addition to her own perspective on religious violence, Burns provides a brief history of religious violence and addresses other possible motivations, including politics, economics, globalization, family dynamics and more.

In the Sufi form of Islam, for example, this life is a journey that proceeds along horizontal and vertical paths. The horizontal journey involves physical birth, life, and death. The vertical journey is one that potentially culminates ...

The Moral Economy of the Madrasa

Islam and Education Today

The revival of madrasas in the 1980s coincided with the rise of political Islam and soon became associated with the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society within their local, national and global context. Based on anthropological investigations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Iran, and Pakistan, the chapters take a new approach to the issue, examining the recent phenomenon of women in madrasas; Hui Muslims in China; relations between the Iran’s Shia seminary after the 1979-Islamic revolution and Shia in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and South Asian madrasas. Emphasis is placed on the increased presence of women in these institutions, and the reciprocal interactions between secular and religious schools in those countries. Taking into account social, political and demographic changes within the region, the authors show how madrasas have been successful in responding to the educational demand of the people and how they have been modernized their style to cope with a changing environment. A timely contribution to a subject with great international appeal, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, political Islam, Middle East and Asian studies and anthropology.

This volume examines the rapid expansion of madrasas across Asia and the Middle East and analyses their role in society within their local, national and global context.

Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty

Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). A giant of Islamic intellectual history, al-Ghazālī is celebrated for his achievements in a wide range of disciplines. One of his greatest intellectual contributions lies in the sphere of ethics, where he presided over an ambitious attempt to integrate philosophical and scriptural ideas into a seamless ethical vision. The connection between ethics and aesthetics turns out to be a signature feature of this account. Virtue is one of the forms of beauty, and human beings are naturally disposed to respond to it with love. The universal human response to beauty in turn provides the central paradigm for thinking about the love commanded by God. While al-Ghazālī’s account of divine love has received ample attention, his special way of drawing the good into relation with the beautiful has oddly escaped remark. In this book Sophia Vasalou addresses this gap by offering a philosophical and contextual study of this aspect of al-Ghazālī’s ethics and of the conception of moral beauty that emerges from it. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic ethics, Islamic intellectual history, and the history of ethics.

Asked to state his doctrine (madhhab) in the book—is it ranged with Ashʿarite doctrine or with Sufism? 6 —he distinguished between three doctrinal levels, or three senses in which we might speak of a person's doctrine.

Modern Moral Problems

Trustworthy Answers to Your Tough Questions

Modern Moral Problems addresses moral quandaries that can beguile and confuse faithful Catholics. Written in a question-and-answer format, the book covers questions regarding sexuality, medical ethics, business practices, civic responsibilities, and the sacramental life of the Church. The extraordinary assortment of issuesforming a single, organized collectionis a valuable reference for anyone seeking clear and concise answers to tough moral questions. Written in a conversational tone often spliced with humor, this work by a highly respected moral theologian will be read with fascination for its clarity of argument and fundamental good sense. Originally published as a monthly question-and-answer column in a magazine for priests, these selections by Msgr. William B. Smith retain a striking current topicality. Msgr. Smith often tackled matters of controversy in the Catholic Church, ones which continue to draw conflicting opinions. Interesting, informative, and eminently practical, this book conveys an overall impression that sound thinking about morality is rooted in a tradition within the Catholic Church, even when the answers to particular moral questions cannot be found in catechisms or Vatican documents. Msgr. Smith offers a clear-headed approach to the quandaries of our time precisely because of his training in traditional moral principles and his fidelity to the Catholic magisterium. This book should be in the possession of all seminarians and priests, who are bound to confront moral matters that are not so easily decided at first glance. But lay people, too, will find here rich responses to the challenging and sometimes unresolved moral questions they encounter in their own lives.

The origins of the Enneagram are admitted by all—it comes from the oral tradition of Sufi masters. Sufism is the mysticism of Islam. If you want to check it out in your library, look first under “Occult Sciences”.

Moral Teachings of Islam

Prophetic Traditions from Al-Adab Al-mufrad

In Islamic life and tradition, Hadith sayings enshrine the most important teachings after the Qur'an itself. Derived from the Sunnah or teachings of the Prophet and his Companions and their followers, these precepts were collected under the title Al-Adab al-mufrad-meaning 'Good behaviour singled out'-by Imam al-Bukhari in the ninth century CE. The Hadith sayings in al-Bukhari's writings formed a large corpus that covered the way Muslims should conduct their lives, from duties to parents, family, relatives, neighbors and friends, to instruction about honesty, generosity, truthfulness and kindness. While al-Bukhari's original text runs to many hundreds of pages forming several volumes, Abdul Hamid has made a selection of the teachings that has relevance and appeal to today's readership, with appeal not only to Muslims but to all who seek to know more of the essence of Islamic life and teachings.

... Tattvārtha Sūtra JUDAISM Gates of Light : Sha'are Orah Yemenite Midrash SHINTO The Living Way : Stories of a Shinto Founder SUFISM Solomon's Ring : The Life and Teachings of a Sufi Master TAOISM Lao - tzu's Treatise on the Response ...

Theology and the Science of Moral Action

Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience

The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in scientific approaches to the study of morality. Once understood to be the domain of moral psychology, the newer approach to morality is largely interdisciplinary, driven in no small part by developments in behavioural economics and evolutionary biology, as well as advances in neuroscientific imaging capabilities, among other fields. To date, scientists studying moral cognition and behaviour have paid little attention to virtue theory, while virtue theorists have yet to acknowledge the new research results emerging from the new science of morality. Theology and the Science of Moral Action explores a new approach to ethical thinking that promotes dialogue and integration between recent research in the scientific study of moral cognition and behaviour—including neuroscience, moral psychology, and behavioural economics—and virtue theoretic approaches to ethics in both philosophy and theology. More particularly, the book evaluates the concept of moral exemplarity and its significance in philosophical and theological ethics as well as for ongoing research programs in the cognitive sciences.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Sufi Essays (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1972), 41. Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense, trans. and ed. Bernard McGinn and Edmund Colledge (New York: Paulist ...

Exploring Moral Injury in Sacred Texts

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma. This is the first book in which scholars from different faith and academic backgrounds consider the concept of moral injury not merely from a pastoral or philosophical point of view but through critical engagement with the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and American Civil Religion. This collection of essays explores the ambiguities of personal culpability among both perpetrators and victims of violence and the suffering involved in accepting personal agency in trauma. Contributors provide fresh and compelling readings of texts from different faith traditions and use their findings to reflect on real-life strategies for recovery from violations of core moral beliefs and their consequences such as shame, depression and addiction. With interpretations of the sacred texts, contributors reflect on the concerns of the morally-injured today and offer particular aspects of healing from their communities as support, making this a groundbreaking contribution to the study of moral injury and trauma.

In that text, Ahmed talks about the Islamic mystical tradition (Sufism), which sees Zulaykha “transformed from the ... of Qur'ān commentary) to the embodiment of the passion of true love (and thus a model for the Sufi love of God).

In Search of Moral Knowledge

Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy

For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.

... Algazel; 1057–1111) explained that we know what is right by revelation The Qur'an is the ultimate source of religious truth Inclined toward Sufism (a kind of Islamic mysticism), he stressed many “inward and practical sides of Islam ...

Unity of Living Faiths, Humanism & World Peace: Moral discipline of religions

Sufism . - A liberal person is nearer to God . ( IUA . , p . 222. ) A miser never enters Paradise . The Dervish disciple is engaged by the Teacher in special acts of devotion and benevolence . ( The Sufis , p .

Prinsip-Prinsip Metodologis Pembelajaran Hadis Nabawi

Metode pengajaran atau metode mengajar adalah cara-cara praktis yang digunakan oleh seorang guru dalam penyampaian materi ajar kepada muridnya agar tercapai tujuan pengajaran. Kegiatan ini diartikan sebagai tata cara yang digunakan oleh guru dalam membelajarkan peserta didik saat berlangsungnya proses pembelajaran, melalui cara yang tepat dan sesuai dengan situasi dan kondisi. Sebuah metode akan mempengaruhi sampai tidaknya suatu informasi secara lengkap atau tidak. Oleh sebab itu pemilihan metode pendidikan harus dilakukan secara cermat, disesuaikan dengan berbagai faktor terkait, sehingga hasil pendidikan dapat memuaskan. Apa yang dilakukan rasulullah saw saat menyampaikan wahyu allah kepada para sahabatnya bisa kita teladani; karena rasul saw sejak awal sudah mengimplementasikan metode pendidikan yang tepat terhadap para sahabatnya tersebut. Strategi pembelajaran yang nabi lakukan sangat akurat dalam menyampaikan ajaran islam, sangat memperhatikan situasi, kondisi dan karakter seseorang, sehingga nilai-nilai islami dapat ditransfer dengan baik untuk menanamkan kebaikan dan kemashlahatan umat. Tujuan mencari pengetahuan dalam islam ialah menanamkan kebaikan dalam diri manusia; sebagai manusia dan sebagai diri individualnya. Hal ini menunjukkan pengetahuan yang kita cari harus memenuhi harapan kebaikan duniawi dan ukhrawi sehingga menjadi kontribusi manfaat kebaikan-kebahagiaan untuk dirinya dan masyarakatnya sebagai bukti bahwa pengetahuan dan pendidikan bisa memanusiakan manusia yang beradab. Tujuan akhir pendidikan dan pengajaran ialah menghasilkan manusia yang baik, yakni meliputi kehidupan materil dan spiritual. Manusia secara efektif dan terarah memberikan ‘ibrah guna terciptanya efektivitas proses belajar mengajar yang baik sebagaimana yang diajarkan nabi saw kepada umatnya dengan didasarkan kepada nilai-nilai qur’ani dan sunnah nabawiyyah - hadis nabawi.

Metode pengajaran atau metode mengajar adalah cara-cara praktis yang digunakan oleh seorang guru dalam penyampaian materi ajar kepada muridnya agar tercapai tujuan pengajaran.