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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.

After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic.

Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West."

Bekroond met de Henri Nouwen Manuscript Prijs. Wouter is een jongen van achttien die priester wil worden. In een brief deelt hij dit mee aan zijn ouders. Hij bevindt zich immers ver van hen, in Italië - en zijn vader, die zo zijn twijfels heeft over de keuze van zijn zoon, antwoordt eveneens in briefvorm. De vader staat stil bij drie grote literaire werken van Plato, Dante en Primo Levi het zijn ijkpunten voor ons Westers denken over het Schone, het Ware en het Goede. Bovendien gaat dit boek over toekomstverwachtingen die ouders koesteren, en wat er gebeurt als hun kinderen andere, in hun ogen niet vanzelfsprekende keuzes maken

Een 15-jarig meisje wandelt aan de hand van een leermeester de geschiedenis van de filosofie door.

Bundel religieuze poëzie van de Indiase dichter en wijsgeer (1861-1941).

Naar een humanisering van de technologische samenleving

Typen van religieuze ervaring en zorg voor de mens

Een radicaal humanistische interpretatie van het oude testament en zijn traditie

Inleiding in het gebied van de symbolische taal door de cultuurfilosoof 

In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China`s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China`s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China`s best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars to "rethink China." Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal "whirlpool" model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China’s tianxia (All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.

Ervaringen van de Nederlandse auteur (geb. 1931), die in een boeddhistisch klooster leerling wordt van een Zen-meester.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age -- liberal, socialist and conservative.

"Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his opening sentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights." The work that follows is a sophisticated and passionate defence of the rights of the individual as opposed to the state.

The author argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts. Any more extensive activities by the state, he demonstrates, will inevitably violate individual rights.

Among the many achievements of the work are an important new theory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, and an integration of ethics, legal philosophy and economic theory into a profound position in political philosophy which will be discussed for years to come.

Hoe meer kennis, hoe meer liefde (naar Paracelsus)

A programme for socio-economic change in the world today.

Auteur is psychotherapeute, dit boek gaat over synchroniciteit, zinvol toeval.