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This volume has two goals. One is to explore the life and the thought of Fethullah Gülen and the important educational and peace-inducing activities in which he and those inspired by him have been engaged for several decades. The outcome of those efforts¿of creating schools and providing diverse social and cultural services that bring people together people from diverse backgrounds¿has been to provide the face of civic and civil Islam as an an...

This narrative has three related intentions. The first, and primary in sheer volume of discussion, is to consider Greek and Latin literature as a prism through which Greco-Roman civilization may be understood, but through the specific lens of the interweave of two concepts, eros (love) and eris (strife). Neither of these apparently opposed modes of human behavior is presented without the other, the two are repeatedly intertwined with each othe...

The idea of survival-whether physical, mental, or spiritual-ultimately infuses all discussions of family and of art, which are among the only ways by which individual experience can persist after death. This innovative book interweaves powerful accounts of three artists with the complex story of human experience.

Comprehensive look at three thousand years of Jewish art and architecture

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Ori Z. Soltes' book of poems reflects on different aspects of love-parent-to-child, child-to-parent, sibling-to-sibling, spouse-to-spouse-and its many complications, by sweeping through a range of times, places, and circumstances. That range offers encounters with important works of literature and art and the occasional historical character in the Greek and Roman tradition, with key figures in the Bible, with obscure medieval characters-like A...

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Juries Prosecutors and Defendants from the Era of Jesus to Our OwnTime.

This book is not a comprehensive study of Rumi and Gülen, but it seeks to explore the places where the thought of the one is echoed in the thinking of the other, either overtly or indirectly -- and to note ways in which the opposite is true: that Gülen diverges from Rumi. The book is also seeking to suggest some of the larger contexts in which the thinking of both resides. Given the wide-ranging aspects of their respective writings, it should ...

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The Ashen Rainbow plays on the paradox of the Holocaust: that the darkest hour of human depravity influenced an unprecedented array of human creativity--a rainbow tinged with ash. The juxtaposition of the terms "arts" and "Holocaust" seems illogical: one pertaining to creation and the other destruction. Yet Soltes' insightful interpretations embrace this disconnect, as he interweaves multiple disciplines ranging from literature, music, and the...

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Crossing the goal line, with the football tucked safely in his arms, the NFL star falls on one knee, bows his head, crosses himself and utters a prayer of thanksgiving to God, giving one more example of the ever expanding connection between sports and religion. At least it seems to be expanding. The question is: was there truly a notable surge in that relationship between sports and religion. And if there has been a surge, is it unique in hist...

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam traces the sweep of mysticism the search for oneness with God throughout the three Abrahamic traditions. Beginning with a definition of mysticism and a discussion of its place within religion as a whole, Ori Z. Soltes explores the history of mysticism from the Biblical times through the present day.

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam traces the sweep of mysticism_the search for oneness with God_throughout the three Abrahamic traditions. Beginning with a definition of mysticism and a discussion of its place within religion as a whole, Ori Z. Soltes explores the history of mysticism from the Biblical times through the present day.