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This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and progress of the LDS Church in Canada. It has all the elements of a great saga, including that of early faithful missionaries preaching in eastern Canada without "purse or scrip" in the 1830s and 18402 and the exodus of early Canadian converts who joined with the main body of the Church an trekked across the Great Plains to Utah. It tells of Mormon pioneers from Utah arriving in southern Alberta after 1887, having made a second grand trek to escape their persecutors and details the settlement of Mormons in Alberta.

"This book is a concise, witty, and intelligible way to understand Buddhism." —bell hooks, author of All About Love

From Andrea Miller — an editor and staff writer at Lion's Roar, the leading Buddhist magazine in the English-speaking world — comes a diverse and timeless collection of essays, articles, and interviews. Miller, whose writing is by turns earnest and irreverent, unadorned and lyrical, talks to Buddhist teachers, thinkers, writers, and celebrities about the things that matter most and she frames their wisdom with her own lived experience.

Ce chapitre propose 9 itinéraires différents, pour partir sur les traces de la spiritualité en Asie. Au menu, des parcours au Tibet, au Bhoutan ou encore au Népal, avec chacun leurs propres points forts. Préparés par des rédacteurs passionnés et spécialisés, ces itinéraires empreints de spiritualité asiatique ont pour mission de vous donner l'impulsion de départ, notamment grâce à de superbes illustrations.

Ennemie de la sexualité, la religion ? C'est là une perception largement répandue, les courants conservateurs des diverses traditions religieuses étant généralement plus bruyants que les groupes libéraux en cette matière. Or, à y voir de plus près, la réalité est plus complexe. Le présent ouvrage offre un parcours des représentations de la sexualité de la part des grandes religions, interprétées sous le double prisme des extases et des interdits.

Que nous soyons de tradition chrétienne ou sans ancrage religieux, un devoir citoyen s'impose désormais à nous, celui d'interagir harmonieusement avec les personnes de diverses croyances que nous côtoyons tous les jours. Les textes qui forment l'essentiel de ce livre sont ceux d'un chrétien catholique qui a des connaissances théologiques en même temps que ceux d'un spécialiste des religions de l'Inde qui s'intéresse aux questions anthropologiques sous-jacentes à toute rencontre interreligieuse.

Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read.

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life. When you think like a monk, you'll understand how to overcome negativity, how to stop overthinking, why comparison kills love, how to use your fear, why you can't find happiness by looking for it, how to learn from everyone you meet, why you are not your thoughts, how to find your purpose, why kindness is crucial to success, and much more.

Growing numbers of young adults are either nonreligious or "spiritual but not religious," but this does not signal a lack of interest in religion and meaning-making. Though the lexicon describing sexuality and gender is quickly evolving, young people do not yet have satisfactory language to describe their fluid religious and spiritual identities.In Identities Under ConstructionPamela Dickey Young and Heather Shipley undertake a focused study of youth sexual, religious, and gender identity construction.

Healthcare settings are notoriously complex places where life and death co-exist, and where suffering is an everyday occurrence, giving rise to existential questions. The full range of society's diversity is reflected in patients and staff. Increasing religious and ethnic plurality, alongside decades of secularizing trends, is bringing new attention to how religion and nonreligion are expressed in public spaces. Through critical ethnographic research in Vancouver and London, Prayer as Transgression?

Early Pentecostal revivals swept through Canadian communities, big and small, in the early 1900s. Reports abounded of worshippers falling down at the altar, speaking in tongues, having dreams and visions, and experiencing divine healing. Tent meetings inspired curious onlookers to witness these phenomena for themselves. Following these revival meetings, Pentecostals organized, built churches, and expanded across the country, while many churches were beginning to decline.