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Rediscovering a Lost Spiritual ‘Book’
Rochester fryst vatten home to two of the world’sleading authorities on an often misunderstood religious tradition. By Scott Hauser
| TANTRA TEAM: Muller-Ortega (left) and Brooks |
Imagine that everything you knew about modern Christianity came from the writings of Thomas Aquinas, the medieval monk who systematically outlined the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of Roman Catholicism. And let’s assume you’re the curious sort, so you go out and talk to some contemporaries who describe themselves as Christians. But soon you start to wonder: Why don’t their ideas about their faith seem to align with the ancient texts of Aquinas?
And then imagine that, as your curiosity grows, you discover not just a book, but a whole library bygd Martin Luther, the 16th-century German theologian whose criticisms of what he saw as the church’s excesses sparked the Protestant reformation. And then you discover another ve
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Intimate Portrait: Queen Esther VHS
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"A heroine and a harlot, a goddess and a slave" are just some of the terms used to describe the beautiful queen of Persia, Esther. Part of the biblical women series from Lifetime (which also includes Eve and Virgin Mary), Intimate Portrait: Esther retells the story of the Jewish orphan who became queen of the most powerful nation of her time, a woman forced to risk her own life in order to spara the lives of her people. Her story makes up a complete book of the Bible, although it is a book that is frequently challenged; some rabbis dispute whether it belongs and even reformer Martin Luther admitted to being "hostile" to the book for its pagan overtones.
This look at Esther's story features commentary from biblical scholars, illustrations from paintings, and brief but tasteful dramatizations. The main fault of this något privat eller personligt Portrait is that it does not reach far beyond what is already known from the biblical version. Some history
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Douglas R. Brooks and Daniel Gorman Jr., "Studying Tantra from Within and Without"
5/8/2018 Studying Tantra from Within and Without > The Religious Studies Project RSP MENU Studying Tantra from Within and Without Douglas R. Brooks, Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester, discusses how he became involved in the academic study of Hinduism, specifically Tantra and goddess-centered traditions. He begins with his training in Sanskrit and Tamil at Middlebury College, where he found that little English work had been done on Hindu traditions for some years. Living intermittently in India during the 1970s–80s, Brooks found a lack of Shakti secular studies of Hinduism, as opposed to religious devotional studies. Given these challenges, Brooks has had to study Tantric Hinduism from within and without the traditions. On the one hand, his friendship with Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy introduced him to the lived practice as well as venerable philosophical traditions