Religion Book Reviews Samples For Students

Revolution, Revival and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua by Calvin L. Smith

In his book, Smith brings out the rise of the Sandinistas. The course of their rise is along the emblements of social, economic and political spheres. In this regard, the rise was envisaged in the year nineteen seventy nine. It is significant to denote that, the war was facilitated by religion on a great extent. The protestant believers are believed to have significantly supported ambitions of the Sandinistas. In essence, this followed a schism along religious lines in the United States of America. Proactively, the Sandinistas were anti-Christian. In the same cordial relationship between the Protestants and the Evangelicals, Continue reading...

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” is a memoir of Frederick Douglas. Douglas was an African American who born as a slave and spent his early life in slavery. Douglas, in his memoir, describes his own life, experiences, sufferings and life of other slaves in a very realistic manner. This narrative was published in 1845 and has been revised several times due to its popularity. This paper proposes to discuss Frederick Douglass and analyses his memoir and several other related aspects.
Frederick Douglas talks about his date of birth and about his parents in First Continue reading...

Philosophy has been one of the most important disciplines in Western civilization. Many schools of thought have pondered over the great questions of human life. During the 19th and 20th century, the existential current questioned the nature and purpose of man, freedom and happiness. Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish writer closely associated to this movement. His short story “Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr”, portrayed many aspects of this theory, such as: . Therefore, the present text will analyze the relations between existentialism and .
Defining existentialism is problematic, as it is used to conglomerate many different systems of thought that Continue reading...

Article Review: African Theology - Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology – Roman Catholic in Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church

The two articles being reviewed and compared here are African Theology – Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology - Roman Catholic, both taken from the Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Karkkainen.
Both articles begin with an overview of their interaction with diversity and it is at the very onset that the reader realizes that the two theologies vary greatly in their follower base. Despite its fundamentally Continue reading...

The book “The Forty Rules of Love” is a fascinating novel presenting Sufi wisdom related to the relationships between men and women, between humans and God, the nature of Islam religion. In the center of the novel is and unhappy housewife Ella who are desperate about her cheating husband. In her hard moments, she finds a good book that makes her changing the worldview. In this book she finds the forty rules of love that stimulate her think different, according to the principles of the Islam religion. She is ready to accept the new attitude to life.
In the Continue reading...

Ali Eteraz has long established himself as one of the more insightful writers with regard to the complications of Islam and politics within Pakistan. His memoir shows his real gifts with narrative. The prose is absolutely lyric, sprinkled with deep memories and leavened with a sense of humor. The courage of the story comes from its sharp and slightly dark wit, and the reader is engaged by Eteraz’s search for answers to questions both cosmic and individual. The book consists of five sections, each of which takes one name he has given to himself. Every identity represents a Continue reading...

Nancy F. Cott. The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835.

The purpose of the book, The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835, written by Nancy F. Cott was to demonstrate that women from a century ago were breaking out of their traditional sphere of working in the home and shaping new roles for themselves in the community. During the process they also learned how to strengthen “the bonds of womanhood” with other women (Cott, 204). Cott (160) calls this new feeling sisterhood.
New England middle class women were very smart about Continue reading...

‘Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have gone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is exterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits run shivering from one frozen garden patch to another and are hard put to it to find frost-bitten cabbage-stalks. At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling for food. The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the Continue reading...

In Peter Berger’s book, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, religion is viewed as something that is more of a social development rather than spiritual. Human beings have very little control over their environment, the world around them. They create patterns of doing things, which they make to be the right way of handling situations. Humans create meaning to their life, why things need to be done in a certain way. They also explain the existence of phenomena using the order they have created for themselves. The society creates stability to enable them to Continue reading...

A clear depiction of the nature of slavery in the south of Antebellum America is present in Douglass’ “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.”As an African American Born into slavery and raised as such, Douglass’ narration gives his readers insight into his life and his struggle with the slavery institution. The book revolves around Frederick Douglass’ experiences at the hands of different slave masters before finally escaping to the northern states and joining the abolitionists’ movement. As the book commences, Frederick Douglass shows his confusion over the basis of slavery and in turn, makes his conclusions Continue reading...

Book Review

The book is an interesting and informative excerpt and has an historical analysis of the accounts that took place between the 1400 to the 16 century. The events that took place have been clearly illustrated, starting with the rise to power by Cosim de’ Minici. It gives an analysis of the financial situation at the time by mentioning the influence that the bank and the people around him had on his influence at that time. To make the historical accounts more convincing, there has been numerical examples and explanations to strengthen the facts under discussion. The language used is Continue reading...

Southern Baptists and Southern Presbyterians maintained separate denominations as per the book by David Chappell. The religious forebears of the Baptists and Presbyterians broke up and formed the northern and southern spheres. David Chappell argues in his book that slavery was the reason for breaking the churches. This book, “a stone of hope” claims that further propaganda about religious discrimination lead to the civil rights movement. Religion played a major role in describing the blacks and quotes state that the poor in the Bible really fought the rich just as the poor in the civil movement. Those who were Continue reading...

Book Review: Guests of the Sheik

The book entitled Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, recount the experience the author acquired during a two-year stay in a small village in Iraq. The experience incorporated in the aforementioned book is imperative essentially because offers the reader insights regarding race and ethnicity, kinship and family, and finally religion and morality. This book is accredited subsequent to the fact that the author who had the first-hand experience of events is the one who narrates these events as it unfolds. Apparently, we are predisposed to understanding the way of life Continue reading...

Yahya Hakki’s The Lamp of Umm Hashim is a tale embedded in colonialism where the Egyptian protagonist Ismail goes to Europe for higher studies. It is a quintessential tale of ‘colonized meets colonizer.’ Egypt was under colonial rule and throughout the text, there are strong current of stereotypical representations f differences that had come to characterize the dichotomy of East vs. West. While in Europe, Ismail is exposed to the scientific way of thinking as he goes about learning ophthalmology. As scientific enlightenment piles on, his traditional and religious beliefs begin to wean away. Alienation in a foreign Continue reading...

Leadership in any setting requires discovering the congregational culture that may sound presumptuous at times. For centuries, religious leaders have been confronting the distinctive cultures of congregations. It is evident that immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to a common language (English) and also battles took place during the Irish clergy period. History gives information that a number of anthropologists and ethnographers studied local congregations just like their colleagues would study the remote tribes both in South America and Africa. This paper aims at putting down the ideas learnt from the book of “Lead like Jesus” by Ken Continue reading...

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
The steady yet slow growth of the New Hope Church in America is an indication of commitment by the Korean-Americans to support the ministry's programs and cooperate in worship and fellowship. However, some negative notions imported from the Korean culture affect the success of the ministry's programs especially urban centers of America. Such notions such as the lack of sensitivity to community service are inherited by the new generation of believers from their elders. In the book “QBQ; the question behind the question” John Miller explains that a leader is responsible for Continue reading...

The issues highlighted in the book corroborate with my ministry setting. New hope church has brought all of them together in the United States. The lesson from such a situation is that there is optimism in life irrespective of the challenges in life. People should learn to have hope and not loose be pessimistic about tomorrow in hard and trying times. With the help of good shepherd evangelical covenant church the Korean Americans built a congregation. The lesson a person can learn from this is there are compassionate and selfless people; and can help each other. People can learn Continue reading...

Leading a Local Congregation Based On Stewardship and Institutional Development

“When a group of Individuals in any arena of life does well, one of the keys to understanding their success is to examine the leadership practices of the key leaders of that,”
“Lead Like Butler” focuses on the manner in which a team leader can influence success through the building of a strong value system. Its focus on the role of the leader is meant to point to the fact that no other figure in a group or convention is of more influence than its leader. The book holds the view that success in a group is based on Continue reading...

Chapter 15

This chapter stipulates and highlights the beauty and the strength and triumph of God relative to the powers of the world. Firstly it outlines the magnificence and authority of God as the creator, whose works and vision for the human race was perfect, but instead the human beings faulted in their living styles and behaviors. In principle, we are the children of God, who happen to have the spirit of God living within us, thus there a functional relationship between our lives and the spirit of God. It is an elaborate article on the way in which the Christians Continue reading...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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Book Review on How Should We Then Live:
The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of the Movement Continue reading...

According to Norton, Chapter two expresses the influence of the British (and other) colonizers in the North American people’s religion, culture, form of governance, economy, and land ownership. The colonizers had success in converting the Indians and the Native people to Christianity. Europeans moved to North America to own and start farms while the British had an interest because of their need to reform the church, improve government and to settle their surplus population by transferring their homeland societal and political environments to North America. In 1607, Jamestown, a swampy town in Virginia, the first permanent settlement was Continue reading...

Things fall Apart is novel written by a Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe paints a picture of pre-colonial Africa to the people who had no direct information on traditional African societies. This novel highlights the clash between the Nigerian traditional culture and colonialism. In the novel, there are a number of themes and background but the major themes in the novel are struggle between change and traditions whereby there is the Igbo culture and civilization and the expansion of the Europeans into Africa as from the 1880s.
Chinua Achebe through his book Things Fall Apart portrays the clash Continue reading...

Consider Jesus

Chapter 8 Abstract
I. Thesis
In Chapter 8, Johnson starts by presenting the traditional debate on suffering and God’s relation to it. In particular through Christ and the Cross. He presents the two main sides, one where God is seen as present in history and close to those who suffer. This position is based on Scripture. The other position, based on Greek Philosophy, sees God as pure and perfect being and as such He cannot suffer. These two perspectives do not meet.
II. Methodology
The classical positions of the broad debate are based on the Scripture, both from Continue reading...

Franny is a student aged 20 years of age, she studies at Yale College. The story begins by Franny visiting her boyfriend who studies at Harvard. It was during the annual Yale-Harvard football challenge. Immediately, Franny begins putting down and deconstructing almost everything, Lane mentions. She criticizes everything uttered by her boyfriend; the only positive thing she talks about is discussing the religious book, The Way of the Pilgrimage. The book is about as Russian peasants who learn to pray according Jesus Prayer on the bible. Franny's stand on religious matters brings light to any other Christian, who believes Continue reading...

Zooey and Franny are two intelligent young siblings who come from one of the successful families. In spite the fact that they come from a successful family, there is nothing, which hinders them from developing a bitter, cynical view of the world that intimidates their stability of their minds. Frances is the real name given to Franny and Zachary is the real name given to Zooey. Zooey is 20 years old and his sister Franny is 25 years old, in essence, they are separated by 5 years. They two youngest children of the Glass family, which is a family Continue reading...

The book developed from the introductory stages of Muslim taught in the Universities in religious studies lessons. In an attempt to understand the Islamic concepts, it tries to explain the principles in simple and familiar language. Form the onset, Islam has been a difficult subject to present to students especially those who emanate form other cultures. It is harder to teach Islam in learning institutions as a result of the cultural diversity. Sachiko asserts that Islam is best understood by individuals who have been born and raised in Islamic backgrounds.
The book focuses on what Islam has brought of Continue reading...

Question one

The government of United States had been exposed to extensive communism that had been considered an element of exclusive concern. Through the element massive changes had been experienced in the nation. The government had used its extensive powers to influence how activities flow in the country. The case was revolving around a prayer that had been defined as the overall prayer that all the public schools were supposed recite. The prayer dictated “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our Country.” It was believed that this Continue reading...

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed Continue reading...

Book Review

The book by Nicholas Orme is an important study in the history of education of the medieval England, and it exceeds expectations of many scholars and laymen who are familiar in this subject. As this typical rendition will have it, medieval schools were far and few in the medieval times, and how the schools did exist to dominate in the field of religious subjects. The author presents a convincing case in something like the opposite of that view, as education was relatively widespread in the times of medieval England, and was typically provided in the non-monastic settings, when in Continue reading...

I am Mr. Rodgers Mott. My parents are Mr. William Mott and Mrs. Lucretia Mott.
I am here to support motion 2 because since the beginning of Christianity as religion women have played important roles in the church and even in the bible, which is used to guide Christians. Women in the bible such as Mary played the role of being the first to visit the tomb of Jesus and to remind the disciples that Jesus had risen from death. Women should, therefore, be allowed to take part in church activities. Taking part in church activities entails even leading Continue reading...

I am writing this paper on the book “Identity and Violene” by Amartya Sen who is a Nobel laureate in economics. In this book he extensively discusses about his concern with the ‘miniaturization’ of human beings. He goes on to touch on the topic on identity in connection with civilization, religion and culture while also in historical context, individual freedoms and globalization. In this book he presents his argument in such a manner that is persuasive and is able to convince the reader of the book easily. This book should be a must read to anyone with any liking Continue reading...

Introduction

Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery is a compilation of three essays by psychologist Dr. Na’im Akbar, earlier it was called ‘Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery’. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery includes specific sections that address to the process to eliminating mental slavery or the ghosts of plantation. Through these essays Dr. Akbar has attempted to develop two ideas; firstly, the psychological impact of slavery. Secondly, the influence that Caucasian images for worship has on the African-American psychology. Dr. Akbar presented a behavioural determinant that according to him doesn’t have great legitimacy in the Western Continue reading...

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CHAPTER 2: THE LOST WORD (p.17- 43)

God dropped his bombshell in the form of Amos. He came as a prophet of doom for Church and nation. He said that God was going to judge His people, the retribution wheel is already spinning and it would spin faster. Recent disaster like earthquake, drought, and famine, epidemic showed God’s displeasure clearly, but this was just the beginning. As in verse Amos 8:11, because of the many sins of Israel and Judah, and the ‘falling away’ of Church, God sent a famine in the land. Not famine of bread or thirst, but of hearing Continue reading...

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Ginzburg's book is a prime example of a micro-history that deals with the life of a seemingly unknown, and mostly, forgotten individual in 16th Century Italy. In the book, Ginzburg talks about a character named Menocchio; a peasant with a life of obscurity, but one that was filled with quite amazing and capable ideas. Menocchio was a sort of a deviant, and he had little respect for the norms established by the Church. Of course, Menochhio's behavior had him get noticed by the Church, and the book discusses the events that unfolded then in detail, including Continue reading...

The book The Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford revolves around the live of an African Muslim, Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, slave who was captured and sold in America as a slave. Before being captured, he was a prince, and was educated and upon being sold to slave owners in Mississippi, he was given command over slaves working in tobacco and cotton plantation. While in Africa, he had saved an Irish surgeon who petitioned for his freedom in America resulting to his release in 1828 when he was aged 60 years. He then navigated back to Africa where he Continue reading...

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In the book Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology, Johnson offers insight into the Christian religion by analyzing the origin and understanding of the same. Johnsons writing finds basis on the start of Jesus’ ministry on earth when he asked the gathered audience, “Who do you say I am?” Different answers have been given in response to this question by the religion clerics, scholars in the same field. To give an account of how the question has been answered over the years, Johnson embarks on a thorough research on the subject in Continue reading...

Shaul Magid’s (2013) idea of Jewish identity is very different from the views of the past. Instead of looking at the people who make up the community as a whole, he took the elements outside Judaism and helped those factors shape the overall identity of Jews or what it means to be a Jew. Unlike the stereotypical images of the past, Magid (2013) fuses these different elements and separates Jewishness in a way that it makes sense in a post-modern world. His post-ethnic idea of Judaism is groundbreaking because he defines culture in such a multifaceted way. Instead Continue reading...

Literature

Major writers of early American literature by Emerson Wisconsin are a very interesting collection of works in literature by American writers.it gives the history of America through literature and from a literature point of view. Among these works in the collection s cotton Mather by Sacvan Bercovitch. Sacvan Bercovitch surgically dissects the personality and religious ideologies of cotton Mather. He lays the psychology of cotton Mather right on the table for public viewing and judgment. He especially focuses on the strain of religion advocated by cotton Mather and why this strain of religion had such a polarizing effect at Continue reading...

Analysis: American grace

In the book American grace, Putnam and Campbell are surprised by the uniqueness of the American religion. The religion in America is a conundrum; people are able to unite despite their sharp religious diversities and tolerate one another. So, this book is set to answer a number of questions: What possible factors could be shaping the religious landscape in America? Do people of a faith have distinct characteristics that differentiate them from the rest? Are there characteristics for people of faith as compared to those who do not have? What could be the explanation for the unique combination of Continue reading...

The theme of moral independence is well elaborated in this book. The author of the book have emphasized on thinking independently in relation to moral decisions in the story. Antonio reflected moral independence in his decisions throughout the story making him develop and mature through such moral decisions. Antonio is faced with difficulties of his life experience and the religious aspects leaving him in a dilemma. He therefore decided to make his own decisions pertaining to the situation irrespective of religious aspects and his own life experiences. He was frustrated by the fact that the church failed in giving Continue reading...