Frontier of Faith
Title | Frontier of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Sana Haroon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780199326365 |
Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defence for British India, but also determined to be socially distinct and hence left outside the judicial, legislative and social institutions of greater colonial India. Conditions of Tribal Areas autonomy came to emphasize the role and importance of the mullahs operating in the region, and the mullahs jealously protected this administrative alienation. Despite its great distance from the centers of political organization in India and Afghanistan, the frontier occasionally functioned as a military organization ground for both Indian and Afghan anti-colonial activists until independence and partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Thereafter the Tribal Areas maintained status as an administratively and socially autonomous region in both the Afghan and Pakistani national imaginations and cartographic descriptions. The regional mullas continued to contribute to armed mobilizations of national importance in Pakistan and in Afghanistan over the next half century, in return for which nationalist actors supported the mullahs and their personal interest in regional autonomy. This was the hinterland of successive, contradictory jihads in support of Pakhtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Only the claim to autonomy persisted unchanged and uncompromised, and within that claim the functional role of religious leaders as social moderators and ideological guides was preserved. From outside, patrons recognised and supported that claim, reliant in their own ways on the possibilities the autonomous Tribal Areas and its mullahs afforded.
Frontiers of Faith
Title | Frontiers of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Schroeder |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1524671665 |
Biblical illiteracy and doctrinal ignorance are like two subtle viruses of twenty-first century America. Always only one generation away from being a pagan nation, as has been said, America needs the Christian Church to rise to the challenge of imparting true and vigorous Christian education to todays generation. Frontiers of Faithseeks to arouse the faith of young believers and to deepen the faith of veteran Christians. Theology, which was once called the Queen of the sciences, today is an unexplored frontier for many Christians. Our hope is that this book will be a trustworthy guide for many into the primary paths of truth that are foundational for a Christians faith.
Faith on the Frontier
Title | Faith on the Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund March Vittum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Pilgrim's Wilderness
Title | Pilgrim's Wilderness PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Kizzia |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2013-07-16 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0307587843 |
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Faith on the Frontier
Title | Faith on the Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund March Vittum |
Publisher | Rarebooksclub.com |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230110479 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...gentlemen; and she moved fearlessly among them, never bold and unwomanly, yet treating them all with equal kindness. And, though there were undoubtedly dishonest men among them, if any one was disposed to take advantage of Harry's absences to plunder or injure anything about The Warren, he very well knew that his own life would not be worth a penny among those rough men, if they should chance to learn that he had stolen or destroyed anything belonging to Harry Marston. THIS we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.--Sr. PAUL. ONE pleasant day during the third summer of their sojourn on the prairie, Aunt Jennie and Harry were out riding, some miles from The Warren. Harry was looking for antelope, and Aunt Jennie was enjoying the wild, free life of the frontier, by joining him in a long canter across the prairie. They had ridden to the top of a hill, and were carefully looking over the country for game, when Aunt Jennie suddenly broke the silence with the unexpected question, --"How many skulls of dead buffalo do you suppose there are in sight? " _ " Millions, for aught I know," replied Harry. "They are like the stars--innumerable." "But you know," said Aunt J ennie, "that there are, after all, only a few thousand stars visible to the naked eye." "Yes, that is true," said the young man. "And I presume there are not many thousands of those heads within sight; still, they are pretty thick in this region. Do you know, Aunt Jennie, how much one of them is worth? " "Not much, I fancy," she replied with a laugh. " It 's about all your life is worth when your horse steps on one in a dark night. You remember I...
Faith and Frontiers
Title | Faith and Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Eli Miller |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2021-08-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1039112951 |
Faith and Frontiers is a story about how trusting in God leads a man and his wife into unchartered territories and allows them to soar to new heights. In his inspirational memoirs, Eli Miller shares how even as a young Amish boy in Ohio he knew his path lay outside the community. Leaving his home at the tender age of seventeen, and with very little real-life experience, Eli soon finds his life is off track – so much so that even meeting and marrying the love of his life is not enough to settle him down. But then in a moment of despair, an encounter with the Holy Spirit turns his life around and sets him on a path to share the Word of God with others. As Eli continues his spiritual journey and becomes an ordained minister, he and his wife take a leap of faith and become founding members of a Christian community that embraces a frontier lifestyle in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia. After a multitude of adventures, and several years and children later, Eli then leans into his next calling and moves back to “civilization” where he becomes influential in the development and growth of several congregations and begins to lecture and minister across five continents. Told with humour and sincerity, Eli recounts the trials and tribulations of a lifetime of living on faith and shares the message of hope that he has spent his whole life proclaiming.
Frontiers in Muslim-Christian Encounter
Title | Frontiers in Muslim-Christian Encounter PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nazir-Ali |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1597529141 |
In this book, Michael Nazir-Ali, author of Conviction and Conflict: Islam, Christianity and World Order (2006), discusses themes of major theological and missiological importance for the Christian encounter with Islam. Chapters include ÒThe Christian Doctrine of God in an Islamic Context,Ó ÒContextualization: The Bible and the Believer in Contemporary Muslim Society,Ó ÒChristian Theology for Inter-Faith Dialogue,Ó and ÒWholeness and Fragmentation: The Gospel and Repression.Ó