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La llamada Biblia del pueblo es una traducción redactada para llevar el Antiguo testamentoa un público más amplio. Esta traducción es obra de los sacerdotes Alfredo Bernardo Trusso y Armando Jorge Levoratti. Más que un libro, la Biblia es-como indicaba el término griego del que procede: τα βιβλία, «los libros»-una colección de 74 libros.
Los 47 del Antiguo Testamento y los 27 del Nuevo, fueron escritos a lo largo de más de mil años....
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Los Evangelios apócrifos se escribieron en los primeros siglos del cristianismo y cuentan historias relativas a Jesús, que no aparecen en los textos canónicos. Son escenas omitidas por la ortodoxia cristiana, que se encontraron, en el siglo XX, en los rollos del Mar Muerto y los de Nag Hammadi.
A estos documentos se les dio el nombre de Evangelios por su aspecto similar a los cuatro evangelios admitidos en el canon del Nuevo Testamento. Sin embargo,...
3) Popol Vuh
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El Popol Vuh tiene un indudable interés literario, por su rica imaginería y por ser una obra que contempla la cultura maya preexistente.
El Popol Vuh que hoy conocemos fue escrito tras la Conquista en lengua quiché con grafía castellana por indígenas cristianizados.
Algunos estudiosos indican que uno de los posibles autores del Popol Vuh es Diego Reinoso. Y se cree que se redactó entre 1554 y 1558, en la antigua capital de los quichés, Gumarkaaj...
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Cuentos afrocubanos. Patakines es una antología de narraciones orales de origen africano, que han sido transcritas al español en los rituales religiosos de Cuba y el Caribe. Refieren el origen de las deidades de la religión yoruba y relatan además historias de esa cultura que suelen ser interpretadas en el marco del sistema adivinatorio de Ifá.
En el sincretismo cubano muchos de estos relatos han adoptado elementos de la religión cristiana o...
5) Chilam Balam
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El Chilam Balam de Chumayel (o el libro del adivino de las cosas ocultas) es una colección de libros escritos en lengua maya, por personajes anónimos, durante los siglos XVI y XVII, en la península de Yucatán.
Los libros del Chilam Balam relatan hechos y circunstancias históricas de la civilización maya antes de la conquista española.
Durante la época colonial, los misioneros católicos españoles destruyeron la mayor parte de los escritos...
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En la introducción al Memorial de Sololá anuncia el autor que va a escribir las historias de sus antepasados, tal como ellos solían contarlas.
Así cuenta cómo llegó su pueblo, desde el otro lado del mar, a la legendaria Tulán, núcleo de las razas de México y Guatemala. Luego cómo, después de organizarse, los guerreros de las siete tribus emprendieron el viaje hacia el sur, buscando los montes y valles donde debían fijarse y prosperar bajo...
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Esta edición del Nuevo Testamento, en lengua castellana, responde al deseo de poner a disposición del público de España y América una traducción actual y comentada de los textos sagrados, de modo que, como quiere el Concilio Vaticano II; "los hijos de la Iglesia puedan manejar con seguridad y provecho las Sagradas Escrituras y penetrarse de su Espíritu" ( Dei Verbum, 25).
Para la traducción, que responde a los textos originales, se ha tenido...
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La traducción del Antiguo Testamento de Casiodoro de Reina, revisada por Cipriano de Varela, levantó enorme polémica y provocó que ambos fuesen perseguidos de por vida por la Inquisición. Miembro de una congregación de la Orden de San Jerónimo en las inmediaciones de Sevilla, Casiodoro terminó huyendo de España y se convirtió al protestantismo, en un periplo que lo llevó por Suiza, Alemania e Inglaterra.
En Londres Casiodoro empezó a trabajar...
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The authors identify the general symbol of the "Mother Goddess" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in form or function of the symbol in specific sociocultural settings. Although the subject is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, the authors concur that female deities are not mere projections of sociocultural conditions on an ideological screen; divine mother images represent something of...
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From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case for American religion in motion-not just from east to west, but also from north to south. With discussion of topics such as the religions of the Black Atlantic,...
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Rather than discussing their possible vocation, discussions of children tend to center on their rights or duties. Does God have intentions for their young lives -- before they grow up and become "real" people? Distinguished jurist Patrick McKinley Brennan has gathered sixteen authors to approach this idea in various ways, from historical to psychological to theological. The authors explore throughout whether it is possible for adults to either squander...
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Arguably one the greatest influences on the Western world, if not the world as a whole, the Christian faith can be described as a cultural and religious colossus for the tremendous effect it has had on the development of civilization as we know it. Although centered around the figure of Jesus of Nazareth, Christianity evolved rapidly, leading to the creation of various sects and traditions that have come to represent different peoples around the world....
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George J. Tanabe, Jr., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at the University of Hawaii. Having research interests covering doctrinal and practical issues in medieval and modern Japan, he is the author of MyÉe the Dreamkeeper, coeditor of The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture, and coauthor of Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan.
This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex,...
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An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States. Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism's dense cultural...
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates...
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With a Diaspora that has spread to nearly every continent, the Judaic tradition has been an integral part of the history and development of societies the world over. As the oldest of the world's three major monotheistic religions, Judaism has survived centuries of trial and transformation, all while consistently maintaining a considerable following and identity. This comprehensive volume examines the robust spiritual and cultural heritage of this...
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Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University. Dale C. Allison Jr. is Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. John Dominic Crossan is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection...
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A significant collection of essays by leading scholars on the vital decade of the 1670s in Britain, Ireland and North America. This was a period of profound tension and uncertainty (culminating in the exclusion crisis of 1678-83),, in which the 1660s restoration settlement began to break down, and debates came to seem much more complex and ambiguous than the earlier simple polarity between royalist Anglicanism and a radical, non-conformist opposition....
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Barbara D. Metcalf is president-elect of the American Historical Association. She is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis, and most recently has taught at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Islamic Revival in British India and the coauthor of A Concise History of Modern India.
This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies...
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Lawrence Fine is the Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies and a member of the Religion Department at Mount Holyoke College. He is the editor of Essential Papers on Kabbalah, the translator of Safed Spirituality: Rules of Mystical Piety, The Beginning of Wisdom, and author of Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos--Isaac Luria and his Kabbalistic Fellowship.
This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval...
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