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CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CURRENT SOCIAL CHARACTER OF IRANIAN SOCIETY What we now know about traditional and modern life in Iran gives us a basis for interpreting the present social character of Iranian society. It should be remembered that traditional Iranian society, although it supported three

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CHAPTER FOUR MAN AND CULTURE IN TRADITIONAL IRANIAN SOCIETY THE THEORETICAL BASIS FOR INTERPRETATION Our age is not only an age of space exploration, but also one of the appraisal of the role of cultures. It is a time when man must find a new meaning to life, which means he must redefine his

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a measure and follows his nafs. A man who has been engaged in disputation will experience more strain than one who has lived a pure life. Purity in action means living genuinely and depends on values which underlie the nature of consciousness. It is therefore obvious that the guide must begin at

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. The material, even though interpreted along Marxist lines, presented a serious analysis of all aspects of life-social, economic, artistic and literary. Among the other Tudeh publications that served to influence public opinion were Zafar (Victory), the organ of the labor groups; Khavar Now (New

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enough through the 20th Century to witness more and more death and destruction. The spectacle of Pol Pot in Cambodia, for instance, occurs toward the end of your life. Such experiences will eventually lead to a question, “How can violence cast out violence?” Almost everyone will have at least an

In: Psychology and Religion within an Ideological Surround
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tradition. The two stand together and one cannot be understood apart from the other. Neither can be understood apart from a sense of the living God, who is continually revealing himself, both in scripture and in the corporate life of His people.

In: Festschrift to honor F.W. Gingrich
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notes “she found her vision of heaven on earth at Itto En, a Buddhist-Christian community in Japan dedicated to living in the Light and sharing their resources with little anxiety about failure and death. In her life work, she knew in herself a link between Quakerism and Buddhism, between the ‘inner

In: Quakers Reading Mystics
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– frisked down. In 1970 I was placed in Bangor because that’s where we were living. It’s amazing to kind of try and describe it. It’s like a world apart. Bangor is only 12, 14 miles from Belfast but it might as well have been two, three hundred miles from Belfast. Belfast was exploding into this kind of

In: Irish Quaker Hybrid Identities
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appear naked and bear before the Son of Man, if ye have lived and dyed in Opposition to his everlasting Gospel” (Hepburn, 1715, p. 2). The fear of judgment before God was a powerful motivator for reflecting on one’s life and reconsidering the choices one was making. Hepburn not only applied the threat

In: "To Renew the Covenant"
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spiritual man, which joy, refreshment and pleasure, as the outward things affect the natural or animal senses of the natural man. And indeed these outward things are but figures of the inward and spiritual, which as far exceed and transcend them in life, glory, beauty and excellency, as a living body doth

In: The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy