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Detailed descriptions of all the major Ports that cruising boats can target as a destination. Pull out NOAA chart of Lake Erie, as well as, aerial photos of each Port with complete listing of facilities, marinas and restaurants in the area.
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Great Marina Info.......2007-09-25
Pros- Great maps and marina info.
Cons- 2003 copyright date in 2008, outdated restaurant info, weak spiral binding with easily tearable pages while boating.
Lakeland Boating Lake Erie and St Clair Ports........2007-04-13
Lots of detail, great for planning stop overs.
Bruce
BOOK ORDER.......2006-02-23
The product came in a timely manner and cost less than if I would went to Lakeland Boating direct.
A "must have" for Lake Erie cruisers.......2000-11-29
This book is an invaluable tool, and something every lake Erie cruiser should own. The aerial photographs are excellent for navigating harbors. Combine this with the chart details, the included Lake Erie chart and GPS waypoints, it may be all a cruiser (powerboat at least) needs. Restaurant, marina and things to do recommendations are exellent.
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This cruise guide covers both the United States and Candian portions of Lake Huron which includes the Gerogian Bay and the North Channel. There is a full size NOAA chart which can be ripped out for your convenience and should be used to supplement the guide itself.
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Lake Superior Cruise Guide is a four color spiral bound book for use as you cruise the beautiful freswater of Lake Superior. Aerial photographs of each harbor with current listings and important information for the overnight cruiser. O'Meara-Brown Publications,Inc., has published in this same format a cruise guide for each of the great lakes and has had tremendous feedback praising the quality and usefulness of each guide to the great lakes boater.
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AMAZING.......2006-09-23
This book is extremely informative. I learned so much and she explains how Mernissi checked the reliability of the hadiths. This is definitely a must-read for all muslims as it explains the circumstances surrounding many of the revelations and hadiths which puts them into perspective so that one can understand them.
setting the record straight.......2006-09-20
The central thesis of this book is relatively straightforward. That is that the original intent and context of many parts of the Qur'an and teachings of the Prophet have been manipulated by those who have an interest in making women unequal in Islam. Mernissi contents that Islam was never meant to be anything other than a religion of equality, and that one must pay attention to the context of questionable verses and hadiths that have been invoked to subjugate women.
Methodologically, this work is quite rigorous. She makes very strong arguments and appears to back them up very well. However, the very nature of any relgion is that it can be manipulated to justify two completely opposing ideas. No one can definitively make the case that their way is THE right way. Mernissi herself admits as much herself on page 128 when she says "When it is a controversial verse that is at stake, everyone is going to choose and support the opinion that suits him best among the multiplicity of those that the fiqh accumulates.
In a way, it helps her case that she can admit what is such a fundamental point. Rather than insisting that hers is the only correct interpretation, she does what she can to make her argument and she makes it well. In the end, she's arguing for equality and that women are not to be second-class citizens. This is a commendable task. While I myself do not adhere to any religion, work such as this that is positive in nature is something that everyone should embrace.
The best book on Islam I've ever read........2005-05-01
I have to reiterate: the reveiwers which condemn this book because they don't agree with it are crazy. If you buy one book on Islam, let this be it.
That said, Fatima Mernissa, a Muslim herself, has certainly left no stone unturned with her analyses of the Hadith's. This woman has done her reasearch. From explaining why it's not "un-Islamic" to check on the veritablness of a Hadith, to picking apart two Hadith's with a fine toothed comb, to explaining just why wearing a veil is not only unrequired by the Koran, but is unIslamic in itself, she covers just about everything in this book.
Having grown up in a Muslim family myself, I've obviously been subjected to the mindframe of your typical Muslim male - that women are inferior for, well, being women. It's the sole reason I renounced the religion at a young age. The rest of the females in my family remain Muslim, and with this book, I can finally explain to them just why it is that, as I had always suspected, the "words of God" have been twisted by men for their own agenda - mainly to remain the dominant gender in the Middle East.
Marvelous inquiry into the sources of Islamic traditions.......2004-11-07
Fatima Mernissi's careful research is fascinating and challenging. Here is a brilliant Muslim woman on a quest to separate the wheat from the chaff in her tradition. Like the great scholar Al-Bukhari, she exposes cases of fraudulence, where self-interested parties tried to impose their own prejudices as articles of faith. But at the same time Mernissi reveals an inspiring earlier version of Islam, where devotion to real partnership and equality prevails. I think Mernissi's work is at least as important as any recent writing by Christian scholars toward uncovering the historical Jesus and the original face of Christianity.
Liked it.......2004-03-28
I liked it. Mernissi gives you an understanind of how hadiths work, shows you proof that Hadith may have been well contaminated with personal bias as well as cultural bias. Good overall.
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Try to define a layperson without using the word not: cannot preach or say Mass, is not in a leadership position in the church. The Second Vatican Council, with its emphasis on the priesthood of all believers rooted in baptism, changed all that. Yet, writes Paul Lakeland, "many of our bishops and not a few of the lay members of the church are attracted to a dangerously incomplete vision of Catholicism...one that sidesteps the major themes and key insights of Vatican II." Teasing out ideas first developed in his prize-winning The Liberation of the Laity, Lakeland develops "ten steps toward a more adult church."
Customer Reviews:
Fine Analysis.......2007-09-26
This book gave a good description and analysis of the role of the laity in the church today; as well as several helpful points to further develop their growing involvement as ministers in the 21st century. I would strongly recommend "Catholicism At The Crossroads" be read by anyone interested in furthering the dialogue and conversation regarding the mission of today's Church.
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Coordinated by Serene Jones of Yale Divinity School and Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University, fifty of North America's top teaching theologians (members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology) have devised a text that allows students to experience the deeper point of theological questions, to delve into the fractures and disagreements that figured in the development of traditional Christian doctrines, and to sample the diverse and conflicting theological voices that vie for allegiance today. The accompanying CD-ROM not only contains the fully searchable text but also includes chapter summaries, discussion questions, a glossary, weblinks, and a guide to writing research papers in theology.
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Diversity of similarity.......2007-08-28
I came across this text toward the end of my seminary education, and after reading the first couple of chapters was quite impressed. It seemed to offer a diversity of viewpoints, was helpfully organized, and covered a lot of basic material I wished I had access to before taking other courses.
By the time I made it through the rest of the book, though, it became clear that the book should be subtitled: "An Introduction to Theologians who Hate Capitalism." Virtually the entire chapter on sin and evil is devoted to equating sin and capitalism, and almost every essay following includes some mention of how terrible capitalism is. The phrase "late capitalism" pops up frequently, as though the economic system is on the verge of collapse and a new socialist utopia just around the corner.
Unfortunately, what started out seeming like a healthy diversity of views ends up being an exercise in ideology and rhetoric. These authors fall victim to the temptation of over-simplification, presenting a complex issue in stark black and white, good and evil terms. Not all theologians view the world along these lines, and a broader spectrum of opinions would be helpful to students.
What I learned from reading this book is that is far easier to be critical of something than to articulate a meaningful alternative.
Good materials for construction.......2005-10-13
When I was in seminary, I took a course entitled 'systematic theology'. While this was indeed the subject, the task of the course was more in line with what this text deals with - at the end of that course, we had to construct (as best we could) a consistent theology that dealt with the primary areas of theological concern.
The editors Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland have divided this text into six major sections, dealing with the key areas of theological concern: God; Human Being; Sin and Evil; Jesus Christ; Church; and Spirit. The editors have made efforts to make a text useful to a diverse and somewhat paradoxical community situation - how does one honour the traditions while recognising innovation and individuality in the current theological scene? How does one do theology for long-established communities, newly formed community, and those who seek a more personal theological development?
In each section, the editors begin some quotes or stories, vignettes that show everyday applications of the issues - how people think about a particular idea, or what they do to bring their beliefs into practice. They continue then with a 'State of the Question', which is a brief statement of introduction to the topic, highlighting salient points and areas of controversy. Following this, the 'map' of the chapters proceed in two broad ways - a historical theological treatment and a contemporary theological treatment. It is this latter part that is the longest section of each chapter, dealing with modern ideas from current theologians dealing with the issues in context of modern/post-modern culture, scientific knowledge, political realities, and more. Throughout the text, there are bracketed sections (set off in different indentation and typeface) that are drawn from primary sources or set aside special questions that show a difference with the main progress of the chapter.
This is very much a collaborative piece. In addition to Jones and Lakeland as the overall editors, each primary chapter has its own editor, and each chapter is a synthesis of the writing and views of half a dozen or more theologians. They are not presented in dialog form or in the form of separate essays, but rather in a more integrated way, which has both strengths and weaknesses. This is true of the overall organisation of the book as well. Jones and Lakeland address their reasoning for the way in which they have selected the categories: 'The answer is pragmatic. Since our students know so little about the history of Christian theology and have limited training in the tradition, this pattern seemed best suited to teaching "the basics." ' This is a book specifically designed to be used as and useful as a textbook for introductory theology. In an era where an increasing number of seminary students are second- or third-career students who have had little or no history and philosophy training (much less theology training), this kind of approach is very welcome.
The tradition behind this book includes the books 'Christian Theology' and 'Readings in Christian Theology', each by Peter Hodgson and others. (both of which I read in my seminary days) as well as 'Reconstructing Christian Theology' by Rebecca Chopp et al. (which I read on my own). The first two books were done in the early 1980s, while Chopp's book was done in the 1990s, recognising shifts in the 'typical' students who enrolled in seminary. Jones and Lakeland are again responding to a shift in the past ten years, one that has seen shifts not only in social location but educational purpose.
One of the features of this text is the inclusion of a CD-ROM that has a lot of extra material, and links to a broader system through the Logos Library System. At the time of this review, only PC format is supported, but an insert in the back of the book promises Macintosh capability soon. (I PC at work, but Mac at home, and so look forward to the Mac application). For those familiar with Windows environments, the software is easy to install and easy to navigate. One of the real helps of this is a section entitled 'A Short Guide to Writing Research Papers in Theology', which is something I wish I'd had when I was teaching theology - so many students have trouble putting together papers in a clear and coherent manner, that this should prove an invaluable resource for students and a great blessing for teachers who must then read all the papers.
The list of contributors to this book reads like a Who's Who of modern theology, primarily but not exclusively from the Western culture. Jones as a Protestant and Lakeland as a Roman Catholic have worked together to make this a volume useful for readers from both traditions.
The next time I teach theology, I will definitely use this text.
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From one of the world's foremost Islamic scholars, a revised edition of a classic and groundbreaking book on Islam.
Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundamentalism--must use the same sacred texts as Muslims who use them for violent ends, to prove different views.
Updated with a new introduction by the author written in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Islam and Democracy serves as a guide to the players moving the pieces on the rather grim Muslim chessboard. It shines new light on the people behind today's terrorist acts and raises provocative questions about the possibilities for democracy and human rights in the Islamic world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the Middle East today, Islam and Democracy is as timely now as it was upon its initial, celebrated publication.
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Can Islam and Democracy be Compatible?.......2003-06-08
In her book, Islam and Democracy, Fatima Mernissi, a Moroccan author, draws back on her personal experiences, not only as a Moslem but also as a woman, to explain why democracy has not caught on in the Arab countries and what are the prospects for the future. Throughout the major part of her book, she demonstrates how the Islamic community is chained up by a set of fears that it would have to overcome to establish democracy.
The analysis is brilliant and gives religious, philosophical and historical reasons to the incapacity of the Islamic world to put in action a real democracy.
It is only in the last pages that Mernissi claims without much developing that "Our liberation will come through a rereading of our past and a reapropriation of all that has structured our civilization". She sheds however some light on two factors of optimism. The first can surprise an occidental: She thinks that the shock of the Gulf War was so great that the Muslims have emerged "free from fear". The second is carrying hope: She believes that the move of women toward self affirmation and freedom will transform the nature of the state and lead to democracy.
The first fear Mernissi points out is the traditional fear of the foreign West, "Garb", the place of darkness. Middle eastern political leaders have put in place the political institutions that apparently make the West strong, but have not educated the people to use them out of fear that their authority be challenged. These institutions soon turn corrupt and are viewed as decadent. Mernissi insists on the ancient "fear of the Imam" that has marked the history of Islam. The ruler still fears the opposition forces that have constantly rebelled and tried to kill the leader. She notes - and this is quite up to date - that with the assassination of Ali, the rebel tradition has linked dissidence with terrorism.
Thus "making obedience to the Imam correspond to obedience to God became the program and the law of Arab regimes" and still is.
On the contrary, the freedom of thought is identified with the Kharijite rebellion and disorder. To save unity the politicians of the twenties chose the tradition of obedience and not the democratic freedom of thought. Mernissi reminds us with nostalgia that another path, that of the sovereignty of the individual and freedom of opinion, were possible in the frame of Islam. The Mu'tazila philosophy brought up the place of reason and personal opinion. It was adopted by the first Abbasids during the "century of openness". Mernissi however passes very fast over the fact that this flowering Muslim thought, known as "falasifa" was an exception and that if "the concept of reason was connected to criminal activities which destroyed the solidarity of the Umma", it is because this idea was solidly founded in Islam. "The Muslim is he who believes and obeys". Mernissi tells us that modernizing without granting the freedom of thought as in Tunisia and Algeria has created confusion and brought fundamentalism opposition. She targets two fundalisms, the government fondalism, the official culture which serves as a barrier against democratic education which is feared, and opposition fundamentalism. Mernissi points out that the Arab countries that have signed the Charter of the United Nations as well as the Human Rights, had been accepting engagements without referring to their historical traditions. It is therefore not surprising if they have difficulties to hold these engagements inspired from another tradition than their own.
This fear of the freedom of thought comes from the origins of Islam and is linked to the fear of the past and of individualism. Mernissi tells us that certain features of democracy could be compared to those of the Jahiliyya, a period mostly suppressed and occulted as the example of what is incompatible with Islam, a period of arrogant individualism through the cult of the idols, crime and instability against which Mohammad fought. Traditional Islam is based on the sacrifice of the individual for the sake of the Umma's unity and solidarity. Personal opinions are considered close to a sin, where the individual forgets the interests for the community in a moment of passion.
Mernissi explains the fear of women by the interesting idea that women in power are linked in collective memory with the violence and murder of these old ages. At the time of the Jahiliyya, the goddesses of war and death were honored by bloody sacrifices. Monotheist order thus required that the female should be bared from the sphere of power which coincided with the sacred. Veiling women and separating them thus eradicates disorder. Body and sexuality were also seen as "the fortress of the condemnable sovereign individuality". Yet, says Mernissi, the Qur'an defends the equality of all the human beings and guarantees this equality in exchange for the surrender of individualism to God. Equality of all explains, according to Mernissi, the rapid expansion of Islam.
Finally, even if her book tends more toward pessimism on the near future of democracy, her ideas on the influence that women could have on the development of democracy in Islamic countries, even if they appear very optimistic, seem promising to me. She writes "Women demand renunciation of the ideal of the homogeneous city divided in two hierarchical spaces, where only one sex manages politics and decision making". She brings rightly to attention that "Women are the only ones who publicly assert their right to self affirmation as individuals" and that "their claim will transform the nature of the state".
Mernissi has also an interesting view on the consequences of the Gulf War, the "ultimate horror" for Muslims which put in light "the lack of democracy, the dependence and the powerlessness" of the Arab States who were unable to protect the Muslims. She thinks that the shock was so great that the Muslims have emerged "free of fear" accepting to make "a perilous jump into the unknown...as the least dangerous thing". It is to note that the book was published in 1992, and it is not certain that Mrs. Mernissi still maintains her opinion on this liberation of the fears. There too, she seems overly optimistic.
Mernissi concludes her book by telling the story of the Simorgh birds, to show that the future success of Arab societies depends upon its citizens' resourcefulness and independence from the state. It is still a long flight away, but it should be possible. One can share this hope as she assert that "The Arab world is about to take off for the reason that everybody, with the fundamentalists in the lead (even if they look towards the past) wants change".
A Disorganized Rant.......2002-09-02
The Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi is frequently upheld as the Muslim world's leading feminist thinker. Her book 'Beyond the Veil' has become standard college-reading for most people investigating the subject of women's rights in the Islamic tradition. This book, however, 'Islam and Democracy,' is a disorganized rant.
One suspects that many of these "chapters" were intended for individual essays, or perhaps were rushed into publication before they could take coherent shape as a book. Mernissi is all over the place. In the expanse of five or six pages she might make great sweeping claims about the Muslim sense of powerlessness, then claim that that powerlessness is not universal at all, but rather uniquely female, then blame Muslim despots for tyrannizing their people and preventing democracy, then blame the west for attacking and trying to overthrow Muslim despots (i.e., Saddam Hussein.) Then a few pages later she might drag out apocryphal stores of the assassination of medieval Caliphs, to demonstrate that Muslims leaders have never been strong enough!
Mernissi lavishes mythology upon fact, to the point where it is impossible to tell whether or not her use of examples is to be trusted. Despite the scientific-sounding nature of its title, 'Islam and Democracy' reads more like literary criticism: an argument about the meanings of fictions, which are then applied to the world and linked by some grand theory which - lo and behold - can be `proven' by using more fiction as examples. It should not be surprising to find that excerpts from the Arabian Nights recur over and over again in her text.
Equally troubling is the fact that her main critique of Islam centers upon what she sees as its lack of respect for individual creativity and freedom - its adhesion to a slavish and unquestioning belief in scripture, yet she samples liberally from the Hadith - stories about the life of Muhammad and the early Muslims that even many Imams are skeptical of. In other words, she expects the reader to believe that her selection of scripture disproves other peoples' selections of scripture. And she can't even get them all straight: relating the story of an early Muslim martyr, she claims in one sentence that he bore his torture "and didn't utter a word" (20), and two sentences later, claims he was chanting the whole time.
In spite of all this, reading this book is still an education, of sorts. Much of this is due to the translation skills of Mary Jo Lakeland, who gives us a tour de force of Arabic etymology, and does great justice to the complex layers of meaning of this language, whose root words are so flexible and susceptible to subtle manipulation. If you would like to get a sense - albeit a dreadfully confused sense - of where one pole of Muslim critical theory stood in the 1990s, then this could be a useful text. If, however, you were hoping to learn something substantial about Islam and Democracy, you will be disappointed.
Examines fundamentalist thinking in the Middle East.......2002-06-06
Will democracy ever be possible in the volatile Arab world, and can human rights be respected under fundamentalist rules? Islamic scholar Mernissi examines fundamentalist thinking in the Middle East, considering how those on opposing sides use the same sacred texts and those who use them for violence, and providing keys to understanding Muslim and Western perceptions.
Sources of the anger for the September 11 attacks.......2001-10-14
This book explains some of the sources of the anger that drove the September 11 attacks and illuminates the vast differences between the world views of the Islamic fundamentalists and US democracy. Well worth reading and discussing.
For those seeking an academic/social perspective.......2000-11-30
Fatima Mernissi has provides an interesting, academic and social perspective of Islam and it's fear of democracy; while providing yet a solid argument for the need for Islam to embrace democracy. She persuasively argues that the positive aspects and practice of Islam would flourish if the people of Islam were to choose their faith, rather than out of ignorace or fear. The positive aspects would provide no threat to other cultures and religions, as that is true Islam. With myself being of the west, Mernissi gave me my first insights into my own stereotyping and misunderstanding of Islam that many in the West both believe in and sometimes act on. She is provocative to all who read her, whether one is Arabic, Middle Eastern, European or American. Her scholarly and simultaneously interesting work is also a must for women who are either Islamic or those who are not.
Customer Reviews:
Mernissi and her feminism.......1999-10-23
Mernissi is possessed by the insecurity of her traumatic childhood. The very title of the book "Forgotten Queens of Islam" completely discounts the reality that women even in today's Islamic societies weild political power and involvement unparalleled by women in any other society including the West. The reality remains that these "Queens" of Islam were never forgotten [Raziya sultan is still fresh in my mind from my high school history class in India]. The tradition of women ruling muslim countries was rarely broken as is witnessed by women such as Megawati, Vice President of Indonesia [largest muslim county], Benazir Bhutto, ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan [2nd largest muslim country], Shaiyk Hasina and Begum Khalida Zia, Prime Ministers of Bangladesh [3rd largest muslim country], Massumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran [4th largest muslim country], Tansu Ciller, the Prime Minister of Turkey... and the list goes on. To be frank, the idea of feminism is a joke in the realm of Islam. Mernissi is fooling the westerners by selling books about how women are supposedly "oppressed" in muslim countries!!
An analysis of female power in Islam.......1998-03-05
The 1st part describes definitions of words like power, caliph, queen and harem and how these definitons exclude women from power. The 2nd part describes briefly some Islamic Queens. A chapter with the title "The Queens of Yemen" mainly describes the life and death of Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet, and the Shi'ite - Sunni controversy. The book concludes with some thoughts on a 'Medina democracy'.
Although the book could have focussed more on actual Islamic Queens, it still is a rare book about an interesting, but hardly explored subject.
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