Bøker av Mikhail Sergeev

"There have been several approaches to painting the Crucifixion during the past two Christian millennia. Byzantine Orthodoxy emphasized the divine glory of the Son of God, while Roman Catholicism focused more on the Savior's humanity and his redemptive sufferings. The stress on Christ's human nature and vulnerability has remained the most characteristic feature of Western Christian art, starting with the Renaissance. The image of the Crucifixion -- the central event in Christian history -- also remained widespread in the apparently secular and frequently atheistic modernist art scene. Twentieth-century Crucifixions exhibited great novelty, variety, and complexity. Contemporary painters used the body on the cross to explore a wide range of social and spiritual concerns, including their distinct iconoclastic causes. What is the common denominator behind the incredible diversity of the avant-garde depictions of the crucified Jesus? According to the author, it consists of the transformation that the perception of the Crucifixion underwent in the twentieth century -- from a religious event with crucial dogmatic and theological implications to a primary cultural archetype that symbolizes righteous suffering. As such, it has become the ideal vehicle for rendering the existential and social realities of the century's history."--Back cover.

The book Religion and Science in the Globalized World explores contemporary trends in religion, science, and globalization from a Bahá'í perspective. It is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to Bahá'í approaches to various aspects of globalization. It includes the following chapters: "Global Constitutionalism" by Graham Hassall; "Globalization-The Tangible Expression of Humanity's Journey Towards Unity" by Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing; "Building a Just and Sustainable Global Food System: Some Guiding Principles" by Paul Hanley; "How Can We All Get Along?-A Bahá'í Perspective on Globalization" by Harold Rosen; and "Globalization Requires a Bahá'í Foundation" by Hooshmand Badee.The book's second part focuses on different issues within the domains of natural and social sciences. The chapters included are as follows: "A Bahá'í View of Human Rights" by Peter Smith; "Prophetic Revelation and Sociocultural Evolution: Some Scientific Perspectives" by Harry P.Massoth and Marilu Jeno; "Plato, Modern Physics, and Bahá'u'lláh" by Vahid Ranjbar; "Iterative Theology: Progressive Revelation as the String Theory of Religious Studies" by Andres Elvira Espinoza; and "The Issue of Self-Identity in Transhumanism and the Bahá'í Writings" by Mikhail Sergeev. The volume ends with two chronologies of articles and books numerous Bahá'í authors wrote on globalization and science from the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day.