12 шагов к состраданию

Browning, Don, Religious Thought and Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture (Philadelphia, 1987).

Davidson, Richard J. & Anne Harrington, eds., Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature (Oxford, 2002).

Gilbert, Paul, The Compassionate Mind (London, 2009).

Hefner, Philip, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture and Religion (Minneapolis, 1993).

Molino, Anthony, ed., The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (London, 1998).

Pope, Stephen, The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Washington, DC, 1994).

Post, Stephen G., Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion and Service (Radnor, PA, 2003).

Post, Stephen G., Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey S. Schloss & William B. Hurlbut, eds., Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford, 2002).

Rolston, Holmes, Genes, Genesis and God (Cambridge, UK, 1999).

Vaillant, George E., MD, Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith (New York, 2008).

Walsh, Anthony, The Science of Love: Understanding Love and Its Effects on Mind and Body (Buffalo, 1991).

Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (New York, 2009).

(4) Эти книги посвящены теме Священных Писаний и их интерпретации.

Akenson, Donald Harman, Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (New York, San Diego & London, 1998).

Alter, Robert & Frank Kermode, eds., A Literary Guide to the Bible (London, 1987). Особенно рекомендуется статья Gerald L. Bruns, «Midrash and Allegory: The Beginnings of Scriptural Interpretation.»

Armstrong, Karen, The Bible: The Biography (London & New York, 2007).

Cragg, Kenneth, The Event of the Qur’an (Oxford, 1971). Замечательная книга.

Cragg, Kenneth, Readings in the Qur’an (London, 1988).

Fishbane, Michael, The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics (Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1989).

Fishbane, Michael, The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology (Cambridge, MA, 1998). Очень рекомендую обе книги Фишбейна.

Gatje, Helmut, The Qur’an and Its Exegesis (Berkeley, 1976). Holcomb, Justin S., ed., Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (New York & London, 2006). Kraemer, David, The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli (New York & Oxford, 1990). Schniedewind, William M., How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004).

Sells, Michael, introduced & trans., Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations (Ashland, OR, 1999). Превосходное введение в Коран, хорошо рассказывающее о его поэтике. Распространяется вместе с CD, на котором записано чтение Корана.

Smalley, Beryl, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1941).

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, What Is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (London, 1993). Tabataba’i, Muhammad, Qur’an in Islam (London, 1988).

Забота обо всех

В течение десятого шага («Знайте») я рекомендовала упражнение, основанное на этом списке (хотя, конечно, некоторые читатели предпочтут сами рыться в литературе). Для тех, кого устрашает длина списка, я пометила звездочкой (*) книги, с которых, на мой взгляд, удобно начинать.

Abou El Fadl, with Tariq Ali, Milton Viorst, John Esposito etc., The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Boston, 2002).

Abu-Nimer, Mohammed, Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice (Gainsville, FL, 2003).

Al-Ali, Naji, A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali (London & New York, 2009).

^*Ahmed, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven & London, 1992).

^*Ahmed, Leila, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America: Woman’s Journey (New York, 1999).

^*Ahmed, Salman, with Robert Schroeder, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution (New York, 2010). С введением Мелиссы Этридж.

Al-Azmeh, Aziz, Islam and Modernities, 3rd ed. (London & Brooklyn, 2005).

Ansari, Zafar Ishaq & John Esposito, eds., Muslims and the West: Encounter and Dialogue (Islamabad & Washington, DC, 2001).

Appleby, R. Scott, ed., Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (Chicago & London, 1997).

Appleby, R. Scott, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York & Oxford, 2000).

Armstrong, Karen, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (London & New York, 1996).

^* Armstrong, Karen, Islam: A Short History (London & New York, 2000).

Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (London & New York, 2000).

^*Aslan, Reza, No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (London & New York, 2005).

Aslan, Reza, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror (New York, 2009).

Avineri, Schlomo, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (London, 1981).

Avishai, Bernard, The Tragedy of Zionism: Revolution and Democracy in the Land of Israel (New York, 1985).