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This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy. It thoroughly examines the motivations behind this religious transition and scrutinizes the doctrinal characteristics that Shiism incorporates thanks to the contributions of Italian converts. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-05-13
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This book investigates the origins and development of the theory of four stages of liberation in Pali literature.This theory is an important soteriological cartography in early Buddhism, particularly Theravada Buddhism. Amrita Nanda challenges the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-05-09
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What does faith look like when cynicism seems more plausible?What does hope look like when hope seems irrational?What does love look like when hate becomes more popular?In recent years, author and activist Brian McLaren has sensed a widespread emotional shift among...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-05-09
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Former special assistant to President Trump, New York Times bestselling author, and evangelical Christian Cliff Sims shares the lessons he learned on faith, politics, and the Christian witness while working in the halls of power. American life today is...
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Worthy Books
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2024-05-07
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The self-emptying of Christ, proclaimed in the letter to the Philippians 2:7, remains a much-debated topic in modern theology and exegesis.The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria brings the insights of Greek Christianity to the understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-07
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This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians. It critically evaluates the effectiveness of their ethical and philosophical theories, models, and frameworks in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-02
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In Pascal's God and the Fragments of the World, Martin Nemoianu offers a new interpretation of the thought of Blaise Pascal, drawn from the Pensées and beyond. The book takes Pascal's central theme to be the distinction - Infini rien - between the transcendent...
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Springer
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2024-04-30
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Die religiöse und weltanschauliche Landschaft in Deutschland ist von einem vielfältigen Pluralismus geprägt. Neben den traditionellen Religionen haben sich eine Vielzahl von weiteren Gruppierungen gebildet, die den Anspruch haben, Religions- oder...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-30
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Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions. Yet they have often been neglected as objects of reflection in the study of religion relative to belief, experience, and even the related category of ritual. More surprisingly, despite the...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-30
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The main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging.The collection aims to enhance and complement the predominantly biomedical and sociological debates and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-04-27
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Biblical prophecy involves more than words: it is always also embodied. After assessing the prevalence, implications, and origins of a logocentric model of biblical prophecy, Anathea E. Portier-Young proposes an alternative, embodied paradigm of analysis that draws...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-26
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Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist das religionspädagogische Potenzial bibliodramatischer Arbeit im Kontext von Vergebung und Versöhnung. Dieses wird aus seinen philosophischen und theologischen Grundlagen entwickelt, um dann anhand der exemplarischen Dokumentation...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-24
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The Hare Krishnas have long been associated with Western hippie culture and New Age religious movements, but they have also developed deeply rooted communities in India and throughout the world over the past 50 years. Known officially as the International Society for...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Religious Studies, Theology, and Human Flourishing explores the implications of religious studies and theology for well-being, illuminating connections between theory, pedagogy, and practice with nuance and depth. Contributors to the volume, part of The Humanities and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Ramism and the Reformation of Method offers a fresh exploration of the philosophical and theological presuppositions of the early modern movement of Ramism. It shows howRamism was grounded in medieval Augustinian and Franciscan thought and charts its reception within...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some presence in North America...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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This book offers a fresh interpretation of covenantal theology in the Reformation by demonstrating how the writings of the Zurich reformers Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) and his successor Heinrich Bullinger (1504-75) decisively shaped a foundation of the Reformed...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors operate as they are about the political structures themselves. This was also true of the Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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First published in 1997, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship is a landmark work that offered a bold call to re-establish Christian perspectives in academia. While other defining elements of a scholar's identity, such as race or gender, are routinely welcomed as...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account ofClement of Alexandria's Paedagogus as a programme in the formation of the judgement of taste, situating it in critical dialogue with modern approaches...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-22
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