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We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against something--someone-else. As if there's a force-a person- that wishes us ill. In his letter to the Romans, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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After formally announcing his conversion to Islam in the late 1880s, the Liverpool lawyer William Henry Abdullah Quilliam publicly propagated his new faith and established the first community of Muslim converts in Victorian Britain. Despite decades of relative obscurity...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce, and also regulate religious arbitration. It covers the history of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-31
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A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook,...
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Wiley
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2017-05-30
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This edited collection of essays aims to acquaint the reader with different aspects and readings of Hegel’s Early Theological Writings. These writings consist of five essays plus some unfinished manuscripts, unpublished by Hegel himself during his lifetime and compiled...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-29
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Setting out from the observation made in the social sciences that maternal grief can at times be a motor of societal change, Ekaterina E. Kozlova demonstrates that a similar mechanism operates also in the biblical world. Kozlova argues that maternal grief is treated as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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City of Christian Love provides a detailed history of Nazareth from the dawn of the Christian Era until today with special focus on the religious communities found in this sacred city, including both the periods of tension and the periods of profound interreligious...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book investigates the «acceptance motif» by reading Romans 15:7–13 as directed to a specific situation. Having situated Romans 15:7–13 within its historical setting, the study also locates Romans 15:7–13 within the argument of the entire epistle. The author then...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-24
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Life is noisy. But what would happen if every day - for the next 40 days - you soaked in God's love as He intimately whispered words of rest just for you?Whispers of Rest is a 40-day devotional detox for your soul, a spiritual journey to refresh you and guide you to...
Editeur :
FaithWords
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2017-05-23
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Die Bedeutung der Religion für Staat und Gesellschaft ist eine Frage, die die Politische Theorie seit ihren Anfängen begleitet hat. Der Band zeichnet dazu die wichtigsten ideengeschichtlichen Begriffe und Positionen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart nach und thematisiert...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-20
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Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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Setting out from the observation made in the social sciences that maternal grief can at times be a motor of societal change, Ekaterina E. Kozlova demonstrates that a similar mechanism operates also in the biblical world. Kozlova argues that maternal grief is treated as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-19
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Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of theBuddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection ofBuddhist and Western...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-05-19
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'Sixty years ago I found myself distracted.' So begins the introduction to As Kingfishers Catch Fire. What follows is the record of the collaboration of pastor and congregation in acts of worship and a life together. What Eugene Peterson, for thirty years pastor of a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-05-18
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Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church remains a vast and influential presence in our modern world. But what were its origins, and how has it changed and adapted over the centuries? After Pope Benedict XVI dramatically...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-18
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Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church remains a vast and influential presence in our modern world. But what were its origins, and how has it changed and adapted over the centuries? After Pope Benedict XVI dramatically...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-18
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Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship.
In Part 1, the book examines the relationship...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-10
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The present volume monitors new developments concerning religious issues, faith-based organizations, State-Church relations and secularism in the EU, which especially during the past two decades have undergone profound changes, changes which continuously and...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-05-10
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Die Beiträge untersuchen disziplinübergreifend das Phänomen Migration.Die AutorInnen betrachten Migration als ein konstitutives Element der Menschheitsgeschichte und als globales Zukunftsthema. Spätestens seit Beginn der Flüchtlingswelle aus Syrien nach Europa und auch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-08
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This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-05
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This book focuses on Free Church pastors in Germany and their perceptions of spirit possession and mental illness. To explore Free Church pastors’ understanding of spirit possession and mental illness is critical in light of the overlap of symptoms. Misdiagnosis may...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-05
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