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Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-03
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Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-02
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Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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The idea of the common good was borrowed by the Fathers of the early Catholic Church from the rich philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. It has been a fundamental part of Catholic thinking about social, political, and economic life throughout the Catholic...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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At a glance, the Hebrew Bible presents the Levites as a group of ritual assistants and subordinates in Israel's cult. A closer look, however, reveals a far more complicated history behind the emergence of this group in Ancient Israel. A careful reconsideration of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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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
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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
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2017-06-01
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The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology brings together leading scholars in the fields of theology and epistemology to examine and articulate what can be categorized as appropriate epistemic evaluation in theology. Part one focuses on some of the epistemic...
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OUP Oxford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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2017-05-20
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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
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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
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2017-05-19
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