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Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence and its relationship to religion,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-06-11
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Identität kann nach Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer als Netzwerk von Dispositionen des Wahrnehmens, Urteilens und Handelns begriffen werden. So lassen sich kollektive Akteure wie religiöse, ethnische oder politische Bewegungen in ihren sozialen Entstehungs- und...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-11
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This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both fields, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-10
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Vatican II profoundly changed the outlook and the message of the Catholic Church. After decades, if not centuries, in which Catholic public opinion appeared to be primarily oriented towards the distant past and bygone societal models, suddenly the Catholic Church...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-04
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This book explores the concept of Life from a range of perspectives. Divided into three parts, it first examines the concept of Life from physics to biology. It then presents insights on the concept from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and ethics. The book...
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Springer
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2015-06-03
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This book explores the Society of Friend's Atlantic presence through its creation and use of networks, including intellectual and theological exchange, and through the movement of people. It focuses on the establishment of trans-Atlantic Quaker networks and the crucial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-02
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Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
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How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? And what can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state controversies in the United States and around the world? Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, organized through the work...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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This is the third of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi. Volume 3 of Festschrift in Honor of Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi is a collection of articles discussing the latest findings in a variety of theological subjects related to the Bible as received...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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The Concept of Divine Love in the Context of the God-World Relationship addresses the significant and far-reaching theological conflict over the nature of God’s love, which is deeply rooted in broader conflicts regarding divine ontology and the nature of the God-world...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz verbietet und sanktioniert nicht nur Benachteiligungen individueller, sondern auch kollektiver Art. Der Autor untersucht die Anforderungen des AGG an kollektive Rechtsakte, insbesondere an Tarif- und Betriebsnormen, aber auch an...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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The Path of Humility: Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo establishes a fundamental relationship between the Franciscan humility of Archbishop of Milan Carlo Borromeo and the Roman sacred works of Caravaggio. This is the first book to consider and focus entirely upon these...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Der Islamische Staat in Syrien und im Irak, die Massaker von Boko Haram in Nigeria – immer neue religiös motivierte Terrorakte rufen weltweite Betroffenheit hervor, auch unter gläubigen Menschen. Weder Bibel noch Koran rechtfertigen einfach jegliche Gewalttat oder Krieg...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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PresentationThe Apocalypse Explained in the Light of the Four Sciences.Through his knowledge of the four sciences (Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy and magic) as well as the Tarot, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov gives us an interpretation of some passages of this founding text and...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
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2015-05-29
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Izvor (EN)
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This study investigates why 'faith' (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-29
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Modern life is frantically busy - we rush from one thing to another, never stopping to think about what really matters to us, what we could be achieving if we could only slow down for long enough to see it.Norman Drummond draws on his wide experience as a headteacher,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-05-21
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The Bible is the world's best-selling book - it has influenced and inspired millions through the ages.The New Testament recounts the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and follows the first Christians as they begin to spread his revolutionary message to...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-05-21
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New International Version
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