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This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change. Using sociological concepts of the study of every day and lived religion, it examines the lifestyles of the Adventist Massai in Arusha...
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Springer VS
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2024-12-24
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BestMasters
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America has entered a new intellectual era in which personal identity is assumed to play a significant role in how every person thinks. Today's academy acknowledges that who we are shapes how we view ourselves and the world, which unavoidably injects religion,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-12-18
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Contemplative practices are increasingly mainstream in the United States. From meditation, mindfulness, and yoga, to writing, walking, and gardening, contemplative practices aim to cultivate embodied awareness, attunement, and attention. What is the political value of...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-12-18
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Scriptural Vitality challenges the view...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-18
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Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, and religious thinker. A significant amount of his literary corpus was preserved by Christian hands and thereby came to resource numerous theologians in the Christian tradition. After passing into obscurity in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-18
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In this book, Leah E. Robinson discusses the Covid-19 pandemic as it was viewed in the theological community, both professionally and politically. Robinson explores the ways in which the misuse of various Christian theological doctrines have led to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-17
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This book understands, interprets, and critiques the theology of the American Empire that undergirds and bolsters U.S. foreign policy and global engagement in the contemporary world order. It is particularly in conversation with African American experience, American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-16
Collection :
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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Learn about the beliefs, history, and culture of the world's most popular religions World Religions All-In-One For Dummies offers an easy starting point for anyone curious to investigate religious and cultural differences. In terms anyone can understand, this book...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2024-12-13
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Theologie in der Türkei. Basierend auf Karl Mannheims These, dass konservative Ideen als Reaktion auf soziale und politische Umwälzungen der Moderne entstehen, analysiert die Arbeit die Genese des Konservatismus in der Türkei am Beispiel von H. Karaman und B. Topaloglu,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-10
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-10
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Charity after Augustine explores why the Augustinian tradition's attempts to build solidarity in the societies of the Latin West have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about justice. Focusing on the concrete practices of love and charity — almsgiving,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-07
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Seeing the Church in danger from the government in 1833, the clergyman John Henry Newman wanted to 'look to the people' for help. The people of God were vital to the Tractarian (or Oxford) Movement which Newman, John Keble, and Edward Pusey led, and which hundreds of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-07
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Jährlich sterben Tausende Menschen allein in Deutschland aufgrund von Organinsuffizienz. Da es nicht genügend Organspenden gibt, werden biomedizinische Anstrengungen unternommen, um tierische Zellen, Gewebe und Organe für die Transplantation herzustellen. Die sogenannte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-05
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Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Greek, and the ancient Jewish and Christian past. Historians have devoted much attention to how these developments were...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-04
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The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity. Bliss Against the World argues otherwise by advancing a novel framework of the entanglement between modernity, Christianity, and bliss...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-03
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This book is an exposition and analysis of Critical Realism, a philosophical approach that is quickly becoming the go-to epistemological position among Christian authors. Author Thomas A. Howe argues that Critical Realism’s claims and commitments pose a serious threat...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-03
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Choose peace over distraction and flexibility over fear with this accessible daily guide to the timeless wisdom of the Tao Te Ching. Whether you begin your morning with the Tao or snatch a spare moment of calm in the hurry of the day, The Daily Tao–with a reading...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2024-12-03
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Day by Day Series
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This book delves into the future of the relationship between religion and the status of women. With contributions from distinguished scholars, it examines current trends in the following religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-02
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Charity after Augustine explores why the Augustinian tradition's attempts to build solidarity in the societies of the Latin West have ended in disaster just as often as they have brought about justice. Focusing on the concrete practices of love and charity — almsgiving,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-02
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Does the Qur'an promote the abolition of slavery? If so, why had the slave trade been allowed to operate across the Muslim world for over a millennium? And why had Muslim scholars not attempted to eradicate slavery previously? These were the questions that Islamic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-02
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