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At least since the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran, political Islam or Islamism has been the focus of attention among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Much has been said about Islamism as a political and moral/ethical trend, but scant attention is paid...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-28
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Der Band enthält Aufsätze, die sich mit dem Sinn von Religion als Auseinandersetzung mit dem dialektischen Verhältnis der Existenz und mit zentralen Themen der Religionskultur vergleichend und historisch befassen. Im thematischen Zentrum der Abhandlungen stehen die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-22
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The role and place of metaphor in biblical language keeps attracting scholarly interest. Of all the books of the Bible, the Psalms provide the richest cache of metaphors for God.The Psalter is a cornucopia of metaphor.The biblical authors bring us back to the concrete...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-21
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This book aims to explore the life of Yi Won-young, an outstanding Confucian scholar from Andong, in South Korea. Andong is known as the home of Neo-Confucianism, as in this region Western Christianity took root amidst the impeccable and ritualistic Confucian society...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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It is just as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one. So teaches John Osteen in this eye-opening book. Growing up during The Great Depression, John's mentality was shaped by frugality that seeped even into his spiritual life....
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FaithWords
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2013-05-14
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Philip L. Barlow offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken to the Bible by major Mormon leaders, from its beginnings to the present. He shows that Mormon attitudes toward the Bible comprise an extraordinary mix of conservative, liberal, and radical...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-09
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For a millennium and a half in China, Christianity has been perceived as a foreign religion for a foreign people. This volume investigates various historical attempts to articulate a Chinese Christianity, comparing the roles that Western and Latin forms of Christian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-05-07
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Most modern literature on the rationality of religious belief is primarily written from Christian and Secular perspectives, the introduction of a reflective Muslim perspective provides a fresh and alternative perspective. This work aims to pioneer an engagement with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-05-07
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TORTURE -- INFANTICIDE -- BRUTALITY -- MURDERThe World Would Never Be the Same"The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of religious and political power brokers. Its meaning...
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Worthy Books
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2013-05-07
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In the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-07
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There are times when each of us struggle with the words to express our deepest prayers. With his signature style, Swindoll combines a prayer specific to each daily devotional and gently pastors readers through the issues life brings their way. This remarkably...
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Worthy Books
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2013-05-07
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Where do you turn for hope when you already have the answer--but the answer isn't working?As a long-time Christian, Heather Kopp never expected to become an out-of-control alcoholic who kept private stashes of booze all over the place--tucked behind books in her study,...
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Jericho Books
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2013-05-07
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In this ground-breaking study of the Jewish reception of the Copernican revolution, Jeremy Brown examines four hundred years of Jewish writings on the Copernican model. Brown shows the ways in which Jews ignored, rejected, or accepted the Copernican model, and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-03
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Die Frage der analogen Anwendbarkeit des § 988 BGB auf den rechtsgrundlosen Besitzerwerb ist ein Klassiker unter den Streitfragen des Eigentümer-Besitzer-Verhältnisses. Ausgangspunkt der Kontroverse ist die Besserstellung des redlichen Besitzers gegenüber dem redlichen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Im Ringen um den Platz der Wissenschaft innerhalb der kirchlichen Lehre und eine liberale Position der Lehrenden überhaupt verkörpert F. X. Kraus ein Exempel für die Ränkespiele im 19. Jahrhundert. Er besticht dabei mit seinen kritischen Positionen in den wogenden...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Die Arbeit untersucht die wichtige Rolle der Klagepsalmen für die Entwicklung des monotheistischen Glaubens an JHWH.Die Klagen der ausgewählten Psalmen sind nur selten als eine Möglichkeit angesehen worden, die zum Verstehen der Genese des Monotheismus und der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Promotionspreis der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen ausgezeichnet. Diese Studie liefert erstmalig eine umfassende systematische Untersuchung und Bewertung der ‘Rede vom heiligen Glauben’ des Armen Hartmann. Eine...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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This book is at the interface between Visual Studies and Biblical Studies. For several decades, scholars of visuality have been uncovering the significance of everyday visual practices, in the sense of learnt habits of viewing and the assumptions that underpin them....
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OUP Oxford
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2013-05-02
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Das 20. Jahrhundert zeichnet sich durch tief greifende Umbrüche in der Theologie aus. In sehr unterschiedlichen Ansätzen suchen Theologen und Theologinnen unter den Bedingungen ihrer Zeit das Geheimnis Gottes zur Sprache zu bringen. In dreißig Porträts werden diese...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans practiced a religion...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-02
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