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Drawing on the writings of German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer M. McBride constructs a groundbreaking theology of public witness for Protestant church communities in the United States. In contrast to the triumphal manner in which many Protestants have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2011-12-20
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Miracles in Korea is a collection of thirty-eight stories about Korean mountain wizards, Taoist hermits with supernatural powers, divine Taoists, and divine beings, who enjoy perennial youth, longevity, and immortality, and sometimes ascend to heaven. Its author, Hong...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-12-19
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In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ.
Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-16
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Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentators deny the churches a role in Northern Ireland's peace process or belittle it, focusing on the few well-known events of church...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-16
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The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-15
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"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."
- Journal of American History
"Simply breathtaking in scope....
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-14
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Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-13
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Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-12
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Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-12
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The 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, presented the Latter-day Saints with their first opportunity to exhibit the best of Mormonism for a national and an international audience after the abolishment of polygamy in 1890.The Columbian...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-09
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Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology provides both a historical and a theological analysis of the achievements of the renowned generation of theologians whose influence pervaded French theology and society in the period 1930 to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-12-09
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Human religious experiences are remarkably uniform; many can be pharmacologically induced. Recent research into the neurology of religious experience has shown that, when worshipping or praying, a certain part of the brain, apparently dormant during other activities,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-12-08
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Das Basler Konzil (1431-1449) hat sich nicht allein um eine Reform der Kirche an Haupt und Gliedern bemüht, sondern auch die Funktion einer Schiedsinstanz in zahlreichen kirchlichen und weltlichen Streitsachen eingenommen, Ketzer- und Kanonisationsprozesse geführt,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-07
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This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Although she was marginalized and ignored by French historians for two centuries after her death,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-06
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Das Verhältnis von Demokratie und Religion schwankt zwischen Kooperation, Indifferenz und Konfrontation. Während sich die derzeitige Diskussion oft auf die Kompatibilität von Islam und Grundgesetz verengt, versucht dieser Tagungsband der bestehenden Spannungslage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-05
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A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound preoccupation with the specter of death.
Revisiting historical documents and scripture from this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-01
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This interdisciplinary introduction offers students a truly global overview of the worldwide spread and impact of Christianity. It is enriched throughout by detailed historic and ethnographic material, showing how broad themes within Christianity have been adopted and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-30
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Right-wing evangelical Christianity has come to dominate American political and social life in recent years, dividing the country and sparking cultural and moral battles. High politics and low tactics frame a fierce debate which goes much further back in the country's...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-11-24
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