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First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States. Drawing on a nationwide telephone survey of two thousand people and an additional two hundred face-to-face interviews, it probes the grassroots...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In Islamic law, maqasid--literally meaning goals, purposes, or objectives--signify the intent behind the rulings (ahkam) of shariah. When not explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an, hadith, or fiqh texts, maqasid can be identified through rational enquiry and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-17
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Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality is a deft study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel. These include rituals that marked a young woman's coming of age (“maturity”) and her betrothal and wedding (“marriage”); rituals undertaken by women during...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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To understand the genesis of the modern economy, we must also investigate its normative foundations. More than a century after Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the pursuit of this key methodological intuition remains unfinished. This book...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book is the revised and updated version of the one published by the author in 2000 under the title "Buddhist Paintings in Gandhara" which focused mainly on the frescoes discovered in the Peshawar Valley, ancient Gandhara. However, since this first publication,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Get support and guidance as you navigate reexamining your faith and finding your own way to the truth Faith Deconstruction For Dummies helps you through the process of thinking critically about your beliefs by unlearning, processing, and considering new ways of...
Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2025-10-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book investigates the role of the Qur’an in the everyday lives of young Shia Muslims in Finland. Adopting a cultural psychological perspective on Islamic scripture, the book approaches the Qur’an as a symbolic resource that young Muslims can draw on to find...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-10-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Around the world, Prayer Spaces in Schools enable children and young people, of all faiths and none, to explore life's questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way. Since the first few in 2007, more than 7000 prayer spaces have been hosted...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2025-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
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'I adored this magical heartwarming family story with my two favourite ingredients at Christmas - movies and the Cotswolds!' Helen Rolfe'This was such a beautiful and sweet romance!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐_____________________________A Christmas film...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2025-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From a bestselling author and pastor, a straight-talk, no-nonsense guide to becoming the man God calls you to be. We’ve all seen the headlines. Masculinity is in crisis. Men are lost. What’s the matter with...
Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2025-10-07
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-8%)
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This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important actor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Across a wide array of religious traditions, temples are sacred, private spaces where observers can worship with other members of their congregation. Temple worship in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon Church, is kept virtually...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-30
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Swami Vivekananda remains one of the most influential and contested figures in modern Indian history. Revered by some as a liberal reformer who challenged the caste system, and by others as a progenitor of Hindu nationalism, Vivekananda’s legacy straddles deep...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
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It’s Christmas in the South! Viral sensation and TikTok creator Landon Bryant reimagines the classic “The Night Before Christmas” poem with a unique and humorous Southern twist. Merry Christmas and welcome to the South—home of sweet tea,...
Editeur : Running Press Adult
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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8,99€ (-11%)
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Along with the problem of evil, divine hiddenness presents one of the most important philosophical challenges to religious belief. Theists and nontheists alike grapple with the question of why God's existence isn't more obvious. The aim of this book is to formulate the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF
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Along with the problem of evil, divine hiddenness presents one of the most important philosophical challenges to religious belief. Theists and nontheists alike grapple with the question of why God's existence isn't more obvious. The aim of this book is to formulate the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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The Philocalia of Origen is a collection of texts excerpted from the third century church father Origen's numerous works. It was created sometime in the fourth century, perhaps by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus. It is of special interest to scholars of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book fills a major historical gap by investigating the role played by Jewish American organizations in the rescue, rehabilitation and reconstruction of Tunisia’s Jewish population during and after World War Two. Using a variety of archival sources to explore the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book offers an unpacked version of the Nicene Creed, which is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity, and a milestone in human history. The book seeks to clarify this compressed text through the common conceptual language of all...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This volume brings together a collection of work from Africa to consider how New Testament ethics can speak to the philosophical reflections on African environmental issues. In conceptualising the ethics of the New Testament, it outlines the theological bases which the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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