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This book investigates how Buddhism gradually integrated itself into the Chinese culture by taking filial piety as a case study because it is an important moral teaching in Confucianism and it has shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese social life. The Chinese criticized...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-30
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In this book we study The Tabligh Jama’at, an Islamic revivalist movement which, through participation in its preaching tours, provides satisfaction to individuals experiencing the crisis of modernity. Preaching tours enable Muslims to become workers for Allah and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-27
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Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' Since the publication ofReceptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' Since the publication ofReceptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This full-scaled monograph, rich in factographic material, concerns Naraya?a Guru (1855/56--1928), a founder of a powerful socio-religious movement in Kerala. He wrote in three languages (Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil), drawing on three different literary conventions. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-23
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Popular representations of Buddhism often depict it as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. Yet embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions. The essays within The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-20
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A unique, timely, and wide-ranging book that formulates and applies an ethic of Jesus to the realm of global politics.
Since the fourth century, Christians have wrestled with how they should interact with political authority. The most common view holds that while their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-20
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How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the "subtle body," positing some sort of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-18
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Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy, or plural marriage, has long been an accepted form of union in human...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-17
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Das Buch stellt den katholischen Theologen, Priester und Dichter Joseph Wittig (1879–1949) als Sprachlehrer des Glaubens vor. Seine Hauptwerke werden unter Einbeziehung der Zeit- und Lebensgeschichte historisch-theologisch detailliert analysiert. So zeigt sich, dass...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-05-16
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This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-13
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The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-13
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This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a diverse,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-13
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An accessible and up-to-date survey of scholarly thinking about Hinduism, perfect for courses on Hinduism or world religions The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Hinduism examines the historical trajectories that have led to the modern religion of Hinduism. Covering main...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-05-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive number of gods and goddesses are attested in the Greek world under the titles of Soter and Soteira ('Saviour'). Overseeing the protection of individuals and cities, these gods had the power to grant an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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From the Archaic to the Roman imperial period, an impressive number of gods and goddesses are attested in the Greek world under the titles of Soter and Soteira ('Saviour'). Overseeing the protection of individuals and cities, these gods had the power to grant an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, Wisdom in Christian Tradition offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, Byzantine, and medieval theology, up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, Wisdom in Christian Tradition offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, Byzantine, and medieval theology, up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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This book is about the relationship between belief, credibility, and credulity in post-Reformation Catholicism. It argues that, starting from the end of the sixteenth century and due to different political, intellectual, cultural, and theological factors, credibility...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-12
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This book argues that “race” and “whiteness” are central to the construction of the modern world. Constructive Theology needs to take them seriously as primary theological problems. In doing so, Constructive Theology must fundamentally change its approach, and draw from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-10
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