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What does the battle between conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ people look like from the vantage point of those who are both?
If a culture war is happening, LGBTQ+ conservative Christians are on the front lines. While many people assume LGBTQ+ people have to say...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-05
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This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-03
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This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-03
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The churches of the Reformation highlight the righteousness of faith (Iustitia Dei) as the core of their theology. Martin Luther formulated this doctrine as an alternative to the Aristotelian virtue of justice. This volume shows, however, that many different versions of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-01
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Education offers a multi-disciplinary work of scholarship and research highlighting the global significance of a critical interface of cultural and social, political, and theological importance. Drawing on historical perspective and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-29
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This book offers a comparative analysis of contemporary approaches to the sirah genre (biography of Prophet Muhammad). It explores the connection and juxtaposition of the sirah genre with Islamic systematic theology (kalam), particularly in the context of the emergence...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-28
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How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-25
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Within contemporary Heathen communities, the Old English term "wyrd" is used to refer to the web of relations that connect all threads of existence. Inspired by pre-Christian traditions of Northern Europe, Heathens give gifts, toasts, and offerings to foster a sense of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-22
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The true story of the first California cult scandal
In 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony's leader,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-17
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This book delves into the background of fragmentation and solidity of Indonesia’s Islamic parties. By examining the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) as a research subject, this book exhibits the critical nature of a party’s internal...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-17
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This book offers an updated version of the credibility treatise as part of a fundamental theology. Focusing on practical arguments that make Christian faith interesting and positive for improving the quality of one's life and relationships, it shows how the Christian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-16
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Who wrote the Pauline Epistles? For nearly 1,700 years the answer seemed fairly straightforward. The New Testament canon set the boundary at thirteen (or fourteen, including Hebrews) Pauline Epistles, alongside an uncontroversial biographical framework within which to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-15
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A testament to the indomitable human spirit and the power of a mother's love, this story of a wrongfully incarcerated woman's fight for freedom and her family will inspire all. Judy Henderson was a single mother with a successful small business of her...
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Worthy Books
Parution :
2025-04-15
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In this work, Michael Marmur employs the structure of the Hebrew alphabet to set out elements of an emerging Jewish theology, presenting a case for the urgent relevance of Jewish life at a time of deepening rupture and accelerating change. He presents core...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-11
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In sixteenth-century Germany Martin Luther and his followers engaged in a thorough reform of beliefs and practices related to prayer, a reform rooted in Luther's theological insights. Rejecting medieval beliefs that saw prayer as a good work, Luther and his followers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-10
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This book presents Gregory of Nyssa's On the Six Days of Creation (In Hexaemeron) as a specimen of Early Christian philosophy. It comprises Gregory of Nyssa's text in its Greek original accompanied by a new English translation, and seven accompanying essays by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-09
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-09
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The deuterocanonical books, otherwise called the Apocrypha, have been a part of Christian Bibles for as long as there has been a Christian Bible. For just as long, there have been disputes about their authority. Are they canonical Scripture, or merely edifying...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-07
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A new interpretation of historical and contemporary Jewish texts that views diaspora as a positive outcome for Jews and for the world
Jewish people have always wandered. According to their origin story, they wandered from Ur of Chaldees to Canaan, then Egypt, and then...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-04
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Grounded Spirituality: Aspects of Rabbinic Culture in its Late Antique Context examines a series of themes engaged by rabbinic literature, including the primacy of learning, the fading of universalism, the place of love, a unique rhetoric of charity and good deeds, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-04
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