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There are few events as significant and life-altering as birth, marriage, and death. These are the moments in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand these events and their religious and spiritual...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-03-05
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If life is a journey, there are few events as significant as birth, marriage and death. These are the moments in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand these events and their significance in the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-03-05
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Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality. Drawing from unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-04
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Walk the path of holiness, stir your faith in God, and break free from the bonds of a sinful nature with Joyce Meyer's Galatians commentary, featuring inspiring questions and space for your reflections.Paul's letter to the church at Galatia speaks largely to how...
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FaithWords
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2020-03-03
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Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism. This book doubles down on those claims and digs even deeper, looking to uncover the disparate but entangled roots of modern yoga...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As author Charlotte E. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups—including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various “Catholic” schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-03-02
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This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has incurred...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-28
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Between 1850 and 1966, tens of thousands of Buddhist sacred sites in China were destroyed, victims of targeted destruction, accidental damage, or simply neglect. During the same period, however, many of these sites were reconstructed, a process that involved both...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-28
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Papst Franziskus hat das Prozessrecht in Ehenichtigkeitsverfahren durch das Motu Proprio «Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus» 2015 einer grundlegenden Änderung unterzogen. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, ob die Ehe seit Inkrafttreten desselben noch ausreichend...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-28
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The Buddha and Aristotle offer competing visions of the best possible life to which human beings can aspire. In this volume, Seth Zuiho Segall compares Theravada and Mahayana accounts of enlightenment with Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian accounts of eudaimonia, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Die ganze Bücherwelt ist dem Gesetz des Alterns unterworfen.Die ganze Bücherwelt? Nein. Ein Buch hält seit Jahrhunderten allen Moden und Konkurrenten stand: die Bibel. »Bibel für Dummies« bringt den Lesern diesen zeitlosen Klassiker nahe. Das Buch gibt nicht nur den...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-02-27
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Für Dummies
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Whereas much theology of religions regards 'the other' as a problem to be solved, this book begins with a Church called to witness to its faith in a multicultural world by practising a generous yet risky hospitality. A theology of dialogue takes its rise from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Whereas much theology of religions regards 'the other' as a problem to be solved, this book begins with a Church called to witness to its faith in a multicultural world by practising a generous yet risky hospitality. A theology of dialogue takes its rise from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points inJewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Be inspired by the story of Kevin Atlas (formerly Laue), whose faith and perseverance helped him become an NCAA Division I basketball player, despite being born with only one arm.Even before entering the world, Kevin Atlas was a fighter. He should have died in...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2020-02-25
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This book addresses a variety of important questions on nature, science, and spirituality: Is the natural world all that there is? Or is it possible to move ‘beyond nature’? What might it mean to transcend nature? What reflections of anything ‘beyond nature’ might be...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-25
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The leading introductory textbook on the study of religion and the natural sciences, including new coverage of the latest topics in the field Science and Religion provides students with a thorough introduction to the major themes and landmark debates in the interaction...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-25
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