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Rediscover eight people in the Bible whose hopes and expectations went from disappointment to life-changing transformation through Jesus.Remarkable Hope reveals a pattern of hope where individuals were surprised by Jesus in drastic ways after they placed their hope in...
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FaithWords
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2019-03-05
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This book is about making room: God making room for us. Us making room for God. And through this relationship we end up becoming people who knew firsthand what it means to walk with God.This Is How We Pray offers a fresh invitation to examine how we pray. Theology and...
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FaithWords
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2019-03-05
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Jeder hat schon einmal von heiligen Kühen, von Gurus, von Witwenverbrennung und den Tausenden Göttern im Hinduismus gehört. Bollywood-Filme sind Kult und indische Tanzgruppen touren mit großem Erfolg durch Europa. Aber wer weiß schon, dass jeder Inder hinter diesen...
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Wiley-VCH
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2019-03-04
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Für Dummies
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Is it reasonable to live a religiously oriented life, or is such a life the height of irrationality? Has neuroscience shown that religious experiences are akin to delusions, or might neuroscience actually support the validity of such experiences?
In Living Religion...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-01
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Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying, not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge's court, but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-01
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The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar Santideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. Over one thousand years after...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-01
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Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-28
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'a smart, daring and refreshing book.' - Weekend Australian 'deliciously sinister' - Herald SunWhy would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find...
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Hachette Australia
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2019-02-26
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Graham Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to understand politics, world affairs, and the nature of humanity itself. Religion can be used to justify inhumane actions, but it also feeds...
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Polity
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2019-02-25
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Why It Matters
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When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zelnícková in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale. Perhaps more than any other figure in American public life...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-21
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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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The Resurrection of Jesus is at the very root of Christian faith; without belief in Jesus Christianity dies. In this thought-provoking work, Matthew Levering defends the credibility of the claim that Jesus rose from the dead. Drawing on the work of N. T. Wright,...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-21
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The most comprehensive and accessible introduction to scriptural art yet written Literary Study of the Bible: An Introduction approaches each book of the Bible (including several of the apocrypha) with non-sectarian literary questions, exploring the meanings that the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2019-02-21
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The first systematic overview of the field of comparative theology Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers a synthesis of and a blueprint for the emerging field of comparative theology. It discusses various approaches to the field, the impact of religious...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2019-02-21
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In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-19
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-02-18
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History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-15
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Featuring the controversial bestselling author of The God Delusion with a foreword by Stephen Fry_________________"Do you believe in God?"_________________What readers are saying:***** ‘Awe inspiring . . . I read it in almost one sitting.’***** ‘Thought provoking . . . ...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-02-14
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Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer. Gavin Flood offers an integrative account of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-14
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Sayings of Gorakhnath presents a translation of late-medieval texts in Old Hindi, traditionally attributed to one of the founders of the Order of Nath Yogis. The Naths are associated with the creation and development of hatha yoga, with important historical and...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-14
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