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The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south Indian languages. By radically reframing our understanding of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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The Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity. So why have so many highly educated Americans remained committed believers?
The Search for a Rational Faith challenges popular theories of secularization with a sweeping 400-year history of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-23
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America has entered a new intellectual era in which personal identity is assumed to play a significant role in how every person thinks. Today's academy acknowledges that who we are shapes how we view ourselves and the world, which unavoidably injects religion,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-18
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Tantra Across the Buddhist Cosmopolis examines key aspects of the tantric Buddhist movement from its beginnings in early medieval India to the present day. Across its centuries-long history, tantric Buddhism has spread throughout the global community of Buddhist...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-12-18
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Fosters deep inter-faith understanding through shared scriptural study and mutual religious hospitality Scriptural Reasoning: Abrahamic Inter-faith Practice provides an accessible and practical introduction to a unique form of inter-faith engagement centered on shared...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-12-16
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Since his earliest contributions to Catholic theology, Joseph Ratzinger has been a subject of considerable scholarly interest. His work, spanning decades of theological inquiry, has shaped contemporary thought on faith, reason, and ecclesiology. From his beginnings as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-16
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This book provides a complete account of the metaphysical aspects of Christology in Western theology, during the years from 1250 to 1310.This period is the most significant for the theology of the middle ages, beginning with Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, and ending...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-15
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In 1875, in a small apartment in New York City, a handful of freemasons and spiritualists met in secret. After hours spent debating advances in science and the spiritual mysteries of the Orient, the assembled guests settled on an idea. What the 19th century needed most,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-12
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This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Chinese Christianity, retelling it through the lens of Pentecost (Acts 2) to illuminate the rise of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in China from the 20th century onward.Parting from traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-08
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"A must-have for every Muslim home." -Mufti MenkYour companion and compass. Let Allah's Words guide you.In Living with the Qur’an, Sunday Times bestselling author Aliyah Umm Raiyaan invites you to embark upon a beautiful and interactive year-long journey with the...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2025-12-04
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Buddhists in Vietnam are meeting humanitarian needs by popularizing charity. Vietnam's rapid urbanization has intensified social service demands while straining public infrastructure. In response, charity volunteers are building roads, subsidizing medicine, and giving...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-01
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Wie gelingt es Menschen, in Folge einer Fluchtmigration Halt zu finden? Und welche individuelle Bedeutung kann Religiosität entfalten – im Ringen um Leben und Überleben? Dieses Buch eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf die Frage, wie tief religiöse Muster im Menschsein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2025-11-28
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Fruit of Her Hands considers how specialized roles for women are reflected in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, with a focus on four--midwives, diviners, weavers, and sex workers. Virnelson investigates the practice of each role in the ancient world and its corresponding...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-26
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Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.PHILIPPIANS 1:27Paul's letters are often read in the context of the difficulties they address in fledgling Christian communities. But Philippians is not so much a letter addressing problems...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-11-20
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Hodder Bible Commentary
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Following the flood and the rainbow, Genesis 9 has one final story about Noah. The patriarch gets drunk, strips naked, and passes out. One of his sons, Ham, sees Noah naked. When Noah wakes up, he utters a curse of slavery against not Ham, but one of Ham's sons, Canaan....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book offers theologians, philosophers, and neuroscientists accessible and engaging material for navigating the complex field of the neuroscience of religion. It addresses the challenge of how scholars in the humanities can meaningfully engage with research and data...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-18
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Eschatology is an understudied theological topic in Dietrich Bonhoeffer studies. It is a doctrine that is either acknowledged in passing or ignored altogether. This is primarily due to the apparent drastic shift in the theological posture, language, and terminologies...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-11-18
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Drawing on a selection of the most important Sanskrit alchemical works from the ninth to sixteenth centuries, Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts provides an introduction to South Asian alchemy, tracing and explaining alchemical thought as it developed on the Indian...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the church union movement, it describes and explains unprecedented levels of clerical-lay cooperation in campaigns of Church defense, responses to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-12
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This book offers the first in-depth study of the 1980 restoration of al-Jami? al-Anwar—also known as the Mosque of al-?akim bi Amr Allah—by the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. Long portrayed by experts as having breached international conservation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-12
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