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From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen investigates the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. Steven Heine reveals how this school of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book presents a reading of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy as an effort to strike a middle position between the philosophies of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche. Duane Armitage interprets the history of Western philosophy as comprising a struggle over the meaning of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Think you don't have time or space for spiritual stuff? That intimacy with God is impossible?Here's how-in the life you already live-you can make time and space for God.Godspace offers seven practices that help busy Christians pay attention to God. They help us align...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Rich Mullins was a once-in-a-lifetime singer/songwriter whose impact on Christian music and the church is still felt today, even twenty years after his passing. His words and music softened and inspired the most hardened hearts to believe. His was a ragged and raw faith...
Editeur :
Worthy Inspired
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Start your day right or refresh your mood with these sixty uplifting devotions to remind you of His grace and peace. It's okay to take a moment to stop and disconnect. Close your eyes. Pray. When time and options are running low, when anxiety, fear, or worry are...
Editeur :
Worthy Inspired
Parution :
2017-09-05
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The Reformation Theologians is the ideal introduction to the study of the sixteenth-century Reformations. It introduces the theological context, though, and contributions of theologians from this period, offering students and scholars an essential resource and insight....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-05
Collection :
The Great Theologians
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Ever since the state of Israel was established in 1948, it has been plagued by war, and that has presented religious Zionists with an immense challenge. Jewish law prior to 1948 includes little material on war because it developed during centuries when Jews had neither...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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This volume offers a multidimensional exploration of the theme of time in early modern France: of time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life.
In poetry, the importance of past and future perspectives was studied by Maynard and La Fontaine. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-31
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A farmer, a nurse and an astronaut walk into a church...They each bring with them their own exhaustions and exasperations, their own uncertainty about whether and how their work matters to God. Good news: all work matters to God, because all work reflects some aspect...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-08-31
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Jews often consider Hinduism to be Avoda Zara, idolatry, due to its worship of images and multiple gods. Closer study of Hinduism and of recent Jewish attitudes to it suggests the problem is far more complex. In the process of considering Hinduism's status as Avoda...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-30
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Ein neuer Blick auf die Entwicklung der Religionen In diesem Buch geht es um die Evolution der Religionen, also um die Frage, wie und warum sich Religionen im Laufe ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung verändern und welche Gesetzmäßigkeiten diesen Veränderungen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-29
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According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-24
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This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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Daniel Thieme beschreibt die religiöse Rede deutscher Spitzenpolitiker anhand ihrer Selbstzeugnisse. Der Autor zeigt eine große Vielfalt von Glaubensüberzeugungen und religiös begründeter politischer Standpunkte auf. Nach religionspsychologischen Anhaltspunkten werden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-19
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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Ob Theologie eine Wissenschaft genannt werden kann, wird verschärft durch das Aufkommen neuer theologischer Studiengänge als auch durch Sparmaßnahmen an theologischen Fakultäten in Frage gestellt. Darauf reagieren die theologischen Disziplinen mit einer Suchbewegung,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-18
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This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur’an—a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger. The authors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-11
Collection :
Political Economy of Islam
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This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph. Readers of the Talmud are introduced to Rabbi Akiva through the iconic story of his love for his wife Rachel. From this starting point, Naftali Rothenberg conducts a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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