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Hookup culture has become widespread on college campuses, and Catholic colleges are no exception. Indeed, despite the fact that most students on Catholic campuses report being unhappy with casual sexual encounters, most studies have found no difference between Catholic...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-28
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Drawing on cultural studies scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen's threefold notion of decolonization, deimperialization, and de-cold-war, this book provides analyses of the interrelated issues concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States' imperialist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-24
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This study takes a Christian perspective on the entire Bible, rather than simply the New Testament. David Wenkel asks: Why did Jesus have to be beaten before his death on the cross? Christian theology has largely focused on Jesus’ death but has given relatively little...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-22
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Kierkegaard's Theology of Encounter provides a theoretical framework that brings the unity ofKierkegaard's 'middle period' into relief. David Lappano analysesKierkegaard's writings between 1846 and 1852 when the socially constructive dimension of his thought comes to...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Kierkegaard's Theology of Encounter provides a theoretical framework that brings the unity ofKierkegaard's 'middle period' into relief. David Lappano analysesKierkegaard's writings between 1846 and 1852 when the socially constructive dimension of his thought comes to...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically. The field of cognitive science enables us to understand religious traditions, rituals, and visionary experiences in novel ways. This has implications for the study of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically. The field of cognitive science enables us to understand religious traditions, rituals, and visionary experiences in novel ways. This has implications for the study of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Concentrating on female modernists specifically, this volume examines spiritual issues and their connections to gender during the modernist period. Scholarly inquiry surrounding women writers and their relation to what Wassily Kandinsky famously hoped would be an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-22
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This book presents the work of leading hermeneutical theorists alongside emerging thinkers, examining the current state of hermeneutics within the Pentecostal tradition. The volume’s contributors present constructive ideas about the future of hermeneutics at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Das «Gulšan-i Raz» – «Rosenflor des Geheimnisses» – von Ma?mud Šabistari wird gemeinhin als eine Einführung in die islamische Mystik betrachtet.Das Lehrgedicht besteht aus Antworten auf fünfzehn Fragen, die von Sufi-Šay? Amir ?usayni gestellt wurden.Das Werk weist eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-21
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Das Buch bietet eine systematische Darstellung des Patroziniums, näherhin des Kirchenpatroziniums sowie des titulus ecclesiae gemäß c. 1218 CIC/83.Das Patrozinium stellt im Leben und in der Frömmigkeit der katholischen Kirche eine Realität dar, die nur selten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Kenneth Garcia presents an edited collection of papers from the 2015 conference on academic freedom at religiously affiliated universities, held at the University of Notre Dame. These essays reexamine the secular principle of academic freedom and discuss how a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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A radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wantsFrom Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants," comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. Based on Wood's...
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Penguin
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2016-12-20
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In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful currency. The study of this phenomenon is at once full of potential and peril, rightly drawing attention to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-15
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1940 spaltete die gescheiterte Promotion des Tübinger Neutestamentlers Karl Hermann Schelkle (1908–1988) die Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Tübingen. Die Aufarbeitung dieses Konfliktes legt nicht nur ein vergessenes Kapitel Tübinger Fakultätsgeschichte...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-14
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The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the different methods of interpreting myths developed by the Greeks, adopted by the Romans, and eventually passed on to Jewish and Christian interpreters of the Bible. Greek thinkers only rarely saw "myth" as a category of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-12
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Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: Religious StudiesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: Spring 2017An OCR endorsed textbookHelp students to build their subject knowledge and understanding with guidance and assessment preparation from a team of subject...
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Hodder Education
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2016-12-12
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Erst aus der Trennung der Sphären von Staat und Kirche im Christentum konnten sich säkulare Demokratie und politische Liberalität entwickeln. Säkularer Staat und Religion bleiben jedoch komplementär aufeinander verwiesen: Fällt das eine weg, hypertrophiert das andere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-08
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