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ISIS. Ebola. Social disorder. Religious persecution. Rampant immorality. Are these the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the end of the world? If they are, what do they mean and when can we expect this to happen? In this eye-opening book, prophecy insider Robert...
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FaithWords
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2015-02-10
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Dianna Anderson offers a fresh approach to the purity conversation, one that opens a new dialogue with the most influential Christian authors of her generation.Anderson's new sexual ethics draw on core biblical principles and set a standard for today's Christians that...
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Jericho Books
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2015-02-10
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Featuring comprehensive updates and additions, the second edition of Understanding Theories of Religion explores the development of major theories of religion through the works of classic and contemporary figures. • A new edition of this introductory text exploring the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-09
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Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-02
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Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians. These attacks are carried out by violent anti-minority activists, many of them provoked by what they perceive to be a Christian propensity for aggressive proselytization, or by rumored or real...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-02
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Under the Big Top examines the immensely popular big tent revivals of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America and develops a new framework for understanding Protestantism in this transformative period of the nation's history. Contemporary critics of the revivalists often...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-02
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Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and European languages onDogen and Soto Zen has grown, aided...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-29
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Wird die Religionsfreiheit vom Islam missbraucht? Michael Többens befasst sich in seinem Buch mit einem für Europa sehr aktuellen Problem. In der Wahrnehmung der europäischen Bevölkerung nimmt der Islam eine immer präsentere Stellung ein. Es geht die Befürchtung einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Der erste Bischof von Budweis, Johann Prokop Schaffgotsch (1748-1813), ist zweifellos eine große Gestalt der Geschichte Südböhmens. Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, dem Leser eine tiefergehende und systematischere Darstellung von Schaffgotschs Leben, vor allem der Zeit seines...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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A groundbreaking new look at the story of America. At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2015-01-27
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A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-22
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The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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A simple guide to helping couples find happiness in their marriage.
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Worthy Inspired
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2015-01-20
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At its heart, Buddhism blossoms from one source: the words and life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. Chad Mercree, a lifetime student of Buddhist philosophy and meditation, reveals in simple language how Buddhism can yield personal growth in the modern world. Because...
Editeur :
Sterling Ethos
Parution :
2015-01-20
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Little Bit Series
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In diesem Band wird zum ersten Mal innerhalb der Mediävistik versucht, das vom Konzept des performative turn geprägte Bild vom interaktiven Mittelalter zu hinterfragen. Ausgangspunkt ist Robert Pfallers Entwurf eines interpassiven Aktionsmodus: Das Mittelalter wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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Willem A. Visser ’t Hooft (1900–1985), Dutch pastor and theologian, was one of the most significant personalities in the Protestant Ecumenical movement. Deeply influenced by Karl Barth, and filled with a strong Ecumenical spirit, he was closely involved in the founding...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-01-19
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A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-01-12
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This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety allows for a reframing of our views on the widespread reverence for 'Ali,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-11
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The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious....
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Hurst
Parution :
2015-01-07
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Does God exist? Using an intellectually rigorous, scientific approach, Marshall Brain—the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and author of the How Stuff Works series—sets out to resolve the eternal debate once and for all. With a compelling sense of curiosity, he...
Editeur :
Sterling Ethos
Parution :
2015-01-06
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