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Combining key titles from both Oxford's Very Short Introductions and Oxford World's Classics series, this collection includes an assortment of books that will enlighten your understanding of Islam. Containing A Very Short Introduction to The Koran, Islamic History, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-13
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What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one another and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott's follow-up to her New York Times-bestselling work, Help,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-02-13
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-02-12
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As...
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Basic Books
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2014-02-11
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In this book, the author assesses the social vision of three western Muslim intellectuals, Seyyed H. Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan. He finds that the thoughts of Nasr and his students promote a kind of tradition-based society, which is in harmony with the Divine...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-02-11
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Joseph of Arimathea: A Study in Reception History examines the extensive and convoluted afterlives of a minor biblical character who nevertheless plays a major role in three pivotal scenes in the passion of Jesus Christ as presented by the four canonical Gospels: the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-07
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John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet examines Calvin's sense of vocation. Jon Balserak argues that Calvin believed himself to be a prophet "placed over nations and kingdoms to tear down and destroy, to build and to plant" (Jer 1: 10). With this authority, Calvin...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-06
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Named A Best Spiritual Book of the Year by Spirituality & Practice
The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation. These "nones" now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-05
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This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-02-05
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Matthew Bowman explores the world of a neglected group of American Christians: the self-identified liberal evangelicals who began in late nineteenth-century New York to reconcile traditional evangelical spirituality with progressive views on social activism and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-04
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Best Review at the Catholic Press Association Convention
Studies of young American Catholics over the last three decades suggest a growing crisis in the Catholic Church: compared to their elders, young Catholics are looking to the Church less as they form their...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-02-04
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This volume of essays presents a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the intriguing issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites as presented in diverse biblical sources. Jewish thought has long grappled with the moral and theological...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-31
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Many important contemporary debates cross economics and religion, in turn raising questions about the relationship between the two fields. This book, edited by a leader in the new interdisciplinary field of economics and religion and with contributions by experts on...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-31
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Die Werke Alfred de Vignys und Gérard de Nervals gelten nicht als religiöse Literatur. Dennoch rezipieren diese beiden französischen Autoren des 19. Jahrhunderts religiöse Formen und Inhalte, die sie ihrer theologischen Bedeutung entledigen, um ihnen eine rein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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In Deuteronomy and the Judaean Diaspora Ernest Nicholson challenges the widely accepted view that Deuteronomy was the 'book of the law' described in 2 Kings 22-3 as the basis of king Josiah's cultic reformation in 621 BCE. He argues that the notice in this narrative...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-30
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Der überwiegende Teil der Evangelischen und Katholischen Kirche ist in Formen der Tradition gefangen. Diese rückwärtsgewandte kirchliche Verkündigung erreicht viele Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts mit ihren Erfahrungen nicht mehr. Auf Religionskritik der Aufklärung hat...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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The Igboman who embraces Christianity wants to remain a Christian without rejecting his Igbo identity and culture. In view of this, there is an urgent need to foster and promote marriage preparation in Igboland as a way of rediscovering the Christian and traditional...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen von drei Judikaten des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte aus den Jahren 2010 und 2011 auf das kirchliche Individualarbeitsrecht in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Methodisch verfolgt die Arbeit einen rechtsdogmatischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-30
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What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-30
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What does it mean to be Jewish?What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of...
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Polity
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2014-01-29
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