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This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, along the silk road, Balkh was holy to many. The Prophet Zoroaster is rumoured to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-12
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Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-12
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Kevin M. Watson offers the first in-depth examination of an essential early Methodist tradition: the band meeting, a small group of five to seven people who focused on the confession of sin in order to grow in holiness. Watson shows how the band meeting, which figured...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-10
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In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-09
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Some days, the news seems too much to bear. Yet another tsunami or earthquake or flood or fire or war atrocity. One more gun-toting madman stalking young people in idyllic Norway or moviegoers in Colorado or schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut. We turn off the news...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-12-05
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In a richly illustrated, revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 Christian and Muslim congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Ausgehend von der Annahme einer stark ausdifferenzierten Jesus-Bewegung bietet diese Studie eine dekonstruktive Lektüre von Texten aus dem zweiten Jahrhundert, in denen Hinrichtungen von Jesus-Anhängern als Martyrium überhöht werden. Sie konzentriert sich dabei auf die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Die Domkapitel zählen zu den traditionsreichsten Einrichtungen der katholischen Kirche. Infolge der nachkonziliaren Kodexreform kam es für die Kathedralkapitel jedoch zum Verlust von Titel und Stellung des senatus episcopi an den neu eingerichteten Priesterrat und zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-04
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Through history, Islam was the dominant religion and source of legitimation for ruling entities in diverse contexts where cultures and religions thrived in harmony. Today, the presence of Muslims as citizens in secular societies poses challenges, either by belonging to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Nearly every form of religion or spirituality has a vital connection with art. Religions across the world, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, have been involved over the centuries with a rich array of artistic traditions, both sacred and...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-03
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Beyond Secular Order is the first of a two-volume work that expands upon renowned theologian John Milbank’s innovative attempt to understand both theology and modern thought begun in his previously published classic text Theology and Social Theory. Continues Milbank’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-02
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Illuminations: Theory & Religion
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The night before his crucifixion, in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asks his Father to take away the cup of his suffering, but then says, "not my will, but yours, be done." Shortly afterward, Judas arrives, and his arrival reveals something important about the Father's...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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Diese Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit den Bedingungen der Möglichkeit sinnvoller religiöser Rede auf dem Hintergrund der Überlegungen Wittgensteins. Scheinen zunächst – dem eindimensionalen Sprachparadigma seiner Frühphilosophie entsprechend – keine solchen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Welches Gesetzesverständnis zeigt sich im Jesusbild des Lukasevangeliums? Nach lukanischem Aspekt haben Jesus und das Gesetz eigene Funktionen. So beweist etwa das Gesetz, wer Jesus und seine Werke sind. Es gilt sowohl für das menschliche Leben, für Moral, Ethik und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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Was ist der Mensch? Kierkegaard beantwortet diese grundlegende Frage der Anthropologie nicht mehr mit einem bestimmten Wesen, sondern er beschreibt den Menschen durch eine Kernkategorie: Existenz. Mit dieser Kategorie stellt Kierkegaard dar, dass der Mensch in der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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Bonhoeffer was convinced that God spoke to his people through the Bible. How did a theologian of his caliber, who was well acquainted with the historical-critical interpretation of the scriptures, justify such a claim, and how did he apply this conviction to his daily...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Building on recent revisionist scholarship, this book offers a new account of the last two decades of the life of the seminal eleventh-century Islamic thinker Ab
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Die Arbeit behandelt die Problematik der Politisierung bzw. Sakralisierung arabischer Begriffe sowie das Verhältnis von Religion und Politik im Islam.Die Geschichte des Islam zeigt, dass die Bereiche des Religiösen und des Politischen nicht eins sein können, allerdings...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have long engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-26
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When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored--despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In conversation with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-22
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