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After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of 'contemplation,' the interior presence of God to the soul. That long struggle yielded his classic account in the Confessions. This study explores Augustine's...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-22
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The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespread interest and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-22
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'Where the mind goes, the man follows.' - Joyce MeyerThe groundbreaking principles of POWER THOUGHTS are now encapsulated in a 365 day devotional, which encourages you to expose negative thinking and learn to think in line with God's Word. Walk with Joyce day by day,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-11-21
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Recent years have seen increasing numbers of Protestant and Catholic Christians converting to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In this book D. Oliver Herbel examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-21
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People contact mediums to help them through the grieving process. In times of emptiness, sorrow and regret, mediums offer love and reassurance, and the chance to reconnect with the energy of a departed loved one. This book offers readers the tools and techniques to be...
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Robinson
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2013-11-21
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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-21
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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-21
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"While there is now no lack of books which regale the English reader with selections from the Talmud, tales from the Talmud and wise sayings of the Rabbis, there is no work which attempts a comprehensive survey of the doctrine of this important branch of Jewish...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-11-21
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What is my purpose in life? Who am I meant to be? How can I live a successful life? Why is there so much wrong with our world today? Am I part of the problem?What can I do to help change that? These are the big, seemingly unanswerable questions that everyone must ask...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-11-21
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Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese--a foremost authority on Christian Gnosticism--here offer a valuable compilation of over 40 ancient gospel texts and textual...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-20
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Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death)...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
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Unsere Gegenwart ist durch die schleichende Veränderung des Theologiestudiums gekennzeichnet. Es wird von staatlichen Vorgaben maßgeblich mitbestimmt (Bologna-Prozess). Die Situation des Christentums in einer religiös pluralisierten Moderne erfordert zusätzlich eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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Der Einfluss jüdischer Weisheitstheologie auf das Matthäusevangelium ist unübersehbar. Diese Untersuchung geht an ausgewählten Perikopen dieser Prägung genauer nach. Insbesondere fragt sie, welche Aspekte weisheitlichen Denkens der Evangelist aufgegriffen hat. Sie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband wollen dazu beitragen, aus christlich-theologischer Perspektive die Antwort auf die Frage zu präzisieren, wem das in den biblischen Überlieferungen dem Bundesvolk Israel verheißene Land gehört. Aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln laden die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Staatliche Neutralität ist das Leitmotiv hoheitlichen Handelns in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft. Die praktischen Anforderungen an dieses Dogma steigen. Das Spannungsverhältnis aus positiver und negativer Religionsfreiheit wird besonders in Bereichen wie der Schule...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, has been called the Cadillac of cults. Those interested in new religions may only know of MSIA from these kinds of labels. However, when looked at from a qualitative sociological perspective, a more complex story of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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The worldwide Pentecostal movement has 525 million adherents. A feature of the movement has been its embrace of pluralism and pragmatism. There are features of worship which are commonly and incorrectly considered to be distinctive to Pentecostalism.The quality of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-18
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The United States has never had an officially established national church. Since the time of the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds God and nation. In a deft exploration of American civil religious symbols-from the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-18
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This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-18
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