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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup?da (1896-1977), founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, traced his lineage to the fifteenth-century Indian saint Sri Chaitanya. He authored more than fifty volumes of English translation and commentaries on Sanskrit and Bengali texts,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-15
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The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices. In this book, the once arch enemies of Religious studies and Postcolonial theory become...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-14
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The Early Text of the New Testament aims to examine and assess from our earliest extant sources the most primitive state of the New Testament text now known. What sort of changes did scribes make to the text? What is the quality of the text now at our disposal? What can...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.'
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.'
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we define evil to...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace if applied, would build a monument of ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.' Martin Luther King, Jr.Budda and Jesus Christ,...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-06-12
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When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-12
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Despite three decades of scientists' warnings and environmentalists' best efforts, the political will and public engagement necessary to fuel robust action on global climate change remain in short supply. Katharine K. Wilkinson shows that, contrary to popular...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-08
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Despite Rumi's (d. 1273) recent emergence as a best-selling poet in the English-speaking world, fundamental questions about his teachings, such as the relationship of his Sufi mysticism to the wider Islamic religion, remain contested. In this groundbreaking study, Jawid...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-08
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In this wonderfully positive book, Jennifer Rees Larcombe shows us that with God's help, nothing is beyond hope. When life is shattered by tragedy or disappointment, hope seems lost forever. Is new life possible? Jennifer's astonishing true-life account of her own...
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Hodder
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2012-06-07
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Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a...
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Robinson
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2012-06-07
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Tom Thorne Novels
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In the De potentia, Thomas Aquinas runs a series of disputations on the power of God. The treatise considers ten questions related to God's power to create external things, namely the universe, angels, and human beings. His explanation of creation here is the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-06
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture provides readers with a concise, readable and scholarly introduction to twenty-first century approaches to the Bible. Consists of 30 articles written by distinguished specialists from around the world Draws on...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-06-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions / Global Affairs
Winner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable Mention
Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association International Ethics Section Book Award
In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-01
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Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept. In fact, it is generally considered an oxymoron. An image of aBuddhist monk holding a handgun or the idea of a militarizedBuddhist monastery tends to stretch the imagination; yet these sights exist throughout southern...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-01
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Journey Back to God explores Origen of Alexandria's creative, complex, and controversial treatment of the problem of evil. It argues that his layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that deciphers deeper meaning beneath cosmic disparity. Origen asks: why does God...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-01
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Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek to dislodge that...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-01
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Andrew Harvey, an Anglo-Indian novelist and poet, expands on the spiritual transformation that he described in part in Journey in Ladakh. Beginning in 1978 when he first met Meera, the Indian woman who would be his Master, Harvey (who at the time was teaching literature...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-05-31
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