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In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ.
Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-16
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Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentators deny the churches a role in Northern Ireland's peace process or belittle it, focusing on the few well-known events of church...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-16
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"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."
- Journal of American History
"Simply breathtaking in scope....
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-14
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Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-12-13
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Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-12
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Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-12
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The 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, presented the Latter-day Saints with their first opportunity to exhibit the best of Mormonism for a national and an international audience after the abolishment of polygamy in 1890.The Columbian...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-12-09
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Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology provides both a historical and a theological analysis of the achievements of the renowned generation of theologians whose influence pervaded French theology and society in the period 1930 to...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-09
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Human religious experiences are remarkably uniform; many can be pharmacologically induced. Recent research into the neurology of religious experience has shown that, when worshipping or praying, a certain part of the brain, apparently dormant during other activities,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-12-08
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Das Basler Konzil (1431-1449) hat sich nicht allein um eine Reform der Kirche an Haupt und Gliedern bemüht, sondern auch die Funktion einer Schiedsinstanz in zahlreichen kirchlichen und weltlichen Streitsachen eingenommen, Ketzer- und Kanonisationsprozesse geführt,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-07
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This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Although she was marginalized and ignored by French historians for two centuries after her death,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-12-06
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Das Verhältnis von Demokratie und Religion schwankt zwischen Kooperation, Indifferenz und Konfrontation. Während sich die derzeitige Diskussion oft auf die Kompatibilität von Islam und Grundgesetz verengt, versucht dieser Tagungsband der bestehenden Spannungslage...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-05
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'Probably the most important archaeological find in history ... Vermes' translations are a standard in the field' Los Angeles TimesThe discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest finds of all time. These...
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Penguin
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2011-12-01
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No scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner considered by many colleagues to be the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discovery of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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In A Simple Path, Saint Teresa, senior members of the Missionaries of Charity and volunteers at their homes around the world offer their advice and long experience of how we can practise a fuller love for each other, help those less fortunate than ourselves and find...
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Ebury Digital
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2011-11-30
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After decades of materialism, secularization and me-too philosophies, it is no surprise to find that more and more people in the West are searching for spiritual ideas to add structure to their lives. This pocket-sized little book distills the very best of Mother...
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Ebury Digital
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2011-11-30
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This interdisciplinary introduction offers students a truly global overview of the worldwide spread and impact of Christianity. It is enriched throughout by detailed historic and ethnographic material, showing how broad themes within Christianity have been adopted and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-11-30
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In an age when much of the earth's surface has been explored, the spiritual realms within us are still, for many people, uncharted territory. This Inner Space was experienced by shamans and the 'Wise Ones' of all cultures and traditions who could bring to the surface...
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Ebury Digital
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2011-11-30
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In this classic collection of lectures, Buddhist monk, scholar, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh shows us that suffering is not enough; for in order to achieve peace, we must be peace. Quite simply, if we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
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