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Der Integrationsprozess der muslimischen Gemeinschaften ist seit Jahrzehnten im Gange, doch scheint er immer noch am Anfang zu stehen. Diese Arbeit behandelt das Thema aus juristischen, gesellschaftlichen, politischen, islam-rechtlichen und kulturellen Blickwinkeln. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-21
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Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-20
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Every church leader and church member want their church to grow. The promise of The Attration Church is that if a church experience is positive, the lost, absent, and unfilled will come and complacent people in the pew will have their faith renewed. Author Billy Hornsby...
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FaithWords
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2011-02-16
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"It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness." So wrote a prominent Southern Baptist official in 1899 of Mormonism. Rather than the "quintessential American religion," as it has been dubbed by contemporary...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-16
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The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-02-15
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In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-02-15
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Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching back to the beginning of history in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Persia and Greece, and continuing through the figures and narratives of a biblical tradition...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-02-14
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Are Muslims Distinctive? represents the first major scientific effort to assess how Muslims and non-Muslims differ--and do not differ--in the contemporary world. Using rigorous methods and data drawn from around the globe, M. Steven Fish reveals that in some areas...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-09
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Religious violence has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Robert Eisen provides the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish views on peace and violence by examining texts in five major areas of Judaism - the Bible, rabbinic Judaism, medieval Jewish...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-09
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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-02-04
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Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der staatlichen Finanzierung kirchlicher Krankenhäuser.Die Einbindung kirchlicher Krankenhäuser in das heutige System der Krankenhausfinanzierung wird dabei ebenso dargestellt wie die historische Entwicklung von der Antike bis heute. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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The establishment of universal manhood suffrage and legal equality for Jews in Germany in the 1860s and 1870s gave way to the rise of political anti-Semitism to a degree not witnessed before. In Russia too, as a consequence of the reform era (1855-1881), the «Jewish...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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Scholarly discussion concerning Elijah in Luke is affected mainly by the detection of the many allusions to Elijah in connection with Jesus and, at the same time, by noting the absence of some associations of Elijah with John the Baptist familiar from the Gospel...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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The prophecy of Zephaniah is a compendium of prophetic thoughts on the nature of YHWH’s relationship with His people. This research critically builds on past scholarships and exegetically demonstrates the thematic, literary and theological relationships of Zeph 1:14-18...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Across much of inland Africa and Asia, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the...
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Penguin
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2011-02-03
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Das katholische Kirchenrecht befindet sich seit mindestens 50 Jahren in einer Krise. Die Rechtsverdrossenheit in der Kirche ist groß, der Überdruß an allem Institutionellen wächst stetig. Man empfindet es fast nur noch als Last und Beengung, kaum noch als Hilfe, Schutz...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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Europäisches Antidiskriminierungsrecht beeinflusst das deutsche kirchliche Dienst- und Arbeitsrecht. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Auslegung des § 9 AGG, welcher kirchlichen Arbeitgebern eine unterschiedliche Behandlung ihrer Arbeitnehmer wegen der Religion...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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Diese Studie beschäftigt sich mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung angestammter Religionen für Migranten und Diaspora-Angehörige am Beispiel von Frauen des Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha in Großbritannien. Anhand biographischer Interviews werden individuelle...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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«Schwerstkriminelle gehören für immer weggesperrt!» Diese Aussage kann man immer wieder und, wie es scheint, immer öfter hören – in Zeitungen, an Stammtischen, ja sogar in Reden von PolitikerInnen. Eine derartige Forderung sieht den Sinn der Freiheitsstrafe offenkundig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-03
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"Why," an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "can't we be contented with. . . the canon of Scripture?" Edwards posed this query to the religious enthusiasts of his own generation, but he could have just as appropriately put it to people across the full expanse of early...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-02
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