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Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.
Following...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-04
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Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-03
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a collection of powerful stories which explore adoption from the perspectives of those who have experienced it from all sides. Inspiring and comforting, the greatest gift of these stories is in the...
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FaithWords
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2015-03-03
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Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s. Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a missionary training...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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This book, the second of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi, includes contemporary essays on the New Testament. The topics offer a rich array of exegetical studies related to the life and teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul. Coming from America,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked intertext that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘Vimsatika’ versus Kumarila’s ‘Niralambanavada’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramanasastra) by introducing new translations of twoSanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism is a comprehensive survey of Indian Buddhism from its origins in the 6th century BCE, through its ascendance in the 1st millennium CE, and its eventual decline in mainland South Asia by the mid-2nd millennium CE. Weaving...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Zwar schreitet die Säkularisierung in Europa voran, aber der Prozess einer Re-Spiritualisierung gewinnt an Fahrt. Fragen, die unsere Gesellschaft unabhängig von konfessionellen Bindungen bewegen, lauten: Worauf können wir uns verlassen? Was sind Werte, die wirklich...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media -- and not all are as harmless as the Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua or...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-28
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First published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul revealed what college students -- at institutions large and small, public and private, secular, Catholic, and evangelical -- really think about sex, dating, religion, and spirituality. Based on face-to-face...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-27
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In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-27
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'Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.'Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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This innovative introductory textbook explores the central practices and beliefs of Hinduism through contemporary, everyday practice. Introduces and contextualizes the rituals, festivals and everyday lived experiences of Hinduism in text and images Includes data from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-23
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Lived Religions
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In the age of the Theodosian dynasty and the establishment of Christianity as the only legitimate religion of the Roman Empire, few figures are more pivotal in the power politics of the Christian church than archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412). This work...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-19
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-19
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This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributors' objective is to explore the myriad of ways late modern shamanism is becoming more vital and personally significant to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-18
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Después de más de una década siendo víctima de la industria del sexo comercial, Annie Lobert comparte no solo su historia de redención, sino también la de otras personas involucradas en el tráfico sexual.Cuando Annie pudo ver una oportunidad para escapar de su...
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Worthy Books
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2015-02-17
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