Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives ofJesus and Muhammad, the first such...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-11-11

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With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-11-11

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In this provocative book Warren A. Nord argues that public schools and universities leave the vast majority of students religiously illiterate. Such education is not religiously neutral, a matter of constitutional importance; indeed, it borders on secular indoctrination...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-11-10

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The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-08

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Der Schutz von Kirchengebäuden vor Enteignung ist Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung, deren Grundlage die in Art. 140 GG i. V. m. Art. 138 Abs. 2 WRV normierte Kirchengutsgarantie bildet. Das Grundgesetz hat keine eigenen kirchenrechtlichen Regelungen getroffen, sondern die...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2010-11-05

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While atheists such as Richard Dawkins have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight--people who hate God. In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-11-04

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Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul challenges the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual, mainly cognitive and metaphorical, ways of understanding central Pauline concepts, such as 'being in Christ', 'having God's pneuma (spirit),...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-11-04

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Talking to the Enemy is an intellectually and personally courageous exploration of one of the most contentious issues of modern times. Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe - in order to help us understand...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-11-04

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Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state ofChristianity across the world’s largest and most populous continent. Offers detailed coverage of the growth ofChristianity within South Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-11-02
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity
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Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--debate about the relationship between religion and science. These lively conversations cover the most important and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-11-01

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In Lev Shestov: Existential Philosopher and Religious Thinker, Michael Finkenthal explores the evolution of Lev Shestov’s philosophical and religious intellectual contributions. The hermeneutical effort is mainly based on the Shestovian oeuvre, but his thought is...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2010-11-01

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Published at the beginning of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy in 2005, Let God's Light Shine Forth, introduced the world to his spiritual vision of hope. The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as successor to Pope John Paul II aroused tremendous interest not only among...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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The Bhagavad Gita, or 'Song of the Spirit', is the best known book of India's national epicThe Mahabharata. Based on a dialogue between Bhagavan Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the eve of a great battle, it is held to be the essence of Hindu spirituality, sacred...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Jennifer Rees Larcombe is well known for the calm grace she brings to even the hardest things, and her books celebrate God's goodness and care in the midst of tough times, as well as when all goes well. In this book she helps us to see how God is with us in good times...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-10-28

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Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-10-28

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What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Who were the first to call themselves 'agnostics'? These are just some of the questions that Robin Le Poidevin...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Who were the first to call themselves 'agnostics'? These are just some of the questions that Robin Le Poidevin...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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