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This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-24
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In this book, Sung Uk Lim examines the narrative construction of identity and otherness through ongoing interactions between Jesus and the so-called others as represented by the minor characters in the Gospel of John. This study reconfigures the otherness of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-23
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Since its publication in 1964, The Unknown Christ of Hinduism has been singled out for praise as the quintessential example of Raimon Panikkar’s engagement with theology of religions. Controversies over the real meaning of the title and the author’s remark that Christ...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-12-21
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This volume collects the published articles in philosophy of religion by the pre-eminent philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. The volume focuses on the major themes of her career, which is reflected in the sections of the volume: 1) Foreknowledge and Fatalism, 2) The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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In The Muhammad Avatara, Ayesha Irani offers an examination of the Nabivamsa, the first epic work on the Prophet Muhammad written in Bangla. This little-studied seventeenth-century text, written by Saiyad Sultan, is a literary milestone in the multi-ethnic,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book adopts an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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This book combines the mainstream liberal arguments for religious tolerance with arguments from religious traditions in India to offer insights into appropriate attitudes toward religious ‘others’ from the perspective of the devout. The respective chapters address the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-16
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In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and secular realms, often...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-14
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Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to 'the problem of evil' revolve around abstract discussions of greater goods, maximization of value, and best possible worlds, depicting God as at best...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-14
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Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to 'the problem of evil' revolve around abstract discussions of greater goods, maximization of value, and best possible worlds, depicting God as at best...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-14
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The History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces where the story of the Church took shape. Buildings are about people, the people who conceived, designed, financed, and used...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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The History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces where the story of the Church took shape. Buildings are about people, the people who conceived, designed, financed, and used...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (daya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmasastra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance--in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (daya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmasastra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance--in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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Diese Arbeit widmet sich den theologischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Ansichten des spätosmanischen Gelehrten Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869–1954). Er begegnete den Debatten seiner Zeit nicht nur als Religionsgelehrter, sondern auch als politischer Aktivist. Seine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-08
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Ist die Zugehörigkeit zum Islam ein Konfliktfaktor im beruflichen Miteinander? Beeinträchtigt sie die Arbeitsmarktintegration muslimischer Frauen? Die Studie untersucht Vereinbarkeitskonflikte zwischen muslimischer Religiosität und der Berufstätigkeit von Frauen....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-04
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Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from a New York Times journalist and bestselling author takes us inside the modern-day making of a saint.The Saint Makers chronicles the unlikely alliance between...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-12-01
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Obwohl die Apostolische Paenitentiarie das älteste Dikasterium der Römischen Kurie ist, gehört sie zugleich zu den unbekannteren Dikasterien. Ihr Hauptcharakteristikum ist ihre exklusive und fast ausschließliche Zuständigkeit im Forum internum. Ihre Aufgaben sind...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-12-01
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'An erudite and charming book . . . both a primer and a paean to one of the central texts of Buddhism, known as the Heart Sutra. . . Alex Kerr delves into the Japanese soul' Literary ReviewThe material world is itself emptiness.Emptiness is itself the material...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2020-11-26
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A scholarly volume that reflects the rich diversity of Anglican theology With contributions from an international panel of writers, Twentieth-Century Anglican Theologians offers a wide-ranging view that presents a survey of over twenty diverse Anglican thinkers. The...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-24
Collection :
The Great Theologians
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