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This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mid-adolescence, Pradyumna is both a handsome double of his demon-slaying father and the rebirth of Kamadeva, the God of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-04
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Mike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can see is our struggles and failures, God reminds us of who we are. . . . His children. Loved. Set free. Redeemed.I Am Redeemed is an open book ofMike Weaver's life, bringing...
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Worthy Books
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2019-09-03
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Dasheng qixin lun, or Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith , has been one of the most important texts of East Asian Buddhism since it first appeared in sixth-century China. It outlines the initial steps a Mahayana Buddhist needs to take to reach enlightenment, beginning...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-02
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It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty probes ancient Jewish disputes regarding religious innovation and argues that Christianity's...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-02
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Religious Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo analyzes the contributions of three churches at both the leadership and the grassroots levels to conflict transformation in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. While states have long been considered main actors...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-09-02
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The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they...
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Springer
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2019-09-02
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This book surveys the growth and development of Islam in Malaysia from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, investigating how Islam has shaped the social lives, languages, cultures and politics of both Muslims and non-Muslims in one of the most populous Muslim...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-30
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Das Konzept des gerechten Friedens wird breit diskutiert. Reflexionen erfolgen vor allem im Hinblick auf drei friedensethische Kategorien: Recht, Gerechtigkeit und Gewalt. Vernachlässigt werden dagegen häufig Fragen von Herrschaft und Herrschaftsverhältnissen....
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Springer VS
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2019-08-29
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?Unbemannte Waffensysteme – umgangssprachlich Drohnen – entfachen kontroverse Debatten. Zwei Entwicklungen sind dabei zentral: zum einen die zunehmende Bewaffnung unbemannter Systeme, zum anderen ihre Autonomisierung. Während diese für die einen das „drohende Ende der...
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Springer VS
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2019-08-29
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This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence across time including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, Jews in the Qur’an and Hadith, Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Kabala, comparative feminist theology, Jews,...
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Springer VS
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2019-08-27
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From the grandson of world-famous marriage expert Gary Smalley comes a practical and hope-filled guide to building great relationships.No one in history has seen a world like this. Never before has information been so accessible. Never before have people lived as long,...
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FaithWords
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2019-08-27
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Since the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-23
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This book critically examines Bonhoeffer’s social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Žižek’s theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Žižek’s struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference in consideration of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-08-23
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This essay sheds light on a relatively neglected 17th-century English thinker, Sir Thomas Browne; and rereads his works with modern lenses. It highlights his insightful contribution to modern thought. Browne is a man of the modern age. His legacy to modern thought...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2019-08-19
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The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637). Gregory Hanlon...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-15
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Der Band erscheint zum 20-jährigen Jubiläum der Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht und zum 5-jährigen Jubiläum des Instituts für Islamische Theologie an der Universität Osnabrück. Ein Teil der Beiträge basiert auf Vorträgen einer gemeinsamen Tagung zum...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-08-13
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Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Purim, Tisha B'Av ROMANCE BEHIND JUDAICA is a guide to the history and observation of Jewish festivals. Includes the background of each holy day, how it was observed in biblical times and how it is...
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Worthy Books
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2019-08-13
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Anagarika Dharmapala (1864–1933) was a leading Sinhalese Buddhist reformer and national activist who ranks high among the makers of modern Buddhism. The Lion’s Roar is one of the first detailed accounts ofAnagarika Dharmapala’s life and the pioneering role he played in...
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OUP India
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2019-08-12
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Peter Enns recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God's Word.Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar,Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2019-08-08
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