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The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and observance over the last fifty years by returning to a number of towns and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and observance over the last fifty years by returning to a number of towns and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time. Some of these practices, notably those denoted by the term yoga, are orientated towards salvation from the cycle of reincarnation and go...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-20
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Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time. Some of these practices, notably those denoted by the term yoga, are orientated towards salvation from the cycle of reincarnation and go...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-20
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This book explores specific aspects of Martin Luther’s ideas on education in general, and on religious education in particular, by comparing them to the views of other great sixteenth-century reformers: Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon. By...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-20
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This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief aims are to contribute to the present state of research by adding essential findings on newly discovered...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-03
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This book offers the first full study of the challenges posed to an emerging English nationalism that stemmed from the powerful appeal exerted by the leaders of the international Protestant cause. By considering a range of texts, including poetry, plays, pamphlets, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-19
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Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives. Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also reflect on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-16
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This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work—The Parable of the Three Rings—a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring. By tradition he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-27
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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
Parution :
2019-08-13
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In Brjansk, wo im September 1941 der deutsche Angriff auf Moskau begann, befassten sich russische und deutsche Wissenschaftler mit der Frage, inwieweit in der bewegten Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts christliche Überzeugungen das politische und staatliche Handeln beider...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-28
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This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Yarrow looks at the origins, ideas, and definitions of sainthood, sanctity, and saints in the early Church, tracing their development in history...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-20
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The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Yarrow looks at the origins, ideas, and definitions of sainthood, sanctity, and saints in the early Church, tracing their development in history...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-20
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In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Spanish missionaries collaborated with indigenous intellectuals to communicate the gospel in dozens...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-05
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PREMIUM EBOOK (fürs digitale Lesen optimiert)Zur selben Zeit, als durch die Reformation die große Macht des Papsttums erschüttert, die lang unterdrückte Geistesfreiheit gerettet und die ewige Menschenwürde glorreich anerkannt worden war, zur selben Zeit wurde ein...
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Alicia Éditions
Parution :
2018-08-18
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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-12
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Provides a short, accessible, and lively introduction to Jerusalem Jerusalem - A Brief History shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city and how modern Jerusalem is haunted by waves of biblical fantasy aiming...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-16
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Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
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This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies. It focuses on three main aspects of mourning of the dead before burial — lamentation, mourners’...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-06-27
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