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This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-11
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This book provides a social history of the Tamil Jainas, a minority community living in Tamil Nadu in south India. It holds special significance in the method of studying the community, living in villages of Tamil Nadu and retrieving their perspectives on their past....
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-25
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The Lithic Garden offers innovative perspectives on the role of ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on the foliate friezes articulating iconic French monuments such as Amiens Cathedral, it demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-11
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Jesus lived in a time of great tension and upheaval. It is estimated there were approximately 700,000 Jews then living in Israel under the Roman occupation. Discover the complexities of life in a tiny Nazereth village. Compelling narrative brings to light the rapidly...
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Museum of the Bible Books
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2017-11-14
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Immerse yourself in the captivating world of 1000 BC AS Everyone watches the small nation of Israel make it's move after the death of it's beloved King David. Shepherd. Warrior. King. Psalmist. Father. Fugitive. Hero. Villain. No single word is sufficient to encompass...
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Museum of the Bible Books
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2017-10-03
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The Reformation Theologians is the ideal introduction to the study of the sixteenth-century Reformations. It introduces the theological context, though, and contributions of theologians from this period, offering students and scholars an essential resource and insight....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-05
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The Great Theologians
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Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "Holocaust inversion" in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-03
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A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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The book reveals the nexus between religion and politics today and shows that we live in an interdependent world where one global civilization is emerging and where the world’s peoples are continuing to coalesce around a series of values that contain potent Western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-13
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L'autore compie l’impresa di presentarci un «Gesù storico» sicuramente lontano da quello reso familiare dall’iconografia e dalla predicazione cristiana, ma perfettamente plausibile, benché delineato componendo un mosaico frammentario di cui l’autore è il primo a...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
La critica sociale
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Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-03-17
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Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine turns to the vast collection of moral advice found in Augustine's letters and sermons, mining these neglected and highly illuminating texts for examples of Augustine's application of his own moral concepts. It...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-03-17
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Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2015-12-01
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Sie interessieren sich für die Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin, Feng Shui oder Qi Gong und möchten nun wissen, auf welchen Gedanken all das beruht? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie. Jonathan Herman, der in Harvard über chinesische Religionen...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2015-09-17
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Für Dummies
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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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Find out how two extraordinary leaders changed religion and the world In April 2014, Pope Francis will jointly canonize two predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII, in a move that recognizes the extraordinary accomplishments of these leaders of the Catholic faith. An...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2015-04-08
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Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country's increasing secularity alongside religion's growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain's society. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-05
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