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This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the first to discuss contemporary articulations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This autobiography describes the hours before and after Terry Waite was taken hostage in January 1987 in Beirut. Waite analyzes his thoughts and feelings immediately prior to captivity - what was the nature of his role as envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury? What was...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-09-08
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The saints form a huge part of our world's history, on both a religious and secular level. Their shrines have attracted millions of pilgrims throughout the centuries, and their relics continue to be venerated today. In North America even atheists and non-Christians know...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-08
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Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-02
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120 jüdische Autoren deutscher Sprache im Porträt. Börne, Heine, Buber, Zweig, Canetti, Celan, Becker und Klüger und viele andere haben die Literatur nachhaltig geprägt. Wer sich mit ihrem Leben und Werk auseinandersetzt, sollte das Taschenlexikon unbedingt zur Hand...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has endured, proving more resilient than any other Islamist movement in the world. In this book Khalil al-Anani explores the factors that have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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What kind of person should I strive to be?What ideals should I pursue in my life? These basic human questions and others like them are components of the overall question that guides this book:What is enlightenment?
As Dale Wright argues, any serious practitioner of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Modern-day Renaissance man and star of Bravo's Thicker Than Water Ben Tankard offers powerful motivation and practical tools to empower readers to find their destiny and create an action plan to unlock it. As a pastor, pilot, motivational speaker, bestselling...
Editeur :
FaithWords
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2016-08-30
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1828 unterzeichneten 23 Professoren aus Freiburg i. Br. Petitionen zur Abschaffung des Zölibates und verteidigten diese mit einer erläuternden «Denkschrift». Hierauf antwortete Johann Adam Möhler (1796–1838) mit der «Beleuchtung der Denkschrift».
Die Autorin analysiert...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-29
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Die Religionswissenschaft mit ihren beiden Subdisziplinen Religionssoziologie und Religionspsychologie hat als sogenannte „Außenperspektive" wichtige Forschungsbeiträge für die „Innenperspektive" der christlichen Theologien geliefert. Einen Konflikt stellte dabei immer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-29
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Franz Overbeck war einer der großen religionskritischen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sein Einfluss auf Nietzsche, Barth, Löwith, Benjamin, Taubes und viele andere ist unbestritten. "Werke und Nachlaß" erschließt erstmals Overbecks Gesamtwerk und stellt den Theologen und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Our Greatest Gift is a meditation on dying. Dying and death can often bring fear. But the experience of dying and caring for the dying can become the deepest experience of love. Nouwen encourages us to ask: 'How can my death become fruitful in the lives of others?'...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-08-25
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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.Life of the Beloved asks how one can live a spiritual life in a Western secular culture.The greatest challenge, concludes Nouwen, is to bridge the gap between secular...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-08-25
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Joyce Meyer has a knack for coining phrases - her fans call them 'Joyceisms' - and one of her best loved is 'Where the mind goes, the man follows.' This was the basis for BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND, and in her latest book, Meyer provides 'power thoughts', bringing the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-08-25
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The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In this 365-day devotional, best-selling author Pastor John Hagee walks you through Scripture with words of strength and hope for every day. As only he can, Pastor Hagee draws from his decades of Bible study and ministry to bring authoritative yet inspirational...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2016-08-23
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