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This intellectual biography of the Egyptian Muslim theologian, scholar, and activist, Muhammad al-Ghazali (1917–1996), provides the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most influential Sunni Muslim writers of the twentieth century. Al-Ghazali shaped the views...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-09
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In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities demonstrated their power by bringing order to chaotic sound worlds, replacing cacophony with harmony.In late antiquity, Christians...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-09
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What does Jesus say and do within the narrative worlds of the New Testament gospels that, through the ages, enabled innumerable gory horrors and immense systemic violences to be perpetrated with his presumed permission? That is the question driving this book. Its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-09
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Based on interviews with upper-middle-class Egyptian Muslims, Is God for Revolution? explores the ways in which political participation in the 2011 Egyptian revolution--and the emotions that came with it--changed the landscape of religious discourse and practice. Before...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-08
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Making Catholicism Chinese examines a little-known chapter of Catholic life in China, when a coalition of foreign-born and Chinese Catholics strove to make the Church indigenously "Chinese." This book demonstrates how the indigenization movement, begun as a bid to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-08
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Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked. Traditionally, it has been cast in a subversive role, as the tool of the detached critic or sceptic. In Critical Irony, Renewed, Samuel Curkpatrick offers a fresh take,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-08
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This book provides a timely and thorough examination of religious minorities in Europe, paying particular attention to the diversity within Christianity. Drawing on perspectives from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, with a focus on Germany, it examines the complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-08
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This is the third and final volume of a three-part work exploring the evolution of wisdom, understood broadly to include both practical wisdom and humanity's capacity to connect with the divine. The first volume was primarily concerned with interspecies relationships...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-01-07
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Given the theological significance of the state of Israel for many evangelicals worldwide, the existence of a population of Palestinian evangelicals seems counterintuitive at first. This small population shares with global evangelicals many common markers of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-06
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This book provides an ambitious, timely, and comprehensive treatment of Israel-Taiwan relations, presenting a valuable historical and political exploration of a niche but increasingly relevant bilateral relationship in contemporary international affairs. Lying on...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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Judaism is fundamental to Israel’s self-conception, but Israelis disagree about whether this is a religious, ethnic, or cultural claim. This book analyzes the implications of religious nationalist sentiment for public support in domains like democracy, war, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This volume is the first to articulate ethical foundations of transhumanism from perspectives focused on transhuman flourishing, as opposed to utilitarian or deontological approaches. Transhumanism is typically framed as a quest for “transcending biological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The goal of this book is to advance our understanding of how “high-stakes information”, including religious information, will be presented by AI systems and the implications to our sense of identity, how we see the world and how we treat others.To do this,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines the role of American churches, particularly the United Methodist Church (UMC), in perpetuating a mindset of segregation and normalizing whiteness. Focusing on the UMC’s Cross-Racial/Cross-Cultural (CR/CC) appointments, it critiques the need to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book offers a bold re-examination of how African spirituality and religion are understood, challenging centuries of misrepresentation shaped by colonial and Abrahamic thought. It argues that describing African religions through any form of modified monotheism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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An approachable guide to the Apocalypse of John The Book of Revelation For Dummies, 2nd Edition walks you through one of the Bible's most fascinating, complex, and extraordinary books. Revelation, also commonly known as the End Times, is the final book of the New...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2025-12-30
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On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier. The Council chose Tikhon (Bellavin), the son of a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south Indian languages. By radically reframing our understanding of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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The Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity. So why have so many highly educated Americans remained committed believers?
The Search for a Rational Faith challenges popular theories of secularization with a sweeping 400-year history of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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America has entered a new intellectual era in which personal identity is assumed to play a significant role in how every person thinks. Today's academy acknowledges that who we are shapes how we view ourselves and the world, which unavoidably injects religion,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-18
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