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From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As author Charlotte E. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-03-02
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This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has incurred...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-28
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Papst Franziskus hat das Prozessrecht in Ehenichtigkeitsverfahren durch das Motu Proprio «Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus» 2015 einer grundlegenden Änderung unterzogen. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, ob die Ehe seit Inkrafttreten desselben noch ausreichend...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-02-28
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The Buddha and Aristotle offer competing visions of the best possible life to which human beings can aspire. In this volume, Seth Zuiho Segall compares Theravada and Mahayana accounts of enlightenment with Aristotelian and neo-Aristotelian accounts of eudaimonia, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-27
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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points inJewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-27
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Die ganze Bücherwelt ist dem Gesetz des Alterns unterworfen.Die ganze Bücherwelt? Nein. Ein Buch hält seit Jahrhunderten allen Moden und Konkurrenten stand: die Bibel. »Bibel für Dummies« bringt den Lesern diesen zeitlosen Klassiker nahe. Das Buch gibt nicht nur den...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-02-27
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Für Dummies
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Whereas much theology of religions regards 'the other' as a problem to be solved, this book begins with a Church called to witness to its faith in a multicultural world by practising a generous yet risky hospitality. A theology of dialogue takes its rise from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Whereas much theology of religions regards 'the other' as a problem to be solved, this book begins with a Church called to witness to its faith in a multicultural world by practising a generous yet risky hospitality. A theology of dialogue takes its rise from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Be inspired by the story of Kevin Atlas (formerly Laue), whose faith and perseverance helped him become an NCAA Division I basketball player, despite being born with only one arm.Even before entering the world, Kevin Atlas was a fighter. He should have died in...
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Worthy Books
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-25
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This book addresses a variety of important questions on nature, science, and spirituality: Is the natural world all that there is? Or is it possible to move ‘beyond nature’? What might it mean to transcend nature? What reflections of anything ‘beyond nature’ might be...
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Springer
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2020-02-25
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The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later be called Hinduism....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-23
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This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. The chapters in Part I address the challenges of modern human rights discourse to Orthodox Christianity and examine conditions for...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-19
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Get a better understanding of the Bible through ten words that help define God's plan for restoring and redeeming our broken world. The Bible contains around 750,000 words—a number that would intimidate even the most seasoned readers of the Bible. Yet,...
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Worthy Books
Parution :
2020-02-18
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A comprehensive introduction to ancient wisdom literature, with fascinating essays on a broad range of topics. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature is a wide-ranging introduction to the texts, themes, and receptions of the wisdom literature of the Bible...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-17
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Encountering Eve's Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 aims to destabilize the persistently pessimistic framing of Eve as a highly negative symbol of femininity within Western culture by engaging with marginal, and even heretical,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Encountering Eve's Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 aims to destabilize the persistently pessimistic framing of Eve as a highly negative symbol of femininity within Western culture by engaging with marginal, and even heretical,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-06
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