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Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true homeland:...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-08-04
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Dieses Buch untersucht den schwierigen Prozess, den der Buddhismus in Indonesien bis zu seiner staatlichen Anerkennung als Religion (Agama) durchlaufen hat. Dabei illustriert die Autorin die Verknüpfungen von Religions- und Minderheitenpolitik am Anpassungsprozess des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This book presents the first systematic study of Augustine’s insights into passions as well as his approach to the therapy of emotions and their sanctification. Analysing various phases of Augustine’s writings, this work explores the systematic structure of Augustine’s...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-02
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Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades. The book surveys the history of the relationship from historical to contemporary times, from travellers to religious leadership. It explores the potential enrichment for Jewish theology and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
Collection :
Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice
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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how America's largest religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-01
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In Teaching Interreligious Encounters, Marc A. Pugliese and Alexander Y. Hwang have gathered together a multidisciplinary and international group of scholar-teachers to explore the pedagogical issues that occur at the intersection of different religious traditions....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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Der Band thematisiert die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Religion, die heute grundsätzlich unter widersprüchlichen Vorzeichen steht: Einerseits hält sich nach wie vor die Vorstellung vom Siegeszug der Säkularisierung, der zufolge die Bedeutung von Religion für die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-31
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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A cutting-edge scholarly review of how the Pentateuch functions as a scripture, and how it came to be ritualized in this way. Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture is a unique account of the first five books of the Bible, describing how Jews and Christians...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-07-27
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Are you enjoying every day of your life? Or do you tell yourself and others that you will find happiness once you have achieved a specific goal or position? Jesus came so that you might have and enjoy life (John 10:10). In this compact abridgment, Joyce Meyer combines...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-07-27
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AQUINAS AMONG THE PROTESTANTS This major new book provides an introduction to Thomas Aquinas’s influence on Protestantism. The editors, both noted commentators on Aquinas, bring together a group of influential scholars to demonstrate the ways that Anglican, Lutheran,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-07-26
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Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-26
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Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland. For Augustine, all human beings are, in the earthly life, exiles from their true homeland:...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-26
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The aim of this book is to show that during the early half of the twentieth century, Chinese society was disillusioned by both internal dissension and external invasion, and the churches experienced many challenges. In response to the traumatic events of 1920–1949, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-25
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While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers' view of the human condition. Isabella Image shows that the Commentary on Psalm 118 is more closely related to Origen's than...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-25
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Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggest, but...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-21
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural representations of Jesus in the context of contemporary religious theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of an updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality, with an emphasis on the inherent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-20
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A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion —written for a broad, interdisciplinary audience Sacred languages have been used for foundational texts, liturgy, and ritual for millennia, and many have remained virtually...
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Wiley
Parution :
2017-07-18
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Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice--the writing of incantations on amulets--changed in an increasingly Christian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-14
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This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people --...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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