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Saints, Angels, and Demons is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating lives and meaningful legacies of nearly 400 iconic figures who have influenced history, religion, literature, and art, throughout the centuries and across the world. From St....
Editeur : Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
13,99€ (-7%)
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The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout history. This possession can last for varying lengths of time, and its effects can be considered positive--when a "spirit"...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The pastor and founder of Zoe Church reveals the Church’s role in the rising levels of narcissism today and the Bible’s countercultural call to humility. Popular author, speaker, and pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, Chad Veach tackles one of the...
Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
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11,99€ (-8%)
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'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.'
The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
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More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation. The rising prominence of Catholics in important leadership positions and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Debatten um Radikalisierung und islamistisch begründeten Extremismus sind aus der deutschen Politik und Medienlandschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken, während die Bundesregierung umfangreiche Programme zur Förderung von Präventionsarbeit aufsetzt.
Die Studie nimmt mit einer...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2024-10-15
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Islam in der Gesellschaft
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Many Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins. The Catholic Mass is even understood as a “sacrifice.” Some take issue with this language, for it seems to put forward an idea of God that is implicated in vengeance and violence. Why would God accept the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This study explores the role that Bibles have come to play in the worldview of the contemporary European far right. Taking the case of far-right terrorism in Norway on 22 July 2011 as a starting point, Hannah M. Strømmen argues that particular perceptions of “the Bible”...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell argues that the first two words of Christianity's most famous prayer - the Lord's Prayer - encapsulate the radical heart of the Christian faith: that we belong to each other, and that we all have access to God. And if we could...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2024-10-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Molly McGinley has had enough of London and, feeling like a failure, heads home to the unremarkable Northern town of Merry-le-Moors, to move back in with dad Jack for Christmas.Jack, still mourning the loss of his wife and Molly's mum ten years ago, nevertheless...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2024-10-10
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-10-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more generally--neglect the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the Jim Bakker show,...
Editeur : Worthy Books
Parution : 2024-10-01
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-8%)
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Anti-Jewish sentiment in the Orthodox liturgy was and still is one of the main stumbling blocks for the Jewish–Orthodox Christian encounter. In the last five decades, this subject has often been mentioned during official dialogues between the two religious communities,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2024-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The book of Job and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland may not seem like natural bedfellows at first, but both have become literary classics by lifting a voice of protest against injustice. They employ similar techniques to mock self-assured moralists: nonce-formation,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-09-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The star quarterback takes the field for the national championship game, "John 3:16" scrawled on his eye black.The NBA's Most Valuable Player leads his team in Bible study.The newly crowned World Series champion thanks God in a postgame interview while wearing a t-shirt...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-09-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A detailed exploration of both Paul the Apostle and his world, providing an understanding of how the Christian faith originated in the first centuries Paul the Apostle is often acclaimed as “the true founder of Christianity,” but many Christians are unaware of Paul's...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2024-09-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history to be published. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspectives, this book elucidates the intersections that lie beneath and behind the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A wise, heartfelt, and compelling guide to our quest for wholeness in a broken worldA Hidden Wholeness—now in its 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new Introduction by bestselling author Parker J. Palmer—has helped people in every walk of life rise to the challenge of...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2024-09-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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«Hafizullah Emadi, a recognized authority on the Ismaili sect of Islam, has produced an extensively researched report on the community in Afghanistan whose leaders ("Pirs") deployed their sacred authority to build a cult of personality and dominate the social affairs of...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-09-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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