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Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh of Alexandria and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire offers a thorough revision of the historical role of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. One of the major protagonists of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Divine forgiveness is expressed in biblical and liturgical contexts through a variety of metaphors-canceling debts, covering stains, forgoing or stopping litigation, forgetting iniquities, and more. In this study, Cristian F. Mihut retrieves a theologically...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-14
Format(s) : ePub
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the life of the Catholic Church since the Reformation. The Council initiated, intentionally or not, profound changes...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-08
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This volume explores the importance of inter-generational oral culture and stories that transcend time, space, and boundaries transmitted historically from one generation to the next through proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales in different geographical and spatial...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-03
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This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy. The standard narrative on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-02
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Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East engages with two levels of scholarly discussion that are all too often dealt with separately in modern scholarship: the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-02
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This volume critically re-evaluates the received interpretation of the nature of light in the ancient sources. Isidoros C. Katsos contests the prevalent view in the history of optics according to which pre-modernity theorized light as subordinate to sight...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-03-01
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This book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the surface far-reaching...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-28
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Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (aZimbabwean ethnic...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-27
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This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-25
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Mainstream philosophy of religion has persistently failed to engage seriously or critically with animist beliefs and practices. The field that is now called "philosophy of religion" could quite easily be renamed "philosophy of theism" with few lecturers on the subject...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-25
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Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit einem im Kontext der muslimischen Präsenz in Deutschland sowie des interreligiösen Wirkens der Moscheegemeinden zweifelsohne wichtigen, bisher aber kaum beachteten Thema auseinander: Der Moscheeführung und den ihr zugrunde liegenden...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2023-02-23
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book delves into the public character of public theology from the sites of subalternity, the excluded Dalit (non) public in the Indian public sphere. Raj Bharat Patta employs a decolonial methodology and explores the topic in three parts: First, he engages...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-22
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This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century.This treatise is one of the most...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the life of the Catholic Church since the Reformation. The Council initiated, intentionally or not, profound changes...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-21
Format(s) : ePub
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'On all my travels, if I had the Gospels, Paul's letter to the Romans and Andrew Ollerton's book I would need nothing else!'Sir David SuchetWith his trademark straightforward teaching style, Andrew Ollerton guides readers through Romans - one of the most theologically...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2023-02-16
Collection :
Andrew Ollerton
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume critically re-evaluates the received interpretation of the nature of light in the ancient sources. Isidoros C. Katsos contests the prevalent view in the history of optics according to which pre-modernity theorized light as subordinate to sight...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-14
Format(s) : ePub
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Der Sammelband diskutiert unterschiedliche Glaubensformen, die gegenwärtig in spätmodernen Gesellschaften miteinander in Widerstreit geraten. Mit Blick auf zunehmende Polarisierungstendenzen werden Glaubensformen und belief systems entlang Yves Bizeuls These einer neuen...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2023-02-13
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Die vorliegende Studie verfolgt das Anliegen, die komplexen und schwierigen Fragen jüdischer Identität und Selbstbeschreibung in der deutsch-jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur einer fundierten Analyse zu unterziehen. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Maxim Billers...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2023-02-09
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In the period between 1575 and 1625, civic peace in England, Scotland, and Ireland was persistently threatened by various kinds of religiously inspired violence, involving conspiracies, rebellions, and foreign invasions. Religious divisions divided local communities in...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-08
Format(s) : PDF
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