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The Tattvasamgraha, or Encyclopedia of Metaphysics, is the most influential and frequently studied philosophical text from the late period of Indian Buddhism. Its authors-Santaraksita and his commentator and student, Kamalasila-both played key roles in founding the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-12-14
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This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the present, dynamic state of metaphysical religion in America. It includes chapters that: put survey data on this growing group in context; clarify definitional issues in the study of spirituality in general and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-12-13
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Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Bret Davis explores the philosophical implications of Zen teachings and koans, comparing and contrasting these with other Asian as well as Western religions and philosophies. He...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-12-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. It examines the role of religion in fostering identity, survival, and tolerance in the empires and nation-states of Europe...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-12-08
Format(s) : ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. It examines the role of religion in fostering identity, survival, and tolerance in the empires and nation-states of Europe...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-12-08
Format(s) : PDF
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In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-12-01
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her true self through the writings of Thomas Merton. Approaching Merton as an Asian immigrant feminist in the postcolonial era, Park's perspective is a unique one, and in this dance sometimes it is...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-30
Collection :
Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
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In Drifting Through Samsara, Masoumeh Rahmani provides a fieldwork-based study of Goenka's Vipassana meditation movement in New Zealand. This group is distinguished by its refusal to identify as Buddhist and by a rich rhetorical repertoire for repackaging Theravada...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically. Neal Krause strikes out in a different direction, developing a core conceptual scheme that is...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The events around the death of Jesus left his followers in despair and with unanswered questions.The book shows how the narrator of Luke-Acts assigned Peter to interpret these events. By identifying him as one of the eyewitnesses cited in the Gospel preface, the author...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for centuries. Marian worship and theology has inspired countless appearances in art, as well as religious philosophy and doctrine, while the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : PDF
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The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for centuries. Marian worship and theology has inspired countless appearances in art, as well as religious philosophy and doctrine, while the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : ePub
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A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years.
From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : PDF
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A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years.
From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : ePub
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"An inspiring, heart-warming, go-getting book... an antidote to apathy." Helen Tupper, co-author of The Squiggly Career 365 WAYS TO HAVE A GOOD DAY is a full year's worth of daily inspiration, tools, habits, actions, and rituals that will help you live your best life....
Editeur : John Murray One
Parution : 2021-11-25
Collection :
365 Series
Format(s) : ePub
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Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced alongside broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, the role of institutions, group belief, and epistemic injustice,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-11-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An Invitation to Biblical Poetry is an accessibly written introduction to biblical poetry that emphasizes the aesthetic dimensions of poems and their openness to varieties of context. It demonstrates the irreducible complexity of poetry as a verbal art and considers the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-11-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Spirituality is in the spotlight. While levels of religious belief and observance are declining in much of the Western world, the number of people who identify as "spiritual but not religious" is on the rise. Practices such as yoga, meditation, and pilgrimage are...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-11-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Gospel Characters: Jesus and His Contemporaries contributes to an understanding of Jesus in the New Testament that is persons-centred. It highlights how different biblical characters help shape the stories that have come down to us. This book provokes thoughts for...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-11-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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