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The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-09-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities. The volume’s first part describes past and present...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-16
Collection :
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'This journey, of course, is not without its challenges . . . And yet facing those challenges also lends enchantment to the journey.' Join Professor Roderick Strange as he presents the core doctrine of the Catholic faith in a warm and accessible way. Using the...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2021-09-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens ofGustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. First published in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-09-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In seinem Traktat de fuga in persecutione bezieht der frühchristliche Theologe Tertullian v. Karthago (ca. 160–220 n. Chr.) Stellung zur Frage, ob es für Christen erlaubt sei, in der Verfolgung zu fliehen. Seine ebenso von der klassischen Rhetorik wie der stoischen...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-09-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed to societies across the ages In Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, delivers a spiritual elan filtered through cultural practices and artefacts....
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2021-09-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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* El Dalai Lama, el más alto líder espiritual del pueblo tibetano, hasta 1959 (fecha de la ocupación por parte de China) era también el principal responsable político del Tíbet. Elevada figura del budismo, está considerado la manifestación del Buda de la Compasión,...
Editeur : De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution : 2021-09-07
Format(s) : ePub
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This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. Although his overall notion was thoroughly analyzed in different disciplines and respects, this specific focus can be diagnosed as a lacuna. The task of this book is to...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2021-09-02
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France. Beginning in the early 1880s, Republican politicians...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-09-01
Format(s) : PDF
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-09-01
Format(s) : ePub
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A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-08-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-08-28
Collection :
Argumentation Library
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Drawing from a wide range of archival and secondary Greek, Bulgarian, Ottoman, and Turkish sources, Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1940 explores the way in which the Muslim populations of Greece were ruled by state authorities from the time of Greece's...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-08-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book rewrites the story of classical Chinese philosophy, which has always been considered the single most creative and vibrant chapter in the history of Chinese philosophy. Works attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi and many...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-08-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A meticulous exploration of the reception history of Jonah in all its facets Jonah through the Centuries is a systematic examination of the reception history of the book of Jonah, long-recognized for its numerous theological implications and diverse interpretations. The...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2021-08-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. This Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism, arguing that most western...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-08-26
Format(s) : ePub
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Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. This Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism, arguing that most western...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-08-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy? Or does it leave that task to moral philosophy alone while it describes a distinctively Christian way of acting or form of life? These questions lie at the very heart of theological...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-08-26
Format(s) : PDF
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