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A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It developed extremely rapidly in the 1930s and the 1940s, attracting millions of members. Severely repressed after...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-07-13
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This book features a collection of essays on China’s modern Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in villages or large...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-13
Collection :
Christianity in Modern China
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This book presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of the Charismatic Movement in Taiwan, placing it within the context of Taiwan’s religious and political history. Judith C. P. Lin unearths invaluable sources of the Japan Apostolic Mission,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-10
Collection :
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
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Katholische und Evangelische Studentengemeinden in der DDR standen bisher kaum im Blickfeld wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit. Beide Konfessionen boten zwischen 1949–1989 Freiräume für Demokratiefähigkeit sowie für die Option im Sinn Charles Taylors, der repressiven...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-07-10
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La presente monografia si propone una nuova indagine sull’identità storica e letteraria di Clemente di Alessandria, lo Stromateo, titolo costantemente ricorrente nelle fonti che di lui trattano. Il lavoro si divide in due parti: la prima propone la ricostruzione della...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-07-10
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An example of how one woman can change the world by telling the truth about her life with unflinching, relentless courage' GLENNON DOYLEAustin Channing Brown's first encounter with racism in America came at age seven,...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2020-07-10
Format(s) : ePub
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La Wicca ha bebido de las fuentes de la sabiduría druídica con el fin de recuperar ideas, tradiciones y elementos del folclore, y reelaborarlos siguiendo unas creencias según las cuales cada individuo puede profundizar en su relación con lo sagrado. A través de este...
Editeur : De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution : 2020-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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La palabra mandala, de origen sánscrito, significa «centro, círculo, aro mágico». Indica una imagen simbólica basada en las figuras geométricas del círculo y del cuadrado, capaz de desvelar todos los secretos más profundos de la propia personalidad. Dibujar e...
Editeur : De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution : 2020-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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This book investigates the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus, a monumental figure in Swedish and international Pentecostalism. Joel Halldorf describes Pethrus’ role in the emergence of Pentecostalism in Sweden, the ideals and practices of Swedish Pentecostalism, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-08
Collection :
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
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Jesus of Nazareth is the most influential historical person. He was about thirty years old. He was active for no more than about three years. He never went abroad, and spoke no foreign languages. Neither he nor his followers conquered any towns or countries. He wrote no...
Editeur : Kustannus Oy Aprikoosi
Parution : 2020-07-06
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Few topics are as broad or as daunting as the God of Israel, that deity of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, who has been worshiped over millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, God is characterized variously as militant, beneficent,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-07-03
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Whether on a national or a personal level, everyone has a complex relationship with their closest neighbors. Where are the borders? How much interaction should there be? How are conflicts solved? Ancient Israel was one of several small nations clustered in the eastern...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-07-01
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When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast. Even for a community that had been tracking further and further right for...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-07-01
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Inward Baptism analyses the theological developments that led to the great evangelical revivals of the mid-eighteenth century. Baird Tipson here demonstrates how the rationale for the "new birth," the characteristic and indispensable evangelical experience, developed...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-07-01
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Spiritual Traditions and the Virtues develops a philosophical appreciation of the spiritual life. The book shows how a certain conception of spiritual good, one that is rooted in Thomas Aquinas's account of infused moral virtue, can generate a distinctive vision of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-30
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This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere. Despite the legal construction...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-30
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world from nothing?...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world from nothing?...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-06-29
Format(s) : PDF
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In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-06-29
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This book takes a narrative-critical approach to the meaning and function of debate in the Gospel of Mary. The debate scene in the Gospel of Mary has been interpreted with the assumed framework of the Gnostic-orthodox con?ict and feminist biblical studies’ particular...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2020-06-29
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