Religious life and practice

What does a slab of bacon have to do with marital fidelity?

A detailed study of pollution and impurity in Roman religion, offering new theories on a previously neglected, yet vital, subject.

Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking.

Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "e;help"e; must be reexamined.

Religion today is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries.

Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art.

A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education is guided by the questions, What makes education intercultural and interreligious?

Because of their ever-changing personalities, their high energy, and their emerging ability to think critically, younger adolescents present a special faith formation challenge to the congregations who love them.

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Many of the key problems and concepts of ethics go back to the time of the Vedas and the origins of Vedic Philosophy.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is everywhere.

Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life.

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

There are two types of conflict in congregations: conflict that kills and conflict that cultivates growth.

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades.

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c.

The mission of the Church has always been to "e;go and make disciples of all people"e;.

The True Story of an Uncharted Journey Through the AfterlifeAs a world war raged around him, a young soldier named George Ritchie barely comprehended his own death as he left the physical world--only to return minutes later.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

Gängige Gottesdiensttheorien sehen Fürbitten heute als Akt, den die Gemeinde im Priestertum aller Gläubigen ausübt.

La novedad eclesial, gestada por Francisco, guarda en su raíz una honda relación con los contextos latinoamericanos y un profundo conocimiento del mundo actual en los más variados aspectos.

An inside look at how religious diversity came to PrincetonIn 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school.

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

Revised and updated edition of the classic astrology text on predicting and navigating life crises *; Provides charts for the transits of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron--now updated through 2050--to predict your personal growth cycles and timing of kundalini rising *; Shares tools to cope with the intensity of spiritual emergency and direct the kundalini energy released during planetary passages *; Includes a new preface by the author reflecting on 20 years of success stories since the book's initial publication *; No astrological chart needed to use this book In this updated edition of Liquid Light of Sex, renowned astrologer and spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow explores the connection between life crises in your 30s, 40s, and 50s and the key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron in your birth chart.

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

Sex, Sin, and Our Selves brings together readings in feminist theological thought and the literature of the acclaimed contemporary writers Michele Roberts and Sara Maitland.

Prophetic ministry in the Bible has long been perceived as the exclusive domain of individuals who were powerful, authoritative, argumentative, and, almost always, male.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

Jesus calls each of us to live in a way that gives the Father glory, shares his love with everyone around us, and reflects the life of Jesus.

The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.

"e;A cogent and persuasive plea for a return to the full catholic tradition which would make a critical contribution to the debate about gender in matters of faith.

Evangelische Bildungsarbeit ist gefragt, wenn sie sich Fragen gefallen lässt.

In October 2010, Shane Clifton had a serious accident that left him a quadriplegic.

Die erfolgreiche Sexologin und Therapeutin Veronika Schmidt kennt die Nöte von gläubigen Paaren, wenn es intim werden soll.