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Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?

Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?

In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised notion of 'East Asia' has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst for new connections, extending beyond the geographic boundaries of China, Japan, and Korea.

Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience, the persistence of the self over time, the relation between mind and body, and the interdependence between self and community.

This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations.

Secularization, Social Order, and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization.

Mircea Eliade was one of the most successful and influential historians of religion.

The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z explores how the first smartphone generation narrates faith amid shifting religious practice and influencer culture.

Mircea Eliade was one of the most successful and influential historians of religion.

The Spiritual Narratives of Generation Z explores how the first smartphone generation narrates faith amid shifting religious practice and influencer culture.

Many oppose dogma fearing that heresy accusations lead to violence; similarly, opposition to claims of infallible church authority stems from fears of fanaticism, closed-mindedness, and blind obedience.

First published in 1964, Meditation by Bradford Smith draws on his extensive experience to provide clear guidance on how to practice rewarding meditation.

In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac.

This book enhances awareness of the legal issues surrounding public funding of faith-based schools in representative nations around the world.

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century.

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making, and mysticism and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the twenty-first century.

Mattering Voices advances mutually enriching relationships in-between the transdisciplinary fields of voice studies and new materialisms.

This book examines the role of courts in settling religious disputes in the context of wider debates around religion and gender.

The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology is a comprehensive exploration of how we, as humans, interact with and perceive the natural world.

Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin?

Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders.

This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics.

The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics.

Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.

Secularization, Social Order, and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization.

This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.

Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into methodological devices for historical investigation.

This book examines how Christian teachings on love and enmity shape group identity and conflict, with scripture and theology used both to justify violence and call for reconciliation.

This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives.

Islam in World History examines the emergence and development of Islam as a world religion in the Abrahamic tradition and the unfolding of Muslim society and civilization over fourteen centuries.

Freedom With Religions offers a new interpretation of Rawls' political liberalism, aiming to reconcile this framework with the profound forms of religious pluralism that characterise contemporary democracies.

Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity.

This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality.

Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity.

Islam in World History examines the emergence and development of Islam as a world religion in the Abrahamic tradition and the unfolding of Muslim society and civilization over fourteen centuries.

This book charts nineteenth-century ceremonial and liturgical change through Ritualists' involvement of children in Church of England services.

This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality.

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism.

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism.

This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism.

This book charts nineteenth-century ceremonial and liturgical change through Ritualists' involvement of children in Church of England services.

Elements of Faith explores the rich, complex terrain of faith through the lenses of psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, and lived clinical experience.

This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism.

Religious and Identity-Based Roots of the War in Ukraine critically analyses the religious and identity-based roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War from a long-term historical perspective.

The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics.

Freedom With Religions offers a new interpretation of Rawls' political liberalism, aiming to reconcile this framework with the profound forms of religious pluralism that characterise contemporary democracies.

The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology is a comprehensive exploration of how we, as humans, interact with and perceive the natural world.

Spirituality for Leaders delves into the integration of spirituality within leadership practices and highlights how spiritual beliefs and practices can enhance ethical decision-making, organizational culture, and well-being.