This book examines political nationalism in Japan through an in-depth analysis of the organisation, ideology and influence of Nippon Kaigi, the most significant nationalist pressure group in contemporary Japan.
In diesem Sammelband werden neue Forschungsergebnisse und offene Erkundungen auf den Gebieten der Religions- und Missionswissenschaft sowie der Interkulturellen Theologie vorgestellt, die im Wirkungsfeld des Berliner Religions- und Missionswissenschaftlers Andreas Feldtkeller anlässlich seines 60.
Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church.
Une lecture africaine du récit de Béthel est une contextualisation de la théologie de l’unité politique du peuple d’Israël, un enjeu du message de Béthel.
Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede's biblical commentaries and homilies.
L'any 1767, els jesuïtes que vivien a l'antic regne de València (190 en total) van patir les conseqüències del fet històric que més va commoure l'Europa catòlica del set-cents: l'expulsió de la Companyia de Jesús dels dominis de Carles III.
Las doce contribuciones que integran el libro, escritas por un equipo de reconocidos expertos internacionales en la materia, plantea un ambicioso recorrido que tiene la virtud de cubrir gran parte del arco temporal que abarcó la caza de brujas europea, desde los entusiasmos iniciales de los siglos XIV y XV hasta las tardías polémicas de finales del siglo XVII.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives.
Displacing Jesus studies the inner workings of Thomas Jefferson's editing and shortening of the Gospels of the New Testament, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases-both real and imaginary-that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics.
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication AwardThis book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa,alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.
Les témoignages de ferveur religieuse sont nombreux dans les archives et sur le terrain : églises et chapelles, nombreuses croix des bords de chemin, fondation d’une congrégation comme celle des « Sœurs de la retraite chrétienne » du révérend père Receveur lors du retour en force de la religion après la tourmente révolutionnaire, humanisation des prisons par l’abbé Faivre au XIXe siècle, résistance farouche face à la volonté de laïciser la société au début du XXe siècle et, plus proche de nous, application des réformes prônées par le concile Vatican II.
Dans l’espace religieux malien, Aséïd Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara est sans conteste celui qui incarne au mieux, le message de tolérance, les vertus de dialogue, de cohésion sociale et de vivre ensemble avec les chrétiens.
The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.
Alors que l’Europe se débattait dans un Moyen-Âge de tensions et de carcans où les femmes furent souvent des figurantes, la civilisation arabe depuis l’Antiquité avait inauguré une conception haute de l’amour courtois, en développant un véritable art d’aimer.
This book addresses the crisis of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, the region of the world with the highest percentage of Catholics.
This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
The debate over Allah's attribute-the "e;nature"e; and the inner articulation of Allah-is one of the focal debates in the intellectual history of Islam.
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions, and after: One of the things in which those affiliated with knowledge differ is the ability to organize and arrange information, and document it from its original sources, and before that, to understand and assimilate it, and His Eminence our Sheikh, Sheikh Dr.
Anyone who contemplates our present era and its conflicts finds that the conflict between truth and falsehood has reached its intensity, and that the sects of disbelief have gathered all their capabilities against one enemy, namely Islam and its true preachers, whom they describe sometimes as extremists, sometimes as fundamentalists, and sometimes as terrorists.
This is the first of two volumes of essays from the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network's 14th International Conference focused on decolonizing churches and theology, addressing oppressions based on gender, racial, and ethnic identities; economic inequality; social vulnerabilities; climate change and global challenges such as pandemics, neoliberalism, and the role of information technology in modern society, all connected with the topic of decolonization.
This volume is about the most mind-boggling sacrament of the Christian faith, also referred to as the Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharist: in its Roman Catholic interpretation, the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ for Holy Communion.
