Religion: general

Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar.

So geläufig frühchristliche Texte sind, die metaphorisch von "Kindern" sprechen, etwa in der Rede von der Gotteskindschaft oder dem Annehmen des Gottesreiches "wie ein Kind", so wenig standen Kinder und Kindheit lange Zeit als kultur- und sozialgeschichtliches Thema auf der bibelwissenschaftlichen Agenda.

Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari's Masalik al-absar, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.

Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family.

The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States of September 11th, 2001 brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world's attention.

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.

Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts.

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception.

Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public.

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

Von Unternehmen und ihrer Verantwortung ist in der Öffentlichkeit viel die Rede.

New Era - New Religions examines new forms of religion in Brazil.

A 2011 study of how the image of the Virgin Mary was transformed during the Reformation.

"e;Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness.

Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals.

In der Reformationszeit spielt die Auseinandersetzung über den Zins und den Wucher eine bedeutsame Rolle.

Understanding Zionism is a detailed introduction to the background and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and its impact on government and society in Israel.

A stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophical-religious traditions, such as those of the Upanishads, Vaishnava Tantrism, Bhakti movement, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Shaivism, and aesthetics, this volume analyses the definition and validity of emotions in the construction of

A Theology of the Sublime is the first major response to the influential and controversial Radical Orthodoxy movement.

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.

This book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and belonging played out in a multi-religious setting during the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

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This book critically examines the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death.

The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology is the definitive guide to radical theology and the commencement for new directions in that field.

Es gibt zahlreiche archäologische Funde aus allen Epochen der Bibel.

This volume provides a collection of 'imagined lives' - individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.

INHALTEditorialStefan Fischer / Thomas WagnerHauptbeiträgeThomas Wagner, Das Proseminar als Chance zur Entdeckung biblischer Textwelten - Aufgaben und ChancenChristina Hoegen-Rohls, Schritt für Schritt.

Prefaces was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844.

This book documents the structure of religious diversity in Australia and examines this diversity in the context of the law, migration, education, policing, the media and interfaith communities.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 once again brought to the fore the place of Islam in Western secular democracies, and the questioning of Muslim citizenship.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book contains a collection of 13 essays from leading scholars on the relationship between passionate emotions and moral advancement in Greek and Roman thought.

Das seit 1880 kontinuierlich erscheinende Jahrbuch ist Forum für Fragen der Geschichte des Protestantismus in Österreich und der Habsburgermonarchie.

Tracing the origins of daily prayer from the New Testament and Patristic period, through the Reformation and Renaissance to the present, this book examines the development of daily rites across a broad range of traditions including: Pre-Crusader Constantinopolitan, East and West Syrian, Coptic and Ethiopian, non-Roman and Roman Western.

Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

This volume looks at the history of the idea of sin as it has influenced and shaped Western culture.

This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible''s story relates to history.

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.