Religion: general

Achille Ratti, bekannt als Papst Pius XI.

Dietrich Bonhoeffers work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of the Nazis and his provocative prison musings about Christian faithfulness in late modernity.

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines.

Welchen Herausforderungen zum Umgang mit religiöser Vielfalt müssen sich Praktiker*innen in ihrer alltäglichen Arbeit stellen?

How churches can work to stem gun violenceOver 300 Episcopalians came together in Oklahoma City in April 2014 to renew their commitment to the Gospel call to make peace in a world of violence.

Refuting a false dichotomy between “politics” and “religion” in Jesus’ world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus’ response to the imperial power of his day.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies.

Spirituality without God is the first global survey of godless spirituality.

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.

One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse.

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Paul's use of the Abraham story in Galatians by providing a thorough analysis of its epistolary and rhetorical contexts.

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans.

A new look at Rashi''s innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.

A definitive history of peace advocacy and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots.

Terrorism and radicalization have a long history, but in recent years their prominence has been a particularly conspicuous and influential feature of the global political landscape.

Der Kern einer supplicatio war das kollektive Gebet der Stadtbevölkerung an die je nach Anlass zuständigen Gottheiten.

Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his contribution is usually understood as largely critical of traditional modes of theological inquiry.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

Spirituality and religion are fundamental to all human cultures.

In life there are a few major questions.

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Born Again and Beyond identifies and interacts with various theological blind spots in Evangelicalism--such as its naive rationality, its faulty understanding of the nature of both Scripture and the gospel, and its emphasis on salvation as an event rather than a process.

Where is God when life is filled with so much suffering?

Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for women's experience.

No está todo dicho sobre Pablo de Tarso a pesar de que desde san Agustín, y principalmente desde Martín Lutero y la Reforma, se hayan escrito centenares de libros sobre él.

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

This book, based on extensive original research in the field, analyses the political, social and cultural implications of the rise of Islam in post-Soviet Russia.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

Religions and Sports: The Basics introduces the many connections and interactions between religions and sporting activities.

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was one of the world's last great polymaths and one of the most important Christian thinkers of his time, engaging the world with a simplicity, sincerity, courage, and passion that few have matched.

Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity.

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First published in 1923, Anger presents some considerations of anger where it comes close to conduct and religion.

This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China.

'No better way could have been found to mark the end of the long unchallenged reign of Cranmer's Prayer Book than Dr Cuming's superb charting of its history.

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.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St.

They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations.

This book posits that along with holy icons, pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture.

All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified.