Religion and beliefs

The Oxford Handbook of the Pelagian Controversy delves into the heart of one of Christianity's earliest and most profound theological disputes.

In an age of relentless competition, self-branding, and growing social isolation, we face a pressing question: how can we stop seeing only ourselves and start seeing others?

School-based practitioners, like other front-line mental health workers, have been under increased pressure and stress as the demand for their services continues to increase.

The Dark Knight Devotionals: Finding Biblical Truth in the World of Batman is an exploration of principals found in both the Bible and in various stories featuring the World's Greatest Detective!

Employees are increasingly embracing the notion of "e;bringing their whole selves to work,"e; and many employers are encouraging them.

In many ways, the virtue of courage seems to be one of the most ubiquitous and simple virtues, and that apparent simplicity may result in courage garnering less attention than many other virtues.

Feminism is hated because women are hated Why do some women support Right-wing movements, even though they curtail their freedoms?

Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century.

In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos.

This book presents a novel approach to one of the most formidable challenges to theistic belief: the problem of evil.

Is Christianity really a white man's religion?

The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition.

Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive examination of Islamic reform movements and reformist thought across different regions and time periods.

Known since the Renaissance as the "e;Christian Cicero,"e; Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apologist, and theologian at the court of Emperor Constantine.

Unlike other works on Glastonbury Abbey, this book examines the lives and relationships of its monks, using methods such as quantitative and network analysis to extract substantial data from records between 900 and 1550.

Mindfulness is now a zeitgeist.

In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive examination of Islamic reform movements and reformist thought across different regions and time periods.

In 1875, in a small apartment in New York City, a handful of freemasons and spiritualists met in secret.

Atheism is a familiar kind of skepticism about religion.

No matter what your story is, God wants to heal you, make you whole, and call you into your true identity.

This book focuses on the development of Baptist views on religious liberty.

Wie die Vielzahl der Belege zeigt, kann Macht als ein zentrales Thema des Psalters benannt werden.

Thinking Clearly and Biblically about Eternity, Afterlife, and DeathDid you know that the original biblical languages use several words for heaven and hell that mean different things?

Contemplative practices are increasingly mainstream in the United States.

Experience a unique Bible reading experience pairing two faithful and trusted translations.

With religiously motivated violence on the rise, Simran Jeet Singh brings together global experts from inside and outside the Academy to explore one of the most critical questions of our time: how might we learn to share this planet with one another, including those who live and believe differently than we do?

'Until effaced no one can actuallyEnter the Court of Holy Majesty.

The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity.

The first edition of Africa Bible Commentary was a ground-breaking publishing event--the first one-volume Bible commentary produced in Africa by African theologians to meet the needs of African pastors, students, and lay leaders.

Learn how to read the Bible as literature and fall in love with God's Word.

The Unexpected Consequences of State Support for Religion: An Empirical Analysis of Christian-Majority addresses the consequences of one of the most basic decisions a government must make when dealing with religion: the decision to support a state religion or to provide separation of religion and state and religious freedom.

The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Din Lahiji: Sufi Metamorphosis offers a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and spiritual transformations that reshaped Persian Sufism during the late medieval period in Iran.

Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (17031762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Quran, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics.

Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions.

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"e;What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?

Anlässlich 40 Jahre "Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie" stellt dieser Band methodisch, fachtheologisch und interdisziplinär grundlegende Fragen bezüglich der Position und der Relevanz biblischer Theologie.

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions explores how magic disappears and miracle emerges in a series of texts featuring the apostle Peter.

This book is a long awaited update to the first major study of a Christian community which has developed an approach to faith and life which is different from all other churches.

Die Auslegung deutet das Evangelium im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Situation des Imperium Romanum und dessen geistigen und religiosen Stromungen als Zeugnis vom befreienden Handeln des Gottes Israels in seinem Sohn Jesus von Nazareth.

Religious violence remains an urgent problem for countries around the world.

How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow?

"e;What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?

Within contemporary Heathen communities, the Old English term "e;wyrd"e; is used to refer to the web of relations that connect all threads of existence.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

History teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them.

In dezidierter longue-durée-Perspektive untersucht die Studie erstmals systematisch, wie die Stadt Santiago de Compostela von romanischen Reisenden der Vormoderne wahrgenommen und beschrieben wurde.

Attention to lived religion has significantly shaped religious studies and has only recently impacted the field of Buddhism.