The literature that explores the compatibility of Islam and human rights is torn between one approach that focuses on reinterpreting Islamic scripture and another that concentrates on reconfiguring Muslim sensibility.
The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford, Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as one of the foremost Biblical scholars of his time.
In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a co-redeemer alongside her son.
This comprehensive textbook synthesizes the latest research on Scotland from 1560 to 1745, exploring political, social, cultural, religious, and economic themes through sixteen accessible essays that place Scottish history in British, imperial, and global contexts.
Shedding new light on sectarianism outside the confines of Pakistan's sociopolitical context, this novel book recontextualizes religious sectarianism in the country by studying it as a cultural and historical phenomenon.
As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence.
A l'heure ou la crise ecologique revele une fracture profonde du rapport de l'homme au monde, Ecologie et foi propose un itineraire de conversion ecologique a la lumiere de l'encyclique Laudato Si'.
The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions.
The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions.
Dans un contexte de crispations identitaires et de montee des communautarismes religieux et politiques, les droits universels des femmes subissent un mouvement de recul preoccupant.
Shedding new light on sectarianism outside the confines of Pakistan's sociopolitical context, this novel book recontextualizes religious sectarianism in the country by studying it as a cultural and historical phenomenon.
Uno de los aspectos menos conocidos del Concilio Vaticano II fue la reacción de sectores católicos mexicanos contra sus reformas: innovaciones litúrgicas, apertura al ecumenismo, libertad religiosa, colegialidad y diálogo con el mundo moderno.
La existencia de los ángeles custodios es una verdad de fe continuamente profesada por la Iglesia, que forma parte desde siempre del tesoro de piedad y de doctrina del pueblo cristiano.
Trinidad para ateos invita a explorar el misterio de la Trinidad desde una perspectiva de dialogo abierto, capaz de interpelar tanto a creyentes como a no creyentes.
This comprehensive textbook synthesizes the latest research on Scotland from 1560 to 1745, exploring political, social, cultural, religious, and economic themes through sixteen accessible essays that place Scottish history in British, imperial, and global contexts.
This volume explores Pentecostalism's multifaceted nature in Africa, examining its dialectical engagements, dynamic expressions, and transformative potential across the continent's spiritual, social, and political landscapes in postcolonial contexts.
The book of Job and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland may not seem like natural bedfellows at first, but both have become literary classics by lifting a voice of protest against injustice.
Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "e;the true teacher"e;, pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist.
There is a kind of knowledge that is non-propositional; one variety of it can be acquired in second-person experience of another person, but it can also be transmitted through narratives.
As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence.
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier.
On croit souvent que la spiritualite ou, du moins, son expression publique et ses formes les plus flamboyantes sont l'apanage des hommes, de ces grands maitres reconnus qui ont eu, litteralement et metaphoriquement, voix au chapitre .
No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
The epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it Over several decades beginning in 1620, tens of thousands of devout English colonists known as Puritans came to America.
