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This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison Busch draws on the perspectives of literary, social, and intellectual history to elucidate one of premodern India's most...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-09-02
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led and attended by Western (sometimes called "convert') Buddhists:...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-09-02
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Dante’s Deadly Sins is a unique study of the moral philosophy behindDante’s master work that considers the Commedia as he intended, namely, as a practical guide to moral betterment. Focusing on Inferno and Purgatorio, Belliotti examines the puzzles and paradoxes of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-09-02
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Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-01
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Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-01
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'At the very heart of God is the passionate disposition to be in loving fellowship with you... From the human side of this equation it is meditative prayer that ushers us into this divine-human fellowship.' Richard Foster, bestselling author of CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-09-01
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Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential...
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Springer
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2011-08-31
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Der Wert des menschlichen Lebens und seine Unantastbarkeit gründen auf dem einzigartigen Rang der menschlichen Person, der im Begriff der Menschwürde an der Spitze unserer Verfassung sowohl Bekenntnis als auch rechtliche Markierung darstellt. Auch die Kirche erklärt die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-30
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Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries. Contrary to widespread theories of increasing secularization, Stan and Turcescu argue that in most of these countries, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-08-29
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Diese mentalitätsgeschichtliche Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Vorstellungen und Bewertungen körperlicher Arbeit in der Spätantike und im frühen Mittelalter. Als Grundlage dient eine bisher in diesem Zusammenhang kaum beachtete Quellengattung: Die lateinische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Mark A. Noll presents a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day. Beginning with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist churches in the sixteenth-century Reformation, he also considers the rise...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-08-25
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Mark A. Noll presents a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day. Beginning with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist churches in the sixteenth-century Reformation, he also considers the rise...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-08-25
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Dieses Buch wurde als eine katholische integrale Ekklesiologie konzipiert. Der Autor vertritt die Meinung, dass die Wissenschaft von der Kirche nicht auf die Fundamentaltheologie allein zurückgeführt werden darf, sondern auch die Apologetik und Dogmatik mit einbeziehen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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This volume is a collection of historical and comparative essays, describing and analyzing Christian presence and progress in North-East Asia. The authors originate from China, Japan, Korea, Canada, the United States of America, and the Netherlands. The nineteen essays...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Mit dieser Gesamtdarstellung der Orthodoxie wird dem Leser die vielfältige Welt der orthodoxen Kirchen erschlossen. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden die Geschichte des Christentums im römisch-byzantinischen Reichsgebiet und die konfessionellen Abspaltungen. Dem historischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China. Instead of adopting the traditional focus on pre-modern religious history and doctrinal traditions, Chinese Religious Life examines...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-08-25
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A quest to find the most influential religious teacher in the ancient world: Zarathustra.IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. Long...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-08-25
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Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixth-century Christian writer, bridged Christianity and neo-Platonist philosophy. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume surveys how Dionysius’s thought and work has been interpreted, in both East and West,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-24
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Directions in Modern Theology
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