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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-27
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Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance. Under the Banner of Islam uses Turkey as a case study to understand how religious, ethnic, and national identities converge in ethnic...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-22
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The Church of Christ was, is and always will be undivided. However, disunity among Christians is a reality. While safeguarding the apostolic tradition in the first era of Christianity, Ephesians provides a remarkable history – more potent for ecumenism and internal...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Das Verhältnis von Religion und Gewalt ist ein wiederkehrendes Diskussionsthema. Anhand dieser Thematik versucht der Autor, den Kern der christlichen Botschaft herauszuarbeiten und als Heiligen Tausch (commercium sacrale) zu fassen, der wie kaum ein anderer Gedanke das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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This monograph demonstrates that the book of Deuteronomy is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Ezekiel. Likewise, it shows that the books of Joshua–Judges, taken together, are a result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Vorliegender Sammelband ist das Ergebnis der Forscher-Werkstatt Lebendiger Islam, welche 2019 an der Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen stattfand. Die AutorInnen gewähren Einblicke in Methoden und Ergebnisse ihrer mehrjährigen Studien, die vor allem muslimisches...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-01-21
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This book provides a multidisciplinary commentary on a wide range of religious traditions and their relationship to acts of violence. Hate and violence occur at every level of human interaction, as do peace and compassion. Scholars of religion have a particular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Medieval liturgical practice both expressed and helped shape habits of thought and imagination in ways which were deep and far-reaching, encompassing embodied, lived experience and the most sophisticated theological thought. This book argues that Dante, in common with...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Clergy have historically been represented as figures of authority, wielding great influence over our society. During certain periods of American history, members of the clergy were nearly ever-present in public life. But men and women of the clergy are not born that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-19
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Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite? In Faith in Numbers, political scientist Michael Hoffman presents a theory of religion, group interest, and democracy. Focusing on communal religion, he demonstrates that the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-18
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The Neo-Assyrian empire -- the first large empire of the ancient world -- has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century.The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-18
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The Neo-Assyrian empire -- the first large empire of the ancient world -- has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century.The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-18
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Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-18
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Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-18
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On the 30th of March, 1699, the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh called together a special assembly at the Keshgarh Fort at Anandpur. Following the morning devotions, the Guru asked for a volunteer, saying, "The entire sangat is very dear to me; but is there a devoted Sikh who...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-14
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The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.This Handbook will serve as a necessary primer for everyone who wishes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.This Handbook will serve as a necessary primer for everyone who wishes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400 - 1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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