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  • Representing Religion in Film
    This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include The Last Jedi, Terminator, Cloud Atlas, Darjeeling Limited, Hellboy, The Revenant, Religulous, and The Secret of my Success. Each chapter offers: - an explana...
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    115,03 €

  • Theologies from the Pacific
    Jione Havea
    This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters. The first, Roots, explores the many roots from which theologies in and of Pasifika grow - sea and (is)land, Christian teachings and scriptures, native traditions and island ways. The second, Reads, presents theolo...
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    173,44 €

  • 100 Questions and Answers about Sikh Americans
    Michigan State School of Journalism
    Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world. It is a young religion, having been founded in 1469. It has been in the United States for almost 150 years, but is still relatively unknown. Perhaps you have seen someone wearing a turban in public or seen Sikhs mentioned in the news and wondered who they were. Maybe your neighbor, coworker or friend is Sikh, and you want to l...
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    17,53 €

  • An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism
    Richard H. Jones
    A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach mystical experiences and mysticism. It discusses the problem of definitions of 'my...
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    41,86 €

  • Sacred and Secular
    Donald A. Crosby
    Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.The sacred and the secular-or religion and secularity-differ from one another in many ways, but they must also frequently interact with and can instruct and benefit one another in today’s world. This is especiall...
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    41,01 €

  • Towards an Ecumenical Metaphysics, Volume 2
    Antoine Arjakovsky
    Is there a connection between the systemic crisis of globalization and the current 'winter' of the ecumenical movement? Conversely, can radical quests for meaning (sometimes transformed into fundamentalist movements) constitute the basis for a spiritual, political, and intellectual renewal of contemporary societies, if understood through an ecumenical metaphysics?     In this s...
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    28,68 €

  • Truths Be Told
    Lindsay Tillery
    Truth tends to be more of an opinion in our current lives. If we call it, 'My truth,' then it must be true, right? Politely, I set my opinion aside and used content from the Bible and doctrine in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Knowing truth from the Mormon religion and from Biblical Christianity is foundationally paramount to know what is accurate or if 'truth...
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    16,47 €

  • Are We Together?
    Eduardo J Echeverria
    Are Roman Catholics and Evangelical Protestants really together, united in a common faith in Jesus Christ? Yes, according to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). No, according to some Evangelical Protestants, such as Francis A. Schaeffer and R. C. Sproul, and more recently Gregg Allison and Leonardo De Chirico.Author Eduardo Echeverria is a committed Roman C...
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    27,45 €

  • The Books of the Bible
    David Alouidor
    God used to talk to the prophets before. Now He talks to us by His words. Let us follow His words by learning them, practicing them in our lives. ...
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    14,93 €

  • Intersections of Religion and Astronomy
    This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about 'the heavens' shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. ...
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    73,28 €

  • Contemporary Spiritualities
    Nicola Pannofino / Stefania Palmisano
    This book argues, therefore, that spirituality in the 21st Century actually shares many of the same characteristics as Classical, Mediaeval, Renaissance and Modern spiritualities. It is neither entirely new, nor is it clearly alternative to more established religions. ...
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    73,56 €

  • Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic
    This volume tests and contests the claim that the Global Ethic’s ethical directives can be found in the world’s religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. ...
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    73,16 €

  • Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts
    Caroline Blyth
    Spirit Possession and Communication in Religious and Cultural Contexts explores the phenomenon of spirit possession, focusing on the religious and cultural functions it serves as a means of communication. ...
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    73,40 €

  • The Hidden 'God'
    Peter Baekelmans
    'Theology' means 'discourse about god.' Christian theology is a reflection on the Christian faith in which God takes a central place. Therefore, the Christian theology of other religions seeks to understand if and how 'God' as Christians call their experience of Him may be present in the thought, devotion, and ritual of those other religions. Christian theology of Buddhism is t...
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    22,51 €

  • Finding Messiah
    Jennifer M Rosner / Jennifer M. Rosner
    As a person raised in a Jewish home and who continues to live a Jewish life, scholar of Jewish-Christian relations Jennifer Rosner takes us on a personal and corporate journey into the Jewish roots of Christian practice and faith. Rediscover the Jewish Jesus, and in doing so, experience a deeper and richer faith than ever before. ...
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    18,73 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
    The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their sustai...
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    302,93 €

  • Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present
    This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields...
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    195,04 €

  • An Introduction to Early Buddhist Soteriology
    G. A. Somaratne
    The book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original Pāli scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. It interprets the early Buddhist soteriology critically and sympathetically by interweaving the Buddhological and the Buddhistic debates on understanding the Buddha’s original teaching on bondage, liberation, liberated ones, ...
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    156,63 €

  • The Protests of Job
    Sajjad Rizvi / Scott A. Davison / Shira Weiss
    This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions. Shira Weiss examines how challenges to divine justice are understood from a Jewish theological perspective, including the pro-protest and anti-protest traditions within rabbinic literature, in an effort to explicate the ambiguous biblical text a...
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    59,27 €

  • Ecumenical Perspectives Five Hundred Years After Luther’s Reformation
    This book offers ecumenical essays that focus on Reformation Christianity and on current Lutheran-Catholic understandings and relationships. It addresses important issues, including the meaning of the Reformation, the reception of Luther in Germany and beyond, contemporary ecumenical dialogues, and pathways to the future. There is also some inclusion of Jewish and Orthodox trad...
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    207,66 €

  • Religious Hair Display and Its Meanings
    Jr William C. Innes
    This book explores the fascinating world of religious hair observances within six religious traditions that account for 77% of the world’s adherents: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. Symbolic use of hair has been, and remains, prevalent in all six and carries significant amounts of religious and social meaning. Hair is a unique body substance. It c...
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    99,39 €

  • Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal
    Victor A. van Bijlert
    This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early Nineteenth Century. ...
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    73,23 €

  • Transforming Bodies and Religions
    This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on ’transforming bodies’: bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe. ...
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    73,28 €

  • Religion in the Age of Digitalization
    This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. ...
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    73,46 €

  • Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing
    Sharada Sugirtharajah
    This book explores　the theme of　happiness and　well-being　from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic and health perspectives.　 ...
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    241,00 €

  • The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism
    Mario Ferrero
    This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or...
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    120,68 €

  • The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism
    Mario Ferrero
    This book sheds new light on the evolution and transformation of polytheistic religions. By applying economic models to the study of religious history and by viewing religious events as the result of rational choices under given environmental constraints, it offers a political economy perspective for the study of Indo-European polytheism. The book formally models the rivalry or...
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    48,26 €

  • Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue
    Michael H. Mitias
    Is dialogue between the major religions of the world possible? If it is possible, under what conditions? In this book, Michael H. Mitias argues that it is possible provided various conditions are met. These conditions include mutual respect, mutual understanding, and God-centeredness. First, how can a religion that is unusually complex­-composed of a doctrine founded in a uniqu...
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    146,87 €

  • Turkish Jews and their Diasporas
     This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish communities during the dissolution of the empire and their emigration to America, Europ...
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    171,48 €

  • Authoritarianism, Informal Law, and Legal Hybridity
    Ihsan Yilmaz
    This book investigates Turkey’s departure from a ’flawed democracy’ under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoğanism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity. In doing so, it examines the attempts of Turkey’s ruling party (AKP) at social engineering and gradual Islamisation of the Turkish state and society,...
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    144,64 €


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