A Wise and Discerning Mind

This is an edited volume of essays dealing with the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment.

100 Years of African Missions: Essays in Honor of Wendell Broom

The wide-ranging essay collection is organized into four main sections. Section I introduces Wendell Broom. Secton II is "God's Call to a Continent: People and Places." Section III is "Mission Strategies and Issues." Section IV, is entitled "Concluding Thoughts" and shares some concluding thoughts on the future of African missions and the African church. The final chapter offers a speech by Wen…

(Re)Making a Difference: Journal for Religion, Film and Media

This article presents and discusses how mediatisation as a theory can be used to analyse two commercial videos, one promoting the organisation Catholics Come Home and the other Coca Cola. A core question in the current debate on mediatisation and religion concerns if and how mediatisation changes not only the social forms of communication about religion but also the meaning of religion in socie…

“What God has joined...” Editorial: Journal for Religion, Film and Media

What is marriage all about? How is it nowadays connected to religious traditions? This issue will search for answers.

„Individual Pieties“ und „Non-Pieties“: Dynamiken des religiösen Wan…

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"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion: Journal for…

In his controversial poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual. Bodies are our fundamental way of being – being in the here and now, being in time and space. Bodies we have and bodies we are are as much sensed, felt, experienced, seen, or heard as they are material objects.2 As bodies, we…

The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe = Migration and Integrat…

This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks seen in many other Western states. The authors provide a unique contribution to the literature on violent extremism – which has traditionally focused on countries such a…

The Halal Industry in Asia = Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, J…

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XXII, 420 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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What Caused the Big Bang?

This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…

Walking on the Pages of the Word of God : Self, Land, and Text Among Evangeli…

In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to “bless the Jewish people”. Relying on ethnographic data of the…