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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…
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- 9789004496033
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- 444 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 115 Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 115
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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…
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- 9789004411890
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- 228 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Currents of Encounter, Volume: 59
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Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism
Religious pluralism is an important aspiration of contemporary societies, meaning that religious diversity is permitted and everyone has the freedom of religion or belief, or not to believe. The peaceful coexistence of people of a myriad of faiths is indispensable for securing peace in the modern era of political upheaval and economic dissonance. This book brings together a variety of religi…
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights, Volume: 16
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Enlightened Religion
The history of the relation between religion and Enlightenment has been virtually rewritten In recent decades. The idea of a fairly unidirectional ‘rise of paganism’, or ‘secularisation’, has been replaced by a much more variegated panorama of interlocking changes—not least in the nature of both religion and rationalism. This volume explores developments in various cultural fields—f…
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- 978-90-04-38939-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 297
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The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia = A Reconstructi…
This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to the spread of Judaism and Christianity across Arabia. The author attempts to reconst…
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- 9789004504271
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- 164 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume: 1
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The Politics of Multifaith = The Limits of Legible Religion in Europe
In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. From street protests to parliamentary debates, from Sweden to Spain, this book explores the impact of multi-faith spaces in Europe by critically examining the visions of religi…
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- 9789004714366
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Der Super-Imam: Zur Subjektivierung von Imamen in der Schweiz
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, wie Imame in der Schweiz mit den vielfältigen Anrufungen, Adressierungen, Zuschreibungen und Erwartungen in massenmedialen und politischen Debatten umgehen. Anhand einer empirischen Subjektivierungsanalyse wird die Machtwirkungen von Diskursen auf Selbst-Positionierungen von Imamen aufgezeigt. Herausgearbeitet wird, wie sich die spezifischen Debatten…
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- 978-3-658-47695-3
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- XV, 405
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The Manichaean Church in Kellis = Social Networks and Religious Identity in L…
The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the fourth century CE. Manichaeism has often been perceived as an elitist, esoteric religio…
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- 9789004459779
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- 368 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
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The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino = Italian Perspectives on Apocalypse …
In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino: Italian Perspectives on Apocalypse and Rebirth in the Modern Study of Religion, Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy’s most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino’s dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh pers…
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- 9789004457720
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- 216 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Numen Book Series,
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Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer
The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and tho…
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- Volume: 12
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- 978-90-04-50844-6
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