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From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs : Changing Concepts of xin 信 from T…
What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?
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- 978-90-04-53300-4
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- Religion in Chinese Societies, Volume: 19
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Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia: User-led Research and Untold Stories
This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the brain, body, and lived experience, including experience of Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Semantic Dementia…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783031272233, 9783031272226
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- 146
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- 611.8 CHA c
From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Sche…
This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts, archival history, and the story of the…
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- 978-90-04-71233-1
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- xiv, 303
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- Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, Volume: 99/16
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From Small Places : Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right
From Small Places: Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right brings together history, theory, research, and practices that can lead to the realization of this right, both in itself, and as a means of achieving other rights. The premise of this book is that this right begins early in life within small places across the world. This idea originates from the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, C…
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- 978-94-6300-136-6
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- 258 pp.
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Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 12 (2005-2006)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. This is the first publication of its kind edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. The Asian Yearbook of International Law provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law, and…
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- Volume: 12
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- 978-90-47-42390-4
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Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 11 (2003-2004)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. This is a special publication of its kind edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. The Asian Yearbook of International Law provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law, and…
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- Volume: 11
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- 978-90-47-41830-6
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Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 10 (2001-2002)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. This is a special publication of its kind edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. The Asian Yearbook of International Law provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law, and…
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- Volume: 10
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- 978-90-47-40825-3
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Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900: New Approaches to Reci…
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also re-evaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to …
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- Volume: 14
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- 978-90-04-46617-3
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Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-…
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal factor. Modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. The various chapter…
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- Volume: 295
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- 978-90-04-28072-4
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Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within exi…
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- Volume: 66
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- 978-90-04-50682-4
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