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Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran: Migsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah, Some of …
The text Miq?at Ma?a?e Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT), is one of the most interesting texts among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered near the settlement of Khirbet Qumran and its vicinity in the middle of the twentieth century and by now published in full. It is a writing in the form of a letter by an unknown author to an equally unknown addressee, written in second person…
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Obedience and Servant Leadership: Apollis, Appies, Buti, Buys
In celebrating a quarter of a century of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URSCA) (1994 2019), quite a few well-organised activities and events took place. These activities reflect a mix of serious academic seminars and liturgical celebrations of which the ones in the Cape, both in Belhar and at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) warrant special mention. In his sermon based …
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A Quest for True Islam: A Study of the Islamic Resurgence Movement among the …
This study presents the contemporary Islamic resurgence movement among young people in Bandung Indonesia, focusing on its emergence, development and routinisation. It traces various factors and conditions that contributed to the emergence of the movement. It also tries to explain how and why young people (students in particular) turn to Islam, and how the movement is organised and developed amo…
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Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch
In this critical exploration of the role of manuscripts in textual scholarship, Liv Ingeborg Lied studies the Syriac manuscript transmission of 2 Baruch. These manuscripts emerge as salient sources to the long life of 2 Baruch among Syriac speaking Christians, not merely witnesses to an early Jewish text. Inspired by the perspective of New Philology, Lied addresses manuscript materiality and pa…
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Religion and Secularity Transformations and Transfers of Religious Discourse…
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; Readership: Academics interested in religious history, conceptual history, world history of (early) modern times, and regional specialists in European, Near Eastern, South Asi…
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Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts
Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent laws of repression and codes of moral and ethical propriety have compelled artists to live and create with occupational hazards like uncertain audience response, self-censorshi…
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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, C…
In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglemen…
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Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.; Readership: All interested in processes of interaction between societies and inidividuals of different creeds and cultures:…
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Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World New Itineraries into the Sacred
The modern pilgrimage - to sites ranging from Elvis's Graceland to the Vietnam veterans' annual Ride to the Wall to Jim Morrison's Paris grave - is intertwined with our existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it is no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers - and this unique gli…
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