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‘When your grandpa was in hospital, he asked me one night to promise him that, when he had gone from us, I would teach you Islam – our Islam: the Islam I grew up with … In that dark, impersonal room, he was thinking of you.’ This is why one father began to teach his...
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Polity
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2023-06-13
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In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China. Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches, anthropologist Adam Yuet Chau's vivid study explores how religion is embedded in contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-12
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China Today
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In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the ?Sinai Schema?. At the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-11-12
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Leading theologian Graham Ward presents a stimulating series of reflections on Christ and contemporary culture. Takes as its starting point Niebuhr’s famous volume on ‘Christ and Culture’ published in the 1970s Explores representations of Christ from sources as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-11-04
Collection :
Challenges in Contemporary Theology
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In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from...
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Polity
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2015-08-20
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The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions ? Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? are shaping our world more than ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of...
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Polity
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2015-02-13
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In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians,...
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Polity
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2014-02-18
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture provides readers with a concise, readable and scholarly introduction to twenty-first century approaches to the Bible. Consists of 30 articles written by distinguished specialists from around the world Draws on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Nature, Technology and the Sacred ‘This book will be an obligatory reference point for those wishing to locate the contemporary debates about how we should live with technology and nature within the longer scope of Western history.’ Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilian...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-04-15
Collection :
Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World
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Occupational choice is the subject of the first section of this work. The remaining parts deal with the reasons patients avail themselves of the services of the faith healer, as well as the motivations for becoming a faith healer. Published in English.
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
1972-01-01
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