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Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb : foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity /
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Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of "modernity" as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical consciousness and the sciences, utopian tradition, the legal status of the Jews in Christian political tradition and in Jewish political thought, aesthetic concepts of the body and conversion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index. :
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Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation /
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This book redefines the debate on Africa's future by confronting the hidden continuities of colonial power that persist in economics, education, and governance. By revealing how structural dependency and epistemic subjugation still constrain the continent's autonomy, this book advocates for a radical reorientation toward self-determination grounded in African values, knowledge systems, and collective agency. The author engages both historical depth and contemporary urgency, offering a visionary blueprint for rebuilding Africa through decolonial thought, ethical leadership, and continental solidarity. Scholarly, provocative, and transformative, the book positions Africa not as a subject of history, but as its author.
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1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004760967
Religion and class in America : culture, history, and politics /
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Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking inches This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and symbolic, individual and corporate. Religion and Class in America examines the myriad ways in which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion.
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9789047424734 :
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Literature and the encounter with immanence /
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In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza's most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: "We do not know what a body can do." A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa .
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1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) :
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9789004311930 :
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The letter of Mara bar Sarapion in context : proceedings of the symposium held at Utrecht University, 10-12 December 2009 /
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The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion to his son - preserved in a single Syriac manuscript (7th. century CE) - still speaks to its readers, evocatively depicting the dramatic situation of a nobleman imprisoned after the Roman capture of Samosata, capital of Commagene. The letter is best known today for a passage on the "wise king of the Jews," which may be one of the earliest pagan testimonies concerning Jesus Christ. Ongoing controversy over the letter's date, nature, and purpose has, however, led to the widespread neglect of this intriguing document. In the present volume, Merz and Tieleman have brought together cutting-edge research from an interdisciplinary team of leading experts that significantly advances our appreciation of the letter and its historical context.
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1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
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9789004233010 :
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Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2018
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The Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed annual that covers Chinese Christianity in the areas of Biblical Studies, Church History, Systematic Theology, Practical Theology, and Comparative Religions. It offers genuine Chinese theological research previously unavailable in English, by top scholars in the study of Christianity in China. The 2018 volume highlights the five-disciplines of Jingjiao theology and its guest editors are Prof. Xiaofeng Tang from China Academy of Social Sciences and Donghua Zhu from Tsinghua University. Further contributions are from: Paulos Huang and Donghua Zhu, David Tam, Chengyong Ge, Daniel Yeung, Melville Stewart, Mar Aprem Metropolitan, Xiaofeng Tang and Yingying Zhang, Fuxue Yang and Wenjing Xue, Donald Wang, Xiaoping Yin, Zhu Li-Layec, Lanping Wang and Qiaosui Zhang.
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9789004384972 :
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Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology : Racial and Environmental Justice Concerns /
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In Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology Crozier acknowledges, analyses, and constructs the civil and human rights leader's Christian thought and practice. Commonly known for her political activism, Hamer is presented as a religious thought leader whose embodiment of ideas and ideals helped to disrupt and transform the Jim Crow of the South within and beyond electoral politics. Through primary source documents of Hamer's oral history interviews, autobiographical writings, speeches, and multimedia publications on or about her life and legacy, Crozier allows Hamer to have her say on racial and environmental justice concerns. Crozier introduces Hamer as a revolutionary practical theologian who resided on the margins of the church, academy, and society.
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9789004438071
9789004431454
L'institution philosophique française et la Renaissance : l'époque de Victor Cousin /
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Au cours du XIX e siècle, l'histoire de la philosophie s'est imposée comme une discipline centrale dans l'institution philosophique française. Ce processus reposait sur l'influence intellectuelle et politique exercée par Victor Cousin (1792-1867); il a coïncidé avec l'élaboration d'un schéma interprétatif conférant à la Renaissance, en tant qu'époque philosophique, un statut controversé, caractérisé par l'infériorité conceptuelle. L'ouvrage éclaire les enjeux idéologiques des débats sur la Renaissance dans la France du XIX e siècle. Il propose une approche globale des reconstructions érudites et des utilisations polémiques de la Renaissance centrée sur une relecture politique de la pratique historiographique, ainsi que sur ses réseaux personnels, académiques et transnationaux. During the nineteenth century, the history of philosophy established itself in France as a central discipline within the academic institutions. This process, which rested on the intellectual and political influence of Victor Cousin (1792-1867), coincided with the development of an interpretative scheme that gave the Renaissance as philosophical epoch a controversial status characterized by conceptual inferiority. This volume sheds light on the ideological implications of the debates on the Renaissance in nineteenth-century France. It offers a comprehensive approach to the scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of the Renaissance by developing a political and transnational rereading of the nineteenth-century French practices of the history of philosophy.
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Cet ouvrage propose une approche globale des reconstructions érudites et des utilisations polémiques de la philosophie de la Renaissance dans la France du XIXe siècle en centrant l'attention sur une relecture politique de la pratique historiographique à l'époque de Victor Cousin.This book offers a comprehensive approach to scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of Renaissance philosophy in nineteenth-century France by focusing on the political implications of historiographical practice in Victor Cousin's time. :
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9789004510340
Judaism in late antiquity.
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This collection of systematic Auseinandersetzungen articulates difference and spells out what is at issue. Learning atrophies when political consensus substitutes for criticism, and when other than broadly-accepted viewpoints, approaches, and readings find a hearing only with difficulty, if at all. The editors therefore have invited colleagues systematically to outline their views in an Auseinandersetzung with contrary ones. The several participants explain how, in broad and sweeping terms, they see the state of learning in their areas of special interest. The editors invited leading players in the USA, Europe, and the State of Israel, in the study of ancient Judaism, both in Second Temple Times and after 70 C.E. The work commences with a thoroughly fresh perspective of a theoretical question: what, in a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy, can we possibly mean by \'law\' when we speak of law in Judaism. It then proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea library. The two papers in the present part provide an overview of matters and a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus, respectively. The next set of papers ought to stand as the definitive account of the diverse viewpoints on a basic question of method. Because of the willingness of contending parties to meet one another in a single frame of discourse, the work is able to portray with considerable breadth the presently-contending viewpoints concerning the use of Rabbinic literature for historical purposes. Then proceed a number of other accounts of how matters look from the perspective of major participants in scholarly debate. At the same time as the requirements of historical-critical reading of the Rabbinic literature precipitated sustained and vigorous debate, other problems have attracted attention. Among these a critical issue emerges in the hermeneutics to govern the reading of the documents for the purposes of other-than-historical study, feminist interests, for example.
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Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.
Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton. :
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004294059 :
0169-9423 ; :
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Mary Magdalene : Iconographic studies from the Middle ages to the Baroque /
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene's character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 3, 2012). :
1 online resource (453 pages) :
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9789004232242 :
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Treasures of knowledge : an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) /
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The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502-3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503-4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.
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9789004402508 :
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Countering the Global : Anti-Global Religion, Global Dissent and Multiple Globalisms /
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Most great religious traditions are global in scope, but they are often used to promote nationalist and isolationist ideas. Why do politicians in Poland and Lithuania stress the strong bond between the Catholic Church and the national identities? And how are ethno-religious conflicts expressed in Norway? In this book, you will find new data and new insights, providing explanations for these and other questions. Fascinating case studies from Europe and China are the basis for analyses on how global interconnectedness sparks both unity and conflict within religious spheres, demonstrating the interplay of local and global influences as well as the dynamics of glocalization. Contributors are: Milda Ališauskienė, Peter B. Andersen, Eileen Barker, Peter Beyer, Irena Borowik, Lisbet Christoffersen, Inger Furseth, Peter Gundelach, Annika Hvithamar, Massimo Introvigne, Hans Raun Iversen, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Niels Kærgaard, Pål Repstad, and Morten Warmind. Brill publications by Margit Warburg Books Citizens of the World. A History and Sociology of the Baha'is from a Globalisation Perspective (2006). ISBN 978 90 04 14373 9 (Hardback) / 978 90 47 40746 1 (E-Book). Published as Volume 106 in Numen Book Series Holy Nations and Global Identities. Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (2009) (Edited with Annika Hvithamar & Brian Jacobsen). ISBN 978 90 04 17828 1 (Hardback) / 978 90 47 44063 5 (E-Book). Published as Volume 10 in International Studies in Religion and Society Book chapters & journal articles "Globalization, Migration and the Two Types of Religious Boundary: A European Perspective." In: Peter Beyer & Lori Beaman (Eds.), Religion, Globalization and Culture (2007), pp. 79-99. ISBN 978 90 04 15407 0 (Paperback) / 978 90 47 42271 6 (E-Book). Published as Volume 6 in International Studies in Religion and Society . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004154070.i-608.34 "Introducing Civil Religion, Nationalism and Globalisation." (With Annika Hvithamar) In: Annika Hvithamar, Brian Jacobsen & Margit Warburg (Eds.), Holy Nations and Global Identities. Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (2009), pp. 1-17. ISBN 978 90 04 17828 1 (Hardback) / 978 90 47 44063 5 (E-Book). Published as Volume 10 in International Studies in Religion and Society . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004178281.i-310.3 "Transnational Civil Religion: The Fourth of July in Denmark." In: Annika Hvithamar, Brian Jacobsen & Margit Warburg (Eds.), Holy Nations and Global Identities. Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation (2009), pp. 271-293. ISBN 978 90 04 17828 1 (Hardback) / 978 90 47 44063 5 (E-Book). Published as Volume 10 in International Studies in Religion and Society . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004178281.i-310.106 "Baha'is of Iran: Power, Prejudices and Persecutions." In: Anh Nga Longva & Anne Sofie Roald (Eds.), Religious Minorities in the Middle East. Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation (2012), pp. 195-218. ISBN 978 90 04 20742 4 (Hardback) / 978 90 04 29044 0 (Paperback) / 978 90 04 21684 6 (E-Book). Published as Volume 108 in Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004216846_010 "The Baha'is of the North." In: James R. Lewis & Inga Bårdsen Tøllefsen (Eds.), Handbook of Nordic New Religions (2015), pp. 77-92. ISBN 978 90 04 29244 4 (Hardback) / 978 90 04 29246 8 (E-Book). Published as Volume 11 in Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004292468_006 "By Grace: Recognition of Religious Minority Associations in Denmark from the Reformation until 2018." In: Journal of Religion in Europe 12(4): 353-383 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-01204001 "Pros and Cons in Multidisciplinary Research on Religion." In: Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon & Anna-Sara Lind (Eds.), Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion: Methodological, Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges (2024), pp. 84-101. ISBN 978 90 04 67780 7 (Hardback) / 978 90 04 67779 1 (E-Book). Published as Volume 36 in International Studies in Religion and Society . Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677791_008
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1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004719064
Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world /
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The volume represents the seventh in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. It comprises a collection of essays on the significance and working of memory in ancient texts and visual documentation, from contexts both oral (or oral-derived) and literate. The authors discuss a variety of interpretations of 'memory' in Homeric epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, historical inscriptions, oratory, and philosophy, as well as in the replication of ancient artworks, and in Greek vase inscriptions. They present therefore a wide-ranging analysis of memory as a fundamental faculty underlying the production and reception of texts and material documentation in a society that gradually moved from an essentially oral to an essentially literate culture.
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9789047433842 :
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The Jews in Calabria /
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This volume of the Documentary History of the Jews in Italy illustrates the history of the Jews in Calabria from the end of the fourth century, where the first archaeological evidence of their presence appears, to 1541. Between the fourth and tenth centuries, there is a gap in the evidence while the first documentary records appear in the eleventh century, dating from Norman times. The Normans were succeeded by the Hohenstaufen, who were subsequently replaced by the Angevins and, in 1438, by the Aragonese. Under the Aragonese the Jewish community grew and flourished, reinforced by refugees from the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily. It was at that point that the Jewish population of Calabria reached its maximum expansion and there was a Jewish presence in most townships and many villages until their expulsion by Emperor Charles V in 1540. The documents in this volume describe the political, economic, and social aspects of Jewish life in Calabria primarily between 1438 and 1540. The documents are preceded by an introduction, outlining the history of the Jews in Calabria and have been furnished with summaries and references, providing a useful tool for further research. In addition a bibliography, list of sources, abbreviations, and indices are included.
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Description based upon print version of record. :
1 online resource (x, 700 pages) :
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9789004234123 :
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Continued Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization, Volume II : The G20 Interfaith Forum During Unsettled Times (2018-2023) /
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If you are worried about the future of the earth and her inhabitants, then this book is for you. Authors from East and West document collaborative efforts that identify diverse faith-based ethical responses to global challenges. The history of this cosmopolitan fragile partnership with governments illuminates a positive pathway that affirms human rights and promotes sustainable solutions. We employ a new interfaith model built on the political philosophy of loyal opposition to demonstrate an openness to dissent and diversity as a way of cultivating trust. Contentious issues are addressed from climate change and geopolitics to human rights and religious freedom.
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1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004734470
The Khōjā of Tanzania : discontinuities of a postcolonial religious identity /
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The Khōjā of Tanzania, Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity (jamatī) from their initial Indic caste identity (jñāti) towards an emergent Near Eastern imaged Islamic nation (ummatī) through four disciplinary approaches: historiography, politics, linguistics, and ethnology. Over the past two centuries, rapid transitions and discontinuities have produced the profound tensions which have resulted from the willful amnesia of their pre-Islamic Indic civilizational past for an ideological and politicized 'Islamic' present. This study aims to document, theorize, and engage this theological transformation of modern Khōjā religious identities as expressed through dimensions of power, language, space, and the body.
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1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) :
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9789004292888 :
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Moral pressure for responsible globalization : religious diplomacy in the age of the Anthropocene /
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In Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization , Sherrie M. Steiner offers an account of religious diplomacy with the G8, G7 and G20 to evoke new possibilities in an effort to influence globalization to become more equitable and sustainable. Commonly portrayed as 'out of control', globalization is considered here as a political process that can be redirected to avoid the tragedy of the global commons. The secularization tradition of religion depicts faith-based public engagement as dangerous. Making use of historical materials from faith-based G-plus System shadow summits (2005-2017), Steiner provides ample information to arrive at an interpretation that significantly differs from traditional accounts. Using broader scope conditions, Steiner considers how human induced environmental changes contribute to religious resurgence under conditions of weakening nation states.
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1 online resource (384 pages) :
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9789004365018 :
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The Reception of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Britain : East Comes West /
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In exploring 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visits to Britain, Brendan McNamara expands the jigsaw of our knowledge of how "the east came west". More importantly, by exploring the visits through the motives of those that received him, The Reception of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West demonstrates that the "cultic milieu" thesis is incomplete. Focusing on a number of well-known Edwardian Protestant reformers, the book demonstrates that the arrival of eastern forms of religions in Britain penetrated more mainstream Christian forms. This process is set within significant developments in the early formation of the study of religions, the rise of science and orientalism. All these elements are shown to be linked together. Significantly the work argues that the advent of World War One changed the direction of new forms of religion leading to a 'forgetfulness' that has lasted until the present time.
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9789004440357
9789004440104
Pathways for Theology in Peacebuilding : Ecumenical Approaches to Just Peace /
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The ambivalent role of religions in contemporary conflicts has generated an increasing call for faith-based peacebuilding endeavours. In Pathways for Theology in Peacebuilding: Ecumenical Approaches to Just Peace, Sara Gehlin discusses the ways theology can provide essential resources for such peacebuilding pursuits. The pathways for theology in peacebuilding are investigated with regard to a recent faith-based peace endeavour, namely the creation of an international ecumenical declaration on just peace. In the book, Gehlin explores the meaning of a just peace from the perspectives of theological ethics, biblical interpretation, spirituality, and ecumenical vision. On the basis of this exploration, the book maps out theological resources for peace in our time.
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9789004426993
9789004425354