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[2018]
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1 online resource (xi, 247 pages)
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The speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique atlas presents a bird's-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China's...
2) Religion and secularity: transformations and transfers of religious discourses in Europe and Asia
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Pub. Date
2013
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1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) : illustrations
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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
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Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of "volunteer ministers" at disaster sites such as the World Trade Center; its notably aggressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiatry; its requirement that believers pay as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the highest levels of salvation. The author offers a full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that establishes...
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Dynamics in the history of religion volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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1 online resource (601 pages) : illustrations, map
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"Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative perspective that acknowldges individual developments, mutual exchanges, as well as transcultural processes"--Provided by publisher.
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From the publisher. Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. She presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles...
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This text provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek religion. While the focus is on Athens in the Classical Period, the book includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult from the archaic age to the Hellenistic world. The book clearly sets out the fascinating but alien concepts of Greek polytheism, building up a picture of Greek religion as it was actually practiced. It emphasizes...
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world volume 173
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 electronic resource (xiii, 593 pages ).
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Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than mutually exclusive manner. From this perspective the six chapters explore problems inherent in: order vs. variety/chaos in polytheism, arbitrariness vs....
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Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften volume n.F., Bd. 115/21
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2007
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1 online resource (219 pages).
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Hauptbeschreibung Der vorliegende Band der Studien zur Entwicklung der ökonomischen Theorie vereinigt die überarbeiteten Referate der 24. Tagung des Dogmenhistorischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik an der Universität Oldenburg, die sich mit dem Verhältnis von Ökonomie und Religion auseinandersetzte. Während die moderne Wachstumstheorie lange Zeit die Rolle sogenannter ""weicher"" Faktoren vernachlässigte, haben u. a. das...
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Ancient languages and civilizations volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022].
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1 online resource (xiv, 150 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
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"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 reconstruct this world using the original words of its inhabitants,...
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Illustrated in colour, this is an introduction for the general reader to Egyptian mythology and its mysteries. It includes a concise introduction to general aspects of Egyptian religion, followed by specific sections devoted to the most important of the gods. With sections on personal religion and temple ceremony, there are also accounts of mythological stories associated with the gods, and a map of the principle cult centres.
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[2014]
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1 electronic resource (xxv, 479 pages).
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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of "religion" in in the modern era; the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism; and the evolution of the academic discipline of religious studies in Japan.
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[2017]
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1 online resource (425 pages).
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This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, but he also goes beyond that, showing how in recent decades the Chinese state has tightened its control over religion to an unprecedented degree. Indeed, it could almost be...
17) The four loves
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Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. He explores the possibilities and problems of the love between parents and children; the love of men for other men and women for women; the love...
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Radboud studies in humanities volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
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1 online resource
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Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India.
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2015
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1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
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Religions of foreign origin have shaped Chinese cultural history much stronger than generally assumed and continue to have impact on Chinese society in varying regional degrees. The essays collected in the present volume put a special emphasis on these "foreign" and less familiar aspects of Chinese religion. Apart from an introductory article on Daoism (the prototypical autochthonous religion of China), the volume reflects China's encounter with religions...
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Dynamics in the history of religion volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (vii, 373 pages)
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This collection of articles is an innovative contribution to religious studies, because it picks up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn". Religions are always located in a certain cultural and spatial environment, but often tend to locate (or translocate) themselves beyond that original setting. Also, many religious traditions are not only tied to or associated with the area its respective adherent live in, but are in fact...





