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Ethnicity, race, religion : identities and ideologies in early jewish and chr…
Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of identity that have become increasingly contested. The modern discipline of biblical studies developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume deal both with historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, in particular in relation to the identities of Jew…
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- 9780567677310
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- IX, 241 p.
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- 270.1089 ETH e
Reformist muslims in a Yogyakarta Village : the Islamic transformation of con…
This study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers’ construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the ‘good Muslim’ and ‘Muslim-ness’, on their efforts to incorporate an (reformist) Islamic framework to question taken-for-granted practices and ideas, on the position of tradit…
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- 9781920942359
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- XVIII, 295 p.
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- 297.448 KIM r
Medicine – religion – spirituality : global perspectives on traditional, …
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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- 9783839445822
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- 274 p.
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- Religionswissenschaft, 13
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- 201.661 MED m
The role and meaning of religion for Korean society
This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious…
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- 9783038978893
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- 1 online resource
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- 200.9519 LEE t
Shrines in Africa: history, politics, and society
In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies. Shrines are physical manifestatio…
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- 9781552385449
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- 1 online resource (XV11, 210 pages)
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- Africa: missing voices series, no. 5
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- 200.96 DAW s
Open access in theory and practice: the theory-practice relationship and open…
"Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes “theory”, and how th…
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- 9780429276842
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- xii, 244p.: ill.
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- 286.063 PIN o
Early readers, scholars and editors of the new testament : papers from the Ei…
The study of the New Testament text is far broader than the reconstruction of its earliest attainable wording. As historical artefacts, manuscripts preserve information about the context in which they were produced and their use in subsequent generations, as well as pointing back towards an earlier stage in the transmission process. References made by Christian authors to the textual culture of…
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- 9781463204112
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- xiv, 217 p.
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- 225.4046 EAR e
Current trends in new testament study
This book focuses on seven of the most important formal methods used to interpret the New Testament today. Several of the chapters also touch on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible interpretation. In line with the multiplicity of methods for interpretation of texts in the humanities in general, New Testament study has never before seen so many different methods. This situation poses both opportunities a…
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- 9783039280278
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- VII, 147 p.
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- 200 CUR c
Ancient worlds in digital culture
Abstract The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the “Biblical Studies” in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century.
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- 9789004325234
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- 318 p.; 23 cm.
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- 220.0285
Charting spiritual care : the emerging role of chaplaincy records in global h…
This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and expe…
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- 9783030470708
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- xv, 232p. : ill.
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- 259.4 CHA c
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