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History and religion: narrating a religious past
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. From different disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore how religions are historicised. In so doing, they address the biases and elisions of current analytical and des…
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- 9783110445954
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- 471 p.; 22 cm.
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- 201.69 HIS h
Freshwater governance for the 21st century
The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise …
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- 9783319433509
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- xxvii, 250p. : ill.
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- 343.0924 FRE f
Socrates, or on human knowledge. Bilingual edition
Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire kno…
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- 9783110557602
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- Studies and Texts in Scepticism, 8
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- 296.09 SOC s
Dignity in the 21st century : Middle East and West
This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and West). As a result, the interpretations of dignity cove…
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- 9783319580203
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- xiii, 101p. : ill.
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- 179.9 SCH d
Missional leadership
The purpose and aim of this book is to develop an appropriate leadership model for missional churches. This implies a positioning of this book within the broader theology of mission and a consensus on the theology of the Missio Dei, originating at the 1952 conference of the International Missionary Council in Willingen, Germany. In this approach to the theology of mission, mission is understood…
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- 9781928523062
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- XIX, 242 p.
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- HTS Religion & Society Series
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- 253.2 NIE m
Housing market dynamics in Africa
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surroun…
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- 9781137597922
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- xviii, 272p. : ill
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- 330.91732 BAH h
Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the comple…
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- 9781781381878
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- xi, 241 p.; 22 cm.
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- 821.09928709415 COL c
American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia : US foreign policy…
The authors of this book challenge the view that was current among many people in the Netherlands during the period 1945-1949 that the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian Republic's struggle for independence. The same myth of America's political endorsement of Indonesians' quest for independence continues to reverberate in the United States itsel…
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- 9789053564790
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- 382 p.
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- American Studies
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- 327.73059809041 BRO a
Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy : a contextual approach t…
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy. In the last four centuries BC, Italy went through immense changes. The Apennine and Adriatic areas were originally inhabited by various 'Italic' tribes and characterised by a specific non-urban societal organisation, in which cult places had a pivotal function. From the fourth century BC onw…
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- 9789089641779
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- X. 263 p.
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- 939.01 STE c
Delusions in context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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- xi, 121p. : ill.
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- 616.89 DEL d
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