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Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
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- -
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- 9783030111113
- Collation
- XVII, 295p. : ill.
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- 232.91 ALL m
The Routledge handbook of religious literacy, pluralism, and global engagement
This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance." The growing religious diversity within societies around the world presents both challenges and opportunities. A degree of competition between deeply held religious/worldview perspectives is natural and inevitable, yet at the same time th…
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- 1
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- 9781003036555
- Collation
- xii + 456 p
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- -
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- 201.5 ROU t
Abrahamic reflections on randomness and providence
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolut…
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- 13
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- 9783030757977
- Collation
- xiv + 384
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- -
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- 231.5 ABR a
Heiligung bei Paulus : ein Beitrag aus biblisch-theologischer Sicht
Da die älteren Monographien zum Thema, die vor über vierzig Jahren erschienene Arbeit von Kurt Stalder und die unveröffentlichte Dissertation von Olav Hanssen, keinen Forschungsbericht enthalten1 und auch die neueren Beiträge zum Thema (mit Ausnahme von E. D. Schmidt)2 die Forschungsgeschichte nicht darstellen, sei diese hier in der gebotenen Kürze skizziert. Dabei ist eine thematis…
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- 1
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- 9783161527586
- Collation
- xx, 755p : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 234.8092 STE h
Exploring islamic social work : between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030958800
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- xii; 284 PG; ill.
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- Call Number
- 306.697 EXP e
Hizmet in Transitions : European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Mo…
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has inten…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030937980
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- xxi, 253 p.
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- Call Number
- 297.272 HIZ P
No Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030835828
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- xxxiii, 306 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 NOT L
EXPLORING ISLAMIC SOCIAL WORK : between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030958800
- Collation
- xii; 284p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.697 EXP A
No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030835828
- Collation
- xxxii, 306 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 ELA n
A History of Christianity in Indonesia
Indonesia is the home of the largest single Muslim community of the world. Its Christian community, about 10% of the population, has until now received no overall description in English. Through cooperation of 26 Indonesian and European scholars, Protestants and Catholics, a broad and balanced picture is given of its 24 million Christians. This book sketches the growth of Christianity during th…
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- -
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- 9789004170261
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- xvi, 1004 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 275.98 HIS a
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