Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2010

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• Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

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  • Editor Giuseppe Giordan
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  • The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism.

• The Aporia of Inner Sense

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  • Author: G. Green
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  • This work identifies Kant’s doctrine of inner sense as a central element within the ‘architectonic of pure reason’ of the first Critique, exposes its variant construals, and considers the implications of its problematicity for Kant’s theoretical philosophy most generally.

• Courageous Vulnerability

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  • Author: R. Slegers
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  • This work develops the ethical attitude of courageous vulnerability through the integration of the phenomenon of involuntary memory in Marcel Proust's work and a variety of closely related themes taken from the philosophies of Henri Bergson, William James, and Gabriel Marcel.

• Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts

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  • Author: H.-C. Günther
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  • Starting from some central texts of Horace's late poetry this book tries to offer a general picture of Horace's poetry, his political poetry and his relationship with his patrons in particular. It is aimed not only at classicists, but also at students of literature and history.

• The Embattled but Empowered Community

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  • Author: W. Wells Davies
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  • Based on extensive empirical research, and utilizing predominately Latin American scholarly literature, this book examines connections between Argentine popular and pentecostal worldviews. It proposes that there is a major connection between the two rooted in cosmological assumptions of spiritual power.

• Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood

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  • Author: U. Sill
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  • This book offers a detailed study of how the practices and notions of the Basel Mission regarding women and gender were received, conceptualised and negotiated in local terms in pre and early colonial Ghanaian societies, 1843-1885.

• The European Image of God and Man

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  • Editors Hans-Christian Günther; Andrea A. Robiglio
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  • The present volumes unites papers which explore the European image of god in an intercultural context. They range from classical antiquity to contemporary philosophy and science.

• Exploring the Postsecular

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  • Editors Arie Molendijk; Justin Beaumont; Christoph Jedan
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  • This book examines contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies from a theoretical perspective. Special attention is paid to those authors (e.g. Habermas, Taylor) who analyze new global constellations in terms of a shift from the secular to the postsecular.

• Freedom of Religion

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  • Authors: A. Van De Beek; E. Van Der Borght; B. Vermeulen
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  • In a combination of legal, canonical, theological, sociological, and philosophical perspective, this volume analyzes the actual challenges contained in the 16th century concept of ‘freedom of religion’ in the current, multireligious, globalized world.

• German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908

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  • Author: F. Jensz
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  • This book is a nuanced critique of German Moravian missionaries’ work amongst indigenous Australians within British colonial Australia. It examines tensions between religion and politics and the strained positions in which the missionaries found themselves working within a settler society.

• God - Beyond Me

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  • Author: C. Van Woezik
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  • Drawing on the connection of the I to an absolute ground in the metaphysics of Schelling and the poetry of Hölderlin, this book offers a contemporary model of God as both unitary and personal ground of self-conscious I-hood.

• Human Rights or Religious Rules?

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  • Author: J.A. Van Der Ven
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  • Drawing on historical inisights, systematic reflections and empirical data, this book offers a substantive understanding of the complex relationship between religion and human rights and of the empirical impact of Christianity and Islam on the attitudes toward human rights, i.e. a human rights culture.

• Institutions of Education: Then and Today

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  • Editor Paul Cobben
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  • This book shows that German Idealism can partipate in the contemporary debate on education: it is not only helpful in raising relevant questions, but can also be transformed into positions which can deal with the pluriformity that characterizes contemporary society.

• An Intercultural Theology of Migration

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  • Author: G. Tulud Cruz
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  • Drawing on the experience of migrant women domestic workers, theological ethics, and liberationist theologies, this book offers an intercultural theology of migration that arises from the (dis)continuities, (im)mobilities, and (dis)empowerment embedded in the encounter between gender, class, race, culture and religion in the context of migration.

• Interprétations de Moïse

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  • Editors Philippe Borgeaud; Tomas Römer; Youri Volokhine
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  • This books brings together specialists of diverse ancient mediterranean culture working on the formation of a "Moses mythology", from a comparative perspective, between Judea, Greece, Egypt and Rome. The concrete outcome of this comparative inquiry is the common translation and commentary of the fragments of the mysterious Artapanus. Ce volume rassemble des spécialistes de différentes cultures du monde méditerranéen ancien autour de la formation d'une "mythologie de Moïse", entre la Judée, la Grèce, l'Egypte et Rome. Le résultat pratique de cette enquête comparatiste débouche sur la traduction et le commentaire des fragments du mystérieux Artapan.

• Judaism and Christianity

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  • Authors: A. Avery-Peck; J. Neusner
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  • Top scholars in Judaic and Christian studies treat the interrelationship between Judaism and Christianity, reflecting on how the two faiths have related to and been shaped by each other as they evolved in shared historical and cultural contexts, even as each has maintained its own distinctive ideologies and beliefs.

• Kabbalah and Modernity

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  • Editor Boaz Huss
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  • This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.

• Medicine, Religion, and the Body

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  • Editors Elizabeth Burns Coleman; Kevin White
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  • This book develops an interdiscplinary as well as cross cultural and historical analyses of the relationship between medicine, religion, and the body.

• Music and Esotericism

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  • Editor Laurence Wuidar
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  • This book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de l’Antiquité au 20ème siècle et montre comment la magie, l’astrologie, l’alchimie, la divination et la cabale interagissent avec l’art et la science des sons.

• The Mystery of the Earth

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  • Author: I. Koren
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  • Challenging the prevalent view that in order to establish his “Dialogical” thought Martin Buber had to forsake his earlier “mystical” work, Israel Koren demonstrates instead that mystical paradigms serve as the foundation for Buber’s dialogue and endow it with greater depth.