Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2012

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• The Baha'i Faith in Africa

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  • Author: Anthony A. Lee
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  • One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.

• Christianity and the Notion of Nothingness

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  • Author: MUTŌ Kazuo
  • Editors Jan van Bragt; Jan van Bragt
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  • The Christian philosopher Muto Kazuo contributed substantially to the predominantly Buddhist “Kyoto School of Philosophy.” Through critical exchange with its representatives, he opened up new perceptions of Christian faith, enabled mutual understanding between Buddhism and Christianity, and challenged the Western dialectical method.

• A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology

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  • Author: Brian Douglas
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  • Anglican eucharistic theology varies between the different philosophical assumptions of realism and nominalism. This book presents case studies from the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century and avoids the hermeneutic idealism of particular church parties by critically examining the Anglican eucharistic tradition.

• A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology

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  • Author: Brian Douglas
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  • Anglican eucharistic theology varies between the different philosophical assumptions of realism and nominalism. This book presents case studies from the 20th Century to the Present and avoids the hermeneutic idealism of particular church parties by critically examining the Anglican eucharistic tradition.

• Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization.

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  • Author: Aleksi Kuokkanen
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  • Inspired by the Catholic theologian Hans Küng, this book searches for a model for global ethics by analysing the contemporary philosophical discussion. It demonstrates that the Western model is unable to reckon with exclusivism and difference and presents an alternative model.

• Coping with Violence in the New Testament

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  • Editors Pieter Villiers; Jan Willem Henten
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  • The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings.

• The Crescent on the Temple

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  • Author: Pamela Berger
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  • "The Crescent on the Temple" elucidates how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. That “Temple,” represented as the Muslim shrine, is often surmounted by a crescent.

• David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar”

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  • Author: Gwyn Campbell
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  • This book reveals the hitherto hidden history of inter-missionary dispute that split the first LMS mission to Madagascar. Focussing on David Griffiths, whose pivotal role was concealed by the LMS, it suggests that Welsh-English rivalry moulded the mission’s destiny.

• Dismantling the Dualisms for American Pentecostal Women in Ministry

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  • Author: Lisa P. Stephenson
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  • This book analyzes the historical and theological factors resulting in the present situation among American Pentecostal women in ministry, and proposes a Feminist-Pneumatological anthropology and ecclesiology that address the problematic dualisms that have perpetuated Pentecostal women’s ecclesial restrictions.

• Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe

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  • Editors Volkhard Krech; Marion Steinicke
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  • The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically and synchronically differing traditions.

• Ecclesial Identification beyond Late Modern Individualism?

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  • Author: Karl Inge Tangen
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  • Why do people identify with growing late modern churches – and does identification lead to morally transforming commitments beyond late modern consumerism? This case study presents findings that may inspire both social scientists and theological practitioners to new forms of thinking.

• Ethics and Moral Philosophy

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  • Editor Thom Brooks
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  • Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally.

• Francis Mercury van Helmont's Sketch of Christian Kabbalism

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  • Editor Sheila Spector
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  • As the only English version of Francis Mercury van Helmont’s foundational treatise of Christian Kabbalism, this bilingual edition, with a facsimile of the original Latin facing the translation and author’s footnotes, contains a critical introduction, as well as supplementary endnotes.

• Global Justice and International Affairs

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  • Editor Thom Brooks
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  • Global justice and international affairs is perhaps the hottest topic in political philosophy today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. Topics include sovereignty and self-determination, cosmopolitanism and nationalism, global poverty and international distributive justice, and war and terrorism.

• Handbook of Hyper-real Religions

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  • Editor Adam Possamai
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  • ‘Hyper-real religions’ are innovative religions and spirituality that mix elements of religious tradition with popular culture. Through various case studies, this book studies the on and off-line religious/spiritual consumption of these narratives through a social scientific approach.

• Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production

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  • Editors Carole Cusack; Alex Norman
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  • This volume fills a lacuna in the academic assessment of new religions by investigating their cultural products (such as music, architecture, food et cetera). Contributions explore the manifold ways in which new religions have contributed to humanity’s creative output.

• Hegel's Philosophy of the Historical Religions

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  • Editors Bart Labuschagne; Timo Slootweg
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  • The chapters in this book offer an in-depth and profound overview of Hegel’s daring, many-faceted philosophical interpretations of the multifarious and dialectically interrelated, historical religions, including the Islam and the ‘revealed’ religion of Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism).

• Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters

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  • Editor Maren Niehoff
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  • The present collection of articles brings together scholars from different fields and offers prioneering essays on the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic thinkers and the rabbis, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric readers in light of each other.

• How Prophecy Lives

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  • Editors Diana Tumminia; William H. Swatos
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  • Occasioned by reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger et al.'s When Prophecy Fails, this book examines social scientific prophecy research in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the question of the dynamics that inspired people to engage actively in such end-time activities.

• Initiating Women in Freemasonry

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  • Author: Jan A.M. Snoek
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  • Based on primary sources, this book analyses the historical creation, contents and development of the rituals of the Adoption Rite, with which women were initiated into Freemasonry since 1744. It gives a completely new perspective on this chapter of women's history.