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.

• Interpreting Proverbs 11:18-31, Psalm 73, and Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 in Light of, and as a Response to, Thai Buddhist Interpretations

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  • Author: Kari Storstein Haug
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  • This book argues that an approach to Buddhist-Christian dialogue where biblical texts are analyzed by placing Christian and Buddhist perspectives side by side is a method which provides a good platform for further in-depth dialogue.

• Investigating Subjectivity

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  • Editors Gert-Jan van der Heiden; Karel Novotny; Inga Römer; Laszlo Tengelyi
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  • Investigating Subjectivity examines the importance of a phenomenological account of the subject for the nature and the status of phenomenology, for different themes from practical philosophy and in relation to issues from the philosophy of mind.

• "Kingdom-Minded" People

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  • Author: Denise A. Austin
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  • This book explores how Christian identity motivated early twentieth century Chinese business Christians toward economic, social and religious contributions in China and beyond. Parallels are also revealed today, particularly through the influence of Pentecostal, charismatic and evangelical training.

• Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence

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  • An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspodence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid‐1960s.

• Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World

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  • Editors Giuseppe Giordan; Enzo Pace
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  • This volume offers eleven case studies of contemporary movements from around the world where religious, secular and spiritual dynamics interplay in the postmodern condition of the 21st century, as traditional and contemporary sources are combined in new and dynamic ways.

• Meaning and Morality

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  • Editors Alan Tapper; T. Brian Mooney
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  • The essays in this volume address the importance of Kovesi's work on moral philosophy and concept formation. The essays extend Kovesi's insights on moral philosophy into broader areas and compares and contrasts his work with that of key ancient and contemporary thinkers.

• Michel Henry et l'affect de l'art

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  • Editors Adnen Jdey; Rolf Kühn
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  • The studies in this book set out to examine the labile resonances of phenomenology and art in Michel Henry, by examining the different figures of movement given to the concept of the aesthetic by the philosopher. They are preceded by one of Michel Henry’s own texts. Les études qui composent ce livre proposent d’interroger les résonances labiles de la phénoménologie et de l’art chez Michel Henry, en examinant les différentes figures du déplacement imprimé par le philosophe au concept d’esthétique. Le tout est précédé d’un texte de Michel Henry.

• Monotheism & Ethics

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  • Editor Y. Tzvi Langermann
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  • Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.

• The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion

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  • Author: Hartwig Wiedebach
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  • Hermann Cohen was a Jewish-German thinker with a passion for philosophy. Two forms of national engagement influenced his philosophical system and his Jewish thought: a cultural-political 'Germanness' (Deutschtum) and a religious Judaism beyond the political.

• Network Church

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  • Author: Andy Lord
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  • Drawing on pentecostal experience of growing church networks, this book offers a systematic ecclesiology that provides a fresh approach to catholicity, church structures, partnership and contextualisation.

• The Paradigm of Recognition

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  • Author: Paul Cobben
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  • In The Paradigm of Recognition. Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death Paul Cobben elaborates a paradigm of recognition based on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This framework enables fundamental criticism of Honneth’s three forms of social freedom.

• The Petrine Instauration

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  • Author: Robert Collis
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  • Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.

• Power in Powerlessness

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  • Author: Martin Lindhardt
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  • In this study of a Pentecostal denomination in urban Chile Martin Lindhardt steps back from classical instrumentalist explanations of Pentecostal growth in Latin America and offers a comprehensive analysis of the ritual and quotidian practices through which adherents live their religiosity on an everyday basis.

• Quantification: Transcending Beyond Frege’s Boundaries

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  • Author: Aleksy Molczanow
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  • Drawing on the original conception of Kant’s synthetic a priori and the relevant related developments in philosophy, this book presents a reconstruction of the intellectual history of the conception of quantity and offers an entirely novel transcendental-metaphysical account of quantification.

• Religion and the Body

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  • Editors David Cave; Rebecca Sachs Norris
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  • This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.

• Religious Identity and National Heritage

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  • Editor Francis-Vincent Anthony
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  • What is the interplay between religion and national culture in modern times? Distinguished scholars reflect on this question based on empirical research. They offer a vast set of insights about how religious identity is connected to the national heritage in which people are born and brought up.

• Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 23

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  • Editors Ralph L. Piedmont; Andrew Village
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  • The twenty-third volume of RSSSR includes a landmark collection of papers on Theism and Non-Theism in Psychological Science, as well as papers on other key areas in the study of religion such as spirituality and social capital.

• Ritual Imagination

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  • Author: Hilde Nielssen
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  • Exploring the rich world of tromba spirit possession in eastern Madagascar, this book offers a fresh perspective on questions of how rituals work and how they affect and constitute human realities.

• Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth

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  • Authors: E. Van der Borght; P. van Geest
  • Editors Paul Geest; Eduardus Borght
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  • Former colleagues and students honour Prof. Dr. A. van de Beek with contributions in this Festschrift on themes that have become central in his theology: christology, theology of Israel, eschatology, theology of the church, creation theology, and freedom of religion.

• Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History

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  • Editors David Engel; Lawrence H. Schiffman; Elliot R. Wolfson
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  • Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of medieval Jewry.

• The Sublime and its Teleology

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  • Editor Donald Loose
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  • Based on their critical analysis of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", the authors of this book show from different perspectives in what way the Kantian concept of the sublime is still a main stream of inspiration for contemporary thinking.

• Tensions within and between Religions and Human Rights

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  • Authors: Johannes A. van der Ven; Hans Georg Ziebertz
  • Editors Johannes A. Ven; Hans-Georg Ziebertz
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  • This volume contains four theoretical and four empirical articles that aim at conceptual clarification and descriptive and causal exploration on data from 14 countries about historical and current tensions within and between religions, Christiantity and Islam, and human rights in various contexts.

• Value

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  • Editor Ivo Gennaro
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  • This book presents classical philosophical sources on value as well as readings that show how this concept shapes central issues and domains of economics, culture and knowledge, thus shedding a light on a key concept of the globalized work.