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Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship How can the law address the refusal of parents to provide medical care to their children or the refusal of doctors to perform abortions This title presents a framework for addressing such questions that involve competing demands of fairness, liberty, and constitutional validity.

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Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship How can the law address the refusal of parents to provide medical care to their children or the refusal of doctors to perform abortions This title presents a framework for addressing such questions that involve competing demands of fairness, liberty, and constitutional validity.

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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches - black and white, Protestant and Catholic - and the emergence of the Jim

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In this book van der Leeuw discusses the horizontal path to God and the vertical paths descending from God and ascending to Him. If God Himself appears, it is in a totally different manner, which results not in intelligible utterance, but in proclamation; and it is with this that theology has to deal." Originally published in 1986. The Princeton

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This volume provides a salutary reminder that the 'New World' was not only encountered and conquered, but also explained, and explained in a way which revealed much about Europe. -Stephen Nugent

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The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable similarity between the geography of this oath--the regional percentages of those who accepted or rejected it--and the geographic patterns of religious practice and political behav

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Brings together the important selections from the volumes on Buddhism, India, China, Tibet, and Japan to give an overview of how religions have been lived by both ordinary and extraordinary people throughout the continent of Asia. This work offers a look at the spectrum of religious practices in Asia over almost three millennia.

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Demonstrates that the "three religions" of China - Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. This volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the government as "minorities."

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Brings together the work of thirty scholars of the religions of India in an anthology designed to reshape the ways in which the religious traditions of India are understood. This book contains translations of forty-five works which highlight types of discourse (especially ritual manuals, folktales, and oral narratives).

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Offers the coverage of Korean religious practice, especially the various Christian denominations and new indigenous religions. It features chapters that include translations of the sources on Korean religious practice, accompanied by an introduction that frames the significance of the selections.

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An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America, this work explores faith through action from Colonial times through the 19th-century. It offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States.

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An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, this work explores faith through action in the 19th- and 20th-centuries. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people.

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Presents an array of works that together offer a view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters in this work are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world. It is intended for scholars, students, and general readers.

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Editors: Jan. 1902-Jan. 1905, J.S. Bassett; Apr. 1905-Jan. 1919, W.H. Glasson (with Edwin Mims, Apr. 1905-July 1909; W.P. Few, Oct. 1909-Jan. 1919); Apr. 1919- W.K. Boyd, W.H. Wannamaker.

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Proposes a fresh approach that unites the study of religion with fields as diverse as neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better understand how these processes are incorporated into the broader cultural formations we think of as religious or spiritual.

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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the

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Contemporary religious movements in America vary greatly in their organization, goals, methods, and membership. Reflecting the striking diversity of the current religious movement, the papers in this volume consider three categories of religious movements: native American churches, recently founded religious groups, and syncretistic groups based on

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Examines the tension between popular and official religion in Europe. This book evokes ethnographic contexts that enable us to see people shaping their religious domain. It provides a theoretical orientation throughout, one that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination.