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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Offers an exploration of the phenomenon of celibate marriages in Byzantine hagiography. This book also explores the puzzling phenomenon of continent marriage as depicted in the lives of three couples who achieved sainthood. It highlights the ingenuity of Byzantine hagiographers as they attempted to reconcile this curious paradox.

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, this book provides an interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide.

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces.

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Examines the ways mid-twentieth century writers represent chance, arguing that their depictions of, and anxieties about, chance mark a new relationship between author and narrative.

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Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education. This text considers the way we approach teaching and learning in the urban context and examines the debates concerning developments in wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life.

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Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms.

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Explores everyday childhood in relation to employment, religion, policing, war and migration, drawing on children's experiences in a variety of contexts and countries.

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Fascinating analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives and its role in their futures.

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Examines China's access to the energy resources of the developing world and its impact on Chinese foreign relations. This book asks whether China's competition for energy resources fosters cooperation or conflict with other energy-consuming great powers.

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This book is about the state of moral theology today. It is written by an international team of academics, among them some of the best-known Christian ethicists in the English-speaking world. It is scholarly and authoritative, and it is unique in that it brings together in one volume, for the first time, all the main themes in fundamental and applied moral theology.

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An exploration of the rapid development of African Christianity, offering an analysis and interpretation of its movements and issues. It draws attention to the many key issues, including the translatability of the Christian faith, the process of contextualization in various cultures, the place and role of indigenous agencies, and more.

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Consensus does not mean peace. Instead it refers to a map of operations of war, of a topography of the visible, of what is possible and what can be thought, in which war and peace live side-by-side. This book explores the nature of consensus in contemporary politics. It aims to reopen that space wherein politics once more becomes thinkable.

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Years have passed since the fall of the Iron Curtain, yet emerging democracies continue to struggle with a secular state which does not give preference to churches as major political players. This book explores the nationalist inclinations of an Eastern Orthodox Church as it interacts with a politically immature Eastern European state.

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Offers an introduction to Deleuze's writings on cinema which appeal both to undergraduates and specialists in film studies and philosophy. This book provides explanations of the many categories and classifications found in Deleuze's two landmark books on cinema and also offers assessments of a range of films and directors.

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Offers an introduction to Deleuze's writings on cinema which may appeal both to undergraduates and specialists in film studies and philosophy. This book provides explanations of the many categories and classifications found in Deleuze's two landmark books on cinema and offers assessments of a range of films and directors.

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Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. This book traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period, from Grimm to Schmitt.

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Explores one of the serious strategic threats confronting the United States and Europe: the advance of Islamism. This book opens with an overview of the theology and history of Islam, to show that violence and intolerance are not fundamental aspects for the religion. It explains the growth of Islamism in Europe and in the United States.

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Explores one of the serious strategic threats confronting the United States and Europe: the advance of Islamism. This title opens with an overview of the theology and history of Islam, to show that violence and intolerance are not fundamental aspects for the religion. It explains the growth of Islamism in Europe and in the United States.