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Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, this title demonstrates how social cues have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior.

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Designed for religious or lay people involved in counselling, this text provides a practical, comprehensive and contemporary guide to community care and counselling in religious contexts.

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This resource covers such topics as anthropology and missions; man, culture, and society; verbal and nonverbal communication; technology and economics; and anthropology and the Bible. It is designed for classroom use with diagrams, discussion questions, and suggested readings.

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Western culture is disenchanted, it no longer sees the world as it truly is. Instead of seeing reality as sacred and beautiful, it is often viewed as mundane, ordinary, and familiar. Cultural Apologetics develops a comprehensive model for cultural engagement and details practical steps for making the Christian faith both plausible and desirable.

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Pioneering study of the fascinating blending of Christian and Confucian traditions in Korea before, at and after death.

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Examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. This book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).

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An invaluable work especially for professionals and students in health care, bioethics, humanities, cultural studies, and for the educated lay reader, this volume offers a critical reflection on cultural competence and awareness in health care, an arena where world views and values often collide.

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The book addresses not only the early reception of Pauls message in a variety of styles and insights, but also explores the implications of the use of terms, narratives, concepts, and notions transmitted from a Greek Jewish context of the first half of the first century into new contexts.

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The volume analyzes local changes in Christianity in eight different cultures--in the Pacific, Jamaica, California, and Italy.

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Offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: Longinus, Plotinus, Porphyry and lamblichus. This book documents and explains the coalescence of Aristotelian and Platonic elements in the Platonic tradition before the 3rd century.

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The culture in Corinth conflicted greatly with the lifestyle that the Apostle Paul proclaimed to those who chose to follow Jesus. In the same way, the church today is called to proclaim the gospel in every environment, showing the world what it looks like when we give our lives to Jesus.

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Its Sunday afternoon and youre already dreading Monday morning. You're not alone. More than 80 percent of the workforce feels the same. Max Lucado offers tools for exploring your uniqueness, motivation to put it to work, and perspective to redefine our concept of work. Its never too late to cure the hopeless prognosis of a common life.

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Explore an unbiased look at the End Time prophecies--casting aside the false narratives passed down for generations and the shallow and superficial spin the institutional churches have put on them so not scare their congregations. The End Times are upon us. Cursed Above All Cattle puts meaning to these prophecies without the restrictions imposed by the institutional church.

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From the perspective of Paul's letter to the Galatians, this book offers an analysis of the cult of self-castration in its Anatolian cultic context. It argues that Paul attempts to dissuade his audience from being circumcised by identifying circumcision with the enslaving self-castration of the galli and by portraying the Law as a Mountain Mother.

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"This volume moves discussion of ancient Israelite culture beyond concepts of isolation and borders, factoring in already well-known insights from classical studies and ancient history that take greater account of the impressive connections between all the countries bordering the Mediterranean sea"--

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