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Provides material and interpretation for understanding native Andeans and Spanish Christians as participants in a common, if not harmonious, history. This title explores the notions of reformation and correction that fueled the extirpating process in the central Andes, as elsewhere.

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Shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is an essential function of human consciousness. The author analyzes powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

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Offers comprehensive and contemporary exploration of the role of Jesus in both Islam and Christianity and issues of dialogue in Christian-Muslim relations. This title provides a general introduction to the question of Jesus Christ in Islam and a dialogical discussion of this issues' importance for Christian-Muslim relations.

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Offers a comprehensive and contemporary exploration of the role of Jesus in both Islam and Christianity and issues of dialogue in Christian-Muslim relations. This title provides a comprehensive introduction to a breadth of Muslim traditions through an examination of interpretations of Jesus throughout history.

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Explores the significance of women poststructuralist theorists for feminist reading practices in theology. This book interrogates the crucial role that literature has played in the development of feminist theology and breaks fresh ground in linking the study of literary texts and theory to creative writing.

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Examines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries.

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In this book, Marianne Moyaert develops a new interreligious appropriation of Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutical philosophy. Viewed in context of his philosophical, anthropological, and ethical work, Ricoeurs fragmentary reflections on the encounters between religions provide insights on global cooperation practices and religious identity concerns.

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Anson Shupe is a sociologist who has studied extensively the problem of clergy (priests, ministers, rabbis, gurus) who take advantage sexually or financially of members of their churches and groupsfrom televangelists like Jim Bakker or Robert Tilton to the infamous Father James Porter who sexually molested at least 200 children.

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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.

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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.

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Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three

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Explores how the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim exegeses use the idea of love as an interpretive tool to explicate and interpret Holy Scriptures

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