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A study of Scottish post-Reformation church interiors for fifty years. It describes the developments in the Presbyterian churches which are set in the context of comparative developments in other parts of Britain and Europe, especially those in the Reformed churches of the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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An anthology that provides the comprehensive overview for understanding the relationship between religion and violence - historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. It includes original source materials justifying violence from various religious perspectives: Hindu, Chinese, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist.

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Over the course of the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, an interior private notion of religion gained wide public recognition in Europe. This book provides a new model to study the interaction between religion and its publication through various material printed forms such as books, pamphlets, and newspapers.

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This book develops an inductive risk account of the limits of reasonable religious disagreement. The riskiness of different peoples methods for forming religious beliefs is shown central both to understanding fundamentalist orientation and to concerns that philosophers and theologians share for ownership of risk in peoples faith ventures.

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This book develops an inductive risk account of the limits of reasonable religious disagreement. The riskiness of different peoples methods for forming religious beliefs is shown central both to understanding fundamentalist orientation and to concerns that philosophers and theologians share for ownership of risk in peoples faith ventures.

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In the course of the 19th century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn. Contrary to popular belief, these groups co-existed in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This book lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history.

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In the course of the 19th century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn. Contrary to popular belief, these groups co-existed in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This book lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history.

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Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. While studies of sanctity and heresy tend to be undertaken separately, this book brings these two avenues of inquiry together.

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The first critical guide to the essential literature reflecting and expressing psychoanalytic approaches to religion, this volume's concentrates on critical assessments that steer the user toward works of lasting value.

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Nature and the city have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. This book argues that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another.

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Before the outbreak of hostilities between Charles I and the Long Parliament, the King had authorized a regular monthly fast for the realm which members of parliament later adopted as a program of national humiliation. At the invitation of individual members of parliament, two preachers, generally leading puritan clerics connected with the Westmins

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This exploration of issues regarding the religious and spiritual identity of gay and lesbian people discusses the way in which they may be intertwined. It includes work that compares or focuses on different religious traditions, and work from different eras and countries.

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Rabbi on the Ganges engages the new terrain of Hindu-Jewish religious encounter, providing an important comparative account of key ideas and practices of the Hindu and Jewish traditions. This book explains how Hindu religious ideas and practices can speak to those who know Judaism.

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Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a range of genre choices as the classical authors from whom she has drawn so richly throughout her enormously creative body of work.