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Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .

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Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustain

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Gtz proposes that there is no opposition between faith and humor, belief and laughter. The tragic and the comic are sisters, as Aristotle saw in antiquity.

On the other side,Gtz shows what happens when faith and humor depart from paradox: faith becomes dogmatic and fanatical, and humor becomes superficial and banal.

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An examination of gurus, the cults they inspire and the power they exercise. It takes as examples some of those considered to be modern gurus such as David Koresh and James Jones, and establishes what each of them has in common. It then discusses what they share with other more accepted gurus.

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Add the diffusion of new technology and new practice, and even the poorest and seemingly most primitive group can now make war against those on high. Increasingly, old societies no longer find identity-celebration in war - while non-state identities embrace the struggle for realization.

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Add the diffusion of new technology and new practice, and even the poorest and seemingly most primitive group can now make war against those on high. Increasingly, old societies no longer find identity-celebration in war - while non-state identities embrace the struggle for realization.

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Proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film-analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice.

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Proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film-analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice. This book explores the film theory other writers ignore, particularly that mix of psychoanalysis, Marxism and semiotics - often termed Screen theory.

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From the award-winning journalist covering religion for National Public Radio comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled believers and scientists alike for generations: Can science explain God

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In Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy contributors argue four positions: that philosophy and the Christian faith are in conflict, that Christian beliefs trump philosophical claims, that philosophy confirms the beliefs of Christianity, and finally, that philosophy must be reconceived under the Christian faith.

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Presents a defence of the existence of libertarian freedom of will, arguing that choices are essentially uncaused events with teleological explanations. This work presents scholarly monographs offering the research and debate to students and scholars in philosophy of religion.

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A collection of essays on religion and democracy which discusses the questions that characterize these debates at the points of their intersection within political theory, political theology and the philosophy of religion, and considers both the challenges and the prospects of this new era which, following Habermas, one may call post-secular.

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A collection of essays on religion and democracy which discusses the questions that characterize these debates at the points of their intersection within political theory, political theology and the philosophy of religion, and considers both the challenges and the prospects of this era which, following Habermas, one may call post-secular.

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A collection of essays that contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might converge with women's roles in the various world's religions. It explores fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examines the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism.