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A unique interpretation of the Book of Revelations draws on historical, scriptural, and little-known archival resources to present a reading of cataclysmic events of the 1980s and '90s. By the author of Messiah.

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This is a study of the difference between the terms 'belief' and 'believe' and how the meaning has changed through history. Where the concept of 'believing' today is considered of central significance to one's faith, Smith reveals that this emphasis is a modern phenomenon.

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The latest book in UQP's internationally acclaimed New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series. Ending Holy Wars explores how religious dimensions affect the possibilities for conflict resolution in civil war.

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The 'new materialism' argues that science and religious belief are incompatible. This book aims to debunk such arguments, whose proponents have included figures from Hawkings to Dawkins.

The purpose of these six narrative volumes, each covering a major world religion, is to provide high school students on up and general readers with a clear, objective, detailed overview on the religion's history of foundation, text and major tenets, branches, practice worldwide, rituals and holidays, and major figures.

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JewishChristian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity: Seven Twentieth-Century Converts contends that in the twentieth century the borders dividing the Jewish and Christian faiths have, for many people, become fluid.

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Science and religion have always been at each others throats, right

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Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing critical distance from our objects of study.

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The prophet Muhammad is thought to be one of the most influential figures in human history, but how should he be acknowledged by Christian culture Bishop Kenneth Cragg attempts to give this question a direct answer.

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Zebiri analyses modern Muslim writings on Christianity and Christian writings on Islam to provide an overview of the more important contrasts and similarities between the two religions, and to shed light on some of the reasons for misunderstandings and failures in communication, past and present.

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Aiming to provide clues to the many forms and expressions of mysticism, by considering some of the major religious traditions of both East and West, this book explores two principal areas: monistic mysticism and theistic mysticism. The search for the mystical through other means is also discussed.

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Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion, science, and politics. Contributors reflect on the role of interdisciplinary scholarship for the health of a society threatened by post-truth and alternative facts.

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This text explores the central role of prayer in the history and psychology of religion through the ages, from ancient indigenous prayer rituals to large-scale public worship. It includes coverage of prayer in philosophy, mysticism, in prophetic religion and in public worship.

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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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This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles in religious studies.

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Offering ways of addressing the intellectual and practical problems confronting today's religions, this study discusses the way forward for those who believe in the importance of religious faith in a multi-religious world.

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An exploration of sex and religion together within the historical and contemporary contexts of each of the world's major living religions, from the ancient traditions and practices of both Eastern and Western religions to the modern influences of medicine, psychology and women's rights