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Father Neuhaus looks beyond recent controversies and proposes a forward-thinking way of being Catholic in America

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This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with various developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life. This book argues that the survival of myth systems mirrors the survival of such charismatic groups as modern street gangs, the Anglo-Saxon comitatus, or Satan's fallen angels in "Paradise Lost".

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Charles Abel was one of the most acclaimed missionaries in the South Pacific. His Kwato Mission, founded in 1891, became virtually a state within a state in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, and its influence remained long after it began to decline. Descendants of Mission families helped to form the independent nation of PNG in the 1960s.

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Many Americans are deeply religious in their personal lives, yet the nation's public life is largely empty of religious content and often even hostile to religion. This contradiction between secular public and religious private life is the focus of this book.

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An analysis of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt at a time of revolution and upheaval.

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In Part I of Christianity and History, the author asks whether the committed Christian should be more conscious than the uncommitted of some meaning in history. In answering this he offers a critique of Arnold Toynbee and makes some penetrating observations on the teaching of history. Part II is concerned with the author's special field-the Protest

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Explains to American Jews the core religious beliefs of Christianity and assesses the threats and promises of the Jewish--Christian encounter from a Jewish perspective.

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"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.

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Christianity not Mysterious was written in response to John Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695). This book brought the controversies surrounding deism, atheism, and other forms of dissenting theological inquiry out into the open.

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Contributors discuss the merits and disadvantages of Buddhist and Christian approaches to prayer and meditation. They go on to examine and see what can be learned from each religion's approach to prayer and see if this can be mixed without compromising religious identity.

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The introductory survey includes discussions of the comparative study of religious social action, the role that religious organizations play in modern societies, contemporary studies of other societies, and churches and social action throughout history.

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Addresses the perspectives of religion and the state in the ancient world, as well as in the biblical world of Judaism and Christianity, and in other religious traditions than Christianity. This book contains topics integrally related to church and state, such as civil disobedience, civil religion, liberation theology, patriotism, and nationalism.

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Addresses the perspectives of religion and the state in the ancient world, in the biblical world of Judaism and Christianity, and in other religious traditions. This book contains major topics integrally related to church and state, such as civil disobedience, civil religion, liberation theology, patriotism, and nationalism.