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Based on the #1 top-rated movie of 2007 and one of the most honored films of the year--winning the highly coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, Best Picture and Best Actor at the 2008 MovieGuide Awards-- Bella is a story about redemption, family and finding love unexpectedly.

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A philosophical exploration of resurrection and death in Christian, and particularly Catholic, thought.

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An eye-opening glimpse into real women's experiences in the throes of the rigorous faith and rituals of extreme religion

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"A theological assessment of the sexed body as it moves from creation to consummation, to explore whether the phenomenon of intersex embodiment disrupts the traditional interpretation of 'male and female' as a sexed binary"--

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The aims of this book are to examine the interface between religious studies, critical social theory and cultural theory and to argue for a discourse within religious studies which draws from, and contributes to, wider intellectual debates in the humanities and social sciences.

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Beyond the Threshold explores afterlife beliefs and practices in world religions, including discussions of afterlife and metaphysical experiences. The second edition features a new chapter on African spiritual perspectives, as well as updated research on paranormal phenomena, updated statistics and research, and more.

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Beyond the Threshold explores afterlife beliefs and practices in world religions, including discussions of afterlife and metaphysical experiences. The second edition features a new chapter on African spiritual perspectives, as well as updated research on paranormal phenomena, updated statistics and research, and more.

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This text critically examines the methodologies and arguments that guide how Black theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity. Significantly, the racialized character of Black theology immediately sets this discourse within the context of philosophy of race.

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Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. This text critically expounds on the methodologies and arguments, which guide how Black Theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity.

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Tracks how songs that first arose from a close relationship to the conservative religion of the American South have taken on new meanings in a post-religious environment.

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This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain's multicultural society. -- .

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This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain's multicultural society. -- .

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Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, this book examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, and the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities".

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What does Jesus mean to a Buddhist, or the Buddha to a Christian In this volume 12 scholars, six of them Christian and six of them Buddhists, speak simply and from the heart about their personal relationship to the great religious leader from the other tradition.

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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Librarys extensive special collections

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Inspiration for the Netflix documentary series The Family.The author of the runaway paperback bestseller The Family returns with a blistering investigation of the true influence of fundamentalism in American politics.