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What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits

And why has belief thrived ever since, leading us to invent heaven and hell, sin and redemption, and above all, gods

Religion reflects our deepest hopes and fears;

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In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.

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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.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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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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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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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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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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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"[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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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.

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A book about how Scotland's Catholics participated in the extension of citizenship in Scotland and how it was transformed from an underground and isolated church to a multi-faceted institution that existed on a national scale. -- .

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This book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societies where Mormonism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism began. It strips away myths and later traditions to provide a secular account of how these faiths first took root.

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The preeminent resource guide for more than 20 years, this one-of-a-kind book has been updated to include those recently canonized and beatified.

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Attempts to analyze the rise of comparative religion as a response to modernization. This book tells how Western scholars began to interpret religion's history drawing on prehistorical evidence and ethnographical reports. It shows how religions that had been rejected as irrational by Enlightenment philosophers were being studied with enthusiasm.

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This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence.

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This fascinating history surveys apocalyptic religion through time, setting it within a political and social context.

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This is a detailed survey of different genres of source materials, including historiographical, epigraphic and numismatic, on Fatamid history. It represents a comprehensive treatment of the subject and should be of great importance to students and academics alike.