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Power-Knowledge In Tabaris «Histoire» Of Islam - Politicizing The Past In Medieval Islamic Historiography

by Amir Moghadam e Terence Lovat

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 Muhammad al-Tabaris History, written about 300 years after the establishment of Islam, is one of the religions most important commentaries. It offers important insights into the early development of Islam, not so much for its history as for the ways it was interpreted and understood. Through application of modern historiographical analysis and scriptural exegesis, the book explores the space between factual history and interpretive history, or histoire. The focus is especially on the ways in which al-Tabari himself understood and interpreted Quranic evidence, employing it not so much for literal as for political purposes. In this sense, his work is best understood not as a reliable history in the modern sense but as a politically-inspired commentary. Granted that his work has often been relied on for Islams historical claims, this book offers important new insights into the ways in which power and politics were shaping interpretations in its first three hundred years.
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Telling Hands And Teaching Feet - Nonverbal Communication In Two Of The Narratives Of Acts

by Carole Ferch-Johnson

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 This book represents an extensive examination of human hands and feet and their functions as media of nonverbal communication in the transmission of the mission and message of Jesus by the early church
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Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion And Conflict - Studying Muslimchristian Relations

by Frans Wijsen

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 This book analyses religious identity transformations through inter-religious relations. It aims to highlight the link between religious discourse and social cohesion, or the lack of such a link, and ultimately seeks to contribute to the dominant discourse on MuslimChristian relations. The book is based on fieldwork in Indonesia and Tanzania, and is timely because of the growing tensions between Muslims and Christians in both countries. Its relevance lies in its fresh look at theories of religion and science. From its establishment as an academic discipline, the phenomenology of religion has dominated religious studies. Its theory of religion is realist (religion is a reality in itself) and its view of science is objectivist (scientific knowledge is true if its representation of reality corresponds with reality itself). Based on Discourse Theory, the author argues that religion does not exist in itself. Human practices and artifacts become religious because they are placed in a narrative context by the believers. By using discourse analysis as a research method, the author shows how religious identities in Tanzania and Indonesia are constructed, negotiated and manipulated in order to gain material or symbolic profit.
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The Church As Hermeneutical Community And The Place Of Embodied Faith In Joseph Ratzinger And Lewis S. Mudge

by Mary Mccaughey

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 This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and Joseph Ratzinger and highlights the transformative potential of Christianity which can serve as a point of ecumenical learning.
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Beyond Rastafari - An Historical And Theological Introduction

by Marzia A. Coltri

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 In this work, the author discusses the various beliefs and ideologies of the RastafarI movement related to Ethiopia. The author also challenges the misogynistic attitude of the RastafarI movement by rehabilitating the position of women through the figure of the Queen of Sheba.
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Incurious Seeker'S Quest For Meaning - Heidegger, Mood And Christianity

by Sludds Kevin Sludds

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 The author explores Martin Heidegger's intimate connections with Christianity by examining the close ties he and his family had to the Catholic Church and from within his fundamental ontology. He demonstrates through literary and comparative analysis the affinity that exists between a philosophy of facticity and Christian theology.
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Synthesizing The Vedanta - The Theology Of Pierre Johanns S. J.

by Sean Doyle

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 Fr Pierre Johanns is a key figure in the history of Christian intellectual engagement with Hindu philosophy. He was the most articulate figure in a group of Belgian Jesuits in Calcutta who sought to develop the theological project initiated by Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, a convert to Catholicism whose theology conveyed a positive appreciation of aspects of Hindu advaitic philosophy. Johanns began to publish a steady stream of articles in the monthly Light of the East that analysed pertinent features of Vedantic thought from the perspective of his neo-Thomistic presuppositions. Johanns engaged in a thorough explication and analysis of the thinking of the Hindu teachers Sankara, Ramanuja, and Vallabha. He attempted to fashion a creative synthesis of their views, constructing a new, holistic metaphysic from the raw material of their respective philosophical theologies. This book examines the theological writings of Pierre Johanns by situating him within his historical context, by discussing how Johanns interacted with Vedantic philosophy, and by assessing the success of his project.
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Words Matter - Hermeneutics In The Study Of Religions

by Rene Gothoni

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 The challenge of methodic quality has haunted scholars in the human and social sciences since the end of the nineteenth century with the explosive and public success of the natural sciences and their precision and aim of controlling nature. The discussion has been dominated by the quest for proper scientific concepts and methods comparable to those employed in the natural sciences. This book discloses the limits of scientific concepts and methods, and the failure of approaches in the human sciences emulating the scientific procedures in the natural sciences, notably the cognitive science of religion, to articulate religious life in its actuality. The author demonstrates on the basis of his own field research conducted among Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka and Orthodox monks and pilgrims on the Holy Mountain of Athos in Greece how preconceptions and historical belongingness determine interpretation. He argues that in the human sciences words matter more than concepts and propositions, and elucidates how words are revelatory of the authenticity of being, when the attitude adopted is that the view of the encountered other might be right. In the conclusion the author identifies the methodic characteristics of hermeneutic reflection and proposes an analytic model for the human sciences that enables scholars to articulate the authenticity of actual life in words that reach the other.
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The Shepherd Metaphor In The Old Testament, And Its Use In Pastoral And Leadership Models

by Jonathan Gan

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 This book sets out to review the shepherd metaphor and raise the question whether the metaphor should be the basis of the pastoral and leadership models that are derived from the image of the shepherd, and whether such models can be enriched by the analysis of the metaphor as implied by the shepherding responsibility described in the Old Testament.
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The Shepherd Metaphor In The Old Testament, And Its Use In Pastoral And Leadership Models

by Jonathan Gan

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 This book sets out to review the shepherd metaphor and raise the question whether the metaphor should be the basis of the pastoral and leadership models that are derived from the image of the shepherd, and whether such models can be enriched by the analysis of the metaphor as implied by the shepherding responsibility described in the Old Testament.
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Preservation Of Cultural Heritage And Resources Threatened By Climate Change

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Nutrition And Vulnerable Groups

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Colloids And Interfaces In Oil Recovery

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Advances In Groundwater Flow And Solute Transport

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Mtor In Human Diseases

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Mechanism Design For Robotics

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Neonatal Screening For Critical Congenital Heart Defects

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Silicon-Based Nanomaterials - Technology And Applications

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Product/Process Fingerprint In Micro Manufacturing

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Religion And Art - Rethinking Aesthetic And Auratic Experiences In 'Post-Secular' Times

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Salinity Tolerance In Plants

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Membrane And Membrane Reactors Operations In Chemical Engineering

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Environment-Friendly Construction Materials - Volume 2

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Environment-Friendly Construction Materials - Volume 1

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