Christianity
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Key Categories in the Study of Religion
Key Categories in the Study of Religion builds upon the groundwork laid by previous NAASR Working Papers titles in order to bring us full circle to the symbiotic relationship between context and critique. This volume assembles diverse sets of data to consider pertinent categories in which critique o...
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The Holy in a Pluralistic World
Ulrich Rosenhagen, Gregory D. Alles
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) is widely recognized as one of the most important contributors to the study of religions at the beginning of the 20th century. His book, The Idea of the Holy, became something of a sensation in its time, and his account of numinous experience as a mysterium tremendum et fasci...
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Knowing God, Knowing Emptiness
Knowing God, Knowing Emptiness examines the viability of the epistemology proposed by Bernard Lonergan in his seminal work Insight, particularly with regard to its possible application in the field of interreligious dialogue. This enquiry is prompted by an awareness of the epistemological questions...
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Jesus and Addiction to Origins
This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of the argument, offered in the opening section, is that there is nothing special or extraordinary about human behaviors and constructs that are claimed to...
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Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love
This book seeks to elucidate the concept of justice, not so much as it is expressed in law courts (retributive and procedural justice) or in state budgets (distributive justice), but as primary justice--what it means and how it can be grounded in the inalienable rights that each human being possesse...
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Religions of a Single God
In some ways, this book fits into the long tradition of textbooks on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It seeks to teach the basics both of the study of religion and the study of the religions themselves. For each religion, it presents the trajectories of development over time, the main theological...
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Pentecostal Migration in Secular Sweden
Victoria Enkvist, Katarina Westerlund
Around the globe, migrant communities are being established in modern, Western societies where they are creating new, vital Pentecostal churches, worship groups, and religious communities. Among other locations, this mainly cosmopolitan movement is visible in the Norden part of E...
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Ruth
Rhiannon Graybill, Philippe Guillaume, William Krisel, Jonathan Thambyrajah, Rebecca Lindsay, Laura Quick, Peter Sabo, Francis Landy, Jennifer Johnson Williams, Anthony H. Dekker, John T. Dekker, Jennifer Lehmann, Sara Moscone
Rhiannon Graybill, Philippe Guillaume
The Book of Ruth is an all-time Bible favorite. In four chapters, it builds a clear plot with narrative tension heightened with sexual innuendos; and it ends well. Since the 1990s at least, studies produced an array of portrayals of the heroes of the tale beyond the trad...
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If I Forget You, Jerusalem!
This selection of articles – never before published in English – reflects the author’s position that the basic realization of minimalism has always been evident: that the Old Testament is not, exclusively, a book about history but is dominated by interests in theology both as literature and as an...
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The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes
Philippe Guillaume, Diana V. Edelman
Each of the eighty-three short contributions in this volume is written by an expert on the topic. Each deals with the essentials anyone entering the fascinating world of biblical scholarship needs to master. Concise and jargon-free chapters present the nature of the biblical texts and the differe...