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Lynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts.

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I den här boken beskrivs Sveriges nya religiösa landskap och de förändringsprocesser som blivit följden av mötet mellan majoritetssamhället och minoritetsreligioner. Förståelse av religioners plats och roll i nutiden är mycket viktig som bakgrund ...

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Arabiska sunnimuslimer har i sina hemländer oftast levt i en majoritetskultur. Det egna språket och den egna religionen har varit normerande för hela samhället. I Europa möter de en sekulariserad kristen majoritetsbefolkning som betraktar religion...

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Jews, Christians and Muslims all trace their history and spiritual raison d'etre to their common tribal ancestor, Abraham. Their religious identities are interrelated and even dependent on each other. Jesus lived as a Jew and Christianity was born...

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Befinner sig islam och Västerlandet på kollisionskurs? Många händelser i nutiden kan tolkas som en konflikt mellan två kulturer. Den ena anser vara präglad av frihet och förnuft, den andra av fruktan och förtryck. Västerlandet anses vara präglat a...

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This work provides the first systematic discussion of the Bodhisattva path and its importance for constructive Christian theology. Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts, and practices not as phenomena whose existence requir...

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Since Vatican II, Catholic and mainstream Protestant churches have been rethinking their positions in Jews and Judaism. Former supersessionist views have been replaced with acceptance of the Jewish claim that the Covenant between God and Israel is...

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Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has...

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This history celebrates the Catholic League, an ecumenical society founded in 1913 to promote the unity of Christians and to encourage the journey of all towards the visible unity of the whole Church. It was founded by Anglicans who believed passi...

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The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too...

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An acclaimed scholar presents a bold new interpretation of the relationship between Greco-Roman religion and Christianity. The question of Christianity's relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever ...

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A leading expert about religion and conflict and the chief spokesperson for The Common Word, the world's leading interfaith dialogue initiative between Christians and Muslims, offers a constructive vision for a new pluralism.

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Minoritetens anpassning och majoritetens tolerans. Det brukar uppfattas som huvudingredienserna för att det mångkulturella samhället ska fungera. Men vad händer när det istället är två majoritetskulturer som möts? Arabiska sunnimuslimer har i sina...

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The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living...

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A rich and thriving culture where literature, science and religious tolerance flourished for 700 years is the subject of this enthralling history of medieval Spain. Living side by side in the Andalusian kingdoms, the 'peoples of the book' produced...

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The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching. Issues of interreligious engagement, inclusive of dialogue more specifically and relations more generally, attract widespr...

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In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Bo...

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How did the vast Ottoman empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this plural society, the two-volume Christians and Jews in the Ot...

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Drawing on 20 years' experience of officiating at interfaith weddings, the author provides advice on how to combine elements of two faiths so that everyone can rejoice with the bride and groom on their wedding day.

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Mixed-faith marriages are becoming more and more common in Britain. The Church of England has even devised special regulations to provide guidance to ministers in conducting the ceremonies. This book caters for those planning or involved in counse...

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The story of the discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls has become a part of Western lore. Who has not heard about the Bedouin shepherd who threw a rock into a cave, heard a crash, went in to explore, and found the scrolls? The story in that form...

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"Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " --Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity for the Rest of Us"Everyserious Christian ought to read this book, ponder it, wrestlewith it, but ab...

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From Miroslav Volf, one of the world's foremost Christian theologiansand co-teacher, along with Tony Blair, of a groundbreaking Yale University course on faith and globalizationcomes Allah, a timely and provocative argument for a new pluralism bet...

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"e;Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. "e; Diana Butler Bass,author of Christianity for the Rest of UsEveryserious Christian ought to read this book, ponder it,wrestlewith it, but above all,...

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The Intermarriage Handbook is a comprehensive, immensely practical self-help book for interfaith couples. Judy Petsonk and Jim Remsen interviewed hundreds of experts: psychologists, family therapist, sociologists, religious leaders--and especially...

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The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves near the Dead Sea fifteen miles east of Jerusalem from 1947 to 1956, include the oldest existing biblical manuscripts and the remarkable texts of the purist Jewish community at Qumran. The discovery of the scro...

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Mary Eberstadt, "one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time," (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and belie...

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Mary Eberstadt, one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time, (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who ar...

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By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Isla...

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