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Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors...

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A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdom While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain by members of many different groups, martyrdom i...

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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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This volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious d...

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Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors...

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An engaging and accessible introduction to Christianity's relationship with other world religions, addressing the questions of why the reality, and vitality, of other religions has become a challenge, and showing how Christianity is equipped to de...

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An expert team of international scholars provide fifty-one essays as entry points into the sociological study and understanding of religion and in-depth surveys into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. Issues discussed range ...

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Minoriteter som anpassar sig och majoriteter som tolererar. Det brukar uppfattas som huvudingredienserna för att det mångkulturella samhället ska fungera. Men vad händer när det i stället är två majoritetskulturer som möts? Arabiska sunnimuslimer ...

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A multi-authored volume that explores the theme of the 'religious other' from the perspective of five major religionsHinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islamand discusses a range of issues in which interreligious relations are central.

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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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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 brief survey text tells the story of Judaism. Through the lens of modern biblical scholarship, Christine Elizabeth Hayes explores the shifting cultural contextsthe Babylonian exile, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine period, the rise of Christia...

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An intriguing question - Do Muslims understand Jesus in some ways more historically appropriate than Christians do? - leads Robert F. Shedinger into a series of provocative challenges to the disciplines of religious studies and comparative religio...

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From the Crusades to the present day, the interrelationship between Islam and Christianity has been fraught with conflict, both theological and military. Yet events in 20th-century history, particularly the communications revolution, have meant th...

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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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Jesus and Buddha were separated by five hundred years, three thousand miles, and two drastically different cultures. Yet this trade paper edition of the highly acclaimed hardback juxtaposes passages from the New Testament and ancient Buddhist scri...

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Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have peacefully intermingled for generations, and who may have develope...

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This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and religious considerations behind distorted western views of Islam, examining Christian-Muslim interaction from medieval times to the modern world. First published over 30 years ago, the...

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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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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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Aaron Hughes examines the creation and dissemination of ''Abrahamic religions.'' Part genealogical and part analytical, his study seeks to raise and answer questions about the appropriateness and usefulness of employing these religions as a vehicl...

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This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and what might be done about it. It makes the cas...

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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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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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Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God. In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence and its relati...

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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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Leading authorities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom explore the diaconate from a variety of perspectives, particularly those of the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Catholic Church. There are also...

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In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to ...

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In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dictate the course of comparative religious studies. As his example, Smith reviews four centuries of sch...

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