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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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Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negoti...

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Boken När själen går i exil handlar om människans behov av ett existentiellt språk för att uttrycka sin innersta identitet och längtan också i ett modernt och sekulariserat land som Sverige. Utifrån antropologiska och filosofiska perspektiv argume...

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Kelly James Clark is Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is author or editor of more than twenty books, including The Story of Ethics and Return to Reason.

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Med handen på Bibeln och med orden so help me God svärs de amerikanska presidenterna in. Landets motto är In God We Trust och med trohetseden till nationen deklareras att landet är one nation under God . För oss som lever i ett av världens mest se...

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The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion i...

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This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. It provides a systematic inventory of fundamental theoretical questions and assumptions involved in the discussion of ageing and old age. What does ...

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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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This timely 2 volume edited collection looks at the extent and nature of global jihad, focusing on the often-exoticised hinterlands of jihad beyond the traditionally viewed Middle Eastern 'centre'. As ISIS loses its footing in Syria and Iraq and a...

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This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion. Across the globe, individuals and communities are seeking to distinguish themselves in different ways...

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Vem och vad vi tillber formar våra hjärtan. Och även om vi strävar efter att forma kulturen är vi ofta omedvetna om hur mycket kulturen egentligen formar oss. Det är inte säkert att vi ser hur våra hjärtan får lära sig att älska avgudar i stället ...

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From the United States to the Middle East, Asia and Africa, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation. The second edition of this successful handbook provides the definitive global survey of the interactio...

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'The most important book of the Trump era' The Economist How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from a...

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Moving beyond identity politics while continuing to respect diverse entities and concerns, Whitney A. Bauman builds a planetary politics that better responds to the realities of a pluralistic world. Calling attention to the historical, political, ...

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While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries. Changes in the position of women are crucial to the reconfiguration of sta...

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HUR FÖRHÅLLER SIG evolutionsteorin till den bibliska urhistorien? Bör skapelseberättelsen tolkas bokstavligt eller mer bildligt? Vilka delar av evolutionsteorin är förenlig med Bibeln? På dessa frågor svarar bibeltroende kristna olika. I den här b...

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What is to be done about the damaging impact of economic activity on the environment? In recent years, there has been growing debate over this question. This book, by an economist, urges Christians to support strong governmental and intergovernmen...

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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rig...

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- IDAG SKA DU BLI MUSLIM! - Med gevärspipan mot tinningen ställdes fader Saad inför valet: ditt liv eller islam. Berättelsen om den unge kristne prästens bortförande och nära nog månadslånga fångenskap hos muslimska extremister i Irak är ett drabb...

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Words to change our minds - and our hearts. New discoveries in biology and the neurosciences are revealing how the structure of language - the words we think and speak - can actually change the way the neurons in our brains and hearts connect. But...

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När vänstern tog makten över kyrkan Med jämna mellanrum bryter debatter ut om politiseringen av Svenska kyrkan. Inte sällan är temat att andlighet och teologi har ställts i skuggan av ett samhällsengagemang i linje med den profana vänsterns agenda...

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Now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest debates, this popular textbook introduces readers to the central questions in the field of science and religion. Ideally suited to those who have little or no prior knowledge in either area, it incorpor...

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'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom___For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a ...

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In this book, Mark Sedgwick shows that Western Sufism is not a recent phenomenon of the "new age" but rather is rooted in a series of intercultural transfers between the Muslim world and the West starting in the Middle Ages, and in centuries of la...

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Islam och islamism är inte samma sak. Alla muslimer är inte islamister och alla islamister är inte jihadister. Men alla jihadister är islamister i någon utsträckning och alla islamister är muslimer. Islamismen är en religiös form av fascism. Den s...

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It is often assumed that religion is the backward-looking servant of tradition and the status quo, utterly opposed to the new. This refrain in so much of recent polemical writing has permeated the public mind and can even be found in academic publ...

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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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Secularism, Theology and Islam offers a uniquely theological analysis of the historic Danish cartoon crisis of 2005-2006, in which the publication of twelve images of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ignited violent glo...

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Den katolska tidskriften Signum, med förelöparen Credo, jubilerar och har funnits under hundra år. Åtta årliga välmatade nummer har gett katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur och samhälle. Den här antologins spänningsrika texter behandlar svensk re...

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