Religious life and practice Books
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Aus Gottes Hand: Der Status des menschlichen
Book SynopsisIst der menschliche Embryo schon eine Person? Die Möglichkeiten der Abtreibung und Reproduktionsmedizin, die Beseitigung des Embryos aus persönlichen Gründen oder sein Verbrauch um hochrangiger medizinischer Forschungsziele willen geben dieser Frage eine existentielle Brisanz, die nicht nur viele Menschen in Gewissenskonflikte stürzt, sondern an der sich leidenschaftlich geführte Diskussionen und öffentliche Proteste entzünden. Jürgen Boomgaarden gibt eine differenzierte Antwort auf die Embryonenstatusfrage aus evangelischer Sicht. Am Anfang steht die Erörterung biologischer, philosophischer, rechtlicher und soziologischer Erkenntnisse und Positionen zum Embryonenstatus. Das Buch untersucht die biologische Entwicklung des Embryos auf ihre statusrelevanten Einschnitte und würdigt besonders die Kernverschmelzung als möglicher personaler Anfang kritisch. Die sogenannten SKIP-Argumente (Spezies, Kontinuität, Identität, Potentialität) beleuchtet Jürgen Boomgaarden ebenso wie die soziologische Analyse des ungeborenen Lebens, die die gewandelte Bedeutung des Kindes und seiner Liebe zu ihm in der westlichen Gesellschaft reflektiert. Auf der Basis von evangelischen Positionen zur Embryonenstatusfrage skizziert der Autor eine eigene systematische Theologie des ungeborenen menschlichen Lebens und geht dabei auch auf die ethische Problematik der In-vitro-Fertilisation ein. Boomgaarden vermeidet einfache Antworten auf die Embryonenstatusfrage und entwickelt dennoch klare Entscheidungskriterien aus evangelischer Sicht.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact
Book SynopsisThis book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Qumran community. As the book observes, this assumption rests in part on a failure to distinguish between voluntary supplication prayers and biblically mandated blessings and thanks. The book closely examines the three Qumran writings assumed to typify prayer and critiques scholars' attempts to deduce the existence of public prayer from these and other sources, which are most likely pious expressions of individual authors. The lack of indispensable instructions for institutionalized prayer offers circumstantial evidence that such prayer was not practiced at Qumran. This study also explores the assumption that Qumran prayer was intended as a substitute for sacrifices after the group's separation from the temple cult and discusses relevant rabbinic statements. The innovative character of rabbinic fixed prayer is discussed and identified as an element of the fundamental transformation of Jewish theology and practice from worship founded on sacrificial rituals performed by priests at the Jerusalem Temple to abstract, unmediated, direct approaches to God by every Jew in any location. The book also examines Samaritan prayer and detects a variety of attitudes, rules, and customs similar to those found at Qumran that are incompatible with their rabbinic counterparts. This opens the door for investigating religious belief and practice at a crucial period in the history of Western civilization, namely, before the vast rabbinic reform of Judaism after 70 CE.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Perceiving Truth and Value: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe theme of this volume is the question of value-perception. It is discussed from different philosophical, psychiatric, theological, and anthropological perspectives. The thesis that unites all the papers is the recognition that we live in a relational, dynamic world, in which we primarily perceive, and that to dissolve values from facts is fundamentally misleading, both in theory as in life. The contributions are the outcome of an energetic conference in 2016 where the problems at stake were rigorously discussed. The results are presented here, and they have an explicit order and are strictly related. It opens with basic questions and observations, then critical opinions and objections come into play, after which the outline of a larger theory of value perception is presented, and at the end some concrete examples from material practices are drawn.
£52.19
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Was Soll Man Da in Gottes Namen Sagen?: Der
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Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht Von den guten Werken
Book SynopsisLuthers Schrift âžVon den guten Werkenâœ: aktuell und relevant
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Urteilen lernen -- Grundlegung und Kontexte
Book SynopsisCorrectly judging situations plays a large role in everyday life - it's not always easy to determine the right thing to do, and only then can one actually do the right thing: properly deciding between two or more possible alternatives.This volume shows the necessity of making a scientific analysis of the various ways of reaching ethical competence. It demonstrates the various forms and nature of judgment within a scientific-theological and interdisciplinary research context, having resulted from a common discourse of Christian and Jewish theology as well as jurisprudence. The basic questions are discussed and compared to the perspective about learning to judge that is not innate: Moral education demands positive and workable paths in which children and adolescents as well as adults can practice executing proper judgement. For this reason a number of example contexts with an ethical background - in education, worklife and the legal system - are examined in detail.
£59.84
Peter Lang AG Glaube Und Denken: Jahrbuch Der
Book SynopsisKarl Heim (1874-1958) prägte als Theologe an den Universitäten Halle, Münster und seit 1920 in Tübingen sowie von 1920 bis 1948 als Frühprediger an der Tübinger Stiftskirche Generationen von Pfarrern. Unter seinen Zuhörern und Lesern befanden sich auch viele Nichttheologen, da sich der christliche Glaube für ihn immer Gegenwartsfragen stellen musste, die einen permanenten und fruchtbaren Dialog mit der Philosophie und den Naturwissenschaften hervorbrachten. Dieses Erbe greift das Jahrbuch auch fast 60 Jahre nach Karl Heims Tod wieder auf und lädt im 18. Jahrgang (2005) erneut dazu ein, Theologie im Sinne einer biblisch-christlichen Orientierung mit den Problemen der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Postmoderne im Gespräch zu halten. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden mehrere Beiträge zur Anthropologie angesichts der Unübersichtlichkeiten der abendländischen Kultur. Zum anderen wird Dietrich Bonhoeffers gedacht, dessen Todestag sich 2005 zum 60. mal jährt und dessen 100. Geburtstag 2006 gefeiert wird, außerdem wird auf die Frage nach der Entstehung ethischer Urteile eingegangen und die Bedeutung der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft auch für die Zukunft bedacht.
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Peter Lang AG Performance of Identity of Polish Tatars: From
Book SynopsisThe book presents the Tatar community in a new perspective, with its rituals and strategies that allow it to maintain the identity and distinguish itself, using categories of performance and performativity which – despite problems with normative definitions – have permanently entered a dictionary of culture analysis. The author describes and analyses Tatar religion-based customs and traditions, key moments of human life, as well as selected aspects of everyday life, which may be considered within the category of performances of identity. Tatar performances are deeply rooted in religion: Islam is a fundamental part of their identity and element of distinction. Following and performing the religious rules is strictly connected with the notions of ethnic identity and self-identification. Religious performances also serve them to preserve the figure of a Muslim Tatar. This book is a unique work documenting the life of the Tatar ethnic minority.Table of ContentsPerformances of identity of Polish Tatars – Islam – Religious rules – Religious holidays – Rites of passage – Elements of daily life – Tatar universe – History of Tatars – Religious writings of Tatars – Tatar cuisine – Healing and magic
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Peter Lang AG My Neighbour’s God: Interfaith Spaces and Claims
Book SynopsisIn the latest discussion on the relations between religions, it has often been argued that monotheism necessarily leads to intolerance and exclusivism. A religion which claims to worship «the one and only true God» is inevitably forced to reject every religious behaviour and practices of «the Other». But is this really the case? This volume contains contributions which discuss the major question: What are the instruments and the strategies used in different religious settings where interreligious encounter is part of daily life? Most of the contributions concentrate on the challenges of theology in the context of India. A special focus will be on approaches for interreligious coexistence derived from Biblical or Systematic Theology.Table of ContentsMy Neighbour’s God: Joseph and Jonah as Examples of a Pluralistic Monotheism (Andreas Kunz-Lübcke) – Neighborhood: An Interfaith Hermeneutical Space (Dexter S. Maben) – Displacement, Migration and Hybridity: A Religious Reconstruction (C.I. David Joy) – Theological Apartheid Discourse and Contemporary Right Wing Rhetoric in Germany (Moritz Gräper) – Hindustani Institutions – Endeavours for Strengthening Societal Presence in Holland (Erna Zonne-Gätjens) – «It is tough work to stay who you are»: (Religious) Boundary and Identity Work (Drea Fröchtling) – Ritual Companionship as Test Case for a Theologically Reflected Inter-Religious Dialogue (Wilhelm Richebächer) – Ethno-Religious Space: Transitional Movement Towards Deterritorialization and Ambivalent Identity (Kaholi Zhimomi) – Religious Affiliation, Human Identity and Citizenship in India (R. Sahayadhas) – In the Neighbourhood of German Lutheran Men Claims. A South African Female Perspective (E. Phuti Mogase)
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Peter Lang AG Die Krise der Gesellschaft ist eine Krise der
Book SynopsisDas Buch präsentiert eine kritische Gesellschaftsanalyse. In einem sozialphilosophischen beziehungsweise sozial-ethischen Kontext finden moderne statistische Methoden bei der Behandlung von vier Untergangsmechanismen Anwendung: Gesellschaftliche Sklerosis, Isolationsneurose, Gesellschaftliche Immunschwäche und Institutioneller Krebs. Mit der Gesellschaftlichen Sklerosis geht der Prozess der De-Institutionalisierung einher. In der Isolationsneurose stellt sich die Frage nach den richtigen Prioritäten, dem übergreifenden Zweck der Zwecke. Gesellschaftliche Immunschwäche zeigt sich als verhängnisvoll, gleichmachende, aber auch beruhigende Einheitskost. Institutioneller Krebs überbetont die großen Einheiten und verwirklicht sich in der Konzentration von sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Dinosauriern. Die Untergangsmechanismen sind hierbei vertikal-komplementär sowie horizontal in den entsprechenden Lösungsansätzen von Lebensbereich vor System, Immaterielles vor Materiellem, Langfristigkeit und Ganzheitlichkeit und Alternative Sanftheit zu verstehen. Ihre Komplementarität ist eine Mächtigkeit höherer Ordnung, die in einem Wechselspiel der Komponenten in Erscheinung tritt.
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Peter Lang AG Catholic Religious Minorities in the Times of
Book SynopsisIn the diasporic communities of Roman Catholics in Ukraine (Murafa) and Greek Catholics in Poland (Biały Bór) religion and the local clergy play a dominant role in the process of constructing new identities. Because of the memory of their ancestors’ deportation trauma the Greek Catholics define their Ukrainianness in opposition to their environment. In Roman Catholics’ case, the change of the liturgy’s language is followed by the Polish tradition’s rejection: they feel Ukrainian. The break of the tradition’s transmission path divides the community and directs them towards (pop)cultural homogenization with the Orthodox. The Greek Catholics are also divided because of their new church; universal in the Christian sense, it proves the overcoming of divisions, not accepted by everyone.Table of ContentsReligious culture – Catholic communities in Murafa and Biały Bór – Linguistic – Aesthetics – Musical expression – Importance of religion – Religious authorities – Memory in constructing identity – State policy’s impact – Mixed marriages
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Peter Lang AG The Folk Bible of Central-Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis is the first Polish ethnological monograph to present how biblical themes function in folk culture in the context of rituals, customs and iconographic records and is based on ethnographic sources collected in Polish rural communities from central Poland to diasporas in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in 1989–96. It shows how biblical plots used to undergo interpretation, at the same time, infiltrating common sense knowledge. The novelty here is the joint analysis of themes from both Testaments, presenting the narrations in accordance to the way the local community perceived its identity. The biblical typology, influencing culture through tradition and liturgy, inspired a symbolic order adjusted to cyclic conceptions of time and space, characteristic of rural cultureTable of ContentsBiblical history – Merging with local legends – The vegetation and Human life cycles – Affinity with Christian and Jewish Apocrypha – Expression of identity on the religious borderland
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Peter Lang AG La Réconciliation comme volonté de vie: Une
Book SynopsisLa scène de la vie quotidienne qu'offre la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) depuis quelques décennies est marquée par une crise d'identité due à de multiples mouvements de rébellions armées et de guerres. Suivant une herméneutique dite contextuelle qui prend au sérieux la singularité de tout contexte particulier, la présente réflexion analyse ce contexte socioculturel congolais. L'auteur propose quelques pistes pour relever ces défis. La réponse sociologique, anthropologique et éthique passe par une herméneutique adéquate de la diversité humaine. La réalité humaine se définit par les figures plurielles d'être et d'action, la diversité de visions du monde et la variété des modes d'approches de ce monde. La réconciliation comme proposition dans la construction du vivre-ensemble a, en effet, son Sitz-im-Leben dans la multiplicité des visions du monde qu'implique la diversité humaine. Cette approche de la Réconciliation est centrée sur une dynamique identitaire qui insiste sur le sens de la relation. Ce que nous appelons la mise en valeur de l'Altérité, autrement dit la Reconnaissance mutuelle. À l'horizon de cette démarche, il y a une volonté profonde et réelle d'ouvrir la RDC à des devenirs possibles en pensant les diverses modalités de vivre-ensemble.
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Peter Lang AG Between Construction and Deconstruction of the
Book SynopsisAmong young people, symptoms of social change emerge in a multiple manner. This observation by Karl Mannheim inspired the concept of the survey of social and religious attitudes conducted by the integrated research team of employees of the Department of Sociology of Religion in the Institute of Sociology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and Institute for Catholic Church Statistics SAC. The title of the book is an intentional reference to the concept of social constructionism. This idea manifests itself in the subjective function of participants of an interaction who reconstruct social contexts in the course of the interaction on the basis of symbolic meanings. The conducted survey is a diachronic measurement with statistical time series of the years 1988 – 1998 – 2005 – 2017. The survey uses the research tool in which dimensions were primarily established by Charles Glock and Rodney Stark and a community component by Ohio Fukuyama. The term ‘global profession of faith’ was introduced by French sociologists Louis Dingemans and Jean Rémy to describe motivation and dynamics of changes of one’s individual religiousness and identification of individuals with religious group of reference. In this survey of social and religious attitudes of young university students, religiousness dimensions adopted by forms of activity on the Internet were added to the research tool.Table of ContentsTopoi of the decalogue – Universes of purpose – The new morality – Post-sacral – Religious escapism – The metaphysics of hope – Group identity – Public trust – Passion – Religion – Academic youth – E-religion – Values – Morality – Family – Research – Survey – Poland – Catholic Church
£41.36
Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag Digitalisierung Technik Verantwortung
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Transcript Verlag Animal Minds and Animal Ethics: Connecting Two
Book SynopsisAnimal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition.
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V&R unipress GmbH Begegnung Verständigung Kooperation:
Book SynopsisDie Nürnberger Gruppe der internationalen Bewegung Religions for Peace/Religionen für den Frieden ist eine der ältesten kontinuierlich arbeitenden interreligiösen Basisgruppen in Deutschland. Seit 1988 fanden in monatlichem Rhythmus mehr als 300 Treffen statt. Die Erfahrungen daraus können Anregung und Anleitung sein für die interreligiösen Räte, Runden Tische der Religionen und Dialogkreise, die in vielen deutschen Städten entstehen. Unter den Schlagworten Begegnung, Verständigung, Kooperation werden die Erfahrungen ausgewertet und Perspektiven für das Zusammenleben in einer zunehmend multireligiösen und multikulturellen Gesellschaft entfaltet. The Nuremberg Group of the international movement Religions for Peace (RfP) is one of the oldest interreligious working groups in Germany. Since its foundation in 1988, members of different religions have held more than 300 monthly meetings. The gathered experience, evidence and documents are presented under the headings Encounter Dialogue Cooperation as the main steps of interreligious exchange and collaboration. Together, they can inspire multifaith action in and contribute to religious dialogue in a civic society.
£32.33
V&R Unipress Menschenleben - Lebenszeit.: Impulse fur eine
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Texnai Inc. A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
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£15.00
Planeta El camino de la felicidad The road to happiness
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£26.68
Ediciones Sigueme Razones para el amor
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£16.17
Ediciones Sgueme, S.A. Razones para vivir
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Ediciones Sgueme, S.A. Razones desde la otra orilla
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Ediciones Noufront Alenar: 365 invitaciones a la meditación
Book SynopsisText in Spanish. Featuring a different meditation exercise for all 365 days of the year, this spiritual guide advocates relaxation and religious connection as part of a fulfilling lifestyle. Taking inspiration from the Catalan word alenar -- which literally means 'to exhale' -- this manual is based on the word's metaphorical meaning of pouring out the soul. This book encourages constant reflection, from thinking about life and everything that propels it to meditating on God's plan and will. Proverbs, wise musings, and judgments are also included to provide answers to the deepest questions of daily life.
£14.39
Siruela Evangelios para sanar
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Medicina Macchine E Uomini La Malattia Al
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Matrimonio Come Scelta Di Vita
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Solidarieta E Democrazia: Mediazione E Dialogo
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. DISCOVERING JESUS
Book SynopsisThe message of Jesus is of interest to every student of religion as his followers are the highest in number in the world today. But what really were the teachings of Jesus? References from the Bible show that Jesus had twelve prominent disciples, called Apostles. One of them betrayed him which led to his crucifixion. This Apostle was replaced by another with the common consent of the remaining eleven. These Apostles had accompanied Jesus in his lifetime and are to be trusted for knowing what his real teachings were. Christianity today, in all the churches, however, is what Paul laid down. Paul had emerged shortly after the death of Jesus and had never met him in his lifetime! This raises several questions: whether the Apostles and Paul were in conflict with each other? What was laid down by Paul as distinct from what the Apostles believed and taught? What happened to the teachings of Jesus that his Apostles were carrying? What were the real teachings of Jesus? This book tries to find answers to these questions and brings out evidence from the Bible and the writings of Christian theologians of the past to establish that Paul fought a running battle with the Apostles in his lifetime and that the Church founded by the Apostles did not acknowledge him to be an apostle and rejected all his writings. Discovering Jesus is a ground-breaking work on the religion followed by more than two billion people across the globe
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Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Dana: The Practice of Giving
Book SynopsisIn the teaching of the Buddha, the practice of giving claims a place of special eminence, one that singles it out as being in a sense the foundation and seed of spiritual development. This publication was compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi to explore this cardinal Buddhist virtue in greater depth by featuring essays in which four modern writers (Elbaum-Jootla, de Silva, Walshe, and van Gorkom) and a classical commentator (Acariya Dhammapala) set forth their understanding of giving and its relation to the wider body of Dhamma practice.
£13.31
Gal Einei Publication Living in Divine Space: Kabbalah and Meditation
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Balboa Press An Inspirational Alphabet
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Author Solutions 3pl Growing Up with Maureen
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