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Christianity in Bakhtin
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Ruth Coates |
The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, howeve… |
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The religious significance of atheism
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Alasdair C. MacIntyre,Paul Ricœur |
From two perspectives; one philosophical, one cultural, these two essays explore the religious significance of atheism. |
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Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria, and Israel
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K. van der Toorn |
This volume deals with the religious practices of the family in the ancient Babylonian, Ugaritic and early Israelite civilizations. On the basis of documents from both the private and the literary re… |
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The birth of the Elizabethan Age
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Jones, Norman L. |
Norman Jones' ambitious and imaginative account charts both the daily experiences and the large historical events that shaped life in the 1560s. When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, her subjects … |
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The search for God at Harvard
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Ari L. Goldman,Ari L. Goldman |
In 1985, Ari L Goldman took a year's leave from his job as a religion reporter for The New York Times and enrolled in the Harvard Divinity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of w… |
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Common whores, vertuous women, and loveing wives
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Debra Meyers |
"By closely examining thousands of wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways in which re… |
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Sacred Fury
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Charles Selengut |
History, marred with the actions of fundamentalist and extremist groups, continues to highlight religion as a cause for violent action. But how 'religious' is this violence? And what drives the faith… |
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From Civil to Political Religion
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Marcela Cristi |
"Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a "new" religion (civil religion) to be used by the… |
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