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This book provides a unique Pakistani perspective and understanding of a region that has not been studied extensively to date. Pakistan’s Frontier Region has been at the forefront of the War on Terror since 2001. The Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (now known as...
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In seinem Traktat de fuga in persecutione bezieht der frühchristliche Theologe Tertullian v. Karthago (ca. 160–220 n. Chr.) Stellung zur Frage, ob es für Christen erlaubt sei, in der Verfolgung zu fliehen. Seine ebenso von der klassischen Rhetorik wie der stoischen...
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Die Vorstellungen von den Osmanen schwanken in ihren Nachbarländern und überhaupt im Abendland. Eingebettet in eine romanhafte Rahmenhandlung werden Geschichte, Soziologie und Psychologie der Osmanen des 18. Jahrhunderts vor ihrer zunehmenden Verwestlichung im 19....
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The main theme of this book is how newly excavated texts have provided new energy and perspectives to allow us to renew our understanding of ancient Chinese thought, especially that of Confucianism. Through an analysis of texts from the Guodian, Shanghai Museum, and...
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Animal liberation contends that humans and animals are of equal value and that standard views of human uniqueness are an anthropocentric prejudice called "speciesism." It advocates ending human use of animals in recognition of animal rights.Animal liberation theology...
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This book focuses on the historiography of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is a study of the various ways Adventist historians have approached history. The author concentrates on select historians whose publications cover important issues for Seventh-day Adventist...
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The Book asserts that: Violence at Family level, Clan level, upto State level is a reality in Africa in general and Uganda in particular. In systematic and critical exposure of the history of violence in Uganda using secondary sources, interviews and personal...
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European Bible manuscripts and their Masorah traditions are still a neglected field of studies and have so far been almost completely disregarded within text-critical research. This volume collects research on the WesternEuropean Masorah and addresses the question of...
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The book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojtyla. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojtyla’s personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojtyla’s move from the philosophy of the human being to the...
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The centre of gravity of World Christianity has moved to the South.The numerical growth of African Christians however does not manifest itself in academic theology. Kwame Bediako (1945–2008) is a voice from Ghana that claims a space for African contributions in...
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This book focuses on G. K. Chesterton’s apology for Catholicism in the context of his epoch. It shows how he portrays Catholicism as English and universal at the same time and thus seeks to put an end to its isolation from England's mainstream culture. Organized around...
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The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God’s omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent. This is shown first by unmasking many types of such claims as either logical fallacies or as...
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A hopeless individual is more vulnerable and is threatened with indifference, meaninglessness, apathy, anxiety, stress, and despair. Are there symptoms of this in the West? Is it an individual phenomenon or has it been historically-culturally transmitted?
This book...
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This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given...
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Weil manche Philosophen des 19. Jahrhunderts das Wort „Tugend“ mit Moralismus gleichsetzten und sich die Bedeutung Platons für die Praktische Philosophie erst allmählich erschloss, geriet das platonische System der Kardinaltugenden im 20. Jahrhundert aus dem Blick. Die...
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to some pivotal topics of (de-) colonization. It examines the early modern debate on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, followed by the shift of the debate in the 18th and 19th centuries towards assertions of...
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This book discusses the Lord’s Resistance Army’s (LRA) use of Old Testament texts and motifs in their rhetoric to mobilise and sustain the rebellion in Northern Uganda, specifically in Gulu district, the area that has been particularly affected by the LRA’s actions...
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This in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Matthew D. Kim conducted surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews with Korean American pastors and second...
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Die Publikation präsentiert den kürzesten und kompaktesten Text der Vision einer Jenseitsreise des Hochmittelalters. Sie wurde im 12. Jahrhundert von einem Mönch aus Lüttich erstellt und zeichnet mit minimalistischen Mitteln ein eigenwilliges Bild von Himmel, Fegefeuer...
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Der deuteronomische Bruderbegriff hat innerhalb des Volkes Israel seinen Platz und gilt für dieses. Diese Studie befasst sich mit den ‚wirtschaftlichen‘ und ‚politischen‘ Hintergründen der Bruderthematik, wie sie sich in den sozialrechtlichen Teilen des deuteronomischen...
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