Major World Religions

From Their Origins To The Present

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

This work seeks to answer questions about the great religious traditions in the contemporary age. It focuses upon those religions that continue to demand the...

Published March 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Culture and the Thomist Tradition

After Vatican II

By Tracey Rowland

Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society?...

Published February 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Being Reconciled

Ontology and Pardon

By John Milbank

Being Reconciled is a radical and entirely fresh theological treatment of the classic theory of the Gift in the context of divine reconciliation. It reconsiders...

Published February 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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God Here and Now

By Karl Barth

Karl Barth was, without doubt, one of the most significant religious thinkers of modern times. His radical affirmation of the revealed truth of Christianity changed...

Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Identity and Identification in India

Defining the Disadvantaged

By Laura Dudley Jenkins

Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them? Or do reservation policies reinforce the very categories they are meant to eradicate? Indian reservation policies...

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Divine and the Demonic

Supernatural Affliction and its Treatment in North India

By Dr Graham Dwyer

Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or...

Published December 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs

The Coptic Orthodox Church

By Jill Kamil

The Copts - the indigenous Christians of Egypt - declared their independence from Byzantine Christianity when they appointed their own patriarchs in the sixth century....

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Jerome

By Stefan Rebenich

As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Religion, Law and Tradition

Comparative Studies in Religious Law

By Andrew Huxley

This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Religious Traditions of Asia

Religion, History, and Culture

Edited by Joseph Kitagawa

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields. They cover all the religious traditions of Southwest...

Published July 25th 2002 by Routledge.

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