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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche sets out the Tibetan practice of dream yoga and sleep yoga: exercises, preparation and the Buddhist background to th... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ruth A. Tucker
Ruth A. Tucker tells the history of Christian mission from antiquity to the twentieth century through individual lives, including those that... (Automatically generated book description)
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Jonathan T. Pennington
Jonathan Pennington reads the gospels as wisdom literature and places Jesus among the philosophical schools of his day, as a teacher of how ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Margherita Marchione
Margherita Marchione defends Pope Pius XII against the charge of silence on the persecution of the Jews, drawing on Vatican documents. Parti... (Automatically generated book description)
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Mark I. Pinsky
Mark Pinsky reads The Simpsons as a religious series: Ned Flanders, prayers, churchgoing, and the question of why a cartoon family prays reg... (Automatically generated book description)
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David G. Dalin
David Dalin argues as a Jewish historian against the portrayal of Pius XII as Hitler pope and cites testimony from those who were saved. Par... (Automatically generated book description)
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Mark Allan Powell
With clarity and verve, Mark Allen Powell introduces the beginning student to the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive c... (Description from external book data)
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James D. G. Dunn
Provides commentary on each book of the Bible and on such topics as biblical archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the apocrypha of both th... (Description from external book data)
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Phyllis D. Airhart
This exploration offers readers fresh and broad ranges of ways to evaluate their own religious traditions when dealing with issues related t... (Description from external book data)
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Patrick D. Miller, Jr.
Patrick D. Miller seeks to help interpreters of the Psalms "find entrée into them in various ways to hear their theological claims and their... (Description from external book data)
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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Focusing on the principal mediations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers, this companion volume to "Tibetan Book of the Dead" c... (Description from external book data)
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J. I. Packer
One of Christianity's greatest scholars makes the person and power of the Holy Spirit accessible to all who strive for a closer walk with Go... (Description from external book data)
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Marie Cartier
Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for i... (Description from external book data)
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John Portmann
This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust... (Description from external book data)
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Samuel C. Heilman
Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, ... (Description from external book data)
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Bernd-Christian Otto
Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthrop... (Description from external book data)
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John Portmann
A growing epidemic, Alzheimer s punishes not only its victims but also those married to them. This book analyzes how Alzheimer s is quietl... (Description from external book data)
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C. Baxter Kruger
Wm Paul Young's 2008 novel THE SHACK was a publishing phenomenon all over the world. Now respected theologian C. Baxter Kruger enlarges and ... (Description from external book data)
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Robert W. Hefner
Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam. Media rep... (Description from external book data)
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Dennis Kelley
In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as "American Indian" fall into the "urban Indian" category: away from tradit... (Description from external book data)
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Michael Stausberg
This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as: do travellers l... (Description from external book data)
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Peri Bearman
This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly rel... (Description from external book data)
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Abir Hamdar
Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world i... (Description from external book data)
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Kevin Cann
Today, many people do not understand the Kingdom system and that is because we are taught the world's system. God wants us to understand how... (Description from external book data)
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William Schweiker
Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world s religions, and also charts new directi... (Description from external book data)
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William P. Lazarus
Understand the beliefs, customs, and rituals of each faith The fun and easy way to know the common elements of these widespread religions Wa... (Description from external book data)
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Rumi
Philip Pullman, author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, has remarked that "after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the th... (Description from external book data)
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Leor Halevi
Leor Halevi examines the role of funerary practices in the formation of Islamic society during the religion's early period. He analyzes how ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Barbara D. Metcalf
In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious schol... (Description from external book data)
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Miri Rubin
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most powerful, influential and complex of all religious figures. The focus for women, the inspirati... (Description from external book data)
