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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781009335065
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
    Series Statement: The International African Library v.71
    DDC: 306.83096762
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    Abstract: Examines kinship dilemmas - moral, material, and affective - facing transnational families living between Kenya and the United Kingdom.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108861168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 303 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Aging / Moral and ethical aspects ; Older people ; Middle age ; Altern ; Lebensführung ; Sozialethik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Altern ; Sozialethik ; Altern ; Lebensführung
    Abstract: We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009103848
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 294 Seiten)
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    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Antisemitism / History / 21st century ; Antisemitism / Historiography ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Historiography ; Holocaust (Jewish theology) ; Judaism / Essence, genius, nature ; Judentum ; Judenvernichtung ; Antisemitismus ; Judentum ; Antisemitismus ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In this book, David Patterson offers original insights into the dynamics that underlie the phenomenon of endemic antisemitism, arguing that in all its manifestations, antisemitism is fundamentally anti-Judaism. Structured in a unique matrix of chapters that are linked historically and theoretically, his book elucidates the interconnections that tie antisemitism with the Holocaust, as well as the Judaism that the Nazis sought to obliterate from the world. As Patterson demonstrates this is an ongoing effort and is the basis of today's antisemitism. Spelling out the historical, theological, and philosophical viewpoints that led to the Holocaust and that are with us even now, he offers insights into the basis of the hatred of Jews that permeates much of today's world. Patterson here addresses the 'big questions' that define our humanity. His volume is written for those who wish to have a deeper understanding of both the history and the current manifestations of Antisemitism
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316106266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 443 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.23089/924037
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Jewish Children / Rome / History / To 510 B.C. ; Jewish Children / Rome / Social conditions / History / To 510 B.C. ; Kind ; Juden ; Rome / History / To 510 B.C. ; Römisches Reich ; Römisches Reich ; Juden ; Kind ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This is the first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. It follows minors into the spaces where they lived, learned, played, slept, and died and examines the actions and interaction of children with other children, with close-kin adults, and with strangers, both inside and outside the home. A wide range of sources are used, from the rabbinic rules to the surviving painted representations of children from synagogues, and due attention is paid to broader theoretical issues and approaches. Hagith Sivan concludes with four beautifully reconstructed 'autobiographies' of specific children, from a boy living and dying in a desert cave during the Bar-Kokhba revolt to an Alexandrian girl forced to leave her home and wander through the Mediterranean in search of a respite from persecution. The book tackles the major questions of the relationship between Jewish childhood and Jewish identity which remain important to this day
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2018) , Preface: What is the study of Jewish childhood? -- Part I: Theories -- Chapter 1. Theorizing the Jewish child -- Chapter 2. Vagaries of childhood: from cradles to graves -- Chapter 3. Bringing up boys -- Chapter 4. Daughters: delight or dissension? -- Chapter 5. Burdened at birth: the misbegotten and the malformed -- Part II: Children in the synagogue -- Chapter 6. Visualizing the Bible -- Chapter 7. The painted children of the Dura Europos Synagogue -- Part III: Autobiographies -- Chapter 8. Sukkot in a cave (CE 135) -- Chapter 9. Passover in the Port of Rome (Ostia c. CE 175) -- Chapter 10. Sabbath in Tiberias (c. 300) -- Chapter 11. The birth of a wandering Jewess (C. ce 415-435) -- Conclusion: The invention of rabbinic childhood
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139086141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagram
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    DDC: 297.7/2
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    Keywords: Jihad ; Jihad in literature ; Islamic music / History and criticism ; Islam ; Massenkultur ; Fundamentalismus ; Djihad ; Islamic countries / Civilization ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Djihad ; Fundamentalismus ; Islam ; Massenkultur
    Abstract: Al-Qaida and Islamic State continue to captivate the world with their extreme violence. While much attention has been given to the operations and doctrines of jihadi groups, this is the first book to explore their culture. Using a wealth of primary sources, the authors examine what goes on inside these organizations and what daily life is like for the foot-soldiers. They show that Islamist militants have a rich aesthetic culture and do much more than fight and train. Life in a jihadi group is in fact filled with poetry and music, and fighters spend time on surprising things like dream interpretation and weeping. Readers will discover an entirely new perspective on radical Islamists: that despite their reputation as macho men, they value humility, artistic sensitivity, and displays of emotion. Cultural practices are essential for understanding the jihadi worldview and may shed important new light on decision-making and recruitment processes in extremist groups. This original book will interest anyone in academia, government, or the general public who is intrigued by the appeal and resilience of the jihadi movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : what is jihadi culture and why should we study it? / Thomas Hegghammer -- Poetry in Jihadi culture / Robyn Creswell and Bernard Haykel -- A cappella songs (anashid) in Jihadi culture / Nelly Lahoud -- A musicological perspective on Jihadi anashid / Jonathan Pieslak -- The visual culture of Jihad / Afshon Ostovar -- A history of Jihadi cinematography / Anne Stenersen -- The Islamic dream tradition and Jihadi militancy / Iain R. Edgar and Gwynned de Looijer -- Contemporary martyrdom : ideology and material culture / David B. Cook -- Non-military practices in Jihadi groups / Thomas Hegghammer
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316681350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 296.7/4
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    Keywords: Judentum ; Recht ; Familienrecht ; Vertragsrecht ; Jüdisches Recht
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish family law has persevered for hundreds of years and rules covering marriage, the raising of children, and divorce are well established; yet pressures from modern society are causing long held views to be re-examined. The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law examines the tenets of Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women, assisted reproduction technologies, and prenuptial agreements. It explores, through interdisciplinary research combining the legal aspects of family law and contract law, how the Jewish family can cope with both old and modern obstacles and challenges. Focusing on the nexus of Jewish family law and contract law to propose how 'freedom of contract' can be part of how family law can be interpreted, The Jewish Family will appeal to practitioners, activists, academic researchers, and laymen readers who are interested in the fields of law, theology, and social science.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316711200
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chakrabarti, Anindita Faith and social movements
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    Keywords: Islamic renewal ; Hindu renewal ; Hindu renewal ; India ; Islamic renewal ; India ; Indien ; Religiöse Erneuerung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Indien ; Hinduismus ; Islam ; Religiöse Erneuerung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Geschichte 1900- ; Tablīġī Jamāʿat
    Abstract: How do we understand the multitude of faith movements in our post-secular world? Faith and Social Movements explores this question by analyzing the theology and practice as well as the transformation of two discrepant religious movements in contemporary India. The research opens up a conversation between the sociology of religion and social movements. Using a comparative lens, two different movements - a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - have been studied in ethnographic detail. The book is divided into two parts. The first part dwells on Svadhyaya, a Hindu reform movement, and the second part on the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic reform movement. Focusing on the internal dynamics of these movements and the 'unintended consequences' of piety, the author argues that it is only by raising new questions vis-à-vis religion, secularity and civil society that their entanglement could be uncovered. This book aims to raise some of these questions
    Abstract: Svadhyaya ethics and the spirit of voluntarism -- Theologies of self-reform: what transforms the cross? -- Praxis of an emergent congregation: metaphysics reform and rebirth -- The structure of Lokasam.graha: volunteers, networks and training -- Succession, routinization of charisma and judicial religion -- The Tablighi Jamaat's call for self-reform -- Pedagogy of Tablighi reform: mission and the messenger -- 'Unintended consequences' of piety and discourses of Islamic reform -- Religion, movements, and secularity
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    ISBN: 9781316393581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/2540176709033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1740-1750 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; Merchants / India / History / 18th century ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages / India / History / 18th century ; Educational exchanges / India / History / 18th century ; Intercultural communication / India / History / 18th century ; Sufi ; Kulturkontakt ; Handel ; Indien ; India / Relations / Islamic countries ; Islamic countries / Relations / India ; India / Social life and customs / 18th century ; Islamic countries / Social life and customs / 18th century ; India / Commerce / Islamic countries ; Islamic countries / Commerce / India ; Südasien ; Naher Osten ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Südasien ; Naher Osten ; Handel ; Kulturkontakt ; Sufi ; Geschichte 1740-1750
    Abstract: Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middle East and South Asia. Gagan Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, scribes, among others - who were engaged in activities marked by large distances and long silences. By elucidating their everyday lives in a range of settings, from the family household to the polity at large, Sood pieces together the connective tissue of a world that lay beyond the sovereign purview. Recapturing this obscured and neglected world helps us better understand the region during a pivotal moment in its history, and offers new answers to old questions concerning early modern Eurasia and its transition to colonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue -- Introduction -- Cognitive patterns : accessing and making sense of the world -- A cosmic order: the meaning and end of life -- A familial order : ties of blood, duty and affect -- A relational order : intimates, strangers and plurality -- A communications order : language, writing and couriers -- A political order : temporal authority and governance -- Everyday practices : indispensable skills and techniques -- Flows and interactions : the connective tissue of the arena -- Conclusion -- Glossary
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316661987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 284 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: The International African library 52
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thurston, Alexander, 1983 - Salafism in Nigeria
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    Keywords: Boko Haram. ; Boko Haram ; Salafīyah Nigeria. ; Salafīyah Saudi Arabia. ; Salafīyah. ; Salafīyah ; Salafīyah ; Salafīyah ; Boko Haram ; Salafīyah ; Salafīyah ; Nigeria ; Salafīyah ; Saudi Arabia ; Nigeria Nord ; Salafija ; Boko Haram ; Nigeria ; Salafija ; Boko Haram ; Saudi-Arabien ; Islamischer Staat ; Terroristische Vereinigung ; Afrika
    Abstract: The spectre of Boko Haram and its activities in Nigeria dominates both media and academic analysis of Islam in the region. But, as Alexander Thurston argues here, beyond the sensational headlines this group generates, the dynamics of Muslim life in northern Nigeria remain poorly understood. Drawing on interviews with leading Salafis in Nigeria as well as on a rereading of the history of the global Salafi movement, this volume explores how a canon of classical and contemporary texts defines Salafism. Examining how these texts are interpreted and - crucially - who it is that has the authority to do so, Thurston offers a systematic analysis of curricula taught in Saudi Arabia and how they shape religious scholars' approach to religion and education once they return to Africa. Essential for scholars of religion and politics, this unique text explores how the canon of Salafism has been used and refined, from Nigeria's return to democracy to the jihadist movement Boko Haram.
    Abstract: Defining Salafism, analysing canons -- Salafism and its transmission -- The canon and canonizers -- Africans and Saudi Arabia -- Nigerians in Medina -- The canon in action -- Teaching the canon -- The canon in religious debates and electronic media -- The canon in politics -- Boko Haram and the canon -- Boko Haram from Salafism to Jihadism -- Reclaiming the canon
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139506366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical perspectives on empire
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    DDC: 305.6/970947409034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1788-1914 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Muslims / Russia (Federation) / Volga-Ural Region / History ; Muslims / Russia (Federation) / Volga-Ural Region / Social conditions ; Community life / Russia (Federation) / Volga-Ural Region / History ; Islam / Social aspects / Russia (Federation) / Volga-Ural Region / History ; Social change / Russia (Federation) / Volga-Ural Region / History ; Muslims / Russia / History ; Imperialism / Social aspects / Russia / History ; Muslim ; Russland ; Volga-Ural Region (Russia) / Ethnic relations ; Volga-Ural Region (Russia) / Social conditions ; Russia / History / 1801-1917 ; Russland ; Russland ; Muslim ; Geschichte 1788-1914
    Abstract: Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia's Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations
    Description / Table of Contents: A world of Muslims -- 2. Connecting Volga-Ural Muslims to the Russian State -- 3. Russification : unmediated governance and the Empire's quest for ideal subjects -- 4. Peasant responses : protecting the inviolability of the Muslim domain -- 5. Russia's great transformation in the second half of the long nineteenth century (1860-1914) -- 6. The wealthy : prospering with the sea-change and giving back -- 7. The cult of progress -- 8. Alienation of the Muslim intelligentsia -- 9. Imperial paranoia -- 10. Flexibility of the Imperial domain and the limits of integration
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316424032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 368 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Canto classics
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human geography ; Biogeography ; Europeans Migrations ; Human ecology ; Human ecology ; Europeans ; Migrations ; Human geography ; Biogeography
    Abstract: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the most important agricultural lands in the world. In the second edition, Crosby revisits his now classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316154953
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 200 pages)
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    Abstract: Muslim Belonging in Secular India surveys the experience of some of India's most prominent Muslim communities in the early postcolonial period. Muslims who remained in India after the Partition of 1947 faced distrust and discrimination, and were consequently compelled to seek new ways of defining their relationship with fellow citizens of India and its governments. Using the forcible integration of the princely state of Hyderabad in 1948 as a case study, Taylor C. Sherman reveals the fragile and contested nature of Muslim belonging in the decade that followed independence. In this context, she demonstrates how Muslim claims to citizenship in Hyderabad contributed to intense debates over the nature of democracy and secularism in independent India. Drawing on detailed new archival research, Dr Sherman provides a thorough and compelling examination of the early governmental policies and popular strategies that have helped to shape the history of Muslims in India since 1947.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139629300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 321 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.8924
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    Keywords: Antisemitismus ; Metaphysik ; Philosophische Anthropologie
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139047586
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 351 pages)
    DDC: 306.09538
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Sozialer Wandel ; Saudi-Arabien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.
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    ISBN: 9781107337732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 277 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 46
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    Abstract: Toby Matthiesen traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. This book outlines the difficult experiences of being Shia in a Wahhabi state, and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position. Shia petitioned the rulers, joined secular opposition parties and founded Islamist movements. Most Saudi Shia opposition activists profited from an amnesty in 1993 and subsequently found a place in civil society and the public sphere. However, since 2011 a new Shia protest movement has again challenged the state. The Other Saudis shows how exclusionary state practices created an internal Other and how sectarian discrimination has strengthened Shia communal identities. The book is based on little-known Arabic sources, extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and interviews with key activists. Of immense geopolitical importance, the oil-rich Eastern Province is a crucial but little known factor in regional politics and Gulf security.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107298606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 280 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: The International African library 47
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Van Wyk, Ilana, 1977 - The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa
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    Keywords: Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. ; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus ; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus ; South Africa ; Church history ; South Africa ; Religion ; 20th century ; South Africa ; Religion ; 21st century ; South Africa Church history. ; South Africa Religion, 20th century. ; South Africa Religion, 21st century. ; South Africa Religion 20th century ; South Africa Religion 21st century ; South Africa Church history ; Südafrika ; Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
    Abstract: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.
    Abstract: Christian warriors and spiritual warfare -- On the frontlines -- Women of God, love and marriage -- The leaking nature of things -- Gossiping demons, strong words and lies -- Profit prophets and God's money -- Family demons and the blessed life
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139839174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 305.6/97094
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    Keywords: Muslim ; Integration ; Assimilation ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Öffentliche Einrichtung ; Rechtsstellung ; Politik ; Soziale Situation ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming that each country has its own national ideology that explains such interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107323674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 252 pages)
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: As religion has become more visible in public life, with closer relations of co-operation with government as well as a force in some political campaigns, its place in public life has become more contested. Fudged compromises of the past are giving way to a desire for clear lines and moral principles. This book brings the disciplines of law, sociology, politics and theology into conversation with one anther to shed light on the questions thrown up by 'religion in a liberal state'. It discusses practical problems in a British context, such as the accommodation of religious dress, discrimination against sexual minorities and state support for historic religions; considers legal frameworks of equality and human rights; and elucidates leading ideas of neutrality, pluralism, secularism and public reason. Fundamentally, it asks what it means to be liberal in a world in which religious diversity is becoming more present and more problematic.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107014084 , 9781107291164 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 304 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781107291164
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    DDC: 305.6970955
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    Keywords: Geschichte 800-1100 ; Iranier ; Islam ; Islamisierung ; Konversion ; Ethnische Identität ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Iran ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: This book focuses on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139005159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 280 Seiten)
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    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Keywords: Bible / Leviticus / Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bibel ; Geschichte ; Bibel ; Juden ; Jews / Identity ; Rabbinical literature / History and criticism ; Jews / Cultural assimilation ; Judentum ; Rezeption ; Religiöse Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Judentum ; Religiöse Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschichte ; Bibel 18,3 Levitikus ; Rezeption ; Judentum ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers for whom religious identity revolves around ritual and worship. In Leviticus 18:3's story of Jewishness, sexual practice and cultural habits instead loom large. The readings in this book are on a micro-level, but their implications are far-ranging: Berkowitz transforms both our notion of Bible-reading and our sense of how Jews have defined Jewishness
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 -- The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 -- Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu -- A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings -- The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah -- A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah -- Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud -- The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon -- Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness -- Conclusion : an "upside-down people"?
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107011045 , 9781139232180 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 266 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139232180
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    Keywords: Völkermord ; Judenvernichtung ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Gewalt
    Abstract: Drawing upon Jewish categories of thought, this book suggests a way of thinking that might help prevent genocide.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521879491 , 9781139159876 , 9781283340946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 345 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
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    Keywords: Social conflict Religious aspects ; History ; Social conflict History ; South Asia Religion
    Abstract: An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: community and conflict in South Asia; 2. Building spheres of community: 1860s - 1910s; 3. Transforming spheres of community: the post First World War wold; 4. Nationalising spheres of community: anti-colonialism and religious politics; 5. The 1940s, state transformation, community and conflict; 6. National integrity and pluralism, 1947-1967; 7. The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139005159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 280 pages)
    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Judentum ; Religiöse Identität ; Ethnische Identität
    Abstract: This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity more generally. The story of Jewishness that this book tells may surprise many modern readers for whom religious identity revolves around ritual and worship. In Leviticus 18:3's story of Jewishness, sexual practice and cultural habits instead loom large. The readings in this book are on a micro-level, but their implications are far-ranging: Berkowitz transforms both our notion of Bible-reading and our sense of how Jews have defined Jewishness.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511734779
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages)
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    DDC: 303.3/7201
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Social values ; Social norms ; Values ; Normativity (Ethics) ; Social sciences / Moral and ethical aspects ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Ethik ; Wert ; Electronic books ; Wert ; Ethik ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of beings people are, the quality of their social relations, their material circumstances or well-being. The author shows how social theory and philosophy need to change to reflect the complexity of everyday ethical concerns and the importance people attach to dignity. He argues for a robustly critical social science that explains and evaluates social life from the standpoint of human flourishing
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: a relation to the world of concern -- Values within reason -- Reason beyond rationality: values and practical reason -- Beings for whom things matter -- Understanding the ethical dimension of life -- Dignity -- Critical social science and its rationales -- Implications for social science -- Appendix: comments on philosophical theories of ethics
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 375 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
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    Abstract: This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521896511 , 9781139137454 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139137454
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9781139141475
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521879491 , 9781139158824 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 368 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139158824
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    DDC: 954.035
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-2010 ; Religiöse Identität ; Politische Identität ; Konflikt ; Südasien
    Abstract: An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511780233
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 316 pages)
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    Abstract: Archaeological evidence shows there was contact between Muslims and the British Isles from the 8th century. Beginning with these historical roots, Sophie Gilliat-Ray traces the major points of encounter between Muslims and the British in subsequent centuries, and explores Muslim migration to Britain in recent times. Drawing upon sociology, anthropology, politics, and geography, this comprehensive survey provides an informed understanding of the daily lives of British Muslims. It portrays the dynamic of institutions such as families, mosques and religious leadership, and analyses their social and political significance in today's Britain. Through the study of the historical origins of major Islamic reform movements, it draws attention to the religious diversity within different Muslim communities, and sheds fresh light on contemporary issues such as the nature of religious authority and representation. It also considers British Muslim civic engagement and cultural life, particularly the work of journalists, artists, sports personalities, and business entrepreneurs.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139002752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 337 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge collections online
    Series Statement: The companions to philosophy, religion and culture
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    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude Philosophy ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude Criticism and interpretation ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Philosophie ; Structural anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
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    ISBN: 9781139002752
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 337 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge collections online
    Series Statement: The companions to philosophy, religion and culture
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    Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude Philosophy ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude Criticism and interpretation ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Philosophie ; Structural anthropology ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511626784
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 304 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states
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    Keywords: Public welfare Religious aspects ; Christianity. ; Social classes ; Welfare state ; Welfare state. ; Social classes. ; Public welfare Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Public welfare ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Welfare state ; Social classes ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Christentum ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Soziale Klasse
    Abstract: This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts decided whether class remained the dominant source of coalition building or whether a political logic not exclusively based on socio-economic interests (e.g. religion) was introduced into politics, particularly social policy. The political class-coalitions in countries with majoritarian systems, on the other hand, allowed only for the residual-liberal welfare state to emerge, as in the US or the UK. This book also reconsiders the role of Protestantism. Reformed Protestantism substantially delayed and restricted modern social policy. The Lutheran state churches positively contributed to the introduction of social protection programs.
    Abstract: Religion and the western welfare state : the theoretical context / Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen -- Western European party systems and the religious cleavage / Thomas Ertman -- The religious foundations of work-family policies in western Europe / Kimberly J. Morgan -- Italy : a Christian democratic or clientelist welfare state? / Julia Lynch -- Religion and the welfare state in the Netherlands / Kees van Kersbergen -- A conservative welfare state regime without Christian democracy? The French État-Providence, 1880-1960 / Philip Manow and Bruno Palier -- Religion and the consolidation of the Swiss welfare state, 1848-1945 / Herbert Obinger -- The church as nation? The role of religion in the development of the Swedish welfare state / Karen M. Anderson -- The religious factor in U.S. welfare state politics / Jill Quadagno and Deana Rohlinger -- Religious doctrines and poor relief : a different causal pathway / Sigrun Kahl
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511815300 , 9780521678742 , 9780521861472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 614 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Rapoport, Yossef Shari’a: theory, practice, transformations. By Wael B. Hallaq. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix, 614 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-67874-2 (paperback). 68 2013
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hallaq, Wael B., 1955 - Shariʿa
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    Keywords: Islamic law Interpretation and construction ; Islamic law Philosophy ; Islamic law ; Islamic law History ; Islamic law ; History ; Islamic law ; Islamic law ; Interpretation and construction ; Islamic law ; Philosophy ; Islamisches Recht
    Abstract: In recent years, Islamic law, or Shari'a, has been appropriated as a tool of modernity in the Muslim world and in the West and has become highly politicised in consequence. Wael Hallaq's magisterial overview of Shari'a sets the record straight by examining the doctrines and practices of Islamic law within the context of its history, and by showing how it functioned within pre-modern Islamic societies as a moral imperative. In so doing, Hallaq takes the reader on an epic journey tracing the history of Islamic law from its beginnings in seventh-century Arabia, through its development and transformation under the Ottomans, and across lands as diverse as India, Africa and South-East Asia, to the present. In a remarkably fluent narrative, the author unravels the complexities of his subject to reveal a love and deep knowledge of the law which will inform, engage and challenge the reader
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511812675
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 376 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Internationale Politik ; Peace ; Peace movements / History ; International relations ; Conflict management ; Pazifismus ; Friede ; Friedensbewegung ; Electronic book ; Friedensbewegung ; Geschichte ; Friede ; Friedensbewegung ; Friede ; Pazifismus
    Abstract: Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all placed within a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about 'the responsibility to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. What is peace? -- Idealism and realism -- New wars -- Defining terms -- What's in a word? -- "Pacifist" Japan? -- Latin American and African traditions -- Pacifism and "just war" -- An outline of peace history -- An overview of peacemaking ideas -- pt. I. Movements -- 2. The first peace societies -- Stirrings -- Social origins and political agendas -- Elihu Burritt : the learned blacksmith --The first peace congresses --The right of self-determination -- Universalizing peace -- The Hague Peace Conference -- Not enough -- 3. Toward internationalism -- Concepts and trends -- The arbitration revolution -- A League of Nations -- Wilson's vision -- The challenge of supporting the League -- Outlawing war -- 4. Facing fascism -- Peace movement reborn -- Pledging war resistance -- Revolutionary antimilitarism -- The Peace Ballot -- Against appeasement -- Imperial failure -- The neutrality debate -- The emergency peace campaign --
    Description / Table of Contents: Losing Spain -- The end of "pacifism" -- 5. Debating disarmament -- Early reluctance -- Disarmament to the fore -- Challenging the "merchants of death" -- The naval disarmament treaties -- World disarmament conference -- The collapse of disarmament -- Disarmament at fault? -- 6. Confronting the cold war -- Creating the United Nations -- The rise of world federalism -- Cold war collapse -- Militarization and resistance in Japan -- The leviathan -- Speaking truth to power -- 7. Banning the bomb -- The shock of discovery -- Scientists organize -- The Baruch plan -- For nuclear sanity -- The beginning of arms control -- Nuclear pacifism in Japan -- The rise of the nuclear freeze -- God against the bomb -- A prairie fire -- Ferment in Europe -- Who won? -- Lessons from the end of the cold war -- 8. Refusing war -- Vietnam : a triangular movement -- Challenging presidents, constraining escalation -- Social disruption and political costs -- Resistance in the military --
    Description / Table of Contents: The rise of conscientious objection -- The movement against war in Iraq -- Winning while losing -- Countering the "war on terror."
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. II. Themes -- 9. Religion -- Eastern traditions -- Study war no more -- Salaam and jihad -- Christianity -- Anabaptists and Quakers -- Tolstoy's anarchist pacifism -- Social Christianity -- Catholic peacemaking -- Niebuhr's challenge -- Beyond perfectionism -- The nonviolent alternative -- 10. A force more powerful -- Religious roots -- Action for change -- Coercion and nonviolence -- The power of love -- Spirit and method -- Two hands -- A tool against tyranny -- Courage and strength -- 11. Democracy -- Early voices -- Democracy against militarism -- Cobden : peace through free trade -- Kant : the philosopher of peace -- Human nature -- For democratic control -- The Kantian triad -- The insights of feminism -- Empowering women -- 12. Social justice -- Socialism and pacifism : early differences -- Convergence -- The Leninist critique -- Scientific pacifism -- Peace through economic justice -- The development-peace nexus -- Development for whom? -- 13. Responsibility to protect -- Bridging the cold war divide -- War for democracy? -- Opposing war, advancing freedom -- Human rights and security -- Debating Kosovo -- The responsibility to protect -- Peace operations -- The challenge in Darfur -- 14. A moral equivalent -- The belligerence of the masses -- Peace and its discontents : the Einstein-Freud dialogue -- Nonmilitary service -- Nonviolent warriors -- Transforming conflict -- Human security service -- Patriotic pacifism -- 15. Realizing disarmament -- From nonproliferation to disarmament -- The Canberra Commission -- Sparking the debate -- "Weapons of terror" -- What is zero? -- 16. Realistic pacifism -- Theory -- Practice -- Action -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511511769
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 519 pages)
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 400-1600 ; Eheschließung ; Ehe ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva, the volume provides a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the range of marital customs, laws, and practices in Western Christendom. The chapters include freshly translated specimen documents that bring the reader closer to the actual practice of marrying than the normative literature of pre-modern theology and canon law.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511809309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 223 pages)
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    Abstract: Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic, highly differentiated picture. It contends with the monist concept of identity that suggests Islam is the shared and main definition of Muslims living in Europe. The contributors also explore the influence of the European Union on the Muslim communities within its borders, and examine how the EU is in turn affected by the Muslim presence in Europe. This book comes at a critical moment in the evolution of the place of Islam within Europe and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of European studies, politics and policies of the European Union, sociology, sociology of religion, and international relations. It also addresses the wider framework of uncertainties and unease about religion in Europe.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511817854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 309 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Hinlicky, Paul R., 1952 - [Rezension von: Kidd, Colin, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000] 2008
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kidd, Colin, 1964 - The forging of races
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 270.8089
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    Keywords: Bible ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Race Biblical teaching. ; Race Religious aspects ; Christianity. ; Race Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Race Biblical teaching ; Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Race ; Biblical teaching ; Race ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Protestantismus ; Rassismus ; Geschichte 1600-2000 ; Evangelische Theologie ; Exegese ; Rasse ; Geschichte 1600-2000
    Abstract: This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between 1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is colour-blind, its interpreters have imported racial significance into the scriptures. Kidd's study probes the theological anxieties which lurked behind the confident facade of of white racial supremacy in the age of empire and race slavery, as well as the ways in which racialist ideas left their mark upon new forms of religiosity. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the histories of race or religion.
    Abstract: Prologue : race in the eye of the beholder -- Introduction : race as scripture problem -- Race and religious orthodoxy in the early modern era -- Race, the Enlightenment and the authority of scripture -- Monogenesis, slavery and the nineteenth-century crisis of faith -- The Aryan moment : racialising religion in the nineteenth century -- Forms of racialized religion -- Black counter-theologies
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 385 pages)
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    DDC: 305.6/97/0899607
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze. USA ; Sklaverei ; African Americans / History ; Africans / America / History ; Muslims / America / History ; Islam / America / History ; Africans / America / Religion ; African Americans / Religion ; Muslims, Black / America / History ; Slavery / America / History ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Muslim ; Schwarze ; Amerika ; USA ; United States / Race relations ; America / Race relations ; USA ; USA ; Schwarze ; Muslim ; Ethnische Beziehungen
    Abstract: Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots
    Description / Table of Contents: Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas -- Caribbean crescent -- Brazilian sambas -- Muslims in New York -- Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort : African Muslims in the early North American South -- Breaking away : Noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America -- The nation -- Malcolm
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052184715X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 137 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilisation
    Parallel Title: Print version Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
    DDC: 306/.0917/67
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    Keywords: Divorce History To 1500 ; Divorce History To 1500 ; Marriage (Islamic law) ; Divorce (Islamic law) ; Marriage History To 1500 ; Marriage History To 1500 ; Divorce History To 1500 ; Marriage History To 1500 ; Islamic countries Social conditions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Marriage, divorce and the gender division of property; CHAPTER 2 Working women, single women and the rise of the female ribat; CHAPTER 3 The monetization of marriage; CHAPTER 4 Divorce, repudiation and settlement; CHAPTER 5 Repudiation and public power; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 385 pages)
    DDC: 305.6/97/0899607
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Muslim ; Amerika
    Abstract: Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511197697
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (154 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    DDC: 306.091767
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    Keywords: Islam ; Mittelalter ; Ehe ; Ehescheidung
    Abstract: The author explores gender relations, marriage and divorce in medieval Islamic society.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781139149068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    DDC: 306.69709598
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    Keywords: Islam ; Recht ; Gleichberechtigung ; Kulturanthropologie ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This book looks at how Muslims in Indonesia struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511615122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 289 pages)
    DDC: 340.5/9/09598
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    Keywords: Islam ; Recht ; Gleichberechtigung ; Kulturanthropologie ; Indonesien ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and rule of law. In this 2003 study, John Bowen explores this struggle, through archival and ethnographic research in villages and courtrooms of the Aceh Province, Sumatra, and through interviews with national religious and legal figures. He analyses the social frameworks for disputes about land, inheritance, marriage, divorce, Islamic History and, more broadly, about the relationships between the state and Islam, and between Muslims and non-Muslims. The book speaks to debates carried out in all societies about how people can live together with their deep differences in values and ways of life. It will be welcomed by scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, cultural sociology and political theory.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781139146029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.409031
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    Keywords: Luther, Martin ; Frauenbild ; Frau ; Quelle
    Abstract: This collection brings together a wide selection of Martin Luther's extensive writings on women.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489532
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 180 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 112
    DDC: 306.6/8267825
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Volksfrömmigkeit ; Tansania
    Abstract: In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.
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    ISBN: 9781139145701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (200 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology v.112
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    Parallel Title: Print version Priests, Witches and Power : Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
    DDC: 306.609676
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    Keywords: Catholic Church ; Tanzania ; Ulanga District ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book discusses in a historical context how Christianity has been adopted in Southern Tanzania.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 Global Christianity and the structure of power -- The anthropology of Christianity -- Civil society and rural Africa -- Rural power and modes of domination -- 2 Colonial conquest and the consolidation of marginality -- Historical geographies -- Ethnicity and inclusion in Ulanga -- Establishing marginality -- German colonialism and the East Africa company -- Impacts of war -- Indirect rule and the control of nature -- Independence and socialism. The nationalisation of poverty -- Policy continuity in the post-colonial period -- 3 Evangelisation in Ulanga -- Post-colonial continuities -- Conversion and power: the Benedictine conquest -- Capuchin expansion -- Promoting natural increase: the 'matrimonial agency business' -- The economics of mission -- 4 The persistence of mission -- The price of self reliance -- The 'religion of business' -- Legacies of mission -- Priests: businessmen or ritual specialists? -- 'African Europeans': the Africanisation of the clergy -- The post-missionary position -- 5 Popular Christianity -- Formal Christianity -- Giving a name -- Being Christian -- Blessings and powers -- Son, mother and spirits -- Remembering Christ -- Embodying Christianity -- 6 Kinshipand the creation of relationship -- Gender and female autonomy -- The Christian family -- The marriage process -- Descent and the matrilineal opportunity -- Constituting paternity -- Gender and power -- 7 Engendering power -- Gender as process -- Heat and life -- Managing power -- Unyago and the fertility of women -- Maiden of the inside -- The first cucumber seeds -- Bathing the mwali -- Containing female fertility -- 8 Women's work -- The bitterness of mourning -- Houses and women's space -- Burial -- The gradual removal of death -- Gender matters.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511499326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 249 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.6/99
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Cults ; Gewalt ; Neue Religiosität ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Neue Religiosität ; Gewalt
    Abstract: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by the members of Heaven's Gate. They explore the dynamics leading to these dramatic episodes in North America, Europe, and Asia, and offer insights into the general relationship between violence and religious cults in contemporary society. The authors conclude that these events usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized
    Description / Table of Contents: Violence and religion in perspective / David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton -- Dramatic denouements / David G. Bromley -- Challenging misconceptions about the new religions-violence connection / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley -- Sources of volatility in religious movements / Thomas Robbins -- Crises of charismatic legitimacy and violent behavior in new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Public agency involvement in government-religious movement confrontations / Stuart A. Wright -- Watching for violence: a comparative analysis of the roles of five types of cult-watching groups / Eileen Barker -- Mass suicide and the Branch Davidians / John R. Hall -- Occult masters and the Temple of Doom: the fiery end of the Solar Temple / Massimo Introvigne and Jean-François Mayer -- Dramatic confrontations: Aum Shinrikyô against the world / Ian Reader -- Making sense of the Heaven's Gate suicides / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- Lessons from the past, perspective for the future / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511500060
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/25/08996073
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Kind ; Religiöses Verhalten ; USA
    Abstract: African-American Children at Church explores African-American socialization beliefs and practices, based on findings of a unique, four-year long study in a Baptist church in Salt Lake City, Utah. By combining the ethnographic approaches of anthropology with the detailed naturalistic observations of developmental psychology, Dr Haight provides a rich description of actual socialization practices along with an interpretation of what those patterns mean to the participants themselves. Based on extensive interviews with successful African-American adults involved with children, this book begins with the exploration of adults' beliefs about socialization issues focusing on the role of religion in the development of resilience. Drawing from naturalistic observations of adult-child interaction, the book then describes actual socialization contexts and practices that help to nurture competencies in African-American children. The text focuses on Sunday School and includes narrative practices and patterns of adult-child conflict and play.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511019866 , 9780511019869
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 311 p , 24 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2003 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Powell, Mark Allan, 1953 - [Rezension von: Bockmuehl, Markus, The Cambridge Companion to Jesus] 2004
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to religion
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Cambridge companion to Jesus
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    Keywords: Jesus Christ. ; Jesus Christ History of doctrines. ; Jesus Christ ; Jesus Christ History of doctrines ; Jesus Christ ; Jesus Christ History of doctrines ; Jesus Christ. ; Jesus Christ History of doctrines. ; Jesus Christ Biography ; History of doctrines ; Jesus Christus ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Jesus Christus
    Abstract: Context, family and formation Craig A. Evans -- Jesus and his Judaism Peter J. Tomson -- Jesus and his God Marianne Meye Thompson -- Message and miracles Graham Stanton -- Friends and enemies Bruce Chilton -- Crucifixion Joel B. Green -- Resurrection Markus Bockmuehl -- Sources and methods Christopher Tuckett -- Quests for the historical Jesus James Carleton Paget -- The quest for the real Jesus Francis Watson -- Many gospels, one Jesus? Stephen C. Barton -- The Christ of the Old and New Testaments R.W.L. Moberly -- Jesus in Christian doctrine Alan Torrance -- A history of faith in Jesus Rowan Williams -- The global Jesus Teresa Okure -- Jerusalem after Jesus David B. Burrell -- The future of Jesus Christ Richard Bauckham
    Description / Table of Contents: Context, family and formation /Craig A. Evans --Jesus and his Judaism /Peter J. Tomson --Jesus and his God /Marianne Meye Thompson --Message and miracles /Graham Stanton --Friends and enemies /Bruce Chilton --Crucifixion /Joel B. Green --Resurrection /Markus Bockmuehl --Sources and methods /Christopher Tuckett --Quests for the historical Jesus /James Carleton Paget --The quest for the real Jesus /Francis Watson --Many gospels, one Jesus? /Stephen C. Barton --The Christ of the Old and New Testaments /R.W.L. Moberly --Jesus in Christian doctrine /Alan Torrance --A history of faith in Jesus /Rowan Williams --The global Jesus /Teresa Okure --Jerusalem after Jesus /David B. Burrell --The future of Jesus Christ /Richard Bauckham.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-298) and indexes , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003 , Context, family and formation , Jesus and his Judaism , Jesus and his God , Message and miracles , Friends and enemies , Crucifixion , Resurrection , Sources and methods , Quests for the historical Jesus , The quest for the real Jesus , Many gospels, one Jesus? , The Christ of the Old and New Testaments , Jesus in Christian doctrine , A history of faith in Jesus , The global Jesus , Jerusalem after Jesus , The future of Jesus Christ
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511155840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (242 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Print version African-American Children at Church : A Sociocultural Perspective
    DDC: 303.3/25/08996073
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    Keywords: African American children Religious life ; African American children ; Religious life ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Describes socialization beliefs and practices within an African-American church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- GOALS OF THE BOOK -- A SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESILIENCY -- THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH AS A CONTEXT OF SOCIALIZATION -- THE CASE: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH -- THE ETHNOGRAPHIC-DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- CHAPTER TWO The African-American Church and the Socialization of Children's Resiliency -- THE CHURCH AS A CONTEXT OF PARTICIPATION FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN -- THE CHURCH AS A CONTEXT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALTERNATIVE BELIEF SYSTEM -- SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEOLOGY -- SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AS A PROTECTIVE FACTOR -- SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH STORY TELLING -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER THREE Research Strategy -- METHOD -- Research Site -- The Sunday School Staff -- The Pastor -- The Superintendent -- The Teachers -- The Children -- Other Community Members -- Sunday School Classes -- Kindergarten and Primary Classes -- Junior Class -- Intermediate Class -- Procedures -- Entering and Sampling the Sunday School Classes -- Sunday School Observations -- Interviews -- Observations of Other Contexts -- Key Characteristics of the Data Set -- Naturalistic Observational Approach -- Sustained Community Involvement -- Multiple Informants -- Multiple Contexts of Observation -- Multiple Methods -- Multiple Data Collectors -- Rapport Building -- Reliability Checks -- CONCLUSION -- PART TWO PATTERNS OF SOCIALIZATION AND PARTICIPATION -- CHAPTER FOUR African-Americans in Salt Lake City: A Historical and Social Overview -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN UTAH -- THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN UTAHN COMMUNITY TODAY -- THE MORMON CHURCH AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY -- MEETING THE CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER FIVE The Teachers.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511018738 , 0511175663 , 051148951X , 0521780225 , 0521785049 , 9780511018732 , 9780511175664 , 9780511489518 , 9780521780223 , 9780521785044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 264 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 14
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-2000 ; Feminism (Egypt) ; Féminisme / Égypte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory ; Feminism ; Secularism ; Islam and secularism ; Islam ; Säkularismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Ägypten ; Ägypten ; Säkularismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Islam ; Geschichte 1919-2000
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511151446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (278 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Kay, William K. The globalisation of charismatic Christianity. Spreading the gospel of prosperity. By Simon Coleman. (Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion, 12.) Pp. xii+264 incl. 4 ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £37.50. 0 521 66072 6 2002
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Beyer, Peter The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Simon Coleman 2002
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion v.12
    Parallel Title: Coleman, Simon, 1963 - The globalisation of charismatic Christianity
    DDC: 306.6804
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    Keywords: Christianity and culture ; Sweden ; Uppsala ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Charismatische Bewegung ; Wohlstandsevangelium ; Globalisierung ; Evangelikale Bewegung ; Fundamentalismus ; Pfingstbewegung ; Livets Ord ; Schweden ; Wort-des-Glaubens-Bewegung
    Abstract: This 2000 book is about conservative Protestant Christians and their spread around the globe.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- GLOBALISATION AS SOCIAL PROCESS AND EMBODIED PRACTICE -- CONTEXTS: PERSONAL, INTELLECTUAL, CULTURAL -- THE ORDER OF CHAPTERS -- CHAPTER ONE A 'weird babel of tongues': charisma in the modern world -- CONSERVATIVE CHARISMATICS -- SACRED TEXT AND HOLY TOUCH: FUNDAMENTALISTS AND CHARISMATICS -- PREACHERS OF PROSPERITY -- PROSPERITY GOES GLOBAL -- THE ORIGINS OF FAITH TEACHING -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER TWO 'Faith which conquers the world': globalisation and charisma -- TRANSFORMATION OR INTENSIFICATION? -- DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALISATION -- Media -- Forms of organisation -- Orientation -- THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT -- CHAPTER THREE Sweden: national 'state' and global 'site' -- BUILDING THE MIDDLE WAY -- AN IDEOLOGY OF MODERNITY -- FROM THE MIDDLE WAY TO A PLURALITY OF PATHS? -- CHAPTER FOUR The Word of Life: organising global culture -- ORIGINS -- STRUCTURES -- CONNECTIONS -- ADHERENTS -- SOCIALITY AND COMMITMENT -- CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER FIVE Words: from narrative to embodiment -- NARRATIVE EMPLACEMENT -- DRAMATISATION -- INTERNALISATION -- EXTERNALISATION -- GLOBALISING HABITUS -- CHAPTER SIX Aesthetics: from iconography to architecture -- CHRIST AS BODY-BUILDER -- BUILDING FAITH -- CHRIST AS CHILD AND MAN -- CHAPTER SEVEN Broadcasting the faith -- MEDIATED PRACTICES -- FRAMING CONSCIOUSNESS -- TECHNOLOGISING THE SELF -- CHAPTER EIGHT Expansive agency -- PRACTISING PROSPERITY -- THE CHARISMATIC GIFT -- AGENCY, POWER AND PERSONHOOD -- CHAPTER NINE Contesting the nation -- CONTROVERSY -- RESPONSES AND REDEFINITIONS -- A MICROCOSM OF GLOBALISATION? -- CHAPTER TEN The Word and the world -- A GLOBAL LANDSCAPE OF FAITH? -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780511156144
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies v.14
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-2000 ; Frauenbewegung ; Säkularismus ; Islam ; Ägypten
    Abstract: Challenging recent scholarship, Al-Ali explores anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented women's activism in Egypt.
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    ISBN: 9780511488412
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 236 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought 8
    DDC: 306.6/092
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    Keywords: Said, Edward W. ; Religionsphilosophie ; Kulturphilosophie
    Abstract: This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predicated. This distinction is both literal and figurative. It refers, on the one hand, to religious traditions and to secular traditions and, on the other hand, to tropes that extend the meaning and reference of religion and secularism in indeterminate ways. The author takes these tropes as the best way of organizing Said's heterogeneous corpus - from Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, his first book, to Orientalism, his most influential book, to his recent writings on the Palestinian question. The religion-secularism distinction, as an act of imagination and narrative continuity, lies behind Said's cultural criticism, his notion of intellectual responsibility, and his public controversy with Michael Walzer about the meaning and the uses of the Exodus story and about the question of Palestine.
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    ISBN: 9780511492259
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 228 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 13
    DDC: 305.6/0955
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    Keywords: Religiöse Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Iran
    Abstract: Eliz Sanasarian's book explores the political and ideological relationship between non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran and the state during the formative years of the Islamic Republic to the present day. Her analysis is based on a detailed examination of the history and experiences of the Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and Iranian Christians, and describes how these communities have responded to state policies regarding minorities. Many of her findings are constructed out of personal interviews with members of these communities. While the book is essentially an empirical study, it also highlights more general questions associated with exclusion and marginalization and the role of the state in defining these boundaries. This is an important and original book which will make a significant contribution to the literature on minorities and to the workings of the Islamic Republic.
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    ISBN: 9780511520822
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 280 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Martin, David Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution. The Jacobin dimension of modernity. By S. N. Eisenstadt. (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies.) Pp. xiv+280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. £40 (cloth), £14.95 (paper). 0 521 64184 5; 0 521 64586 7 2001
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aizenshṭadṭ, Shemuʾel Noaḥ, 1923 - 2010 Fundamentalism, sectarianism, and revolution
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    Keywords: Religious fundamentalism Political aspects. ; Civilization, Modern. ; Radicalism. ; Radicalism ; Civilization, Modern ; Religious fundamentalism Political aspects ; Religious fundamentalism ; Political aspects ; Civilization, Modern ; Radicalism ; Moderne ; Fundamentalismus ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in cultural and political context, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt examines the meaning of the global rise of fundamentalism as one very forceful contemporary response to tensions in modernity and the dynamics of civilization. He compares modern fundamentalist movements with the proto-fundamentalist movements which arose in the 'axial civilizations' in pre-modern times; he shows how the great revolutions in Europe which arose in connection with these movements shaped the political and cultural programmes of modernity; and he contrasts post-Second World War Moslem, Jewish and Protestant fundamentalist movements with communal national movements, notably in Asia. The central theme of the book is the distinctively Jacobin features of fundamentalist movements and their ambivalent attitude to tradition: above all their attempts to essentialize tradition in an ideologically totalistic way. Eisenstadt has won the Amalfi book prize.
    Description / Table of Contents: Heterodoxies, sectarianism, and utopianism in the constitution of proto-fundamentalist movements -- The great revolutions and the transformation of sectarian utopianism in the cultural and political program of modernity -- Fundamentalism as a modern Jacobin anti-modern utopia and heterodoxy -- the totalistic reconstruction of tradition -- Historical setting and variability of fundamentalist movements -- Some considerations on modernity.
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    ISBN: 9780511572746
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 210 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
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    DDC: 393/.9/0951
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1368-1911 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Mourning customs / China ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / China ; Filial piety / China ; Trauerritual ; Bestattungsritus ; China / Social life and customs / 1644-1912 ; China ; China ; Bestattungsritus ; Geschichte 1368-1911 ; China ; Trauerritual ; Geschichte 1368-1911
    Abstract: As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the state, and laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society, would be observed by officials throughout the empire. In this way, the emperor would be following the ancient dictate that he 'govern all-under-heaven with filial piety'. Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state - unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded - quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system. With acute sensitivity to language and its changing meanings, Kutcher sheds light on a wide variety of issues that are of interest to historians of late Imperial China
    Description / Table of Contents: Death and the state in imperial China: continuities -- The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning -- The early Qing transformation of mourning practice -- The bureaucratization of the Confucian -- The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule -- Death and Chinese society
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    ISBN: 9780511612046
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 302 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religious traditions 11
    DDC: 303.3/0951
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; König ; Herrschaft ; Mystik ; Religion ; China
    Abstract: In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, these associations were retained, though sidelined, as the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler, with a messianic appeal for the ruled. As a paradigm, it also became appropriated by private individuals who strove for wisdom without becoming kings. As the Confucian tradition interacted with the Taoist and the Buddhist, the religious character of spiritual and mystical cultivation became more pronounced. But the sage-king idea continued, promoting expectations of benevolent despotism rather than democratisation in Chinese civilisation.
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    ISBN: 0511006349 , 9780511006340
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 461 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rothblatt, Sheldon Modern university and its discontents
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    Keywords: Newman, John Henry 1801-1890 ; Newman, John Henry ; Newman, John Henry ; Newman, John Henry ; Education, Higher History ; Great Britain ; Education, Higher History ; United States ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; Great Britain ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; United States ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; EDUCATION ; Higher ; Education, Higher ; Education, Higher ; Aims and objectives ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Hoger onderwijs ; History ; Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; USA ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis -- 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place' -- 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such' -- 4. Failure -- 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education -- Interlude: General introduction to Chapters six and seven -- 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval' -- 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London -- 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached -- 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest.
    Abstract: This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university architecture and the use of space in connection with educational ideals, urbanism and universities, and the competition of states, markets and academic guilds for the control of universities and the right to define the missions of university professors
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    ISBN: 9780511520846
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    Abstract: This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning in current comparative historical sociology, the author also argues the need for a multidimensional approach capable of addressing the part played by religious orientations in shaping the institutional strength and ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions.
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    ISBN: 9781139052641
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1300-1800 ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Jews / Germany / History / 1096-1800 / Congresses ; Nichtjude ; Juden ; Christ ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Deutschland ; Germany / Ethnic relations / Congresses ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Deutschland ; Christ ; Juden ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Nichtjude ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Christentum ; Judentum ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Sozialgeschichte 1300-1800
    Abstract: During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. This book is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It lays particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporates much new research
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflecting on German-Jewish history / Jacob Katz -- The Jewish quarters in German towns during the late middle ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Organizational forms of Jewish popular culture since the middle ages / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Criminality and punishment of the Jews in the early modern period / Otto Ulbricht -- Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Roman Empire : a comment / Theodore K. Rabb -- Aspects of stratification of early modern German Jewry : population history and village Jews / Michael Toch -- Jewish economic activity in early modern times / Stefi Jersch-Wenzel -- Comparative perspectives on economy and society : the Jews of the Polish commonwealth : a comment / Gershon David Hundert -- Languages in contact : the case of Rotwelsch and the two "Yiddishes" / Paul Wexler -- Meeting on the road : encounters between German Jews and Christians on the margins of society / Yacov Guggenheim --
    Description / Table of Contents: Contacts at the bedside : Jewish physicians and their Christian patients / Robert Jütte -- Contacts and relations in the pre-emancipation period : a comment / Deborah Hertz -- The usurious Jew : economic structure and religious representations in an anti-Semitic discourse / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Imagining the Jew : the late medieval eucharistic discourse / Miri Rubin -- Representations of German Jewry : images, prejudices, ideas : a comment / Carlo Ginzburg -- German territorial princes and the Jews / Rotraud Ries -- Jews in eccleciastical territories of the Holy Roman Empire / J Friedrich Battenberg -- Jews in the imperial cities : a political perspective / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- Germans with a difference? The Jews of the Holy Roman empire during the early modern era : a comment / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- Germany and its Jews : a changing relationship (1300-1800) / Jonathan I. Israel --
    Description / Table of Contents: The Jewish minority and the Christian majority in early modern Central Europe / Hartmut Lehmann -- The Jews of the Netherlands in the early modern period / Richard H. Popkin -- Jewish identity in a world of corporations and estates / Mack Walker
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    ISBN: 9781139166232
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 471 pages)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Wissenssoziologie ; Magie ; Religion ; Afrika ; Africa / Religion ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Magie ; Afrika ; Wissenssoziologie ; Afrika ; Religion
    Abstract: Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views
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    ISBN: 9781139052467
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
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    Keywords: Weber, Max ; Weber, Max ; Sombart, Werner ; Protestantismus ; Wirtschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.
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    ISBN: 9780511621581
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Sacrifice ; Experience (Religion) ; Religion and civilization ; Gewalt ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Opfer ; Religion ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Opfer ; Religion ; Religiöse Erfahrung
    Abstract: Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence
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    ISBN: 9780511521102
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 243 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 78
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    Keywords: Religion ; Berti ; Sozialstruktur
    Abstract: Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local, popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, but Professor Holy shows that the customary rituals constitute an integral part of the religious system of the Berti. Carefully analysing the symbolic statements made in Berti rituals, Professor Holy demonstrates that the distinction between the two classes of rituals is an expression of the gender relationships characteristic of the society. He also examines the social distribution of knowledge about Islam, and explains the role of the religious schools in sustaining religious ideas. The work is not only an ethnographic study of ritual, belief and gender in an African society. It also makes a significant contribution to current anthropological discussion of the interpretation and meaning of rituals and symbols.
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Ethnische Identität ; Religionssoziologie ; Israel
    Abstract: This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general.
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    ISBN: 9780511896637
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 328 pages)
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    Keywords: Jainismus ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian Society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society addresses the sociology of the Jains and discusses the notion of the 'community' based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection is an important theoretical addition to the study of Indian society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar interested in this little-known but highly influential social group.
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    ISBN: 9780511523885
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 273 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Sachedina, Abdulaziz A. Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900. Randall L. Pouwels 1989
    Series Statement: African studies 53
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pouwels, Randall L. Horn and crescent
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    Keywords: Islam Africa, East ; History. ; Islam History ; Islam ; Africa, East ; History ; Africa, East ; Civilization ; Africa, East Civilization. ; Africa, East Civilization ; Ostafrika ; Islam ; Kulturwandel ; Geschichte 800-1900 ; Ostafrika ; Zivilisation ; Geschichte 800-1900 ; Somalihalbinsel ; Islam ; Kulturwandel ; Geschichte 800-1900 ; Ostafrika ; Islam ; Ostafrika ; Islam ; Geschichte 800-1900
    Abstract: In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding intellectual needs and to meeting the opportunities presented by their physical and cultural environment. The culture and religion that developed were strong, rich, supple, self-assured. yet capable of accommodating change where it was unavoidable or preferable. All these characteristics were put to the test in the nineteenth century, when coastal peoples were subjected to intense Arabizing and Westernizing influences. Pouwels demonstrates how local people went on asserting their own traditions while assimilating what they chose from both worlds. East African Muslims, therefore faced the twentieth century divided on issues of local cultural autonomy and the need to conform to external cultural pressures.
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. The roots of a tradition, 800-1500 -- 2. The emergence of a tradition, 900-1500 -- 3. A northern metamorphosis, 1500-1800 -- Appendix -- 4. Town Islam and the umma ideal -- 5. Wealth, piety, justice, and learning -- 6. The Zanzibar Sultanate, 1812-88 -- 7. New secularism and bureaucratic centralization -- 8. A new literacy -- 9. The early colonial era, 1885-1914 -- 10. Currents of popularism and eddies of reform
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511897108
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 253 pages)
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1986 ; Geschichte 1900-1987 ; Katholik ; Gesellschaft ; Katholizismus ; England ; Großbritannien ; Wales
    Abstract: This book is about change in the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales. It argues that in the post-war years of economic growth and expanded educational opportunities, Catholics born in Great Britain achieved rates of upward social mobility comparable to those of the general population. In so doing there arose a 'new Catholic middle class', likely to be crucial for the future of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales. However, since one quarter of English Catholics were first-generation immigrants who had experienced some downward mobility, it could not be said that English Catholics generally had experienced a 'mobility momentum' relative to the rest of the population. Apart from the effects of social change, post-war Catholicism was also transformed as a result of the religious reforms legitimated by the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s. The net effect of these social and religious forces on English Catholicism was the dissolution of the boundaries which had formerly defended a 'fortress' church in a hostile world. The book identifies this, inter alia, in the widespread heterodoxy of belief and practice, and in the decline of marital endogamy and communal involvement.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
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    DDC: 393
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Religion ; Fertility cults ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Wiedergeburt ; Tod ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Ethnologie ; Tod ; Anthropologie ; Wiedergeburt
    Abstract: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
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