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När fotografen Per Lindström sent 2006 försiktigt frågade om jag möjligen högst eventuellt kanske någon gång i framtiden rent hypotetiskt kunna tän...

En dröm om sammanhållning betyder att människor inte får vara olika under lagarna, att människors växt ska stympas för helhetens skull, att man ska...

Jerusalem ett längtans mål.Så är det för juden, så är det för den kristne, så är det för muslimen.Och så har det varit genom historien.Så inleder ...

Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes have plagued the history of the earth. What is God's role in natural disasters and the human sufferi...

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the...

A concise alphabetical guide to the major thinkers, concepts and issues in the history of Jewish philosophy from antiquity to the present. Jewish ...

This volume guides beginning students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critical issues that contemporary ...

A wise and wide-ranging explanation of never-ending exaggeration–by both philo-Semites and anti-Semites–about the Jews Hamas blames the financial ...

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those ...

In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Tim...

Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the inte...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

Originally written in Arabic, in rhymed prose, the Koran is regarded by devout Muslims to be the direct word of God as revealed to the prophet Muha...

Representing one of the great traditions of Western philosophy, philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world was inspired by Greek philoso...

In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Chérif. The eminent philosopher ar...

Many Muslim societies, regardless of location, are displaying a 'youth bulge', where more than half their populations are under the age of 25. An ...

For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah's lionization and vil...

Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of n...

Growing up in an ethnic suburb in Cleveland, Aaron Milavec was an impressionable adolescent whose religious and cultural influences made it natural...

An analysis of the conflict over land between Palestine and Israel by a Palestinian Christian Arab who is also a citizen of Israel. The latest con...

This is an analytical and reflective look at the contribution that Christian-Muslim partnerships can make to community cohesion. In »Religious Coh...

One of the greatest challenges facing the Church and society today is how to build understanding and co-operation between people of different faith...

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in Wo...

Om vi har en viss religiös tro, hur ska vi då förhålla oss till människor som har en annan tro? Relationen mellan kristna och muslimer har idag en...

Until recent times Islam's holy book has not been widely accessible to the Christian world, and consequently its teachings about Jesus have receive...

Three Windows on Heaven is a remarkably inclusive book, bringing together, Chief Rabbis alongside the Grand Mufti of Egypt's famous Al-Azhar Univer...

Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars ana...

Ignatius av Loyola (1491–1556) hör utan tvekan till de stora gestalterna i kyrkans historia. Förmodligen har ingen annan enskild person under de se...

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The effective study of religion involves many disciplines and methods, from psychology to sociology, and from textual analysis to case studies in t...

In this lively book, preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz brings fresh insights to the mythology of ancient Greece, demonstrating that these storie...

How do enigmas and riddles work in literature? This benchmark study investigates the literary trope of the riddle, and its relation to the broader...

Religion is dominating today's headlines like no other time in modern history. Whether the issue is sectarian violence, stem cell research, or pol...

Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But much less attention has been give...

»A potent source of inspiration for anyone interested in the therapeutic potential of Buddhism. David Brazier writes with clarity and authority abo...

This provocative study of Jerusalem's Temple Mount unravels popular scholarly paradigms about the origins of this contested sacred site and its sig...

»Romerska riket» kan definieras på många sätt och för att bilden ska bli någorlunda fullständig måste man ta hänsyn till dess olika skepnader i tid...

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU • to appreciate the timeless wisdom of the oldest form of Buddhism in existence today • to understand what it means to be...

A new introduction to the field of Chinese religion and culture ideally suited to undergraduate students. [Språk: Engelska] Häftad

Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed ...

Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States, Europe, and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial re...

De flesta latinamerikanska länder har under århundraden präglats av katolicism. Men idag är den religiösa situationen i Latinamerika mer mångfaset...

Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated ...

An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism is an ideal introduction to the vast and complex field of Buddhism, a world religion with more than a billion fo...

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