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Books in Religious studies

This extensive collection addresses world religions, spiritual traditions, theological debates, and religious history. Featuring sacred texts, scholarly analyses, and cultural studies, it supports researchers, students, and practitioners in understanding faith, practice, and interfaith dialogue. These resources promote respectful engagement and critical exploration of religious diversity and influence.

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    • Religion

      Recurrent Christian Sources, Non-Recurrent Christian Data, Judaism, Other Religions
      • 1st Edition
      • L. M. Barley + 3 more
      • English
      This volume reviews the publicly available sources of statistical information on religion. The majority of this data relates to the Christian churches and is split between the serial or recurrent sources in the first review and the ad hoc survey data in the second. The third sets out the available Jewish data which comprise the best recorded and the most extensive of the sources in the non-Christian sector, and the final review brings together statistical sources on the remaining religions practised in the UK. This book will be an invaluable source of information for researchers and practitioners in the field.

    • The Morality of Terrorism

      Religious and Secular Justifications
      • 1st Edition
      • David C. Rapoport + 1 more
      • English
      The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications examines ""terrorist tradition"" from its origin in the revealed religions to its present manifestations, which are largely secular though not exclusively so. Important common themes running through all the essays are the moral climate that produces terrorism, the doctrines terrorists used to justify themselves, and the moral predicaments terrorists create. The book is organized into three parts. The essays in Part I focus on religious terror. Topics covered include the successful efforts of Jewish terrorists in the first century to provoke a popular uprising; the myths of Prometheus and Satan; and the myths and fantasies in the minds of terrorists and how these myths are related to the ramshackle world of Western civilization. Part II deals with various forms of state terror. It includes essays such as the French Reign of Terror and Nazi terrorism. Part III, devoted to rebel terror, includes essays such as terrorists' justifications and their abilities to demonstrate sincerity though suffering; and responses to rebel terrorism by communities deeply committed to protecting individual rights.

    • Erasmi Opera Omnia, V-6

      Christiani Matrimonii Institutio, Vidua Christiana
      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • A.G. Weiler + 1 more
      • English
      A volume of the Opera Omnia of Erasmus series, this title is comprised of two separate treatise translated into one volume. First, The Institution of Christian Matrimony (Basel, 1526) which was dedicated to Catherine of Aragon. In this work, Erasmus deals with the religious, moral and physical aspects of marriage, also discussing Canon law. Conservative theologians challenged in particular his liberal views on divorce. The second treatise, On the Christian Widow, was published in 1529, and in it Erasmus discusses not only Christian widowhood, but also virginity and marriage, dealing also with the education of women.