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Milieus praktisch II
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Jeder Einzeltext behandelt ein Thema aus dem Bereich des helfenden Handelns im Raum Kirche / Diakonie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Fallstudien aus den verschiedenen Praxisbereichen. Das Autorenteam hat Menschen zum Mitschreiben eingeladen, die selbst über viel Praxis oder fachliche Einsichten in die Themenbereiche verfügen. So werden... more...
Die Validierung der Sparkassenidee
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 30.18Hauptbeschreibung Die Bankenlandschaft in Österreich und Deutschland ist geprägt von einer starken Konkurrenzsituation zwischen Sparkassen, Genossenschafts-, Aktien- und sonstigen Bankinstituten mit ähnlichen Angeboten, Produkten und Geschäftsfeldern. Dieses auf den ersten Blick einheitliche Bild der Kreditinstitute täuscht seinen Betrachter, da... more...
Becoming Rasta
NYU Press 2009; US$ 75.00So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite... more...
Prophets and Protons
NYU Press 2010; US$ 79.00By the twentieth century, science had become so important that religious traditions had to respond to it. Emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, responded with a clarity and focus that illuminates other larger, more established religions’ understandings of science. The Hare Krishnas, the Unification Church, and Heaven’s... more...
Prophetic Activism
NYU Press 2011; US$ 79.00While the links between conservative Christians and politics have been drawn strongly in recent years, coming to embody what many think of as religious activism, the profoundly religious nature of community organizing and other more left-leaning justice work has been largely overlooked. Prophetic Activism is the first broad comparative examination... more...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions
Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the... more...
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions
Wiley 2012; US$ 199.95Comprising the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary research on the study of Chinese religious beliefs and cultural practices, this volume explores the rich and complex religious and philosophical traditions that have developed and flourished in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Covers the main Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and... more...
Philosophisch-theologische Streitsachen
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 51.76Hauptbeschreibung Von keiner Epoche der Neuzeit geht bis heute eine solch intellektuelle Faszination aus, wie von jenem relativ schmalen Zeitkorridor, der gemeinhin "Achsenzeit" oder "Sattelzeit" der Moderne genannt wird. In dem hochdramatischen Übergang vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert wurde das spannungsreiche Verhältnis von Philosophie, Theologie,... more...
Is Religion Natural?
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 170.00How natural is religion? Is it a phenomenon written in our genes or brains, naturally developing with the development of the human race? The book considers the findings of evolutionary psychology from scientific, philosophical and theological perspectives and critically examines the relation between empirical, epistemological and theological notions.... more...
Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena
University of Wales Press 2008; US$ 120.00A detailed academic and popular investigation of 400 mostly unpublished accounts of spiritual and religious experiences of unusual lights that seeks to explore the fascinating possibility that they may present us with evidence of other worlds alongside our own more...









