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A prehistory of Hinduism
This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehis…
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- 9783110517378
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- XIII, 222 p.
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- 290 DEV a
The restless compendium : interdisciplinary investigations of rest and Its op…
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Neve…
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- 9783319452647
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- xvii, 205p. : ill.
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- 306.48 RES r
Safer healthcare : strategies for the real world
The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader v…
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- 9783319255590
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- xvii, 157p. : ill.
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- 362.110289 VIN s
Defying the IRA?: intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Re…
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing o…
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- 9781781383544
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- xi, 230p.: 24 cm.
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- Reappraisals in Irish history
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- 941.50821 HUG d
From scrolls to scrolling : sacred texts, materiality, and dynamic media cult…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…
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- 9783110634440
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- XVII, 307 p.
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- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 12
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- 297 SCR s
The illusion of risk control : what does it take to live with uncertainty?
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and am…
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- 9783319329390
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- v, 112p. : ill.
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- 658.155 ILL i
We were all in Adam : the unity of mankind in Adam in the teaching of the Chu…
Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation.The Church Fathers before Augustine did not used the term original sin, but described its reality, having the greatest possible feeling for the mystical unity of mankind with its first ancestor. As rega…
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- 9783110620580
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- X, 136 p.
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- 297 PRZ w
Making religion and human rights at the United Nations
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretic…
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- 9783110478068
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- vii, 316 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Religion and society, Volume 67
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- 201.7 ARS m
Myth, materiality, and lived religion: in merovingian and viking Scandinavia
"The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on Old Norse myths, despite its important theoretical implicat…
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- 9789176350966
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- viii, 438 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
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- Stockholm studies in comparative religion, 40
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- 201.4 WIK m
Handbook of leaving religion
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. Readership: All interested in conversion, deconversion and apostasy processes, and anyone concerned with methodological and theoretical questions related to leaving or changing religio…
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- 9789004331471
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- 1 online resource
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- Brill handbooks on contemporary religion, volume 18
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- 205 ENS h
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