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EXPLORING ISLAMIC SOCIAL WORK : between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 3
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- 9783030958800
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- xii; 284p;
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- -
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- 306.697 EXP A
Sacred rivals : Catholic missions and the making of Islam in nineteenth-centu…
In , Abbé Jacques Suchet arrived in the Algerian city of Constantine, an important North African crossroads and citadel dating back to the days of the Roman Empire. The city, perched on a rock and surrounded by cliffs on three sides, had been conquered with much bloodshed only two years before, in colo-nial France’s first successful foray into the Algerian interior. Suchet …
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- 2
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- 9780197605295
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- xi, 304p.
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- -
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- 266.20965 SAC p
Our mythical education : the reception of classical myth wordwide in formal e…
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the present volume examines the reception of such myth within formal education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries […]. It focuses for the most part on school education, but…
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- -
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- 9788323546160
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- 582p. ; ill.
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- BL723 OUR m
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783747719
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- viii, 336 p. : ill.
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- 830.9006 NIS o
Religious radicalism : demarcations and challenges
"Religious Radicalism scrutinizes the religious motives and mechanisms of radicalism. The contributors observe a growing lack of understanding of religion in secular policy-bodies, as well as in the academic world in Europea and beyond. They put forward an approach 'from within' and aim to provide policy-makers with workable tools and a user-friendly method for constructively tackling religio…
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- -
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- 9789461171313
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- ii, 210p.
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- 323 REL t
Islamic and muslim studies in Australia
The eight articles published in this Special Issue present original, empirical research, using various methods of data collection and analysis, in relation to topics that are pertinent to the study of Islam and Muslims in Australia. The contributors include long-serving scholars in the field, mid-career researchers, and early career researchers who represent many of Australia’s universities e…
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- -
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- 9783036512235
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- ix, 198 p. ; ill
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- 2X7.03 RAN i
God's babies : natalism and bible interpretation in modern America
The human population's annual total consumption is not sustainable by one planet. This unprecedented situation calls for a reform of religious cultures that promote a large ideal family size. Many observers assume that Christianity is inevitably part of this problem because it promotes "family values" and statistically, in America and elsewhere, has a higher birthrate than nonreligious people. …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783740543
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- x, 248 p. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 261.835 MCK g
Diversity and rabbinization: jewish texts and societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geograph…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783749959
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- xxiii, 474 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 296.1 DIV d
Morals not knowledge : recasting the contemporary U.S. conflict between relig…
In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the “religion vs. science” debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work, John H. Evans reveals that, with a few limited exceptions, even the most conservative religious Americans a…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520969780
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- vii, 240 p. : ill.
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- 645101.0 EVA m
Śaivism and the tantric traditions : essays in honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sande…
Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. This collection of essays honours him and touches several elds of Indology that he has helped to shape (or, in the case of Śaivism, revolutionised): t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004432802
- Collation
- XXXIV, 598 p.
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- Gonda Indological Studies, 22
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- 294.5513 SAV s
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