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The Context of Friendship: From Aristotle to Facebook
Besides this discourse mayor interest is in theological reflection on friendship and disability, the interrogation of what friendship is and how its...
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Disagreement and Religious Relevance
This chapter argues that recent work in philosophical epistemology of religious belief and disagreement can be meaningfully connected to related work...
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Crises and Conversions The Unlikely Avenues of "Italian Shiism"
This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy. It thoroughly examines the motivations behind this religious transition and...
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Demography
Efforts to quantify the world and its populations have been an integral component of the modern Christian missionary movement from the late...
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Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku
Earth, gender and religion are three concepts which are interweaved and the female gender or woman/girl is at the centre of the three concepts. The...
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Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion
The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious...
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When Spirituality Becomes Spiritual Labour: Workplace Mindfulness as a Practice of Well-Being and Productivity
Over the last two decades, mindfulness has become popular in Western countries as part of the well-being movement. The corporate world has taken...
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Festival Cultures Map** New Fields in the Arts and Social Sciences
This book brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Art, History and Religious Studies,...
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Decolonizing Liberation Theologies Past, Present, and Future
The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary...
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Religion and Public Life: Continuing Debate
The chapter argues that religions are not to be confined to the realm of the private (as so many theories suggest), but have a critical public role...
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Kirtan: Music, Emotion, and Belonging in Finnish Holistic Spirituality
Kirtan as the Eastern practice of accompanied call-and-response singing has secured its place in Finland’s holistic spirituality. It arrived in...
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The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body Islamophobia, Counter-Terrorism Law and Gender
Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated,...
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The Writings and Legacy of John Peel
Contrary to the assumption that Africans were unthinking groups without the knowledge of metaphysical society and systems, emerging literature on...
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Why Ubuntu Can Be…
The fourth and final chapter, why Ubuntu ought to be a moral framework, continues the previous chapter's discussion of the domain issue. This chapter...
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Indigenous Knowledge, Food (in) Security and Climate Change: A Case Study of Bota Reshupa (Herbal Porridge) Among the Ndau of South-Eastern Zimbabwe
This chapter examines how indigenous knowledge systems from the Ndau people could be used to ensure food security in the face of climate change...
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Research Is Not Greater Than the Methodology: Ways of Seeing and Analyzing Ubuntu
This chapter is about our faith—the Methodology—we believe that, almost like a religion, research is not more important than its adopted worldview or...
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Religious Hair Display and Its Meanings
This book explores the fascinating world of religious hair observances within six religious traditions that account for 77% of the world’s adherents:...
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New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being
Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes religious behaviors into a religious marketplace framed by consumerist and capitalist models,...
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Dissent as Deviance: Sociological Observations on Structural Conflicts in Church
Over the past century, dissent has become increasingly apparent with regard to many institutional norms of the Roman Catholic Church, including the...