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  • Worldview Religious Studies
    Douglas J Davies
    Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies.  ...
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    96,73 €

  • Bishops, Wives and Children
    Douglas J. Davies / Mathew Guest
    Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analyzed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace ...
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    82,83 €

  • Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings
    Adam J. Powell / Douglas J. Davies
    Significantly influencing the sociological study of religion, Hans Mol developed ideas of identity which remain thought-provoking for analyses of how religion operates within contemporary societies. Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings brings current social-religious topics into sharp focus: international scholars analyse, challenge, and apply Mol’s theoretical assertions. This book ...
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    92,44 €

  • Death, Ritual and Belief
    Douglas Davies
    Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of ’words against death’ it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rit...
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    54,68 €

  • Death, Ritual and Belief
    Douglas Davies
    Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of ’words against death’ it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rit...
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    173,59 €

  • Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings
    Adam J. Powell / Douglas J. Davies
    As a sociologist, Hans Mol significantly influenced the sociological study of religion by developing ideas of identity. This biography brings current social-religious topics to sharp focus as international scholars analyse, challenge, and apply Mol’s theoretical assertions. This biographical material supports the overall content by describing Mol’s key intellectual influences, ...
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    268,28 €

  • Natural Burial
    Douglas J. Davies
    From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or ecological burial. Natural burial constitutes part of a long, historical legacy for British funeral innovation; from Victorian cemetery monuments and garden cemeteries through the birth and rise of cremation to the many things done with cremated remains. The book sets natural b...
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    259,07 €

  • Studying Local Churches
    Douglas Davies / Helen Cameron / Philip Richter
    This practical handbook guides readers through the various tools, methods of analysis and research skills needed for studying local churches. It is aimed at final year undergraduates, Masters level students, student ministers, church leaders and policy makers interested in local faith communities. ...
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    54,04 €

  • Emotion, Identity, and Religion
    Douglas J. Davies
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    206,16 €

  • Emotion, Identity, and Religion
    Douglas J. Davies / Douglas JDavies
    Deep emotions pervade our human lives and ongoing moods echo them. Religious traditions often shape these and give devotees a sense of identity in a hopeful and meaningful life despite the conflicts, confusion, pain and grief of existence. Driven by anthropological and sociological perspectives, Douglas J. Davies describes and analyses these dynamic tensions and life opportunit...
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    67,71 €

  • Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition
    Douglas J. Davies
    Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition explores Mormon theology in new ways from a scholarly non-Mormon perspective. Bringing Jesus and Satan into relationship with Joseph Smith the founding prophet, Douglas Davies shows how the Mormon ’Plan of Salvation’ can be equated with mainstream Christianity’s doctrine of the Trinity as a driving force of the faith. Exploring how Je...
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    94,68 €

  • The Theology of Death
    Douglas J. Davies
    The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity’s Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ’s resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of t...
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    61,73 €

  • The Theology of Death
    Douglas Davies
    The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity’s Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ’s resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of t...
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    245,96 €

  • An Introduction to Mormonism
    Douglas J. Davies / Douglas JDavies
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    121,54 €

  • An Introduction to Mormonism
    Davies Douglas J. / Douglas J. Davies / Douglas JDavies
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    57,73 €

  • Death, Ritual and Belief
    Douglas James Davies
    Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use t...
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    75,77 €

  • Death, Ritual, and Belief
    Douglas James Davies
    Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use t...
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    343,62 €

  • Anthropology and Theology
    Douglas Davies
    Anthropology and Christian Theology have traditionally interpreted religion in quite different ways and have often been thought of as hostile to one another. In fact, a fundamental concern for human experience lies at the heart of both disciplines. This innovative book takes a new look at key anthropological and theological themes, and explores the intricacies of their interpla...
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    268,21 €

  • Anthropology and Theology
    Douglas Davies
    Anthropology and Christian Theology have traditionally interpreted religion in quite different ways and have often been thought of as hostile to one another. ...
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    73,26 €

  • Fielding, Dickens, Gosse, Iris Murdoch and Oedipal Hamlet
    Douglas Brooks-Davies
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    48,20 €