Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
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The Good Book on Leadership: Case Studies from the BibleThe Bible is full of leaders, and whether good or bad, each of their stories provide valuable insight into what is needed to be a strong leader.The Good Book on Leadership examines each of these leaders individually in order to give readers a biblical...
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Church AdministrationGuidelines and procedures for effectively administrating the work of a local church. Relates information about organization, objectives, ministry plans, human resources, providing controlling factors, and basic skills of church administration. Includes appendix and bibliography.Author: Charles TidwellPublisher: B&H Publishing GroupPublished: 09/01/1985Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize:...
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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious ViolenceIn this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks...
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Zen Art for MeditationThis book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, emptiness, silence, is...
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Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of MalaiseIn the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason,...
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A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the ZoharIn the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse A river flows from Eden to water the garden (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality....
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The Price of MonotheismNothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining that...
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NuditiesEncompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to...
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Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late AntiquityRemains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the holy land. The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial...
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Metaphysics: Concept and ProblemsThis volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by...
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Reflections on Literature and CultureAs one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt is well known for her writings on political philosophy. Less familiar are her significant contributions to cultural and literary criticism. This edition brings together for the first time Arendt's reflections on...
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Chinese Magical MedicineThis book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint...
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'Begotten, Not Made': Conceiving Manhood in Late AntiquityThis book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman period. When the Trinity...
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Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in YiddishIn this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions-from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. A rarity among scholarly books, it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter,...
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Adieu to Emmanuel LevinasThis volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death. For both thinkers, the word adieu names a fundamental characteristic of human being:...
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Potentialities: Collected EssaysThis book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and...
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Mark: Interpretation: A Commentary for Preaching and TeachingIn this volume, Lamar Williamson's commentary provides teachers, preachers, and all serious students of the Bible with an interpretation that takes serious hermeneutical responsibility for the contemporary meaning and significance of Mark's text.Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource...
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Naturalistic InquiryNaturalistic Inquiry provides social scientists with a basic but comprehensive rationale for non-positivistic approaches to research. It confronts the basic premise underlying the scientific tradition that all questions can be answered by employing empirical, testable, replicable research techniques. The authors maintain that there are...
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Lakota SocietyAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the...
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Rescue & Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the NazisWhen Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story...
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