Peter Lang: 4879 books

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Romani Pentecostalism

Gypsies and Charismatic Christianity

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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

A charismatic Christian revival is sweeping through the Romani communities of Europe. Since the early 1950s, Romani peoples across Europe have organized themselves in charismatic congregations and today, although there are many exceptions, Pentecostalism could be said to be one of the foremost religious...
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Film and Politics in India

Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power

by Dhamu Pongiyannan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015

In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept...
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by Dennis Laumann
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral historians...
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Generational Curses in the Pentateuch

An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis

by Beth E. Elness-Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

Although the demographics of World Christianity demonstrate a population shift to the Global South, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, the preponderance of biblical scholarship continues to be dominated by Western scholars in pursuit of their contextual questions that are influenced by an Enlightenment-oriented...
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Finding God in Solitude

The Personal Piety of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and Its Influence on His Pastoral Ministry

by Donald S. Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015

Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America’s most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) of Massachusetts. From his childhood to his death shortly after becoming president of Princeton, and especially from his Christian conversion through his Northampton...
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George H.W. Bush

Faith, Presidency, and Public Theology

by Kjell Lejon
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

This book is the first to explore the religious dimension of President George H. W. Bush. Also, the author re-conceptualizes the common use of civil religion in order to understand more fully the religious dimension of Bush’s presidency, and thus argues for the need to highlight the religious rhetoric...
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by Michael Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014

The Evangelicals and the Synoptic Problem aims to investigate how evangelical Christians and their Protestant forebears, labeled early orthodox Protestants, have dealt with the classic puzzle of New Testament criticism known as the Synoptic Problem. The particular theories considered are the Independence...
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Boundless Salvation

The Shorter Writings of William Booth

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

William Booth (1829–1912) is remembered for the major role he played in founding the Salvation Army, an evangelical organization now operating in more than 120 countries. Few people, however, are aware of the fact that Booth was also a prolific author. During his long lifetime he wrote countless...
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Somnambulistic Lucidity

The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink

by Virginia L. Lewis, Eric J. Klaus
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018

Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism—alternative religious movements that pursued methods of...
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Poets on Poets

The Epistolary and Poetic Communication of Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Rilke

by Olga Zaslavsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke’s role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the specifically Russian poetic...
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Reading Green

Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically

by Jeffrey S. Lamp
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017

Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the agendas of biblical authors as...
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Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Personhood «coram Deo»

Gerhard Ebelings Rejection of the «Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification»

by Scott A. Celsor
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016

By the end of the twentieth century, ecumenism’s deteriorating state had become evident. This deterioration can be attributed to many causes, however, the erstwhile German ecumenist Dr. Gerhard Ebeling’s rancorous, public debate among theologians in Germany in 1998 over the Joint Declaration on...
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Rethinking the Human Person

Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy

by Nahal Jafroudi
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017

Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems...
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by Mkunga H. P. Mtingele
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

Leadership and Conflict in African Churches: The Anglican Experience investigates the involvement of leadership and conflict in the African church. Mkunga H. P. Mtingele’s previous work with the government as a state attorney and his leadership positions in the Anglican Church gave him sufficient...
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