The Limits Of Meaning : Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Meaning, Anthropology, Christianity; Chapter 2 When Silence Isn't Golden: Charismatic Speech and the Limits of Literalism; Chapter 3 Clarity and Charisma: On the Uses of Ambiguity in Ritual Life; Chapter 4 Rituals without Final Acts: Prayer and Success in World Vision Zimbabwe's Humanitarian Work; Chapter 5 Nationalism and Millenarianism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth; Chapter 6 The Limits of Meaning in Fijian Methodist Sermons.…”
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The Bible in Arab Christianity /

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION; THE ARABIC VERSIONS OF THE GOSPELS: A CASE STUDY OF JOHN 1.1 AND 1.18 -- HIKMAT KACHOUH; BIBLE ET LITURGIE CHEZ LES ARABES CHRÉTIENS (VIe-IXe SIÈCLE) -- SAMIR ARBACHE; ANTI-JEWISH POLEMIC AND EARLY ISLAM -- SHAUN O'SULLIVAN; THE USE OF BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS IN CHRISTIAN APOCALYPTIC WRITINGS OF THE UMAYYAD PERIOD -- HARALD SUERMANN; BEYOND PROOFTEXTING (2): THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN SOME EARLY ARABIC CHRISTIAN APOLOGIES -- MARK SWANSON; THE RE-WRITTEN BIBLE IN ARABIC: THE PARADISE STORY AND ITS EXEGESIS IN THE ARABIC APOCALYPSE OF PETER -- EMMANOUELA GRYPEOU.…”
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Sport and Christianity : a sign of the times in the light of faith /

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Christian identity /

Table of Contents: “…Christian identity is identity in Christ / Abraham van de Beek -- Devastating grace : justificatio impii and I-Dentity / Phillipe (Flip) Theron -- Christian identity as baptismal identity / Christiaan Mostert -- Christian baptism and an identity of inclusivity, dignity, and holiness / Nico Koopman -- Christian identity and national identity / Ferenc Szűcs -- Christian identity : Augustine on faith, hope, and love / J.H. …”
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Global Christianity : contested claims /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Frans Wijsen -- Christianity moves South / Philip Jenkins -- Global Christianity, new empire, and old Europe / Werner Ustorf -- Christian enculturation in the two-thirds world / Ben Knighton -- The future shape of Christianity from an Asian perspective / Sebastian C.H. …”
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts

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Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora : the Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage. by Adogame, Afe

Table of Contents: “…List of Contributors; Prologue; Introduction; Part One: Historical Developments; 1 Political or Spiritual Partition: The Impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian Missions in Africa; 2 Ecclesiastical Cartography and the Invisible Continent; 3 Colonization in Africa: The Local and Global Implications for Christianity in Contemporary Nigeria; 4 The Role of the Churches in the Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa: A Thematic Survey; 5 Deconstructing Colonial Mission -- New Missiological Perspectives in African Christianity.…”
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The Power of Interpretation : Conflicting Discourses on New Forms of African Christianity. by Hock, Klaus

Table of Contents: “…Genealogical Dispositions: The Power of Interpretation in and of African Christianities in Historical Perspective; 2. DAVIDE DAINESE: 'Oikoumene' as Globalisation: Conflicts in Forms of Christian Life in Africa (Third to Fourth Centuries).…”
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Healing deconstruction : postmodern thought in Buddhism and Christianity /

Subjects: “…Postmodernism Religious aspects Christianity Congresses.…”
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Christianity in the second century : themes and developments /

Table of Contents: “…/ Karen King -- The Gnostic myth / Mark Edwards -- Modelling second century Christian theology : Christian theology as philosophia / Winrich Lohr -- Galen and the Christians : texts and authority in the second century AD / Rebecca Flemming -- "Authoritative texts" and how to handle them : some reflections on an ambiguous concept and its use in second-century Christian literature / Joseph Verheyden -- Belief and practice in Graeco-Roman religiosity : Plutarch, De Iside and Osiride 379c / Teresa Morgan -- Lot oracles and fate : on early Christianity among others in the second century / Laura Nasrallah -- Christians as a "third race" : is ethnicity at issue? …”
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SYRIAC CHRISTIAN CULTURE : beginnings to renaissance.

Table of Contents: “…Stories, saints, and sanctity between Christianity and Islam /…”
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Christian and Muslim perspectives : a record of the Twelfth Building Bridges Seminar hosted by Georgetown University at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar 27-29 May 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Unity and disunity in the life of the community -- Unity and disunity in the life of the community : perspectives on Christian desires for communion and experiences of division (or, the history of the church in half a chapter!) …”
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Manichaeism and early Christianity : selected papers from the 2019 Pretoria congress and consultation /

Table of Contents: “…The relgious innovator Tatian : a precursor of Mani in Syrian Christianity? / Josef Lössl -- Antithèses en mutation, de Marcion à Mani / Michel Tardieu -- The Diatessaronic sequence of Mani's sermon on the life of Christ in the Berlin Kephalaia / Zsuzsanna Gulácsi -- The strange case of "quire A" in the Dubblin Kephalaia codex : further thoughts on Mani's Book of mysteries, M281 and the First apocalypse of James / Iain Gardner -- Mani's Book of mysteries : a treatise De anima / Dylan M. …”
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Christianity and the Eastern Slavs.

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Christianity and the Eastern Slavs.

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Modelling early Christianity : social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context /

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Christianity in the second century : themes and developments /

Table of Contents: “…/ Karen King -- The Gnostic myth / Mark Edwards -- Modelling second century Christian theology : Christian theology as philosophia / Winrich Lohr -- Galen and the Christians : texts and authority in the second century AD / Rebecca Flemming -- "Authoritative texts" and how to handle them : some reflections on an ambiguous concept and its use in second-century Christian literature / Joseph Verheyden -- Belief and practice in Graeco-Roman religiosity : Plutarch, De Iside and Osiride 379c / Teresa Morgan -- Lot oracles and fate : on early Christianity among others in the second century / Laura Nasrallah -- Christians as a "third race" : is ethnicity at issue? …”
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The pietist impulse in Christianity /

Table of Contents: “…Snell; Part six: The Pietist Impulse in North American Christianity.…”
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Augustine and Manichaean Christianity : selected papers from the first South African Conference on Augustine of Hippo, University of Pretoria, 24-26 April 2012 /

Table of Contents: “…"Not to depart from Christ" : Augustine between "Manichaean" and "Catholic" Christianity / Jason David BeDuhn -- Biblical quotations in Faustus' Capitula / Jacob Albert van den Berg -- Augustine and Manichaean almsgiving : understanding a universal religion with exclusivist practices / Majella Franzmann -- Re-coding Manichaean imagery : the dramatic setting of Augustine's De ordine / Theres Fuhrer -- Mani, Augustine and the vision of God / Iain Gardner -- The few and the many : a motif of Augustine's controversy with the Manichaeans / Andreas Hoffmann -- A protreptic to a liminal Manichaean at the centre of Augustine's Confessions 4 / Annemaré Kotzé -- Augustine on "The true religion" : reflections of Manichaeism in De vera religione / Josef Lössl -- God, memory and beauty : a "Manichaean" analysis of Augustine's Confessions, Book 10,1-38 / Johannes van Oort -- Manichaean self-designations in the Western tradition / Nils Arne Pedersen -- The Manichaean bishop Faustus : the state of research after a century of scholarship / Gijs Martijn van Gaans.…”
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