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Holy Hills of the Ozarks : Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri
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ISBN: 1421428350 Year: 2007 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Over the past century, Branson, Missouri, has attracted tens of millions of tourists. Nestled in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, it offers a rare and refreshing combination of natural beauty and family-friendly recreation—from scenic lakes and rolling hills to theme parks and variety shows. It has boasted of big name celebrities, like Wayne Newton, Andy Williams, and Petula Clark, as well as family entertainers like Mickey Gilley, the Shanghai Magic Troupe, Jim Stafford, and Yakov Smirnoff.But there is more to Branson's fame than just recreation. As Aaron K. Ketchell discovers, a popular variant of Christianity underscores all Branson's tourist attractions and fortifies every consumer success. In this lively and engaging study, Ketchell explores Branson's unique blend of religion and recreation. He explains how the city became a mecca of conservative Christianity—a place for a "spiritual vacation"—and how, through conscious effort, its residents and businesses continuously reinforce its inextricable connection with the divine. Ketchell combines the study of lived religion, popular culture, evangelicalism, and contemporary American history to present an accurate and honest account of a distinctly American phenomenon.

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Helping the Good Shepherd : Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925–1975
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ISBN: 1421427753 Year: 2009 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors’ intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Myers-Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the great divide between the liberal and conservative moral sensibilities in pastoral counseling. She demonstrates that, as some pastoral counselors began to advocate women’s equality, conservative Christian counselors emerged, denouncing more liberal pastoral counselors and secular psychologists for disregarding biblical teachings. From there, the two sides diverged dramatically. Helping the Good Shepherd will appeal to scholars of American religious history, the history of psychology, gender studies, and American history. For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.

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Réflexion sur le nom, véhicule de communication : ce miroir qui parle
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ISBN: 2336382644 2336732750 2343064857 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Harmattan,

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L'auteur nous conduit ici dans une redécouverte du Nom, sur le terrain de la communication et de la théologie. De la culture traditionnelle africaine jusqu'à l'écran des ordinateurs et des tablettes, en passant par l'histoire de l'Eglise, il dévoile les multiples fonctions du Nom dans la transmission des valeurs humaines et des liens sociaux.

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Heeresdienst von Christen in der römischen Kaiserzeit : Studien zu Tertullian, Clemens und Origenes
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Stellungnahmen dreier bedeutender altkirchlicher Autoren zur Frage nach der Haltung des vorkonstantinischen Christentums zum Heeresdienst von Christen: Tertullian, Origenes und Clemens Alexandrinus. Dabei gilt das besondere Augenmerk ihrer Interpretation vor dem Hintergrund der Konventionen antiker Rhetorik und im Rahmen ihres jeweiligen argumentativen Gesamtzusammenhangs. Es zeigt sich am Beispiel der behandelten Autoren, dass es im Christentum der Jahre zwischen 200-250 n. Chr. eine lebhafte Diskussion gab, ob Christen Soldaten und Soldaten Christen werden durften. Dabei erweisen sich die konkreten Aussagen jedes Autors als rhetorisch reflektiert und inhaltlich auf die jeweils vorliegende Diskussion, in die er verwickelt ist, zugespitzt. Sie müssen daher unter Berücksichtigung dieser Gesprächssituation sowie der Konventionen antiker Rhetorik behutsam nach möglicherweise dahinter stehenden, allgemeinen Positionen befragt werden. Insgesamt werden vielfältige Positionen und Argumente erkennbar und zugleich wird deutlich, wie das Christentum um seine Standortbestimmung innerhalb des römischen Reiches ringt.

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Teologie dell'Antico Testamento
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Roma : San Paolo ‒ Gregorian & Biblical Press,

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Dieser Band stellt die Verschiedenheit der Gottesbilder des Altes Testamentes dar. Die einzelnen Schriften werden in ihrer synchronen Endfassung betrachtet. Sie reden auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise von Gott und zeigen dabei eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Theologien auf. Nessun altro tema è trattato in maniera più ampia ed estesa, nessun altro tema è più importante del modo in cui nell'Antico Testamento si parla di Dio. Nessun'altra parola ricorre più speso del nome proprio della divinità, Yhwh. La Bibbia è davvero il libro di Dio, è Lui il primo e anche il più importante aspetto. Nella prima frase del libro della Genesi è soggetto dell'atto del creare l'universo e nell'ultima frase dei libri delle Cronache la sua presenza gioca un ruolo decisivo. Nel presente volume, in maniera nuova, innovativa, seguendo una metodologia che presenta le caratteristiche letterarie di ogni libro nel suo "parlare di Dio" Georg Fischer si cimenta con successo a rispondere alla domanda centrale per la comprensione della visione teologica dell'Antico Testamento: come si parla di Dio al suo interno? Il risultato è un'opera variegata e complessa, puntuale e sistematica, riassuntiva e sintetica che già nel titolo - "teologie" al plurale - cerca di rendere giustizia a una dinamica che non vuole ridurre il discorso su Dio a un minimo comune denominatore riepilogativo, ma che accetta la sfida di confrontarsi con diverse immagini, complesse prospettive, descrizioni non uniformi e contenuti spesso contrastanti della figura del Dio di Israele. L'autore parte dall'analisi dei testi e giunge - dopo una presentazione approfondita delle teologie dei singoli libri - a un riepilogo dove le caratteristiche del Dio di Israele vengono considerate nella loro complessità, nel loro sviluppo e nelle prospettive che gettano anche sulla comprensione del Dio del Nuovo Testamento.

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Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours : Edition and Study
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,

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St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity?s major saints and his signi?cance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age?s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint?s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his signi?cance for Anglo-Saxon culture.

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Interactions Between Rivals : The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647)
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group,

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This volume presents comprehensive research on how southern European Catholics and the Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious otherness in early modern times. In their highly variable and asymmetric relations, during which the politi¬cal-military elites of Japan at times not only favoured, but also opposed and strictly controlled the European presence, missionaries - particularly the Jesuits - tried to negotiate this power balance with their interlocutors. This collection of essays analyses religious and cultural interactions between the Christian missions and the Buddhist sects through processes of coopera¬tion, acceptance, confrontation and rejection, dialogue and imposition, which led to the creation of new relational spaces and identities.

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Ragion di stato e salvezza dell'anima : Il riscatto dei cristiani captivi in Maghreb attraverso le redenzioni mercedarie (1575-1725)
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
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Year: 2005 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis,

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Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani's conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious and political uses to which they have put their new religion. Based on independent research carried out over many years among the Dani people, the book provides an abundance of new material on religious and political events in West Papua. Underlining the heart of Christian-Muslim rivalries, the book questions the fate of religion in late-modern times.

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Love
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Oslo : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing),

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"This anthology presents and discusses perceptions on the notion of love in ancient philosophy and early Christian theology. The notion of love is discussed firstly in two critical readings of Anders Nygren's study Agape and Eros (1930-36). Nygren's distinction of eros, on the one hand, as an egocentric, human love and agape, on the other hand, as Christian, theocentric and divine love, has long been received almost as a dogmatic truth and prevented a more nuanced understanding. The metaphysics and ethics of love are further discussed in relation to Platonic, Neoplatonic, biblical and early Christian - especially Eastern Christian - thinking. Related questions such as "Is all love essentially divine?"and "Is unselfish love possible?" and themes such as love as a unifying force, and ascetical love, are also discussed. The papers were first presented at an international research seminar, The Metochi Seminar, at the University of Agder's study centre in Greece (the Metochi Study Centre), on the island of Lesvos."

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