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The Rise of Christianity

, 2020
List of IllustrationsPrefaceCh. 1Conversion and Christian Growth3Ch. 2The Class Basis of Early Christianity29Ch. 3The Mission to the Jews: Why It Probably Succeeded49Ch. 4Epidemics, Networks, and Conversion73Ch. 5The Role of Women in Christian Growth95Ch.
R. Stark
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CHRISTIANITY

Dissident Rabbi, 2019
This chapter studies Jacob Sasportas's The Fading Flower of the Zevi within the context of Jewish responses to Christianity. Unlike the overwhelming majority of Sephardim in northwestern Europe, Sasportas had little to say about Christianity for much of ...
Yaacob Dweck
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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

, 1994
Part 1 Genealogies: the construction of religion as an anthropological category toward a genealogy of the concept of ritual. Part 2 Archaisms: pain and truth in medieval Christian ritual on discipline and humility in medieval Christian monasticism.
T. Asad
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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

, 2017
The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services-these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after ...
R. Macmullen
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Christianity, Christianities, Christian

Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 2015
AbstractThe relation between the concept of religion and its Christian determinations has surely become increasingly visible. In the study of religion, Christianity (vera religio, western Christendom) has served as a paradigmatic occasion, a prime focus, of constant research and investigation.
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On the Christian in Christian Bioethics

Christian Bioethics, 2005
What is Christian about Christian bioethics? And is an authentically Christian bioethics a practical possibility in the world in which we find ourselves? In my essay I argue that personhood and the personal are so fundamental to the Christian understanding of our humanity that body, soul, and spirit are probably best understood as the components of a ...
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Christians Against Christians

Journal of Human Rights, 2005
Much has been said recently about the persecution and/or violence against Christians by non-Christian states and societies.
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Christianity

2023
The Christian faith is founded on the principle that human life is sacred, a gift from God, the Heavenly Father. Christians live to love and glorify God. Throughout life, they witness a myriad of life events covering the spectrum from euphoric highs to devastating lows.
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Auden and Christianity

, 2017
One of the twentieth century's most important poets, W. H. Auden, stands as an eloquent example of an individual within whom thought and faith not only coexist but indeed nourish each other.
Arthur C. Kirsch
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The Christian and the Post‐Christian

Blackfriars, 1949
A Cultured priest of my acquaintance has remarked to me more than onee that the penny Catechism, with all its virtues, is out of date. Many of its precise definitions and carefully chosen texts are aimed at a Bible Protestantism which hardly anyone believes in. On the other hand, difficulties which the modem convert is apt to raise are not met, and the
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