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In visible fellowship: A contemporary view of Bonhoeffer's classic work Life together. Leafwood Publishers, 2011.

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Ralston, Helen. Christian ashrams: A new religious movement in contemporary India. Edwin Mellen Press, 1987.

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Currell, Sophie Eloise. Popular perceptions of the Christian ascetic from 300 AD to 600 AD: An analysis of the relationship betweenSyrian and Egyptian ascetics and their local communities as revealed by hagiography and contemporary documents. typescript, 1995.

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Ralston, Helen. Christian Ashrams: A New Religious Movement in Contemporary India (Studies in Religion and Society, Vol 20). Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

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Joshi, Khyati. South Asian Religions in Contemporary America. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.11.

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Although South Asian American histories stretch back centuries, South Asian immigration to the United States has been increasing particularly rapidly over the past three decades. Made up predominantly of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, the immigrant cohorts represented in this group are both racial and religious minorities in the United States—neither white nor Christian. This chapter locates contemporary South Asian immigration in its historical context, illustrating the complexities of how racial status and religious background have impacted the perception of immigrants in the United States from

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Bauman, Chad M. Anti-Christian Violence in India. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750687.001.0001.

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Does religion cause violent conflict, this book asks, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian–Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007–2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, this book examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is “religious” conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of intergroup conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious violence over the last twenty to thirty years? Integ

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Fromm, Charles. Textual communities and new song in the multimedia age: The routinization of charisma in the Jesus movement. 2006.

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Kimball, Charles. Religion and Violence from Christian Theological Perspectives. Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0030.

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This chapter reviews the movement from pacifism to Just War and Crusade. It also tries to demonstrate the ways prominent Catholic and Protestant leaders have harshly used violent measures within their communities, and determines contemporary manifestations of these three approaches among twenty-first-century Christians. The Crusades constitute the third type of response to war and peace among Christians, joining the ongoing Just War and pacifist traditions. The Inquisition within the Catholic Church and the city-state of Geneva under John Calvin's leadership within the emerging Protestant move

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Bennett, Jana Marguerite. Singleness and the Church. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190462628.001.0001.

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Christians ought to be the people who most support singleness, given what scripture and tradition suggests—but they do not. Despite the fact that almost half of all Americans are single, singleness remains an often-overlooked oddity in American culture and in Christian communities. This book examines a variety of forgotten ways of being single: never-married, casual uncommitted relationships, committed unmarried relationships, same-sex attracted singleness, widowhood, divorce, and single parenting. Each chapter focuses on a different way of being single that draws together cultural commentary

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Shaner, Katherine A. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190275068.003.0006.

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Power struggles involving the ambiguous status of enslaved persons in leadership roles were endemic to first- and second-century religious practices within Ephesian groups, including early Christian groups. Indeed, these power struggles illustrate a fundamental problem in the study of slavery both ancient and contemporary: stable definitions of slavery are often declared in service to reifying kyriarchal leadership and power. Early Christian communities, like communities today, are not immune to this problem despite declarations of equality within them. Future scholarship as well as the contem

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Bennett, Jana Marguerite. Friendship: Same-Sex Attracted, Single, and Aelred of Rievaulx. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190462628.003.0005.

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Christians who are same-sex attracted but single find themselves in a hard theological space. If they are remaining single, they often don’t fit the mold of contemporary LGBTQ+ activism surrounding marriage. Yet they often also face discrimination and hostility from their Christian communities. Using the voices of contemporary same-sex attracted single people, as well as the twelfth-century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, I discuss the significance of spiritual friendship. Aelred developed his idea of spiritual friendship, which has been taken up by several LGBTQ+ single people as providing a helpful

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Joshua, Castellino, and Cavanaugh Kathleen A. 2 Minority Identities in the Middle East: Religious Minorities. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679492.003.0002.

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In this chapter there are two primary categories to emerge with regard to the classification of minorities in the Middle East. The first comprises religious minorities, both early religious groups and more contemporary groups established during or after the nineteenth century. The second category comprises Muslim ethnic groups spread over two or more territories with a distinct cultural identity and language. This chapter details religious minority identities. Within the first section of this chapter, we examine non-Muslim religious communities including Jews, and a rather broad number of Chri

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Hudnut-Beumler, James. Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640372.001.0001.

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In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the South’s long-dominant religion. Hudnut-Beumler traveled to both rural and urban communities, listening to the faithful talk about their lives and beliefs. What he heard pushes hard against prevailing notions of southern Christianity as an evangelical Protestant monolith so predominant as to be unremarkable. True, outside of a

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Toaff, Ariel. Love, Work and Death. Translated by Judith Landry. Liverpool University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774198.001.0001.

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The latter part of the thirteenth century is regarded as a key period in the history of Italian Jewry. During that time many Jewish communities sprang up in the regions of central and northern Italy. Their appearance marked a turning-point in the history of Jews in the Italian peninsula as the Jewish presence had previously been focused on Rome and the south. This acclaimed study, originally published in Italian, captures all the intricacies of everyday life in the medieval Jewish communities of Umbria. The book characterizes in detail the defining features of Jewish life in the region at that

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Pryce, Paula. Portico. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680589.003.0001.

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Using evocative language, the book opens with a historical and contemporary exploration of the desire that motivates contemplative practitioners to seek an intimate relationship with the divine. It describes the effect of globalization and religious pluralism by noting a trend of Americans’ abandonment of mainline Christian institutions, their exploration of other contemplative traditions, and their subsequent return to Christianity when they discover its mystical history and current-day contemplative practices. The chapter describes core terms, concepts, research parameters, and basic sociolo

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Pryce, Paula. The Monk's Cell. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680589.001.0001.

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Based on long-term ethnographic research with Christian monastics in the United States and a dispersed network of interdenominational non-monastic Christian contemplatives, The Monk’s Cell shows how religious practitioners combined social action and intentional living with intellectual study and inter-religious practices to modify their ways of knowing, sensing, and experiencing the world. Paula Pryce developed innovative “intersubjective” fieldwork methods to explore how these opaque, often silent communities practiced a paradoxical combination of formalized ritual and intentional “unknowing”

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Introvigne, Massimo. The Plymouth Brethren. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842420.001.0001.

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Plymouth Brethren are a larger Christian movement, including a dozen of different denominations. They originate from a 19th-century revival in the British Isles, around John Nelson Darby—regarded by some of the father of the evangelical fundamentalist movement—and others who dreamed to restore the purity of primitive Christianity. The revival eventually extended to Continental Europe, particularly Switzerland and Italy, and later France and Germany, as well as to United States, Canada, and China. While some lived this dream in ecumenical terms, those who would eventually be called Exclusive Br

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Harel, Yaron. Syrian Jewry in Transition, 1840-1880. Liverpool University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113652.001.0001.

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The Ottoman reforms of the mid-nineteenth century accelerated the process of opening up Syria to European travellers and traders, and gave Syria's Jews access to European Jewish communities. The resulting influx of Western ideas led to a decline in the traditional economy. It also allowed for the introduction of Western education, influenced the structure and the administration of Jewish society in Syria, and changed the balance of the relationship between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Initially Syria's Jewish communities flourished in these new circumstances, but there was a developing recog

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Dueck, Jonathan, and Suzel Ana Reily, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates the role of music in Christian practice and history across contemporary world Christianities (including chapters focused on communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia). Using ethnography, history, and musical analysis, it explores Christian groups as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book traces five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias, music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume a

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Lange, Barbara Rose. Everyday Musical Ethnicity and Roma (Gypsies) in Hungarian Pentecostalism. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.17.

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This chapter explores the musical negotiation of the ethnic inequalities between Roma and Magyar that characterize secular life in Hungary among Pentecostal believers from both groups. The ethos of “spiritual brotherhood” within Hungarian Pentecostalism was the theological ground for these negotiations. During the communist period the believers mostly sang gospel hymns and a Christian variant of popular music that was meaningful to local Roma. Both ethnic communities modified their musical performance styles to participate in common “brotherhood,” though the secular inequalities between the et

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Ingalls, Monique M. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499631.003.0001.

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The introduction sets out the book’s scope, argument, and goals; places the exploration in historical and cultural context; and frames the study in relationship to recent scholarship in ethnomusicology, evangelical studies, and congregational music studies. It first defines contemporary worship music from both North American and global perspectives and discusses that music’s relationship to closely related Christian popular-music genres. The chapter then situates the rise of contemporary worship music in relationship to several important social developments, including the widespread conflicts

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McCarty, Brett, and Warren Kinghorn. Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality in Theological Context. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190272432.003.0021.

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Beyond simply providing positive content for “spirituality” or fodder for bioethical debates, theology—considered both as the practices and language of religious communities and as secondary discourse about these practices—is integral to the past, present, and future of modern medicine and health care. Throughout medical history, theologically driven innovations such as the charity hospital have transformed cultural practices of care, and broader theological commitments such as the early Protestant Christian “affirmation of ordinary life” shaped the contours within modern medicine. In the pres

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Hepburn, Allan. Rebuilding the Church: Barbara Pym’s Parochialism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828570.003.0005.

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Despite being relegated to the sidelines of British literature as a female novelist, Barbara Pym holds faith with a central strand of literary culture, namely the place of the church in the community and the place of women within the Church of England. Pym anthropologizes religious observance, with particular irony directed at the exclusionary hierarchy of the church, which admits only men to its ranks of curates, vicars, and bishops while relegating women to parsons’ wives or ‘excellent women’ who decorate altars and arrange jumble sales. In Excellent Women, Jane and Prudence, and A Glass of

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Dalmer, Natalia, Jutta Joachim, and Andrea Schneiker, eds. Transatlantic Relations in Times of Change. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748924678.

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The contributions to this edited volume which is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Christiane Lemke reflect on the transatlantic relations from a historical as well as contemporary perspective. Next to the effects of populist tendencies in the US and Europe, the authors also discuss developments in the respective scientific communities and culture. With contributions by Liesbet Hooghe & Gary Marks; Helga Welsh; Angelika von Wahl & Annette Henniger; Kathrin Braun; Jürg Steiner; Konrad Jarausch; Katrin Toens & Gesine Fuchs; Tanja Hitzel-Cassagnes; Holger Moroff; Ines Katenhusen.

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Broyde, Michael J. The Rise of Religious Arbitration. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190640286.003.0002.

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This chapter surveys the contemporary landscape of religious arbitration in the United States by exploring how different religious communities utilize arbitration, how these processes differ from each other, and where various faith-based dispute resolution models fall within the broader ADR spectrum. It explores developments in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic arbitration in America over the last several decades, and discusses what internal concerns and external stimuli have spurred these changes. As such, this chapter reflects on why American Catholics have not moved in the same direction as so

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Sharp, Carolyn J., ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.001.0001.

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This volume explores historical, literary, and ideological dimensions of the books of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve—along with Daniel. The prophetic books comprise oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah spanning several centuries. Analysis of these texts sheds light on the cultural norms, theological convictions, and political disputes of Israelite and Judean communities in the shadow of the empires of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia. ThisHandbookfeatures discussion of ancient Near Eastern socia

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Ristuccia, Nathan J. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810209.003.0007.

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Slowly, from about 1100 onward, the Rogation Days waned. Multiple causes contributed to the holiday’s senescence: its lack of apostolic authority, competition from new holidays such as Corpus Christi, and fear of abuses. But perhaps the most important was the systemization of the parish and, with it, the exaltation of a different symbol of the community: the Eucharistic host. This new model for church organization gradually supplanted the ritually defined communities of the early Middle Ages. Contemporary paradigms of Christianization, which treat Christianity as a fixed system of doctrines an

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Parr, Connal. Inventing the Myth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791591.001.0001.

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This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers–some of whom have been notably active in political life—it uniquely examines tensions going on within. Through its exploration of class division and drama from the early twentieth century to the present, the book restores the progressive and Labour credentials of the community’s recent past along with its literary repercussions, both of which appear in recent decades to h

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Sutcliffe, Adam. What Are Jews For? Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691188805.001.0001.

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What is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God's “chosen people,” but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. This book traces the history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. The book delves into the links between Jewish and Christian messianism and the association of Jews with universalist and transformative ideals in modern philosophy, politics, li

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Özpınar, Ceren, and Mary Kelly, eds. Under the Skin. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266748.001.0001.

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Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today is set out to show what is beneath the surface, under the appearances of skin, body, colour and provenance, and not the cultural fixities or partial views detached from the realities of communities, cultures and practices from the area. Through 12 chapters, Under the Skin brings together artistic practices and complex histories informed by feminism from diverse cultural and geographical contexts: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The aim is not to

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Hansen, Christine, and Tom Griffiths. Living with Fire. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104808.

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Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form the south-eastern boundary of the Kinglake National Park. The gentle undulations that flow out from the valley stretch into the productive and picturesque landscape of Victoria’s famous wine growing district, the Yarra Valley.  Late on the afternoon of 7 February 2009, the day that came to be known as Black Saturday, the Kinglake plateau carried a mas

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