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“mariam ayad”

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  • Studies in Coptic Culture

    Transmission and Interaction

    Edited by Mariam Ayad ...
    Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture ... Read more

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    Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

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    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes “an utterly necessary story” (The Wall Street Journal) that pulls back the curtain on the church of Scientology: one of the most secretive organizations at work today. • The Basis for the HBO Documentary.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction ... Read more

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  • Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

    by David Bentley Hart ...
    Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others—have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions ... Read more

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  • Born Bad

    Original Sin and the Making of the Western World

    by James Boyce ...
    Explore the history of original sin—and how it shapes our view of human nature—in “one of the best books on the history of the evolution of Christianity and its ideology” (Washington Book Review).Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In this ... Read more

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  • Cities of God

    The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome

    by Rodney Stark ...
    An "intriguing" study of how early Christianity caught on and converted much of the world, rooted in archaeological and statistical evidence ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Christianity spread, and how? Based on ... Read more

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  • Tutankhamen: and the discovery of his tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter (1923)

    by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith ...
    Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. Very little is known as yet of the king himself, but twelve months hence no doubt his mummy will give up its secrets and perhaps the story of his life will be revealed. But at the moment he is supposed to have ... Read more

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  • For the Glory of God

    How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery

    by Rodney Stark ...
    Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European ... Read more

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  • The Rule of Benedict

    Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World

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  • Transplanted Christianity

    Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church History

    Edited by Allan K Davidson, Peter J Lineham ...
    Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make this a book of interest to the serious student of church history and the casual reader alike. This ... Read more

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  • Martyrdom and Terrorism

    Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Dominic Janes, Alex Houen ...
    In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the form of Christ's Passion or saints faced with persecution and death, but in the duty to lead a good ... Read more

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  • G.I. Messiahs

    Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

    by Jonathan H. Ebel ...
    Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our notions of what it means to be an American soldier are not just strongly religious, but strongly Christian.     Drawing on a vast array of sources, he ... Read more

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  • An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians, Volume 2

    by Edward William Lane ...
    It is now more than one hundred years since Lane gave to the world his admirable work on the Egyptians. It has become a classic, and no writer has given us such unsurpassed descriptions of the manners and customs of the people. Lane went to Egypt in 1825, and adopting the native customs, and with a good knowledge of Arabic, he mingled with the people, living at one time in a tomb, with bones, rags ... Read more

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