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Fulfilling femininity and transcending the flesh: traditional religious beliefs and gender ideals in popular women's magazines
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )This article analyzes and assesses two prominent religious themes - the transcendence of the flesh and the association between women and the body - as they appear in popular women's magazines. Such themes are tacitly ... -
Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:1-29) on the internet: the implications of the internet for the study of the Bible
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )The Internet is a rich storage house for studying the role of the Bible in contemporary American and Western culture. The examination of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) on the Internet demonstrates that biblical studies ... -
Wired women: lost (or found?) in cyberspace
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )The Web has been pitched to us as the ultimate egalitarian utopia. At the same time, newspapers talk about "road kill" on the information highway. Women especially have been counted among those lost in cyberspace. ... -
Scribal intent: sociocultural appropriation of the Testament of Abraham in eighteenth-century Romanian lands
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )This paper focuses on the circulation of the Testament of Abraham (TAbr) within its Romanian sociohistorical context in an effort to determine how it is this first-century Alexandrian Jewish narrative found cultural relevance ... -
Subverting hatred: the challenge of nonviolence in religious traditions
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The sacred and the feminine in ancient Greece
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Violence, utopia, and the Kingdom of God: fantasy and ideology in the Bible
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Will the real Jesus please stand up: a debate between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan
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Women in the Hebrew Bible: a reader
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Christianity and the nature of science: a philosophical investigation
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An anthropological view of the modernist crisis
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )The "Modernist" crisis in the Roman Catholic Church is not well understood apart from the social-cultural backgrounds of the principal figures involved in it. This essay attempts to describe the context of the ... -
Heavenly Serbia: from myth to genocide
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The genetic gods: evolution and belief in human affairs
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God's new Israel: religious interpretations of American destiny
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Bosnia: a short history
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The theology of the prophetic books: the death and resurrection of Israel
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Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the rhetoric of legitimacy
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Religion in Roman Egypt: assimilation and resistance
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Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki, civic patron and divine protector: 4th-7th centuries CE
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In search of a vision of hope for a new century
( Journal of Religion & Society. vol. 1, 1999. )In the twentieth century eschatology moved into the center of theological attention. At the same time it became as disparate as twentieth century theology itself. This is not conducive to formulating a clear and inspiring ...