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Has patriarchal love ever escaped you? Are you searching for a missing part of your soul? We invite you to come on an imaginary safari to the Dala Dynasty and you just might find what your heart has been searching for. In a distant land in the northern part of Africa, there is a quaint little kingdom that rivals the Wakanda legacy ruled by an African King with an iron thumb like a Yellowstone patriarch. Little does he know that a royal flowe...

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In He Will Save You From the Deadly Pestilence, acclaimed religious scholar Philip Jenkins illustrates how the evolving uses of Psalm 91 allow us to map developing ideas about religion and the supernatural, theology and politics, medicine and mysticism.

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If we can believe the six o'clock news, there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. We have certainly seen many well-publicized cases, with front-page photos of priests led off to jail, and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy. But did the news media get the story right? Is there really an epidemic of clergy sex abuse? And is there, ...

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This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises intelligence, technology and religion, as well as highlighting themes that are relevant to the present day. A rich arra...

Leading religion scholar Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and explains how the earliest, most influential churches of the East--China, India, the Middle East, and Africa--died.

The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently had real religious consequences, for instance by spawning new religious movements and revivals, or driving the persecution of religious minorities. ...

Philip Jenkins erzählt die kaum bekannte Geschichte von der Blüte und dem Untergang des Christentums im Nahen Osten, in Asien und Afrika im Mittelalter. Dieses »Goldene Zeitalter« ist heute nur Fachleuten bekannt. Allgemein herrscht dagegen die Vorstellung, Europa oder der Westen seien die natürlichen Kerngebiete des Christentums. Mit dieser verzerrten Wahrnehmung der historischen Fakten räumt Jenkins auf. Tatsächlich hätte man das Zentrum der...

In this full-length account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history, Jenkins gives accurate historical perspective and shows how many of today's mainstream religions were originally regarded as cults.

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The third book in an acclaimed trilogy that includes "The Next Christendom" and "The New Faces of Christianity, " "God's Continent" offers a realistic and historically grounded appraisal of the future of Christianity in a rapidly changing Europe.

Maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world's religions.

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