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Through Non-Western Eyes
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CHRISTOPHER D. BADER
Explores what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one.
Each chapter explains how to employ these methods and how these new measures and methods offer new insights into our understanding of how religion is operating in society.
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Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam DAVID L. WEDDLE An examination of the practice and philosophy of sacrifice in three religious traditions.
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Contemporary Israel New Insights and Scholarship
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Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
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Christian Theologies of Salvation
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