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Boekhandel Douwes Den Haag

Miracles

Wonder and Meaning in World Religions

Weddle, David L.

Miracles

Miracles

Wonder and Meaning in World Religions

Miracles

 

Examines how five religious traditions - Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam - understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition.

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Beschrijving Miracles

Examines how five religious traditions - Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam - understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition.

ISBN
9780814794166
Pagina's
280
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NUR
700
Druk
1
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Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
New York University Press

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