Spirits and Letters

Spirits and LettersStudies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise the Spirit and the Letter as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between charisma and institution by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the

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and historical progress

Preparing and mentoring in teaching

accompanied by insightful essays

Both authors argue that there are positive and renewable moral energies in the world's religions and that unless religion

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discontinuous nature of memory itself

Writing in a quirky

This chapter discusses energy use and emissions from direct fossil fuel combustion on farms to power farm machinery

this volume takes as its subject not the genres or movements that constitute the cinema of the Land of the Rising Sun but the filmmakers themselves

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and the two become fast friends