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  1. The Miracle Myth
    Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have... more

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    There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have embraced them for millennia, seeing in them proof of a supernatural world that resists scientific explanation. Helping us to think more critically about our belief in the improbable, The Miracle Myth casts a skeptical eye on attempts to justify belief in the supernatural, laying bare the fallacies that such attempts commit. Through arguments and accessible analysis, Larry Shapiro sharpens our critical faculties so we become less susceptible to tales of myths and miracles and learn how, ultimately, to evaluate claims regarding vastly improbable events on our own. Shapiro acknowledges that belief in miracles could be harmless, but cautions against allowing such beliefs to guide how we live our lives. His investigation reminds us of the importance of evidence and rational thinking as we explore the unknown

     

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    ISBN: 9780231542142
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    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Credulity; Miracles; Supernatural; Glaubenszweifel; Wunder; Auferstehung Jesu; Glaube; Das Übernatürliche
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  2. The damnation of theron ware
    Published: 199X
    Publisher:  Wiretap, Mt. View, Calif

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    ISBN: 0585018790; 9780585018799
    Subjects: Methodist Church; Belief and doubt; American fiction; American fiction; Belief and doubt; Methodist Church
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  3. The minister's black veil
    a parable
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va

    Hochschule für Gesundheit, Hochschulbibliothek
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    ISBN: 0585205515; 9780585205519
    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Belief and doubt
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  4. Doubt in Islamic law
    a history of legal maxims, interpretation, and Islamic criminal law
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY

    "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic... more

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    "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century"-- "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781107080997; 1107080991; 9781107440517
    Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
    Subjects: Criminal law (Islamic law); Belief and doubt; Legal certainty; Legal maxims (Islamic law); Islamic law
    Scope: xiii, 414 Seiten, Diagramm, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-403) and indexes

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    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Islamic Institutional Structures and Doubt, First/Seventh-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries; 1. The God of severity and lenity; 2. The rise of doubt; Part II. Morality and Social Context, First/Seventh-Fifth/Eleventh Centuries; 3. Hierarchy and hudud laws; 4. Doubt as moral concern; Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Century; 5. Early Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law; 6. Sunni Doubt; Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt; Part IV. Interpretive authority, second/eighth-tenth/Sixteenth centuries; 7. Against Doubt; Strict textualism in opposition to doubt; 8. Shi'i Doubt, Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation; Conclusion: Doubt in comparative and contemporary context.

  5. The aim of belief
    Contributor: Chan, Timothy (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chan, Timothy (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780199672134
    RVK Categories: CC 8500
    Edition: first edition
    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Knowledge, Theory of
    Scope: XI, 233 Seiten
  6. This world is not conclusion
    faith in nineteenth-century New England fiction; [an anthology]
    Contributor: MacFarlane, Lisa (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH [u.a.]

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    Contributor: MacFarlane, Lisa (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0874518628
    Series: Hardscrabble books - fiction of New England
    Subjects: Faith; American fiction; American fiction; Christian fiction, American; Belief and doubt
    Scope: VI, 291 S.
  7. For the sake of argument
    practical reasoning, character, and the ethics of belief
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0226283968; 0226283976
    Subjects: Persuasion (Rhetoric); Reasoning; Ethics; Belief and doubt; Ethik; Philosophie; Rhetorik; Argumentation
    Scope: XI, 272 S.
  8. The book against God
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Cape, London

    Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal
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    ISBN: 0224063952
    Subjects: Fathers and sons; Belief and doubt
    Other subjects: Humorous storiesgsafd
    Scope: 247 S., 22 cm
  9. Wonder and skepticism in the Middle Ages
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York

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    2018/4340
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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 9781138892033
    Series: Routledge research in medieval studies ; 8
    Subjects: Supernatural; Marvelous, The; Belief and doubt; Skepticism; Civilization, Medieval; Wunderglaube; Das Übernatürliche; Zweifel; Mittelalter
    Scope: 236 Seiten, Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
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    Dissertation, University of Sydney, 2016

  10. The damnation of Theron Ware or illumination
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: HT 5200 ; HT 5202
    Series: The Harold Frederic edition ; 3
    Subjects: Klerus; Belief and doubt; Clergy; Methodists
    Scope: 506 S., Ill.
  11. Truth and interpretation
    an essay in thinking
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  St. Martin's Pr., New York

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  12. The aim of belief
    Contributor: Chan, Timothy (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Contributor: Chan, Timothy (HerausgeberIn)
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    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9780199672134
    RVK Categories: CC 8500
    Edition: first edition
    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Knowledge, Theory of
    Scope: XI, 233 Seiten
  13. Doubt in Islamic law
    a history of legal maxims, interpretation, and Islamic criminal law
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY

    "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic... more

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    "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century"-- "This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt"--

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781107080997; 1107080991; 9781107440517
    Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
    Subjects: Criminal law (Islamic law); Belief and doubt; Legal certainty; Legal maxims (Islamic law); Islamic law
    Scope: xiii, 414 Seiten, Diagramm, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-403) and indexes

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Islamic Institutional Structures and Doubt, First/Seventh-Tenth/Sixteenth Centuries; 1. The God of severity and lenity; 2. The rise of doubt; Part II. Morality and Social Context, First/Seventh-Fifth/Eleventh Centuries; 3. Hierarchy and hudud laws; 4. Doubt as moral concern; Part III. The Jurisprudence of Doubt, Second/Eighth-Tenth/Sixteenth Century; 5. Early Doubt as an element of Islamic criminal law; 6. Sunni Doubt; Substantive, procedural, and interpretive doubt; Part IV. Interpretive authority, second/eighth-tenth/Sixteenth centuries; 7. Against Doubt; Strict textualism in opposition to doubt; 8. Shi'i Doubt, Dueling theories of delegation and interpretation; Conclusion: Doubt in comparative and contemporary context.

  14. The damnation of theron ware
    Published: [199-?]
    Publisher:  Wiretap, Mt. View, Calif

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585018790; 9780585018799
    Subjects: Electronic books; American fiction; Methodist Church; Belief and doubt; American fiction; American fiction; Belief and doubt; Methodist Church
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  15. The minister's black veil
    a parable
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585205515; 9780585205519
    Subjects: Electronic books; Allegories; Parables; Belief and doubt; Belief and doubt; Belief and doubt
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  16. The damnation of Theron Ware or illumination
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, New York

    "Through his involvement with three women, Theron Ware, a small-town Methodist minister, finds that his abstract, absolute notions about himself and his world lead to doubt and confusion. Uncertain in his faith, Ware is alone and unprepared to meet... more

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    "Through his involvement with three women, Theron Ware, a small-town Methodist minister, finds that his abstract, absolute notions about himself and his world lead to doubt and confusion. Uncertain in his faith, Ware is alone and unprepared to meet the moral, scientific, and aesthetic ambiguities of the new [twentieth] century."--Back cover.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0140390251
    RVK Categories: HT 5203
    Series: Penguin classics
    Subjects: Fiction in English - American writers, 1861-1900 - Texts; Klerus; Belief and doubt; Clergy; Methodists; Psychological fiction.
    Scope: XXX, 346 S.
  17. Ueber den Beweis des Geistes und der Kraft
    An den Herrn Director Schumann, zu Hannover
    Published: 1777

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    Language: German
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    Subjects: Bibel; Belief and doubt; Faith
    Scope: 16 S., 8
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    Erste Ausg.

    Verf. ermittelt in Muncker, Lessing, S. 448f.

    Vorlageform d. Erscheinungsvermerks: Braunschweig, 1777

    Bibliogr. Nachweis: Wilpert/Gühring: Erstausg. dt. Dichtung, Stuttgart, 1992, 2. Aufl., S. 984, Nr. 64

  18. Vorlesungen und Gespräche über Ästhetik, Psychoanalyse und religiösen Glauben
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Parerga, Düsseldorf [u.a.]

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 3930450100
    RVK Categories: CI 5002 ; CI 5004
    Edition: 2., neu durchges. Aufl.
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Belief and doubt; Freud, Sigmund,; Ästhetik; Religion; Psychoanalyse
    Scope: 98 S.
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    Orig.-Ausg. u.d.T.: Lectures and conversations on aesthetics, psychology, and religious belief

  19. Vorlesungen und Gespräche über Ästhetik, Psychoanalyse und religiösen Glauben
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Parerga, Düsseldorf [u.a.]

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 3980304256
    RVK Categories: CI 5002 ; CI 5003 ; CI 5007
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Belief and doubt; Freud, Sigmund,; Religion; Psychoanalyse; Ästhetik
    Scope: 101 S., graph. Darst.
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    Orig.-Ausg. u.d.T.: Lectures and conversations on aesthetics, psychology, and religious belief

  20. Belief and imagination
    explorations in psychoanalysis
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0415194377; 0415194385
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: New library of psychoanalysis ; 31
    Subjects: Literatur; Psychoanalyse; Belief and doubt; Fantasy; Imagination; Literature; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis and literature; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychische Realität; Psychoanalyse; Imagination
    Other subjects: Klein, Melanie <1882-1960>; Klein, Melanie
    Scope: XII, 226 S.
  21. Aporien im vierten Evangelium
    Published: 1907

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: BC 7250
    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Einleitung
    Scope: S. 343 - 560
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    Aus: Nachrichten von der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen / Philologisch-Historische Klasse ; 1907

  22. The edge of sadness
    Published: 1961
    Publisher:  Little, Brown, Boston u.a.

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: An Atlantic Monthly Press book
    Subjects: Klerus; Alcoholics; Belief and doubt; Catholics; Clergy; Irish Americans
    Scope: 460 S.
  23. Powers of good and evil
    moralities, commodities and popular belief
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Berghahn Books, New York [u.a.]

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  24. A prayer for Owen Meany
    a novel
    Author: Irving, John
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Modern Libr., New York

    Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention. more

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    Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention.

     

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0679642595
    RVK Categories: HU 3953
    Edition: Modern Libr. ed.
    Subjects: Vietnamkrieg; Belief and doubt; Birthfathers; Boys; Male friendship; Mothers; Predestination; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Young men
    Scope: XXIV, 641 S.
  25. The Miracle Myth
    Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have... more

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    There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the terminally ill. Though miracles are immensely improbable, people have embraced them for millennia, seeing in them proof of a supernatural world that resists scientific explanation. Helping us to think more critically about our belief in the improbable, The Miracle Myth casts a skeptical eye on attempts to justify belief in the supernatural, laying bare the fallacies that such attempts commit. Through arguments and accessible analysis, Larry Shapiro sharpens our critical faculties so we become less susceptible to tales of myths and miracles and learn how, ultimately, to evaluate claims regarding vastly improbable events on our own. Shapiro acknowledges that belief in miracles could be harmless, but cautions against allowing such beliefs to guide how we live our lives. His investigation reminds us of the importance of evidence and rational thinking as we explore the unknown

     

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    ISBN: 9780231542142
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    Subjects: Belief and doubt; Credulity; Miracles; Supernatural; Glaubenszweifel; Wunder; Auferstehung Jesu; Glaube; Das Übernatürliche
    Scope: 1 online resource