Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Provincial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Education: A Descriptive Study of Vietnam -- Europe -- Different Paths, Similar Effects: Persistent Inequalities and Their Sources in European Higher Education -- Religious Education and Islam in Europe -- Middle East & North Africa -- Social Inequalities, Educational Attainment, and Teachers in Egypt -- Inequalities in Iranian Education: Representations of Gender, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic Diversity, and Religious Diversity in School Textbooks and Curricula -- North & South America -- Mexico: Evolution of Education and Inequality in the Last Two Decades -- Issues of Difference Contributing to US Education Inequality -- Measuring Educational Inequality in South Africa and Peru -- Participation of Civil Society in School Governance: Comparative Research of Institutional Designs in Nicaragua and Brazil -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The History and Devolution of Education in South Africa -- Measuring Education Inequalities in Commonwealth Countries in Africa -- Conclusion -- Education Inequality and Academic Achievement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Syriac Florilegia and Patristic Christianity beyond East and West / Emiliano Fiori -- 2. An Unpublished Syriac Collection of the Old Testament Testimonia against the Jews from the Early Islamic Period / Sergey Minov -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The unfolding of Christian history : a sketch -- Christianity : a Jewish heresy spreads across the Eastern Empire -- Greek and Latin, east and west -- Persecution, legal establishment, empowerment and retreat -- The Eastern church, the spread of Islam, and expansion northwards -- The Western church of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages -- Disputes over control, and the rise of a continental church -- The high medieval synthesis -- Later Middle Ages : the era of fragmentation -- Challenges and ruptures : Renaissance and Reformation -- The age of competing orthodoxies -- Challenges to orthodoxy : reason, enlightenment and revolution -- The era of Romanticism and its implications -- The multiple crises of the twentieth century -- Reflecting on the process of historical development -- Constantly shifting emphases in Christian history -- Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals -- Asceticism : giving things up for God -- Expecting miracles -- Martyrdom -- Sacrament and sacrifice : the Eucharistic church -- The company of heaven : the communion of saints -- Purity of doctrine and instruction : the school of faith -- The Christian community and its membership -- Reflections on shifting priorities -- Church historians' responses to change and diversity -- The early church : Eusebius of Caesarea -- Early medieval church history : Bede -- The high middle ages : a monastic chronicle -- Renaissance historiography : rhetoric and scepticism -- The Reformation and the rise of a sense of history -- The rise of reformed schools of church history -- Confessional histories in the age of orthodoxy -- Writing Christian history in the shadow of the Enlightenment -- Toward "modern" histories of Christianity -- Postmodern and liberation-oriented approaches to Christian history -- Summary and conclusions -- Some theologians reflect on the historical problem -- The historical background to historical-critical theology -- The challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to modernizing theology -- German liberal Protestant theology of the ineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Responses to liberalism in the 20th century -- Thomism, mysticism and neo-liberalism : some Roman Catholic responses -- Cultural diversity, liberation, postliberalism and postmodernity -- Drawing the threads together…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Why I have embraced Islam…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Martín González; The Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella / Richard Kagan; The art of western Africa in the age of exploration / Ezio Bassani; "The gorgeous east": trade and tribute in the Islamic empires / J. …”

“…The rise and spread of Islam is integral to the story"…”

“…Among the manifold theological topics addressed by Georges Khodr (born 1923), the current Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Mount Lebanon and one of the most influential Christian theologians in the Arab World, Islam occupies a privileged place. Khodr’s approach to this religion, with which Christians in the Middle East have been confronted since the 7th century, not only testifies for theological innovation, but also reveals the intimate link between ‘good’ theology and context. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sacred places in Ussu and Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Their history, ecology and pre-Islamic relation with the Bugis kingdom of Luwuq -- 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eine Skizze / Theresia Hainthaler -- Christologie bei Johannes Scottus Eriugena / Dirk Ansorge -- Christology in the Early Islamic World / David Thomas -- The Church of the East is not Nestorian! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Between Marrou and Brown : transformations of late antique Christianity / Robert Markus -- Old and new Rome : Roman studies in sixth-century Constantinople / Averil Cameron -- Old and new Rome in the late antique Near East / Glen Bowersock -- Regulations for an association of artisans from the late Sasanian or early Arab period / Sebastian Brock -- Crosses, icons and the image of Christ in Edessa : the place of iconophobia in the Christian-Muslim controversies of early Islamic times / Sidney H. …”

“…In ancient Roman and medieval Islamic traditions, descriptions of these creatures and their vampirizing practices were most often found in horror-genre literature and accounts of foreign exotica; however in medieval South and East Asia, these predatory 'were-creatures' were integrated into esoteric traditions, wherein they played a salutary role in the transformation of tantric practitioners…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 16 Japan; 17 The Middle East; 18 India; 19 Africa; PART III: POLITICS IN A NEW KEY…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-Japanese communication / William Kelly -- Theoretical perspectives on Islam and communication / Hamid Mowlana -- Ethics and the discourse on ethics in post-colonial India / Anantha Sudhaker Babbili -- Peace and the middle east / Edward W. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Language, truth, and "logos" / Christology from the Old Testament to the New / Jewish suffering and Christology in Pauline and recent papal thought / The gospels as testimony to Jesus Christ : a contemporary view of their historical value / The work of Christ in the New Testament / The gospels on the presence of Jesus / Christology in the fourth century / Antioch and Alexandria : Christology as reflection on God's presence in history / Christology in the East from the Council of Chalcedon to John Damascene / The work of Christ in Patristic theology / Image Christology in the age of the Second Council of Nicaea (787) / The Islamic Christ / Christology : the "Cur Deus Homo" / Seeing double : the crucified Christ in western mediaeval art / The Christology of Thomas Aquinas in its scholastic context / Late mediaeval atonement theologies / Martin Luther's eucharistic Christology / The Christology of John Calvin / Christology in the seventeenth century / Christology after Kant / The historical Jesus and Christology from David Friedrich Strauss to Käsemann / Christology from Lessing to Schleiermacher / Christology after Schleiermacher : three twentieth-century Christologist / Knowing about Jesus, knowing Jesus : Christology and spirituality / Chinese Christologies : images of Christ and Chinese cultures / Feminist Christologies / Jesus Christ, living water in Africa today / Kenoticism in modern Christology / Images of Christ in post-enlightenment oratorios / Christ in cinema : the evangelical power of the beautiful / Imagining Christ in literature / Christ in art from the Baroque to the present / . …”