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Discordant Harmonies ReconsideredArgues that since natural ecological systems are constantly fluctuating, our        plans, policies, and laws governing the environment must change to reflect this new        understanding....

Though considered by devotees to be perhaps the most potent expression of religious faith, dying for one's God is also one of the most difficult concepts for modern observers of religion to understand. This is especially true in the West, where martyrdom has all but disapeared and martyrs in other cultures are often viewed skeptically and dismissed...

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In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal Santo argues        that the Dialogues, Pope Gregory the Great's most controversial work, should be        considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate about the saints which took        place in early Byzantine society. Like other contemporary works in Greek and...