Whilst African civil conflicts are usually presented in the media as either political struggles, terrorism or mere banditry, in some at least there is a substantial spiritual element. Conflicts Zimbabwe, Mozambique and elsewhere in African have been shown to contain highly significant contributions from spirit forces intermediated by mediums, traditional healers, and prophets. Aspects of the Ac...

Prayer is a major topic within Christian theology. The biblical text has various references to recorded and reported prayers. In fact, prayer are found the rich diversity of books, corpora genres Scripture. As can be expected, much been written about in text. However, comprehensive Biblical Theology dealing with concept Scripture not published before, this book intends fill gap, assuming that s...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...