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John Bowker

Religious Studies

#715

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#1333

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Christian Theology

#119

World Rank

#171

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Theology

#955

World Rank

#2006

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Bachelors Theology University of Oxford
Masters Theology University of Oxford
PhD Theology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, John Westerdale Bowker is an English Anglican priest and pioneering scholar of religious studies. A former Director of Studies and Dean of Chapel at Corpus Christi and Trinity College, Cambridge he is credited with introducing religious studies as a discipline to Cambridge University. He has been a Professor of religious studies at the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University. He is an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, a consultant for UNESCO, a BBC broadcaster and author and editor of numerous books.

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John Bowker 's Published Works

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GENES, MIND AND CULTURE (1984) (658)
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1997) (161)
The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions (2005) (73)
THE SON OF MAN (1977) (58)
“MERKABAH” VISIONS AND THE VISIONS OF PAUL (1971) (46)
The Sense of God: Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Origin of the Sense of God (1973) (43)
Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World: CHRISTIANITY (1970) (39)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: An Introduction to Jewish Interpretations of Scripture (1969) (37)
The meanings of death (1991) (35)
Attitudes to Nature (1994) (34)
Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World: HINDUISM (1970) (30)
The Sense of God (1974) (23)
Women in Religion (1994) (23)
The religious imagination and the sense of God (1978) (22)
Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World: DUALISM, DUALITY AND THE UNIFICATION OF EXPERIENCE (1970) (18)
The Cambridge illustrated history of religions (2002) (13)
Jesus and the Pharisees (1973) (12)
The Complete Bible Handbook (1998) (11)
Licensed Insanities: Religions and Belief in God in the Contemporary World (1987) (11)
Speeches in Acts: A Study in Proem and Yellammedenu form (1967) (10)
Why Religions Matter (2015) (9)
INTERCESSION IN THE QUR'AN AND THE JEWISH TRADITION (1966) (8)
God : A Brief History (2002) (7)
The sacred neuron : extraordinary new discoveries linking science and religion (2007) (7)
Human nature and destiny (1994) (6)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Non-Rabbinic Literature (1969) (5)
Information Process, Systems Behavior, and the Study of Religion (1976) (5)
The sacred neuron (2005) (5)
CAN DIFFERENCES MAKE A DIFFERENCE? A COMMENT ON TILLICH'S PROPOSALS FOR DIALOGUE BETWEEN RELIGIONS (1973) (4)
Mystery and Parable: Mark iv. 1–20 (1974) (4)
Worlds of faith :religious belief and practice in Britain today (1983) (4)
The Origin and Purpose of St John's Gospel (1965) (4)
What Muslims Believe (1998) (4)
THE BURNING FUSE: THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF RELIGION (1986) (4)
Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World: BIBLIOGRAPHY (1970) (3)
COSMOLOGY, RELIGION, AND SOCIETY (1990) (3)
Rites of passage (1994) (3)
Myth and History (1994) (3)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XVIII. 1–25 (1969) (2)
THE AEOLIAN HARP: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND HUMAN JUDGMENT (1980) (2)
Implicit Morality: An Empirical Ethical Perspective (2007) (2)
HAGGADAH IN THE TARGUM ONQELOS (1967) (2)
The Problem of Suffering in the Qur'an (1969) (2)
The Message and the Book: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions (2011) (2)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XXII (1969) (1)
Christianity and Non-Christian Religions: A Neo-Darwinian Revolution? (1993) (1)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Bibliography (1969) (1)
God, Spiritual Formation, and Downward Causation* (2004) (1)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Introduction (1973) (1)
Pre-Rabbinic Literature (1969) (1)
The Dotted Words in Genesis (1969) (1)
The Human Imagination of Hell (1982) (1)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS VIII (1969) (0)
PS. JONATHAN ON SELECTED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS (1969) (0)
P. Schmidt-Leukel and A. Nehring (eds), Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology: Comparison Revisited (2018) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Babylonian Talmud (1973) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS I (1969) (0)
GENESIS XIII. 10–13 (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLIV (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS X. 8–14 (1969) (0)
ON BEING RELIGIOUSLY HUMAN (1981) (0)
GENESIS XV. 1–6 (1969) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Dedication (1973) (0)
Translation and Interpretation (1969) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Apocryphal works (1973) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Preface (1973) (0)
Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby: Fundamentalisms observed . (The Fundamentalism Project, Vol. i.) xvi, 872 pp.; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. $40. (1993) (0)
Why Religions Matter: Introduction (2015) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: The Biblical Antiquities of Philo: a translation of the passages related to Genesis (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLVII (1969) (0)
The Tractates in the Mishnah (1969) (0)
God: A Very Short Introduction (2014) (0)
Introduction: The Death and the Life of God (1978) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XIX. 24 (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Note on the 1979 reprint (1969) (0)
Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call Acceptance of the Minutes (2012) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XIV. 13–15, 18–20 (1969) (0)
Spurious Interpretations of Rabbinic Sources in the Studies of the Pharisees and Pharisaism (1974) (0)
H. Dumoulin (editor). The Cultural, Political, and Religious Significance of Buddhism in the Modern World. Pp. xii + 368. (London and New York: Collier Books, 1976) $6.95. (1978) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Note on transliterations (1973) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XX. 13 (1969) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Megillath Ta'anith (1973) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Palestinian Talmud (1973) (0)
Making Moral Decisions (1994) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS VI (1969) (0)
Why Religions Matter: The paradox of religions (2015) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XXI. 1–2 (1969) (0)
Religious Studies and the Languages of Religions (1981) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLV (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLIII (1969) (0)
Why Religions Matter: Understanding religions (2015) (0)
Why Religions Matter: Religions and sciences (2015) (0)
Funding of science (1988) (0)
Religion as a one-way ticket (1977) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Note on transliteration (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XXXIX (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Note on bibliographical references (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS III (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLII (1969) (0)
An Alphabet of Animals (2010) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: List of abbreviations (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XI. 1–9, 27–8 (1969) (0)
Book Review: On the New Frontiers of Genetics and Religion (1995) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XXXVII (1969) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Additional note: controversies against Sadducees and/or Boethusians (1973) (0)
Book Review: The Worship of the Sky-god (1964) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Dead Sea Scrolls (1973) (0)
ART, THEOLOGY, AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS: A CASE FOR THE INQUISITION? (1978) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: The Seven and Thirteen Rules of Interpretation (1969) (0)
"A" for Ethics: an Alphabet of Action (1988) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: Cairo Geniza Fragments published in Kahle, Masoreten des Westerns , 11, part 2 (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS IV (1969) (0)
The whole of the Creative Passage of events in all of its immediacies, and in its thrust toward an inconceivable ultimacy, is in each of these encounters, with varying degrees of relevance (2007) (0)
Introduction: Religions and the rights of animals (1986) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Tosefta (1973) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS XLVIII (1969) (0)
Book Review: Moulds of Understanding (1977) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Josephus (1973) (0)
Classical Rabbinic Literature (1969) (0)
Jesus and the Pharisees: Other rabbinic works (1973) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: GENESIS II (1969) (0)
The Targums and Rabbinic Literature: The Recognised variants in the Septuagint (1969) (0)

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