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Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France
ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...
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£28,00
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Jewish Christianity The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
ISBN: HB: 9780300180138, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...
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£45,00
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Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
ISBN: PB: 9780226391151, ISBN: HB: 9780226391144, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 1 table
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated "Seeking Sakyamuni", Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the...
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£74,00
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Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama
ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...
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Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State
ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...
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£20,50
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Taliban Narratives The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849048439, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the...
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Age of Secrecy Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300190984, Yale University Press, July 2015
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this engrossing, vivid,...
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£56,00
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Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...
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Invention of Religion in Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...
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Abraham's Children Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780300179378, Yale University Press, June 2012
288 pp., 15.6x14 cm
Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance. Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Sudan, the Balkans, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Caucasus are just some of the areas of intractable conflict, apparently ins...
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