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Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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Christianity

Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Christianity

Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Buddhism

Scientific Buddha His Short and Happy Life

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300159127, Yale University Press, October 2012
160 pp., 21x14 cm

This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming acr...

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Christianity

Global Catholicism Towards a Networked Church

Linden Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781849042710, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Forces as divergent as Jihadist Islam and Richard Dawkins are making religion more central to our lives today. Ian Linden has been an active lay member of the Catholic Church for many years and has witnessed firsthand such impo...

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Islam

Political Science

Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East

Louer Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9781849042024, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably l...

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Christianity

New Worlds A Religious History of Latin America

Lynch John

ISBN: HB: 9780300166804, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore th...

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Other

Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Islam

Countering Al-Qaeda in London

Lambert Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781849041669, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book presents an inside account of two pioneering projects in London where Muslim community groups worked in partnership with police to reduce the influence of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism. One project empowered London Musl...

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Buddhism

Buddhism and Science A Guide for the Perplexed

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493190, ISBN: HB: 9780226493121, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
278 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. In "Buddhism and Science", Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how and why these two seemingly...

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