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Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life
ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...
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£12,00
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Eastern Orthodox Church A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300218763, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianit...
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£25,00
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Moses A Human Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300251883, ISBN: HB: 9780300209624, Yale University Press, May 2020
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar. No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...
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£10,99
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£16,99
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Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood
ISBN: PB: 9780226697550, ISBN: HB: 9780226697413, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 3 tables
When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asi...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Allah God in the Qur'an
ISBN: HB: 9780300246582, Yale University Press, April 2020
344 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
The central figure of the Qur'an is not Muhammad but Allah. The Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture, is marked above all by its call to worship Allah, and Allah alone. Yet who is the God of the Qur'an? What distinguishes the qur'anic presentation of God...
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£20,00
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Art of Solitude
ISBN: HB: 9780300250930, Yale University Press, April 2020
200 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more...
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£16,99
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Muslims and Citizens Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300243369, Yale University Press, April 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe's most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed...
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£40,00
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Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500
ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones
In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist
ISBN: HB: 9780300226553, Yale University Press, March 2020
240 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, an...
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£20,00
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Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering
ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...
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£36,00
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