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Hinduism

Asia

Malevolent Republic India Under Modi

Komireddi K. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380059, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...

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Africa

Islam

War and Peace in Somalia National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab

Keating Michael, Waldman Matt

ISBN: PB: 9781787380189, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a...

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Criminology

Islam

Burying Jihadis Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity

Kastoryano Riva

ISBN: HB: 9781849048859, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this di...

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Islam

Middle East

Boko Haram Reader From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

Kassim Abdulbasit, Nwankpa Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849048842, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if an...

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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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Europe

Christianity

Conscience and Conversion Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France

Kselman Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300226133, Yale University Press, March 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons...

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Europe

Christianity

Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956

Kosicki Piotr H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...

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Other

Political Science

American Religion, American Politics An Anthology

Kosek Joseph Kip

ISBN: PB: 9780300203516, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...

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Military

Christianity

Project Eagle The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Kim Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348698, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of the forgotten alliance between that...

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Islam

Current Affairs

From Independence to Revolution Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

Kennedy Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9781849047050, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "From Independence to Revolution" tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition – the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Musl...

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