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Buddhism

Asia

Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones

In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...

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Islam

Criminology

Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet

Tugendhaft Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...

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Buddhism

Why I Am Not a Buddhist

Thompson Evan

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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Philosophy

Christianity

Volume 1: Fragments The Existential Situation of Our Time

Tracy David

ISBN: HB: 9780226567297, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy's range and erudition, collecting essay...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Volume 2: Filaments Theological Profiles

Tracy David

ISBN: HB: 9780226567327, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought...

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Europe

Christianity

World of the Crusades

Tyerman Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300217391, Yale University Press, May 2019
520 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 14 maps

Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliqua...

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Christianity

Business & Economics

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

Tanner Kathryn

ISBN: HB: 9780300219036, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In his classic "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocative...

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Philosophy

Other

Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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Hinduism

Why I Am a Hindu

Tharoor Shashi

ISBN: HB: 9781849049894, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, fr...

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Christianity

Reclaiming Catherine of Siena Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others

Tylus Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226529103, ISBN: HB: 9780226821283, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no...

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