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Manifold Greatness The Making of the King James Bible

Moore Helen, Reid Julian

ISBN: PB: 9781851243495, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 65 colour illus.

This new book from Bodleian Library Publishing tells the story of this remarkable achievement with outstanding images from the collections of The Bodleian and Folger Shakespeare Libraries. The book discusses the obstacles and achievements faced by...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Garb Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226282077, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

Bringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity

Recruiting Young Love How Christians Talk about Homosexuality

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226410449, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm

In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides – from...

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Judaism

Untold Tales of the Hasidim Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism

Assaf David

ISBN: PB: 9781611681949, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This fascinating volume reveals some of the dark, dramatic episodes concealed in the folds of the hasidic cloak – shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism. Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a varie...

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Islam

Political Science

In the Shadow of Shari'ah Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan

Nelson Matthew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781850659266, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent events in Pakistan, and more widely in the Islamic world, have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. Studies of Islamic law (Shari'ah) lie at the heart of this trend,...

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Political Science

Other

Religion, Caste and Politics in India

Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9781849041386, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
600 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After Independence the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested upon three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain; state intervention in the economy; and diplomatic Non-Alignment mitigated by pro-Sovie...

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Europe

Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300170856, Yale University Press, March 2011
492 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 32 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...

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General

Sectarianism in Iraq Antagonistic Visions of Unity

Haddad Fanar

ISBN: PB: 9781849041287, Hurst Publishers, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and de...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Christianity

Marking the Hours English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300170580, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 23.9x18.8 cm, 120 colour illus.

In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the "Book of Hours", unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were...

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