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Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781849042703, ISBN: HB: 9781849041683, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! he Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has always attracted widely divergent attention. Scholars have regarded it both as the source of terrorism and, more recently, as the potential harbinger of democratisation. The Muslim B...
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£35,00
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£30,00
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Introduction to the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9780300181791, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...
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£18,99
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Jacob Unexpected Patriarch
ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...
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£18,99
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Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9780226010694, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 25x15 cm
The central question of the Arab Spring – what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East – has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has...
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£26,00
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Scientific Buddha His Short and Happy Life
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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£25,00
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Invention of Religion in Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...
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£28,00
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£78,00
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Religious Question in Modern China
ISBN: PB: 9780226005331, ISBN: HB: 9780226304168, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
480 pp., 25x15 cm
Recent events – from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe – vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without atten...
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£24,00
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£42,00
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Atheist's Bible The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
ISBN: HB: 9780226530291, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
264 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line illus.
Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous...
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£24,00
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Promise of Salvation A Theory of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226006932, ISBN: HB: 9780226713915, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm
Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that...
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£21,00
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£37,00
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Al-Andalus Rediscovered Iberia's New Muslims
ISBN: PB: 9781849041614, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Iberia is a special place of colliding myths over its Islamic past and the Christian reconquista, the Inquisition and massive expulsion of Muslims and Jews some five centuries ago. Long a land of emigrants and explorers, it has...
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£19,99
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