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First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780300198386, Yale University Press, December 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the...
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£16,99
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System of Life Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849042482, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little understood. "A System of Life" is a pioneering examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic ou...
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£60,00
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Formation of the Jewish Canon
ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...
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£34,00
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Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
ISBN: PB: 9780226051659, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to des...
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£13,00
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Hezbollah The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
ISBN: HB: 9781849043335, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisa...
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£25,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 08 Men in Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849043175, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! MEN IN ISLAM Ziauddin Sardar – Introduction: The Shadows of Muslims Men Merryl Wyn Davies – The Problem With Men Abdennur Prado – Muslim Masculinities Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Out of this Dead End Kecia Ali – The Omnipresent M...
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£14,99
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Common Faith Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm
In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...
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Restatement of Religion Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300197402, Yale University Press, September 2013
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna...
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£65,00
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Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt
ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...
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£23,00
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Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...
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£56,00
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