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Islam

Islam in Indonesia The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values

Kersten Carool

ISBN: PB: 9781849044370, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and pr...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods

Niditch Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...

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Christianity

Meister Eckhart Philosopher of Christianity

Flasch Kurt, Schindel Anne, Vanides Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300204865, Yale University Press, October 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and posthum...

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Christianity

On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...

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Buddhism

Nothing Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Boon Marcus, Cazdyn Eric, Morton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780226233260, ISBN: HB: 9780226233123, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism – a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of...

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Political Science

Islam

Alawis of Syria War, Faith and Politics in the Levant

Kerr Michael, Larkin Craig

ISBN: HB: 9781849043991, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Throughout the turbulent history of the Levant the 'Alawis – a secretive, resilient and ancient Muslim sect – have aroused suspicion and animosity, including accusations of religious heresy. More recently they have been tarred...

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Islam

Political Science

Critical Muslim, Volume 16 Turkey

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849045438, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Tahir Abbas explores the enigma of modern Islamist Turkey, Ahmet Kuru discovers Turkey's political history, Nagihan Haliloglu gets tangled in Turkish heritage wars, Zeynep Okten has reservations about the country's Islamic fina...

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Asia

Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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Philosophy

Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Hours of Marie De Medici A Facsimile

Konig Eberhard

ISBN: HB: 9781851244072, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
352 pp., 20.4x13.7 cm, 45 colour illus.

At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer boo...

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