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Anthropology

Daemons are Forever Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226714905, ISBN: HB: 9780226692401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...

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Christianity

Divine Bodies Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity

Moss Candida R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179767, Yale University Press, July 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm

When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected – young or old, healthy or sick, real-to-life or idealized? What bodily qualities must be rec...

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Christianity

Dangers of Christian Practice On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin

Winner Lauren F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215823, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculat...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

David The Divided Heart

Wolpe David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230741, ISBN: HB: 9780300188783, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal...

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Political Science

Islam

Digital World War Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy

Ullah Haroon

ISBN: HB: 9780300231106, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Social media has dominated the discourse surrounding recent events in the Muslim world – from the seismic events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, to ISIS's slick online recruitment and digitally documented campaign of terror, to the ongoing civi...

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Buddhism

Anthropology

Dream Trippers Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality

Palmer David A., Siegler Elijah

ISBN: PB: 9780226484846, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table

Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western "alternative" spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China. "Dream Tri...

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Other

Media Studies

Devil's Long Tail Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

Stevens David, O'Hara Kieron

ISBN: HB: 9781849043434, Hurst Publishers, February 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media – and not all are as harmless as the...

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Christianity

Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Political Science

Islam

Demystifying the Caliphate

Al-Rasheed Madawi, Kersten Carool, Shterin Marat

ISBN: PB: 9781849042284, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they we...

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Medieval

Christianity

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...

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