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Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism
ISBN: PB: 9780226794921, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of ancient and modern history. Throughout his career, but especially in the final twenty years of his life, he wrote essays on a variety of...
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£28,00
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Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism
ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...
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£32,00
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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Eastern Orthodox Church A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300218763, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianit...
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£25,00
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Ezekiel 38-48 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300218817, Yale University Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Stephen L. Cook offers an accessible translation and interpretation of the final sections of Ezekiel. These chapters, the most challenging texts of scripture, describe the end-time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel and provide an incredible visionary...
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£50,00
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Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State
ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...
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£20,50
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£67,50
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Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies
ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...
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£16,50
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Ex Voto Votive Giving Across Cultures
ISBN: HB: 9781941792056, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2017
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 colour plates
Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto "in pursuance of a vow", an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ulti...
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£49,00
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Europe's Balkan Muslims A New History
ISBN: HB: 9781849046596, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There are roughly eight million Muslims in south-east Europe, among them Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks and Roma – descendants of converts or settlers in the Ottoman period. This new history of the social, political and religious t...
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£45,00
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity The Essential Texts
ISBN: PB: 9780300196788, Yale University Press, July 2016
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or...
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