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Is Europe Christian?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381902, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In this short but bracing book, Olivier Roy traces the Church's long battle against a tide of secularization in Europe. Since the Enlightenment, religion has been losing ground as the source of moral norms. But while the questi...
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Plight of Western Religion A Perception Transformed
ISBN: HB: 9781787381339, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Religion" can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition––based on the premise of superhuman powers––can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion from culture, ethnicity, morality...
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Year of the Sword The Assyrian Christian Genocide: A History
ISBN: HB: 9781849046428, Hurst Publishers, August 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopo...
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Faithonomics Religion and the Free Market
ISBN: HB: 9781849046367, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Faithonomics" uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be anal...
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God is No Thing Coherent Christianity
ISBN: HB: 9781849046374, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "God is no thing, but not nothing". These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam...
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£9,99
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Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849044776, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity th...
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Franco's International Brigades Adventurers, Fascists and Christian Crusaders in the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781849042475, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Foreign volunteers fought on behalf of General Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War for a right-wing cause whose aim was to smash democracy. These assorted adventurers, fascists, and Catholic crusaders were on t...
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Global Catholicism Towards a Networked Church
ISBN: PB: 9781849042710, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forces as divergent as Jihadist Islam and Richard Dawkins are making religion more central to our lives today. Ian Linden has been an active lay member of the Catholic Church for many years and has witnessed firsthand such impo...
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Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9781850659358, ISBN: HB: 9781850659341, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also sai...
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African Christianity Its Public Role
ISBN: PB: 9781850653356, Hurst Publishers, June 1998
484 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This text analyses African Christianity in the mid-1990s, against the background of the continent's current social, economic and political circumstances. Paul Gifford employs concepts taken from political economy to shed light...
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