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Saints Faith without Borders
ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.
While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...
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£26,50
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Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred
ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...
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£22,50
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£37,00
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Religion and Development Ways of Transforming the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849041409, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we now know that this rarely happens. People in most countries continue to look at t...
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£22,50
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Spirit of Zoroastrianism
ISBN: PB: 9780300170351, Yale University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires un...
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£9,99
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Religion, Caste and Politics in India
ISBN: PB: 9781849041386, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
600 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After Independence the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested upon three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain; state intervention in the economy; and diplomatic Non-Alignment mitigated by pro-Sovie...
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£25,00
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Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300170856, Yale University Press, March 2011
492 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 32 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...
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Sectarianism in Iraq Antagonistic Visions of Unity
ISBN: PB: 9781849041287, Hurst Publishers, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and de...
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£40,00
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