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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Jewish Christianity
The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
ISBN: HB: 9780300180138,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...
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£45,00
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Religious Conflict in Brazil
Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300243352,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity and nuance, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and vio...
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£50,00
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Daemons are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
ISBN: PB: 9780226714905,
ISBN: HB: 9780226692401,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones
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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£28,00
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£84,00
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Deconstructing Islamic Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780674244689,
Harvard University Press,
July 2020
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The study of Islam has historically been approached in two different ways: apologetical and polemical. The former focuses on the preservation and propagation of religious teachings, and the latter on the attempt to undermine the tradition. The dialec...
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£23,95
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Methodists and Muslims
My Life as an Orientalist
ISBN: PB: 9780674244672,
Harvard University Press,
July 2020
186 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
186 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Richard W. Bulliet is an innovative historian of the Islamic world. His contributions have changed the way scholars think about the history of medieval city life, animal domestication, wheeled transport, religious conversion, Islamic institutions, an...
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£15,95
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Hasidism
Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781684580170,
ISBN: HB: 9781684580163,
University of Chicago Press,
Brandeis University Press,
July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...
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£21,00
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£72,00
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Public Freedoms in the Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9780300211528,
Yale University Press,
July 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In "Public Freedoms in the Islamic State", he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – in its broad outlines – meets with wide acceptance among Muslims...
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£50,00
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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
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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Church State Corporation
Construing Religion in US Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226454696,
ISBN: HB: 9780226454559,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Figure of Christ in Contemporary Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781789142082,
Reaktion Books,
June 2020
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 218 illus., 200 in colour
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 218 illus., 200 in colour
In the first book devoted to representations of Jesus Christ in contemporary photography, Nathalie Dietschy presents a rich range of images from the 1980s to the present day.
Acclaimed photographers such as Catherine Opie, Wang Qingsong, Joan Fontcu...
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£40,00
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