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Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, ISBN: HB: 9780300140972, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...
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Ku Klux Kulture America and the Klan in the 1920s
ISBN: PB: 9780226637938, ISBN: HB: 9780226376158, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In "Ku Klux Kulture", Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux...
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Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain
ISBN: HB: 9781787380035, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a mor...
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Knot of the Soul Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
ISBN: PB: 9780226465081, ISBN: HB: 9780226464923, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the so...
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Keshab Bengal's Forgotten Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9781849049016, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India,...
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Kabbalah A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
ISBN: HB: 9780300152364, Yale University Press, August 2015
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new pe...
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Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 A Survey
ISBN: HB: 9780300126266, Yale University Press, April 2011
512 pp., 23.6x16 cm
This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific centre of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic th...
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Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9781850658733, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Announcements of an impending victory over the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseam since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, particularly after the Presidential elections of 2004, which were said to have marked the 'm...
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