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Life of Christina of Hane
ISBN: HB: 9780300250992, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.
The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life, but her recently unearthed case remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. Her disturbing account of vaginal mutilation, her competition with the Virgin Mary, and...
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£20,00
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Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps
<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...
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£10,99
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New Cosmic Story Inside Our Awakening Universe
ISBN: HB: 9780300217032, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have...
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On Faith and Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300216172, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 21x14 cm
Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...
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£25,00
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Seven Ways of Looking at Religion The Major Narratives
ISBN: HB: 9780300218473, Yale University Press, September 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clea...
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£14,99
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American Religion, American Politics An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300203516, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...
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£25,00
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Flourishing Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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£14,99
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Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...
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£19,99
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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...
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£27,50
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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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