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Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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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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£20,00
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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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Holy Ignorance When Religion and Culture Part Ways
ISBN: PB: 9781849044479, ISBN: HB: 9781850659921, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world fro...
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£14,99
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£45,00
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Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image
ISBN: HB: 9780226373690, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 75 halftones
On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elem...
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£36,00
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Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space
ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...
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£32,00
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Secularism in Antebellum America
ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...
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£20,50
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£42,00
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