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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Kleber Monod Paul

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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From The Holy Land to Graceland Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives

Vikan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9781933253725, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
202 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus.

According to medievalist Gary Vikan, Graceland is much more than a wildly popular tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In this fascinating new book, Vikan posits that...

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Religion of Falun Gong

Penny Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226655017, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights a...

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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Saints Faith without Borders

Meltzer Francoise, Elsner Jas

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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Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

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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Religion and Development Ways of Transforming the World

Haar Gerrie ter

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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Spirit of Zoroastrianism

Skjaervo Prods Oktor

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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Religion, Caste and Politics in India

Jaffrelot Christophe

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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Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain

Hutton Ronald

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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