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Art of Solitude
ISBN: HB: 9780300250930, Yale University Press, April 2020
200 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more...
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£16,99
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Having the Spirit of Christ Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups
ISBN: HB: 9780300245622, Yale University Press, February 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be e...
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£50,00
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How to Read Buddhist Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588396730, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour illus.
For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. "How to Read Buddhist Art" introduces this compl...
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£18,99
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That All Shall Be Saved Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
ISBN: HB: 9780300246223, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Chris...
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£20,00
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Logic in a Popular Form Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
ISBN: PB: 9780857426161, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 24.1x16 cm
Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form", this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the con...
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£25,00
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Bedouin Culture in the Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300121827, Yale University Press, January 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Written by one of the world's leading scholars of Bedouin culture, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on significant points of convergence between Bedouin and early Israelite cultures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. Bailey compares Bedouin...
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£40,00
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Islam and World History The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
ISBN: PB: 9780226584782, ISBN: HB: 9780226584645, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
ISBN: HB: 9781849049689, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the...
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£45,00
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Secular Buddhism Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
ISBN: PB: 9780300234251, Yale University Press, March 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism. As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation....
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£12,99
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God The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9781454930105, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2018
320 pp., 22.6x15 cm, black&white illus.
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out Gods primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive – and worse. Originally conceived as a joint presentation b...
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£14,99
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