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Jewish Question Again
ISBN: PB: 9781734643503, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge in right-wing authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and white supremacism, and the racist, xenophobic, and misogynist violence they spread. Like historic ne...
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Literary Theory and the New Testament
ISBN: HB: 9780300219913, Yale University Press, January 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary t...
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£50,00
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Aliites Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali
ISBN: PB: 9780226648019, ISBN: HB: 9780226647968, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Citizenship is salvation", preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali's message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, on...
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£68,00
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Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...
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£25,00
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Against Dharma Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300216196, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14 cm
Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal n...
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£20,00
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What is the Sharia?
ISBN: HB: 9781849048170, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the West, "sharia" often calls to mind antiquated laws founded upon gender discrimination and barbaric punishments. In the East, for some it means the ideal standards by which Muslims strive to live; for others, it is the gr...
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£35,00
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Islam After Liberalism
ISBN: PB: 9781849047012, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilisational fault-line...
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Landscapes of the Jihad Militancy, Morality, Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9781849047203, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
200 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The militant Islam represented by Al-Qaeda is often described as a global movement. Apart from the geographical range of its operations and support, little else is held to define it as "global". "Landscapes of the Jihad" explo...
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£11,99
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Subject to Death Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
ISBN: PB: 9780226355870, ISBN: HB: 9780226355733, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 1 table
If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With "Subject to Death", Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists...
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£63,00
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Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables
More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...
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£34,00
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