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Amos A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300178784, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculat...
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£50,00
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To Care for Creation The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780226367385, ISBN: HB: 9780226367248, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as...
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£24,00
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£52,50
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Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.
In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...
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£38,00
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Culture and the Death of God
ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...
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£10,99
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Reason, Faith and Revolution Reflections on the God Debate
ISBN: PB: 9780300164534, Yale University Press, April 2010
200 pp., 21x14 cm
Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical "Reason, Faith, and Revolution" is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagle...
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£12,99
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1 Peter
ISBN: PB: 9780300139914, Yale University Press, December 2007
992 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The significance of the "First Letter of Peter" for the formation of Christianity stands in sharp contrast to its brevity. John H. Elliott, a leading authority on this letter, brings its significance to life in this magnificent addition to the renown...
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£35,00
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Modernizing Islam Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781850656784, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Increased Muslim migration has changed the religious landscape of Europe and America. Mosques and Islamic centres are found in many urban areas while Muslim cities now include Paris, London and New York as much as Cairo, Tunis...
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£25,00
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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
ISBN: PB: 9780226204055, University of Chicago Press, March 1988
367 pp., 23x15 cm
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume "A History of Religious Ideas". Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffus...
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£20,50
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Quest History and Meaning in Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226203867, University of Chicago Press, May 1985
187 pp., 23x15 cm
In "The Quest Mircea Eliade" stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by...
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£19,50
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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780226204031, University of Chicago Press, January 1985
580 pp., 23x15 cm
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German re...
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£31,00
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