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Anthropology

Daemons are Forever Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226714905, ISBN: HB: 9780226692401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...

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Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times

Waters Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps

<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...

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America

American Catholics A History

Woodcock Tentler Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...

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Christianity

Liberty in the Things of God The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

Wilken Robert Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780300226638, Yale University Press, July 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external for...

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Education

Christianity

Religion in the University

Wolterstorff Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300243703, Yale University Press, June 2019
192 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

What is religion's place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein a...

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Buddhism

Political Science

Buddhism and the Political Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe

Walton Matthew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781849048385, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores trad...

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Christianity

Dangers of Christian Practice On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin

Winner Lauren F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215823, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculat...

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Middle East

Islam

Myanmar's "Rohingya" Conflict

Ware Anthony, Laoutides Costas

ISBN: PB: 9781849049047, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made global headlines in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, amidst serious allegations of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against...

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Political Science

Islam

Political Islam in Tunisia The History of Ennahda

Wolf Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781787380332, ISBN: HB: 9781849048262, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Political Islam in Tunisia" uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Al-Nahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-2011 and the overthrow of Ben Ali'...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Apocalypse as Holy War Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

Wasserman Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300204025, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interp...

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