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Chinese Theology Text and Context
ISBN: HB: 9780300204216, Yale University Press, September 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chines...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 19 Nature
ISBN: PB: 9781849046749, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas goes for a long walk in the woods; Hester Koning argues that it is time we cherished nature; J. E. Montgomery reads Al-Jahiz's Book of Animals; Laura Hassan examines the concept of nature in Muslim philoso...
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang Buddhist Art on the Silk Road
ISBN: HB: 9781606064894, Getty Publications, June 2016
302 pp., 25x15 cm, 25 black&white illus., 190 colour illus.
The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 18 Cities
ISBN: PB: 9781849046268, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hassan Mahamdallie walks the streets of Detroit – the city America allowed to die; Ziauddin Sardar visits the "first city" at the crossroads of Asia; Boyd Tonkin is shocked at the new gleaming cultural capitals of Dubai and Abu...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 17 Extreme
ISBN: PB: 9781849046251, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Samia Rahman argues there is more to the Muslim world than extremism; Anne Alexander wonders at the rise and rise of ISIS; John Sweeney suggests we are living in an age of extremes; Raza Ali struggles with reactionary love for...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 16 Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9781849045438, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Tahir Abbas explores the enigma of modern Islamist Turkey, Ahmet Kuru discovers Turkey's political history, Nagihan Haliloglu gets tangled in Turkish heritage wars, Zeynep Okten has reservations about the country's Islamic fina...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 15 Educational Reform
ISBN: PB: 9781849045421, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jeremy Henzell-Thomas argues that educational reform is the biggest challenge facing Muslim societies, Richard Pringle discusses the purpose of education, Abdelwahab El-Affendi suggests ways that Muslim education should be reco...
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£14,99
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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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Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849044776, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity th...
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£25,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 14 Power
ISBN: PB: 9781849044905, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of "Islamic State", Kecia Ali surveys sexual politi...
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