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Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730
ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 09 The Maghreb
ISBN: PB: 9781849043946, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Robin Yassin-Kassab has an enlightening sojourn in Morocco; Hicham Yezza examines the role of the Berbers in the Arab Spring; Marcia Lynx Qualey is dazzled by the transformative power of Maghrebi poetry; Louis Proyect spends so...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 08 Men in Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849043175, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! MEN IN ISLAM Ziauddin Sardar – Introduction: The Shadows of Muslims Men Merryl Wyn Davies – The Problem With Men Abdennur Prado – Muslim Masculinities Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Out of this Dead End Kecia Ali – The Omnipresent M...
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Common Faith Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm
In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 07 Muslim Archipelago
ISBN: PB: 9781849043083, Hurst Publishers, July 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Merryl Wyn Davies unravels the paradox that is Malaysia and Indonesia, Ziauddin Sardar reads the history of Kuala Lumpur from the window of his apartment, Carool Kersten engages with a string of Indonesian intellectuals, Nazry...
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Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...
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Calvinism A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300148794, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...
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Conversions Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America
ISBN: PB: 9780300192445, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 05 Love and Death
ISBN: PB: 9781849043076, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death, Imranali Panjwani mourns the massa...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 06 Reclaiming Al-Andalus
ISBN: PB: 9781849043168, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi philosophers tamed the secular, Gema Ma...
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