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Mind, Body & Spirit

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Mind, Body & Spirit

Hardback. The Censor, the Editor, and the Text examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Raz-Krakotzkin argues that the regulation of Hebrew print provided an avenue for the integration of Hebrew literature into the Christian corpus. Translator(s): Feldman, Jackie. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240115
ISBN
9780812240115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

Hardback. In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240924
ISBN
9780812240924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.23

Hardback. Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812241754
ISBN
9780812241754
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.21

Hardcover. In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts, rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection, both complicating and confirming its religious and ideological principles. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244366
ISBN
9780812244366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.26

Hardcover. Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explores the church's systematic campaign to demonize fairies and infernalize fairyland and the responses this provoked in vernacular romance. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248432
ISBN
9780812248432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Hardcover. In The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen explores the characterization of Mary in the songs of Romanos the Melodist, one of the greatest liturgical poets of Byzantium. Romanos's hymns shaped a figure, Arentzen argues, who related intimately to her flock in a formative period of Christian orthodoxy. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812249071
ISBN
9780812249071
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Paperback. Presents salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present Editor(s): Alba, Richard D.; Raboteau, Albert J.; DeWind, Josh. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
413
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814705056
ISBN
9780814705056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Brings together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of new religious movements (NRMs), and offers a first-hand look into their belief systems. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists. Editor(s): Daschke, Dereck; Ashcraft, William Michael. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814707036
ISBN
9780814707036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814714423
ISBN
9780814714423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Paperback. Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814714430
ISBN
9780814714430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Reveals many ways in which congregations are already working, beneath the radar, to care for people in need. This title provides empirical data to social scientists, religious studies scholars, and those involved in the debates over the role of faith-based organizations in faith-based services, and to clergy and congregation members themselves. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX6; HRLP5; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716182
ISBN
9780814716182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Where was God during the Holocaust? And where has God been since? Holocaust Theology provides a panoramic survey of the writings of more than one hundred leading Jewish and Christian thinkers on these profound theological problems. Editor(s): Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Num Pages: 414 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 722.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716205
ISBN
9780814716205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. This history of the evangelical feminist movement traces the emergence and theological development of biblical feminism within evangelical Christianity in the 70s. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC9; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716502
ISBN
9780814716502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Features legal scholars from sixteen different religious traditions who contend that religious discourse has an important function in the making, practice, and adjudication of American law, not least because our laws rest upon a framework of religious values. This book also includes topics such as abortion, gay rights, euthanasia, and free speech. Editor(s): Cochran, Robert F., Jr. Num Pages: 299 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814716731
ISBN
9780814716731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Hardcover. Outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; VXFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814717134
ISBN
9780814717134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.35

Paperback. The mythic figure of Malcolm X conjures up a variety of images - black nationalist, extremist, civil rights leader, hero. But how often is Malcolm X understood as a religious leader, a man profoundly affected by his relationship with Allah? This title offers the book length religious treatment of Malcolm X. Num Pages: 382 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: BG; HRH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814718919
ISBN
9780814718919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Offers both a religious history of the House of Prayer as an institution and an intellectual history of its colourful and enigmatic leader Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 276 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRCC96; HRCX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780814720370
ISBN
9780814720370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. First book-length treatment of the history of Sephardic Jews in America Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814725191
ISBN
9780814725191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. This analysis brings together the many perspectives that have shaped policy on the relationship between church and state. Contributors ranging from Stanley Fish to Richard John Neuhaus explore issues extending from religious morality and religious freedom to fundamentalism. Editor(s): Feldman, Stephen M. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 497 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX; HRLP; JPA; JPH; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
497
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726792
ISBN
9780814726792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.12

Paperback. A work which sets out to show that the separation of Church and State is invoked to further Christian domination of American society. The book contains material of interest to scholars of Church history, Jewish persecution, normative political theory and constitutional law. Editor(s): Feldman, Stephen M. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRC; JP; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814726846
ISBN
9780814726846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

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