Mind, Body & Spirit
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Mind, Body & Spirit
Paperback. The Qianlong emperor, who dominated religious and political life in China, was ruled by elaborate ritual prescriptions, which determined his dress and behaviour, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. This text analyzes how ritualizing power was shared by the throne and the literati. Num Pages: 326 pages, 12 halftones, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HRKN; HRLF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226987293
- ISBN
- 9780226987293
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Hardcover. Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. In addition to Strauss' introductions, the author has translated various editorial annotations Strauss makes on key passages in Mendelssohn's texts. Editor(s): Yaffe, Martin D. Translator(s): Yaffe, Martin D. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922782
- ISBN
- 9780226922782
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Paperback. Analyzes the events in 1993 that led to the death of 74 men, women and children in the Waco religious community in Texas. Examining topics such as the media's role and the relation between religion and violence, the book discusses why the tragedy took place and whether it could have been avoided. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HRCC99; HRCZ; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 686.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226908458
- ISBN
- 9780226908458
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€ 47.99€ 36.86
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Paperback. This work investigates the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual of honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 378 pages, 63 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AS; AVGD; AVGW; HRE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905860
- ISBN
- 9780226905860
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Paperback. Argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning of desire in its own discourse. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226902135
- ISBN
- 9780226902135
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
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Hardcover. Focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural. Num Pages: 376 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226895130
- ISBN
- 9780226895130
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€ 50.99€ 38.97
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paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, Frontispiece, xiv, 334 p., 14 halftones. BIC Classification: HRKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226895093
- ISBN
- 9780226895093
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Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 537.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226890562
- ISBN
- 9780226890562
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€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature, but from their social character. Building upon this insight, this work uses Islamic legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 35. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226888040
- ISBN
- 9780226888040
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Paperback. This work attempts to see the satis - the Hindu custom of women sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands - through Hindu eyes, providing an experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Translator(s): Mehlman, Jeffrey; White, David Gordon. Num Pages: 328 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRAX; HRG; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 650.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226885698
- ISBN
- 9780226885698
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HRCC1; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 267 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 770.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Second edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226872391
- ISBN
- 9780226872391
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€ 50.42€ 43.42
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Paperback. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was an advocate and exemplar of women's education, this text contains her writings on the defence of women's education, her letters to other learned women, her own account of her early life as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries Translator(s): Irwin, Joyce L. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DNF; HRC; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226849997
- ISBN
- 9780226849997
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€ 34.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. Translator(s): Buitenen, J. A. B. van. Num Pages: 582 pages, x, 572 p. BIC Classification: 1F; HRG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 31. Weight in Grams: 858.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 582
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846651
- ISBN
- 9780226846651
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.61
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Paperback. Num Pages: 880 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: HRG; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 880
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846644
- ISBN
- 9780226846644
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€ 51.59€ 43.95
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Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, geneal. table, map. BIC Classification: HRG; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 798.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226846637
- ISBN
- 9780226846637
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Paperback. Translator(s): Wissing, P. Num Pages: 472 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKP; HRKT; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226845609
- ISBN
- 9780226845609
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Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, xiv, 238 p. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226819211
- ISBN
- 9780226819211
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Paperback. An examination of the cultural context in which theological pluralism emerged. Analyzing models of theology, this work formulates a "revisionist" model and applies it to questions in contemporary theology including the meanings of religion, theism, and of Christology. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226811291
- ISBN
- 9780226811291
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Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; AV; HBJD; HBLH; HRQX2; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226807928
- ISBN
- 9780226807928
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€ 36.99€ 29.24
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Paperback. The history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring periods of religious revivals or awakenings. This book addresses the economic and political context of evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic expansion and Republicanism in the 19th century. Num Pages: 238 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCC2; JFC; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226795867
- ISBN
- 9780226795867
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Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226794211
- ISBN
- 9780226794211
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€ 36.99€ 29.12
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Paperback. Travelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's "The Confidence-Man" through the film "Wall Street". Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 292 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB; HRLK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226791623
- ISBN
- 9780226791623
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Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226791425
- ISBN
- 9780226791425
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€ 30.99€ 24.51
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Paperback. This text explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. The author challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized worlds of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; HRCC2; HRCC7; HRCC9; HRCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789699
- ISBN
- 9780226789699
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€ 34.99€ 27.29
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