Mind, Body & Spirit
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Mind, Body & Spirit
Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, 106 halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: AMN; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 4th.printing
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532301
- ISBN
- 9780226532301
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
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Hardcover. In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. The author tracks the course of the book from its origins in 1239 to its most salient episodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also sheds light on the persistence of free thought during a time when the outspoken risked being burned at the stake. Translator(s): Weiss, Lys Ann. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 haltone, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HRAM7; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226530291
- ISBN
- 9780226530291
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.29
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Paperback. Observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Historians of religion have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226509853
- ISBN
- 9780226509853
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. Martin E. Marty argues here that religion in 20th-century America was essentially shaped by its encounter with modernity. In this first volume, he records and explores the diverse ways in which American religion embraced, rejected or cautiously accepted the modern world. Num Pages: 398 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226508948
- ISBN
- 9780226508948
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. This text focuses on fundamentalist movements on five continents and within six religions. It considers the effect that antisecular religious movements have had since 1970 on national economies, political parties, constitutional issues, and international relations. Editor(s): Marty, Martin E.; Appleby, R. Scott. Series: Fundamentalism Project S. Num Pages: 676 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1130.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 676
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226508849
- ISBN
- 9780226508849
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Condition: New
€ 52.77€ 44.94
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Paperback. Editor(s): Marty, Martin E.; Appleby, R. Scott. Series: Fundamentalism Project S. Num Pages: 888 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1660.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226508788
- ISBN
- 9780226508788
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Condition: New
€ 60.98€ 51.38
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Paperback. Explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and post colonial eras. This book sheds light on Nigeria's politics, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, and inequality. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HRAM2; HRCC96. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 153 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226507132
- ISBN
- 9780226507132
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all deities, demigods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. This book says that the thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HRQX9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 12. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226501314
- ISBN
- 9780226501314
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. Both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. This book explores how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of understanding the inner and outer universe have been so persistently linked. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226493190
- ISBN
- 9780226493190
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.96
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Paperback. Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. This title presents the English translation of the work, "Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought", accompanied by an essay on Gendun Chopel's life liberally interspersed with passages from his writings. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HREX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226493176
- ISBN
- 9780226493176
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.77
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Hardcover. Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. He dictated the "Adornment" for Nagarjuna's Thought, recognized as a controversial work of Madhyamaka or "Middle Way" philosophy. This book presents the English translation of this major Tibetan work, accompanied by an essay on Chopel's life. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HREX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226493169
- ISBN
- 9780226493169
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Condition: New
€ 53.94€ 45.81
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Paperback. Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential. Editor(s): Lopez, Donald S. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226493152
- ISBN
- 9780226493152
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
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Paperback. A critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226493091
- ISBN
- 9780226493091
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. "The issue of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism has been debated endlessly, but few scholars have seriously continued Weber's own research into the Reformation sources of seventeenth-century England. David Little's study was one of the first to do so, and remains an important contribution." Guenther Roth, University of Washington" Num Pages: 284 pages, xviii, 270 p. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HRA; HRC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 135 x 205 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226485461
- ISBN
- 9780226485461
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. Beginning with a dissection of the instruction manual given to each of the 9/11 hijackers, this book talks about the September 11 and serves as a study on the character of religion. It shows how the terrorists justified acts of destruction and mass murder "in the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate." Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226482033
- ISBN
- 9780226482033
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.77
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Hardcover. How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? This title identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. It shows how the religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226481968
- ISBN
- 9780226481968
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Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 77.43
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Paperback. In this volume Levi-Strauss explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels are interwoven with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Translator(s): Chorier, B. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; HPCF; HRQ; JFHF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226474823
- ISBN
- 9780226474823
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.65
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Hardcover. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HRCC7; HRCC9; HRCX8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226472577
- ISBN
- 9780226472577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.46€ 49.03
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Paperback. Addresses the 20th-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Jeffrey J. Kripal examines the lives and works of five historians of mysticism. Num Pages: 412 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRLK2; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226453798
- ISBN
- 9780226453798
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.86
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Paperback. This text seeks to set the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, and explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Series: University of Chicago Geography Research Papers S. Num Pages: 354 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTP; HRCC93; JFFN; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226448534
- ISBN
- 9780226448534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.85
€ 42.99
€ 32.85