Mind, Body & Spirit
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Mind, Body & Spirit
Paperback. Examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. This book illustrates how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HRE; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226072722
- ISBN
- 9780226072722
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€ 34.99€ 27.17
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Paperback. Through an interview and sixteen essays, this title explores key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. It focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Translator(s): Cochrane, Lydia G. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAF; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226070810
- ISBN
- 9780226070810
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.29
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Hardcover. Through an interview and sixteen essays, this title explores key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. It focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Translator(s): Cochrane, Lydia G. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HPCB; HRAB; HRAF; HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 32. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226070803
- ISBN
- 9780226070803
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Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 78.06
€ 93.81
€ 78.06
Paperback. Series: Readings in Western Civilization. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069395
- ISBN
- 9780226069395
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
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Paperback. Series: Textual Sources for the Study of Religion S. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: GBCR; HRKZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069302
- ISBN
- 9780226069302
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.65
€ 32.99
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Hardcover. Compares the Christian efforts aimed toward European Jews and toward indigenous people of the New World, focusing on the intersection of colonial expansion with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the question of the colonial encounter. This title offers a major reassessment of early modern European identity. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HRAF; HRAX; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069197
- ISBN
- 9780226069197
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.54
€ 47.99
€ 36.54
Paperback. What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HPCA; HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069173
- ISBN
- 9780226069173
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Hardcover. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069166
- ISBN
- 9780226069166
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Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 77.43
€ 93.81
€ 77.43
Paperback. Series: Chicago History of American Religion. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX7; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226068121
- ISBN
- 9780226068121
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. Looking at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy, this book includes biographical portraits, and a profound meditation on the chaos of despair and the ways in which creativity can help order our lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGR; HRCS; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 259.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066875
- ISBN
- 9780226066875
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.21
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Hardcover. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous "Paradise Gardens", this title provides a look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGR; HRCS; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066851
- ISBN
- 9780226066851
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.94
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Paperback. This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of paganism, and myth in twentieth-century English literature. Translator(s): Doniger, Wendy. Num Pages: 344 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDAR; HRA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 792.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226064550
- ISBN
- 9780226064550
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Condition: New
€ 50.42€ 43.02
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Hardcover. How should we speak of bodies and souls? Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, this book frames a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061061
- ISBN
- 9780226061061
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.10
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€ 42.10
Paperback. Traces the critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and Zizek, among others, back to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosophers of early Christianity. This work offers a different way for critical theory to construe the relationship between the modern past and the biblical traditions to which we seem to be drawn once again. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056906
- ISBN
- 9780226056906
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Paperback. The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the US. Describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370. How Islam is Becoming an American Religion. 280 pages, 10 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the US. Describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226049571
- ISBN
- 9780226049571
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
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Paperback. Shows how the problem of neighbor love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. This title explores today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. Series: TRIOS. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226045207
- ISBN
- 9780226045207
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.66
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Paperback. Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044149
- ISBN
- 9780226044149
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.43
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Paperback. How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time. Series: Morality and Society Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042824
- ISBN
- 9780226042824
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
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Paperback. Series: Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; HRH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042367
- ISBN
- 9780226042367
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.25
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Paperback. An account which compares the contemporary anorexic teenager, counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and the ascetic medieval saint, examining her every desire. Num Pages: 260 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCV; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Print
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042053
- ISBN
- 9780226042053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.75
€ 43.99
€ 33.75