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Alternative belief systems
Num Pages: 808 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; HRQX2; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 808
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231088015
- ISBN
- 9780231088015
Condition: New
€ 125.93
€ 125.93
Investigates the cultural and ideological motivations behind early imaginings of the magician, the sorceress, and the witch in the ancient world. This book highlights the degree to which these ancient cultures shared ideas about power and legitimate authority, even while constructing and deploying those ideas in different ways. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138369
- ISBN
- 9780231138369
Condition: New
€ 73.72€ 57.47
€ 73.72
€ 57.47
Paperback. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence. In this text, Professor Baumgartner explores their history. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBT; HRAC; HRLB; HRQM; JFC; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238346
- ISBN
- 9780312238346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.08
€ 72.08
Paperback. Part of "Insights for a New Way of Living" series, this work presents Osho who shows us that joy is the essence of life and that even unhappiness has its root in joy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRQC; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Griffin Publishing United States
- Edition
- Pap/DVD
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312538576
- ISBN
- 9780312538576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.55
€ 20.99
€ 17.55
Hardcover. Contents: a packet for Ezra Pound; stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils; phases of moon; great wheel; completed symbol; soul in judgment; great year of ancients; dove or swan; all soul's night, an epilogue. With many figures and illustrations. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQX; JMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333076897
- ISBN
- 9780333076897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
hardcover. An analysis of the interplay between the Voodoo cult and the complexity of Haitian politics from the colonial period to the post Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier era. The author attempts to reveal the strategic role played by Voodoo ideology and cult leaders during the Haitian Revolution. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HRQX; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 161
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1989th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333468524
- ISBN
- 9780333468524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.42
€ 193.42
hardcover. An examination of the Unification church. This book attempts to combine the truth behind the popular image of the "Moonies", and the members' perceptions of their own inner spiritual life. Topics covered include the Korean religious heritage, and the role of Jesus in Unification thought. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1991st Edition
- SKU
- V9780333496985
- ISBN
- 9780333496985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. Compares the features which humanism, Marxism and nationalism share with recognized religions, analyzing each in turn, and asks whether there is not always a threat of the demonic when any contingent reality - man, the economic order or the skill - is made absolute. Series: Themes in Comparative Religion S. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB; HRQA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333539811
- ISBN
- 9780333539811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.15
€ 54.15
Hardback. Can theology still operate in the void of post-theism? In attempting to answer this question "Agnosis" examines the concept of the void itself, tracing a history of nothingness from Augustine through Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Bataille and Derrida. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1; HRLB; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333638644
- ISBN
- 9780333638644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardcover. A collection of essays in which Femia argues that Labriola, Gramsci, Mosca and Pareto are united by the worldly humanism inherited from Machiavelli. This was due to their distinctively Italian hostility to the metaphysical abstractions of natural law and Christian theology which accounted for similarities in their thought. Num Pages: 169 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; HRQA; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333689370
- ISBN
- 9780333689370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
Hardback. In March 1995 Japanese society was shaken when the deadly nerve gas sarin was released on the Tokyo subway system. Japanese society up to that point had considered itself one of the safest and most well-ordered. This text looks at how the Japanese psyche has changed since the "Aum Affair". Editor(s): Kisala, Robert; Mullins, Mark R. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRKN; HRQM; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333772690
- ISBN
- 9780333772690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810861947
- ISBN
- 9780810861947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within
George Omi, Cardinal Francis, George Omi, Car...
Hardcover. For Cardinal Francis George, the Catholic Church is not a movement, built around ideas, but a communion, built around relationships. In A Godly Humanism , he shares his understanding of the Church in lively, compelling prose, presenting a way to understand and appreciate the relationships of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813227771
- ISBN
- 9780813227771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.44
€ 21.99
€ 20.44
Paperback. "A fresh approach to learning Sanskrit aimed specifically at the TT and serious yoga student market and based in an original combination of traditional pedagogy (oral instruction and textual memorization) and academic linguistics (grammar and syntax) and utilizing central yoga texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras"-- Illustrator(s): Ponte, Ben. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2B; CJB; HRG; HRQM2; VFMG; VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865477544
- ISBN
- 9780865477544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.80€ 48.27
€ 55.80
€ 48.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HRQM2; VXPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- SYDA Foundation United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780911307474
- ISBN
- 9780911307474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.67
€ 13.99
€ 13.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HRQM2; VXPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 8. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- SYDA Foundation United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780911307498
- ISBN
- 9780911307498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.49
€ 11.49
Hardcover. The New Atheists' claim that religion always leads to fanaticism is baseless. State-backed religion results in tyranny. Sacred humanists work to implement their highest values that will improve this world; separation of church and state, eliminating denigration of nonbelievers, assuring just governance, and preventing human trafficking. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAC; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137003614
- ISBN
- 9781137003614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HRQM2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027498
- ISBN
- 9781137027498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Hardcover. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282200
- ISBN
- 9781137282200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior. Num Pages: 110 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRQX; JFHC; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 352 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364456
- ISBN
- 9781137364456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kounine, Dr. Laura; Ostling, Michael. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions. Num Pages: 321 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, 12 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRQX5; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137529022
- ISBN
- 9781137529022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.51
€ 162.51
Hardcover. While early modern Finland was Lutheran in theory, a religious plurality - embodied in ceremonies and rituals and interpreted as magic - flourished. Unorthodox and superstitious practices merged with catechism hearings and sermon preaching among the laity. This book details how western and eastern influences manifested themselves in Finnish magic. Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNF; 3JB; 3JD; HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137547262
- ISBN
- 9781137547262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Hardback. Editor(s): Lewis, Professor James R.; Feraro, Shai. Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Num Pages: 249 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HRAX; HRLK; HRQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137547415
- ISBN
- 9781137547415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Hardback. An investigation of the history of Russian Freemasonry, based on the premise that the facts of the Russian Enlightenment preclude application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402034862
- ISBN
- 9781402034862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.23
€ 200.23