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Paperback. Includes essays from a issue of "American Quarterly" that explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. This work offers a conversation between scholars in American studies and religious studies. It explores numerous modes through which religious faith has mobilized political action. Editor(s): Griffith, R. Marie; McAlister, Melani. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 552 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888687
ISBN
9780801888687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.39

Paperback. This new chronology provides the framework for a fresh consideration of the literary and archeological evidence, as well as new understandings of the religious and social dynamics that shaped the image of the Temple Mount as a sacred space for Jews and Christians. Num Pages: 392 pages, 29, 23 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HRJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891069
ISBN
9780801891069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.51

Hardback. The book is a valuable text for students and scholars in early modern European history, religion, women's studies, and economic history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12, 1 black & white line drawings, 11 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Printing
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892929
ISBN
9780801892929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.84
€ 52.06

Hardback. He urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling debate over evolution and creationism/intelligent design. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRCM; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894787
ISBN
9780801894787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.81

Hardback. Wide in scope, succinct in content, and with directional markers along the way, the Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites is a must-have reference for anyone interested in Anabaptist groups. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GBC; HRA; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 188 x 27. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801896576
ISBN
9780801896576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.70

Hardback. Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRA; HRCC9; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801897009
ISBN
9780801897009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.19
€ 62.86

Hardback. Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC1; HRA; MBX; MMF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801898730
ISBN
9780801898730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.64

Hardback. Demonstrates that Freemasonry became a significant avenue for the exchange and perhaps even co-creation of cultural forms by Indians and non-Indians Num Pages: 368 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLP; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803225473
ISBN
9780803225473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. A nuanced look at traditional Ojibwe religion and its structure, interpretation, and revival. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 illustrations, 3 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803238329
ISBN
9780803238329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. Offers the comprehensive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-descendant populations through the turbulent years of the Great Awakening of 1881 to 1882, when converts flocked to the church and the mission's membership more than doubled. Editor(s): Offen, Karl; Rugeley, Terry. Num Pages: 448 pages, 14 photographs, 2 drawings, 4 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JH; HRAX; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803248960
ISBN
9780803248960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.56

Paperback. Originally published in London in 1956 by A. and C. Black Ltd. Editor(s): Root, H. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804703338
ISBN
9780804703338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.09

Paperback. Translator(s): Chadwick, Henry. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 155.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804703352
ISBN
9780804703352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.02

Paperback. This volume summarizes the history, doctrine, and practices of an ancient Chinese religion based on the harmonious interaction of Yin and Yang. Translator(s): Greaves, Roger. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804706896
ISBN
9780804706896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.37

Paperback. The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset the most cherished national narratives of the United States, for it maintains that the Puritan colonization of New England was as much a chivalric, crusading act of Reconquista (against the Devil) as was the Spanish conquest. Num Pages: 344 pages, 55 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK; HBLH; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742801
ISBN
9780804742801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Hardback. This posthumous and crucial contribution by one of the latter twentieth-century's most important sociologists, overturns a half-century of assumptions about the sociology of religion. Editor(s): Kieserling, Andre. Translator(s): Brenner, David; Hermann, Adrian. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743280
ISBN
9780804743280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.23

Paperback. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HR; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761000
ISBN
9780804761000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. "Consuming Desires" examines new forms of marriage emerging in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in reaction, in part, to the governments' increasing attempts to control sexuality with "shari'a" law. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; LAFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761550
ISBN
9780804761550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Paperback. The book views religious violence as a special type of social action and analyzes the world views and scripts of modern militant religious communities as well as those of their opponents. Translator(s): McNeil, Brian. Num Pages: 296 pages, map. BIC Classification: HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768733
ISBN
9780804768733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Hardback. Beyond Expulsion is the history of Jewish-Christian relations during the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg, a city from which Jews had been expelled and banned. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HRJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774420
ISBN
9780804774420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.02

Hardback. Bringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, this work examines the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity. Editor(s): Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers; Yelle, Robert A.; Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 677.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775366
ISBN
9780804775366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Hardback. This work of comparative theology brings together the Biblical Song of Songs and the Hindu Holy Word of Mouth to show how we can learn interreligiously and honor traditional commitments even while admitting the radical changes, losses, and gaps that pluralism is bringing to religious consciousness. Series: Encountering Traditions. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776806
ISBN
9780804776806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.40

Paperback. This work of comparative theology brings together the Biblical Song of Songs and the Hindu Holy Word of Mouth to show how we can learn interreligiously and honor traditional commitments even while admitting the radical changes, losses, and gaps that pluralism is bringing to religious consciousness. Series: Encountering Traditions. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776813
ISBN
9780804776813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. This book explores the stakes of the uses and abuses of money, language, and technical objects. Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777100
ISBN
9780804777100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.17

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777469
ISBN
9780804777469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.57

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