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Religion & beliefs
Hardcover. Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and literary ones. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113695
- ISBN
- 9780230113695
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Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardcover. Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113718
- ISBN
- 9780230113718
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Condition: New
€ 118.62
€ 118.62
Hardcover. This study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBWC; HRCX8; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114135
- ISBN
- 9780230114135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.81
€ 139.81
Hardcover. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 201 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114173
- ISBN
- 9780230114173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
Paperback. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 202 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114180
- ISBN
- 9780230114180
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Condition: New
€ 119.25
€ 119.25
Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational ...
Fjelstad, Karen, Hien, Nguyen Thi
Hardcover. Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HRLK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 208 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114937
- ISBN
- 9780230114937
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Condition: New
€ 62.40
€ 62.40
Hardcover. Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 284 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJC; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116726
- ISBN
- 9780230116726
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Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCF1; HRCG3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116856
- ISBN
- 9780230116856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.97
€ 118.97
Hardcover. American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, the book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HRAM2; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117723
- ISBN
- 9780230117723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Sacred Texts, Historic...
Schumm, Darla, Stoltzfus, Michael
Hardcover. This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119727
- ISBN
- 9780230119727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.12
€ 63.12
Disability and Religious Diversity: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious ...
Schumm, Darla, Stoltzfus, Michael
Hardcover. This collection of essays examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119734
- ISBN
- 9780230119734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardcover. Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAC; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119741
- ISBN
- 9780230119741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.57
€ 129.57
Hardcover. In order to fight for a more just society, it is necessary to elaborate upon the theoretical reflections that critically analyze the faith and myths that support and legitimize the trajectory of contemporary capitalism and its utopia, as well as the faith and the complex relation that exists in between the notions of the subject and societies. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119758
- ISBN
- 9780230119758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. There appears to be a hierarchy of cultures with the West perceiving the East as inferior, so much so that it is referred to simply as 'the Other'. Because today's world is globally interdependent, inter-woven, and integrative, it is pertinent to be open to the cultural, spiritual, and religious understandings of the East Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120303
- ISBN
- 9780230120303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120433
- ISBN
- 9780230120433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.23
€ 119.23
Hardcover. Explores the intricate entwinement of religion, 'culturalism,' and ethnic politics, using as its lens a contemporary Bidayuh community in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; HRC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120464
- ISBN
- 9780230120464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.97
€ 108.97
Hardcover. In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concepts of 'Believer' and 'Muslim Woman' in contemporary Islam Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120570
- ISBN
- 9780230120570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Paperback. This book presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120709
- ISBN
- 9780230120709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.77
€ 61.77
Hardcover. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women's bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement of suburban Muslim women with secular politics is ignored. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HRAC; HRH; HRLM7; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230121010
- ISBN
- 9780230121010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200050
- ISBN
- 9780230200050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92