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Religion & beliefs
Hardcover. This book simultaneously explores the contemporary utilizations of gods in political theory and the significance of cities to the ways we understand what it is to be human. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613553
- ISBN
- 9780230613553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. Bruce Ledewitz proposes a Reformation in secular thinking. He shows that in opposition to today's aggressive Atheism, religious sources are necessary if secularism is to promote fulfilling human relationships and peaceful international relations. Amid signs that secularism is growing in unhealthy ways, Ledewitz proposes a new secular way to live. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRQA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614024
- ISBN
- 9780230614024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. This insightful ethnography explores cross-cultural contact in the highlands of Vietnam, Christian conversion, refugee exile, and the formation of the Dega refugee community in the United States. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615366
- ISBN
- 9780230615366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616806
- ISBN
- 9780230616806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.86
€ 119.86
Hardcover. What exactly is torture? Should we torture suspected terrorists if they have information about future violent acts? Defining torture carefully, the book defends the idea that all people are valuable, and rejects moral defenses of torture. It focuses particularly on practices like sensory deprivation, which perniciously attack the human psyche. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617315
- ISBN
- 9780230617315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. This book examines how American Protestants, Catholics and Jews responded to the persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s. The essays focus on American religious responses to Kristallnacht and represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTZ1; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618060
- ISBN
- 9780230618060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.25
€ 119.25
Hardcover. Blending the deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions, this book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330. Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World. 224 pages, 0. Blending the deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions, this book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRJT. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 16. Weight: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618886
- ISBN
- 9780230618886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. Robert Rozehnal traces the ritual practices and identity politics of a contemporary Sufi order in Pakistan: the Chishti Sabris. He takes multiple perspectives from the rich Urdu writings of Twentieth Century Sufi masters, to the complex spiritual life of contemporary disciples and the order's growing transnational networks. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLK; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618961
- ISBN
- 9780230618961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Hardcover. By re-examining the central themes of Reformation theology, Chung clearly and carefully describes the fundamental shape of Reformation thinking and introduces the reader to what was and is at stake in the Reformation's insistence on the centrality of the Gospel. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620278
- ISBN
- 9780230620278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.25
€ 119.25
Hardcover. This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour in conflict. A conceptual framework is suggested for analysing culturally alien practices more broadly and to inform approaches to civilian and military intervention. Num Pages: 188 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HRQX2; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621022
- ISBN
- 9780230621022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Paperback. This book is a unique collection of alternative Muslim voices, predominantly from Europe, who come from a variety of backgrounds - academia, theology, acting, activism - and who make a transformational contribution to the debate of the future of Islam and Muslims in the West. Editor(s): Baran, Zeyno. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JPVH4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621886
- ISBN
- 9780230621886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.87
€ 61.87
Hardcover. Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 238 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBTB; HRCV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622074
- ISBN
- 9780230622074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This project examines Ida B. Wells's ethical interrogation of America's infatuation with terror. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 194 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622388
- ISBN
- 9780230622388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. From her perspective as a white feminist theologian, Karen Teel dialogues with five womanist thinkers to develop a Christian theology of the body that can compel Christians, especially U. S. Christians of European descent, to actively resist the sin of racism. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622777
- ISBN
- 9780230622777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in A...
. Ed(S): Woolner, David B.; Kurial, Richard G...
Paperback. A distinguished array of scholars dissect the complex relationship between the White House, the Catholic Church in America, and the Vatican during the Roosevelt presidency. Editor(s): Woolner, David B.; Kurial, Richard G. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623514
- ISBN
- 9780230623514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. This work explores the wide-ranging educational activism of conservative Protestant fundamentalists in the 1920s. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBTB; HRLP; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623729
- ISBN
- 9780230623729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.71
€ 62.71
Hardcover. Num Pages: 347 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 190 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072489
- ISBN
- 9780231072489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.55
€ 115.55
Hardback. Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thought: from Zionism in America to God and the Holocaust, from Christian-Jewish relations to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hertzberg also analyzes such noted leaders and personalities as Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Pope John Paul II. Num Pages: 259 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078429
- ISBN
- 9780231078429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.44
€ 126.44
Paperback. Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoanylsis with modern anthropological theories of cultural difference. Num Pages: 306 pages, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JHM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078696
- ISBN
- 9780231078696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34