Religion & beliefs
Results 9817 - 9840 of 22454
Religion & beliefs
Hardcover. This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea. Series: Global Diversities. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; HRC; JFFD; JFFN; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450388
- ISBN
- 9781137450388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.31
€ 116.31
Hardcover. By tracing an arc of thought and action from both historical and religious figures up through modern microfinance practitioners, Looft illustrates the many ways religious inspiration continues to remain at the crux of international economic development-while raising compelling questions around God and Mammon working together to help the poor. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; KCM; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450777
- ISBN
- 9781137450777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether his thought remains relevant fifty years after his death. In opposition to those who believe that his writings have little to say to us today, this book argues that his thought is largely exemplary of open theological engagement with the contemporary intellectual situation. Num Pages: 126 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454461
- ISBN
- 9781137454461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour. Drawing from the theologies of Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam, Dragovic explores their possible motivations to engage alongside the international community. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRHT; JPFR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455147
- ISBN
- 9781137455147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455499
- ISBN
- 9781137455499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and denounce crimes against human, ethnic, cultural and economic rights. Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict. Num Pages: 222 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JMC; HRAM2; JFFE; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461834
- ISBN
- 9781137461834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Housley, Norman. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBWC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462800
- ISBN
- 9781137462800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.71
€ 150.71
Hardcover. This text crafts a trinitarian theology that reorients theology from presumptions about the immateriality of the Trinity toward the places where the Trinity matters-material bodies in historical contexts and the intersecting ways political and theological power structures normalize and marginalize bodies on the basis of material difference. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137464774
- ISBN
- 9781137464774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465771
- ISBN
- 9781137465771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.70
€ 126.70
Hardback. Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137466075
- ISBN
- 9781137466075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries. This innovative study takes a fresh look at these underground spaces, and considers how art, space, texts, and practices can tell us more about the catacombs and the people who dug and decorated them. Series: Religion and Spatial Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; AMN; HBLA; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468031
- ISBN
- 9781137468031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book guides scholars and teachers of theology and religion through a process of self-reflection that leads to intentional, transformative teaching, dialogue, and reform in theological education and religious studies. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLB; JNUM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468130
- ISBN
- 9781137468130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.34
€ 116.34
Hardback. Applying new readings of Four Quartets, this book completes a trilogy on the Christian character of Eliot's writing. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470836
- ISBN
- 9781137470836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471673
- ISBN
- 9781137471673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement: Finding the Place of R...
Ager, Alastair, Ager, Joey
Hardcover. Strengthening local humanitarian engagement demands not only rethinking dominant understandings of religion, but also revisiting the principles and practices of humanitarianism. This book articulates key aspects of the 'transborder discourse' necessary for humanitarian dialogue in the 21st century. Series: Religion and Global Migrations. Num Pages: 131 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137472137
- ISBN
- 9781137472137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.80
€ 115.80
Hardcover. The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology Editor(s): Demker, Marie; Leffler, Yvonne; Sigurdson, Ola; Wolff, Janet. Num Pages: 205 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HRA; JFC; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137472229
- ISBN
- 9781137472229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Paperback. This book explores the correlation between anti-theological thought and the rise of Islamism in the twentieth century by examining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the leadership of Umar al-Tilmisani (d. 1986). Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRHT; HRLB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473578
- ISBN
- 9781137473578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.49
€ 126.49
Hardcover. This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangelica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the furthering of global gender justice. Editor(s): Daggers, Jenny. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRCX6; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475459
- ISBN
- 9781137475459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The contributors have roots in the Asia-Pacific, but the struggles, theologies and concerns they address are shared across the seas. Editor(s): Brett, Mark G.; Havea, Jione. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 283 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MBF; 1MK; HRLB; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475466
- ISBN
- 9781137475466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Social Capital and Risk Sharing: An Islamic Finance Paradigm (Palgrave...
Ng, Adam, Ibrahim, Mansor H., Mirakhor, Abbas
Hardcover. This exciting new addition to Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics argues that social capital can facilitate rule-compliance and co-operation in the sharing of risk in financial and economic activities. Series: Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics. Num Pages: 228 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HRH; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137476043
- ISBN
- 9781137476043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation. Editor(s): Ozdalga, Elisabeth; Kuzmanovic, Daniella. Series: Islam and Nationalism. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK; HRH; JPFN; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477576
- ISBN
- 9781137477576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.57
€ 127.57
Hardcover. This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HRQA; HRQA5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477675
- ISBN
- 9781137477675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.53
€ 47.53
Hardcover. This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JM; HRCX6; JFFH2; JHMC; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137477767
- ISBN
- 9781137477767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Biblical Perspectives on Leadership and Organizations links biblically-based principles to the study of organizational practices by examining topics including motives, meaningful work, and spiritual leadership from a biblical perspective integrated with findings from contemporary research. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCX6; KJD; KJMB; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478030
- ISBN
- 9781137478030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.92
€ 204.92