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Hardcover. The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this view. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 diagrames. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; HRCM; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344571
- ISBN
- 9781137344571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346810
- ISBN
- 9781137346810
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Condition: New
€ 149.87
€ 149.87
Hardback. This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and what we can learn from a renewed engagement with the topic. This volume discusses what new discourses regarding notions of gender, ethnicity, and race might add to developments on notions of class. Editor(s): Rieger, Joerg. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351371
- ISBN
- 9781137351371
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Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
Hardcover. Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; HBLH; HBTB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 180 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358844
- ISBN
- 9781137358844
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Condition: New
€ 68.11
€ 68.11
Hardcover. This book seeks to address the question of how we should understand the impact of Mitt Romney's faith in the 2012 election. As the first Mormon to earn a presidential nomination from a major party, the book provides a comprehensive study of Romney's historic candidacy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCZ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360748
- ISBN
- 9781137360748
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Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Hardcover. This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church. The chapters in this book covering the church from 1900 to the present trace the development of the Church in China from many historical and disciplinary vantage points. Editor(s): Chu, Cindy Yik-Yi. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361745
- ISBN
- 9781137361745
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCF2; HRCM; JFCA; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137365002
- ISBN
- 9781137365002
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Condition: New
€ 162.87
€ 162.87
Hardcover. Intersex bodies have been figured as troubling by doctors, parents, religious institutions and society at large. In this book, scholars draw on constructive and pastoral theologies, biblical studies, and sociology, suggesting intersex's capacity to 'trouble' is positive, challenging unquestioned norms and assumptions in religion and beyond. Editor(s): Cornwall, Susannah. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRCM; HRCV4; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366153
- ISBN
- 9781137366153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.17
€ 162.17
Hardcover. Religion and social action is both empowering and limiting for women. This study shows the Guadalupanas' awareness of themselves as agents for change and their difficulties in understanding and maintaining their limited gendered roles within church and community. Num Pages: 214 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372192
- ISBN
- 9781137372192
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Black Theology as Mass Movement is a call to current and future theologians to stretch the boundaries of Black Liberation Theology from what has become primarily an academic subfield into a full fledge liberation movement beyond the walls of the academy. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372796
- ISBN
- 9781137372796
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Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches? This book engages the Chalcedonian Definition as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCR; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137376824
- ISBN
- 9781137376824
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Condition: New
€ 161.96
€ 161.96
Paperback. This unique and reader-friendly book promises to become the classic 'go to' book for anyone truly interested in studying what the Bible says about managing organizations. Num Pages: 303 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRCV; KJC; KJMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377333
- ISBN
- 9781137377333
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how many Black women approach healing. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRCX6; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378132
- ISBN
- 9781137378132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.32
€ 160.32
Hardcover. Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379061
- ISBN
- 9781137379061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.27
€ 149.27
Hardcover. Taking Hugh of St. Victor's On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith as his source text, Dillard applies the methods of analytic philosophy to develop a systematic theology in the spirit of Christian Platonism, exploring questions that remain pressing for readers interested in philosophy, theology, religion, and the history of medieval thought. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HRAB; HRCM; HRCV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379887
- ISBN
- 9781137379887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This collection of essays stages the first sustained conversation between the great protestant theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and radical theology. Editor(s): Re Manning, Dr. Russell. Series: Radical Theologies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAX; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380838
- ISBN
- 9781137380838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardback. This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation, and traces the ways in which institutions, first the Dutch Reformed Church and then the Cape government, attempted to shape white childhood to the future benefit of the colony. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBTB; HRCC93; JFSP1; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380937
- ISBN
- 9781137380937
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. Beginning in the nineteenth century, native women preachers served and led nascent Protestant churches in much of Southern India, evolving their own mission theology and practices. This volume examines the impact of Telugu socio-political dynamics, such as caste, gender, and empire, on the theology and practices of the Telugu Biblewomen. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 221 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCX7; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383082
- ISBN
- 9781137383082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States. Series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCC7; JFFE1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384027
- ISBN
- 9781137384027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book uses ethnography as theological practice, yielding a theology constructed at the intersection of church, academy and everyday life. Drawing on the author's research in her Baptist church, the resulting 'ethnographic theology' produces creative theological insights, while also proposing fresh alternatives for Christian thought and action. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390431
- ISBN
- 9781137390431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.46
€ 160.46