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Religion & beliefs
Hardback. This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity. Editor(s): Meyer, Birgit; Pels, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX2; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744638
- ISBN
- 9780804744638
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Condition: New
€ 150.88
€ 150.88
Hardback. Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's Letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Translator(s): Dailey, Patricia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: HRCG1; HRCG9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743822
- ISBN
- 9780804743822
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Condition: New
€ 115.47
€ 115.47
Hardback. This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743471
- ISBN
- 9780804743471
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Condition: New
€ 138.17
€ 138.17
Hardback. Focusing on oracular texts, this text examines the role of divination in Chinese culture, particularly in religious practice. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, the author establishes the oracular sequence of important but obscure works. Editor(s): Faure, Bernard. Series: Asian Religions & Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743341
- ISBN
- 9780804743341
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Condition: New
€ 149.36
€ 149.36
Hardback. God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. The author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Revelation. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743310
- ISBN
- 9780804743310
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Condition: New
€ 172.46
€ 172.46
Hardback. This volume presents the meditations of seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their own intellectual pursuit to Judaism. Translator(s): Bowlby, Rachel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742191
- ISBN
- 9780804742191
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Condition: New
€ 137.83
€ 137.83
Hardback. The central premise of this work is that Lurianic Kabbalah was first and foremost a lived and living phenomenon in an actual social world. Thus it focuses on Luria the person and his relationship to his disciples. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HRJX; HRLK2; HRQX2; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 789.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738255
- ISBN
- 9780804738255
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Condition: New
€ 173.54
€ 173.54
Hardback. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737258
- ISBN
- 9780804737258
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Condition: New
€ 150.23
€ 150.23
hardcover. This book explores everyday life of the Greek gods, including what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led in Olympus and the human world. It also shows how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736138
- ISBN
- 9780804736138
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Condition: New
€ 149.80
€ 149.80
Hardback. It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735926
- ISBN
- 9780804735926
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Condition: New
€ 44.38
€ 44.38
Hardback. By examining the unusual course of religious change in Tudor Norwich, this work revises the study of both the Reformation and the history of religious toleration in England. Num Pages: 360 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; HBJD1; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 588.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735131
- ISBN
- 9780804735131
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Condition: New
€ 106.04
€ 106.04
Hardback. A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve out a place for himself in the woolen trade. This book is not only a biography of Sharp but a detailed portrait of Dublin's community of Friends. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; HRCC2; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734523
- ISBN
- 9780804734523
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Condition: New
€ 106.36
€ 106.36
Hardback. This text argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession and bad luck. Editor(s): Faure, Bernard. Series: Asian Religions & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734493
- ISBN
- 9780804734493
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Condition: New
€ 172.99
€ 172.99
Hardback. This study examines the social, religious, and institutional conflicts accompanying the Russian Schism of the 17th-century. By analyzing who opposed the reforms of Patriarch Nikon (1652-58), the author presents a complex and multi-faceted world of popular religious resistance. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733588
- ISBN
- 9780804733588
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Condition: New
€ 101.01
€ 101.01
Hardback. The subject of religious liberty in the 19th century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager. This book presents new theories of understanding the liberal narrative surrounding the subject of religious liberty. Editor(s): Helmstadter, Richard J. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; 3JJ; HRC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 825.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730877
- ISBN
- 9780804730877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Hardback. This book examines a wide range of intellectual, ethical, and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy, on Bernard-Lazare, who was prominent during the Dreyfus Affair. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: BG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 465.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730051
- ISBN
- 9780804730051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.70
€ 77.70
Hardback. Beginning in the Southern Sung, one Confucian sect gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the process by which claims to exclusive possession of the truth came to serve power. Num Pages: 388 pages, Illustrations, geneal.tables. BIC Classification: HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 746.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724258
- ISBN
- 9780804724258
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Condition: New
€ 91.38
€ 91.38
Hardback. This work sets out to examine Victorian anti-Catholicism in a much fuller and more inclusive context, accounting for its persistence over time, disguishing it from anti-Irish sentiment, and explaining its social, economic, political, and religious bases locally as well as nationally. Num Pages: 348 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 688.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719841
- ISBN
- 9780804719841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.02
€ 90.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 152 pages, bibliogrpahy, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 375.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718264
- ISBN
- 9780804718264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.61
€ 71.61
hardcover. Research on the impact of the Reformation on religious life in Germany, has challenged traditional assumptions that Protestantism had a lasting effect on all levels of 16th-century life. Examining the Wurttemberg Reformation Church, this book looks at how the Reformation worked at the ground level. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716819
- ISBN
- 9780804716819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.94
€ 93.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Wright, Arthur F. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 33. Weight in Grams: 645.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804708906
- ISBN
- 9780804708906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.37
€ 161.37
Hardback. Editor(s): Wright, Arthur F.; Twitchett, Denis. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 30. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804700443
- ISBN
- 9780804700443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.22
€ 96.22
hardcover. Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HRCX6; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885532
- ISBN
- 9780801885532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.37
€ 65.37
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Perf...
. Ed(S): Griffith, R. Marie; Savage, Barbara ...
hardcover. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Editor(s): Griffith, R. Marie; Savage, Barbara Dianne. Series: Lived Religions. Num Pages: 400 pages, 14, 13 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; HRCV; HRLM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801883699
- ISBN
- 9780801883699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.00
€ 81.00