Religion & beliefs
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Religion & beliefs
Paperback. Reveals many ways in which congregations are already working, beneath the radar, to care for people in need. This title provides empirical data to social scientists, religious studies scholars, and those involved in the debates over the role of faith-based organizations in faith-based services, and to clergy and congregation members themselves. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX6; HRLP5; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716182
- ISBN
- 9780814716182
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
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Paperback. Gathers together for the first time the best research on religion in contemporary New York City Editor(s): Carnes, Tony; Karpathakis, Anna. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 440 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFSG; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814716014
- ISBN
- 9780814716014
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
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Paperback. Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 930.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 578
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814714430
- ISBN
- 9780814714430
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Hardcover. Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. Series: Essential Papers on Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 766.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 578
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814714423
- ISBN
- 9780814714423
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Condition: New
€ 97.71
€ 97.71
Paperback. Brings together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of new religious movements (NRMs), and offers a first-hand look into their belief systems. The volume includes original documents from groups such as the Unification Church, Theosophy, Branch Davidians, Wicca, Jehovah's Witnesses, Santeria, and Seventh Day Adventists. Editor(s): Daschke, Dereck; Ashcraft, William Michael. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814707036
- ISBN
- 9780814707036
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
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Paperback. Presents salient patterns in American immigrants' religious lives, past and present Editor(s): Alba, Richard D.; Raboteau, Albert J.; DeWind, Josh. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 413
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814705056
- ISBN
- 9780814705056
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
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Hardcover. In The Virgin in Song, Thomas Arentzen explores the characterization of Mary in the songs of Romanos the Melodist, one of the greatest liturgical poets of Byzantium. Romanos's hymns shaped a figure, Arentzen argues, who related intimately to her flock in a formative period of Christian orthodoxy. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812249071
- ISBN
- 9780812249071
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Condition: New
€ 81.43
€ 81.43
Hardcover. Starting from the assumption of a far greater cultural gulf between the learned and the lay in the medieval world than between rich and poor, Elf Queens explores the church's systematic campaign to demonize fairies and infernalize fairyland and the responses this provoked in vernacular romance. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248432
- ISBN
- 9780812248432
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Condition: New
€ 81.15
€ 81.15
Hardback. Kessler shows how the rabbis of the third through sixth centuries turned to non-Jewish writings on embryology and procreation to explicate the biblical insistence on the primacy of God's role in procreation at the expense of the biological parents. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241754
- ISBN
- 9780812241754
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Condition: New
€ 86.00
€ 86.00
Hardback. The Censor, the Editor, and the Text examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Raz-Krakotzkin argues that the regulation of Hebrew print provided an avenue for the integration of Hebrew literature into the Christian corpus. Translator(s): Feldman, Jackie. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240115
- ISBN
- 9780812240115
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Condition: New
€ 96.99
€ 96.99
Hardback. Considers a range of texts-including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation-to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812239508
- ISBN
- 9780812239508
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Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
Hardback. Claire M. Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary-standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; HRCC2; HRCX4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237535
- ISBN
- 9780812237535
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Condition: New
€ 92.73
€ 92.73
Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSK; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 533.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233711
- ISBN
- 9780812233711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.87
€ 74.87
Hardback. The book documents thirty cases in which university-trained scholars were condemned for disseminating allegedly erroneous opinions in their teaching or writing. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812233186
- ISBN
- 9780812233186
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Condition: New
€ 75.32
€ 75.32
Paperback. By emphasizing the ways the Bishops of Rome first leveraged the cult of St. Peter to their advantage, George E. Demacopoulos constructs an alternate account of papal history that challenges the dominant narrative of an inevitable and unbroken rise in papal power from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812223699
- ISBN
- 9780812223699
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.55
€ 36.99
€ 35.55
Paperback. Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: HRLM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221473
- ISBN
- 9780812221473
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.04
€ 36.99
€ 36.04
Paperback. Editor(s): Ludden, David. Series: South Asia Seminar. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; JH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215854
- ISBN
- 9780812215854
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. Editor(s): Laursen, John Christian; Nederman, Cary J. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLH; HRA; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215670
- ISBN
- 9780812215670
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
Paperback. "A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."-Book News, Inc. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: HRCS1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215571
- ISBN
- 9780812215571
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Paperback. Presents devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics. This is an anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. It includes ethnographical material, archival sources, cultural observations, accounts of individual experiences, and scrutiny of religious questions and theories which illuminates twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812215205
- ISBN
- 9780812215205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.80
€ 36.99
€ 35.80