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Religion & beliefs
Paperback. What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HPCA; HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069173
- ISBN
- 9780226069173
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
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Hardcover. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 690.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069166
- ISBN
- 9780226069166
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Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 77.43
€ 93.81
€ 77.43
Paperback. Series: Chicago History of American Religion. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCX7; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226068121
- ISBN
- 9780226068121
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€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
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Paperback. Looking at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy, this book includes biographical portraits, and a profound meditation on the chaos of despair and the ways in which creativity can help order our lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGR; HRCS; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 259.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066875
- ISBN
- 9780226066875
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.21
€ 18.99
€ 16.21
Hardcover. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous "Paradise Gardens", this title provides a look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGR; HRCS; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226066851
- ISBN
- 9780226066851
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.94
€ 41.99
€ 31.94
Paperback. This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of paganism, and myth in twentieth-century English literature. Translator(s): Doniger, Wendy. Num Pages: 344 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDAR; HRA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 792.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226064550
- ISBN
- 9780226064550
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Condition: New
€ 50.42€ 43.02
€ 50.42
€ 43.02
Hardcover. How should we speak of bodies and souls? Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, this book frames a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061061
- ISBN
- 9780226061061
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.10
€ 54.99
€ 42.10
Paperback. Traces the critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and Zizek, among others, back to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosophers of early Christianity. This work offers a different way for critical theory to construe the relationship between the modern past and the biblical traditions to which we seem to be drawn once again. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056906
- ISBN
- 9780226056906
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the US. Describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370. How Islam is Becoming an American Religion. 280 pages, 10 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the US. Describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, this book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRH; JFSR2. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226049571
- ISBN
- 9780226049571
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.23
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€ 28.23
Paperback. Shows how the problem of neighbor love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. This title explores today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. Series: TRIOS. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226045207
- ISBN
- 9780226045207
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.66
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Paperback. Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044149
- ISBN
- 9780226044149
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.43
€ 51.99
€ 40.43
Paperback. How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time. Series: Morality and Society Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042824
- ISBN
- 9780226042824
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Series: Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; HRH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042367
- ISBN
- 9780226042367
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.25
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€ 31.25
Paperback. An account which compares the contemporary anorexic teenager, counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and the ascetic medieval saint, examining her every desire. Num Pages: 260 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCV; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Print
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226042053
- ISBN
- 9780226042053
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.75
€ 43.99
€ 33.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRA; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226041995
- ISBN
- 9780226041995
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
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Paperback. Offers a provocative range of views on "The Passion of the Christ". This book is organized in three parts. It focuses on the ethical and theological implications of the film's presentation of the Christian gospel. It proves to be a touchstone for adherents and detractors of the film alike. Editor(s): Beal, Tim; Linafelt, Tod. Series: Afterlives of the Bible S. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5halftones, 4line drawings. BIC Classification: HRCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226039763
- ISBN
- 9780226039763
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
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Hardcover. Examines the efforts of American Catholics to thwart eugenic policies, illuminating the ways in which Catholic thought transformed the public conversation about individual rights, the role of the state, and the intersections of race, community, and family. This title deals with the history of religion, science, politics, and human rights. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCC7; HRCX6; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038988
- ISBN
- 9780226038988
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 42.15
€ 54.99
€ 42.15
Paperback. Examines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life. Num Pages: 324 pages, 11 halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; HRCC99; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226032863
- ISBN
- 9780226032863
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.86
€ 42.99
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Hardcover. Describes the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery - the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia - from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, the authors tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Num Pages: 424 pages, 6 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HRE; HRLP7; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226031873
- ISBN
- 9780226031873
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Condition: New
€ 98.50€ 81.15
€ 98.50
€ 81.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HRQX5; JFFE; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226029740
- ISBN
- 9780226029740
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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€ 31.01
Paperback. Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of what became Khomeini's theocracy. Series: Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HRAM2; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226027845
- ISBN
- 9780226027845
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.15
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Paperback. Forges an alliance between deconstruction and feminist theology and theory by demonstrating deconstruction's usefulness in addressing feminism's trouble with race. The book shows how the writings of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray can be used to uncover feminism's white presumptions. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRCM; JFC; JFFJ; JFFK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226026909
- ISBN
- 9780226026909
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. Comprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226021133
- ISBN
- 9780226021133
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.08
€ 43.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. "Strong religion" draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project to answer questions on the future of fundamentalism, the turn to violence and the threats posed to human rights, security and democratic forms of government. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings, 8 tables. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM9; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014982
- ISBN
- 9780226014982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.54
€ 35.99
€ 28.54