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Religion & beliefs

Hardback. Ranging over two millennia of history and culture, Koschorke considers such thinkers as Freud, Weber, Rousseau, and Kleist in an exploration that illuminates issues of historical, religious, artistic, psychological, and cultural importance. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HRCG; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127561
ISBN
9780231127561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 50.63

Paperback. Traces the history of Baptists, beginning with their origins in seventeenth-century Holland and England. This book examines the development of Baptist beliefs and practices. It present an overview of the various denominations and fellowships within Baptism. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127035
ISBN
9780231127035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. In the 11th-century Eucharistic Controversy, Alberic of Monte composed a small but important treatise. His treatise was said to have destroyed the argument that the bread and wine survived its consecration. Modern scholars had long believed his treatise to be lost. This book demonstrates that this crucial document is an existing identifiable text. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HRAM7; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126847
ISBN
9780231126847
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.17
€ 82.56

Hardback. Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, antimasonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christianity, was an essential component of Smith's vision. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 39 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC2; HRCC99; JFC; JFSJ; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126403
ISBN
9780231126403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 50.63

Paperback. The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days - which he believed were imminent. Translator(s): Mierow, Charles Christopher. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; HBG; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126014
ISBN
9780231126014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. Investigates the varieties of New Age and Neopagan religions in the US from their origins in the nineteenth century to their reemergence in the 1960s counterculture. This book considers the differences and similarities between the New Age and Neopagan movements and observes the antagonistic relationship between these two practices in America. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124034
ISBN
9780231124034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. A history of the Religious Society of Friends. This book provides an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends. It reflects the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. It also examines commonalities among American Friends. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123631
ISBN
9780231123631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these offensive portrayals serve? This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HRAF; HRAX; HRCM; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 185 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123327
ISBN
9780231123327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.04

Hardback. For many the Hare Krishna movement continues to be the most visible face of any eastern religion transplanted into the West. This volume discusses the successes and failures of the movement, the difficulties it has faced in putting down roots in foreign soil and recent schisms following on the death of the founder. Editor(s): Bryant, Edwin; Ekstrand, Maria. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231122566
ISBN
9780231122566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.69
€ 61.86

Paperback. Moving beyond the realm of traditional "church history," this book offers a survey of American religion since World War II. Identifying the major trends and telling moments within major denominations, it asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the important and divisive issues and events of the last half century. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121552
ISBN
9780231121552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. An account of the capture of Lisbon in 1147 by the combined forces of King Alfonso Henriques of Portugal and a fleet of crusaders from the Anglo-Norman realm, Flanders, and the Rhineland. This work conveys the tensions between the secular and spiritual motives of a crusading army. Translator(s): David, Charles Wendell. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBJD; HBLC; HRAM9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121231
ISBN
9780231121231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. St Boniface, the early 8th-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans" was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity. This text provides translations of his letters. Translator(s): Emerton, Ephraim. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BJ; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231120937
ISBN
9780231120937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Series: Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231120616
ISBN
9780231120616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Employing a sizeable collection of data on party members, activists, and elites, Geoffrey Layman examines the role of religion in the Democratic and Republican parties, and the ways in which religion has influenced the political process from the early 1960s through the late 1990s. Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HRA; JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231120586
ISBN
9780231120586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.35
€ 97.24

Paperback. McGinn demonstrates how Antichrist has often reflected the human need to comprehend the persistence of evil in the world, and examines how it has haunted popular imagination in both the form of individuals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims. Num Pages: 369 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119771
ISBN
9780231119771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America - faster than Christian groups combined - are Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. This book asks how these faiths have changed or have been changed by the pluralist face of American civil society. Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; HRAX; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115216
ISBN
9780231115216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each. Editor(s): Boyarin, Daniel; Itzkovitz, Daniel; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113748
ISBN
9780231113748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 89.47

Hardback. In an analysis that deftly unites feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, and Catholic theology, Kelley Raab explores the symbolic implications of women at the altar, providing rich insight into issues of gender, symbolism, and power. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCX1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113342
ISBN
9780231113342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 89.47

Paperback. Exploring the intersections of biography and autobiography, East and West, faith and reason, Finding Fran tells the story of two high school friends who took radically different paths: Lois Banner became an academic feminist, while Fran Huneke converted to Islam, joining the mystical Sufi Order and moving to Egypt. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: BG; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231112178
ISBN
9780231112178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Exploring the intersections of biography and autobiography, East and West, faith and reason, Finding Fran tells the story of two high school friends who took radically different paths: Lois Banner became an academic feminist, while Fran Huneke converted to Islam, joining the mystical Sufi Order and moving to Egypt. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: BG; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231112161
ISBN
9780231112161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.17
€ 82.56

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