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Paperback. This volume explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women - part of one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa - through their songs and dances, dream narratives and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AVA; AVGD; HRK; HRLF; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226548203
- ISBN
- 9780226548203
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
paperback. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. This work presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 608 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 774.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691029153
- ISBN
- 9780691029153
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Condition: New
€ 64.99€ 44.90
€ 64.99
€ 44.90
Hardback. Translator(s): Holme, Christopher. Series: Archetypal Images in Greek Religion. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644684
- ISBN
- 9780691644684
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Condition: New
€ 113.86
€ 113.86
Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019079
- ISBN
- 9780691019079
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.45
€ 46.99
€ 33.45
Paperback. The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. The author examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019154
- ISBN
- 9780691019154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.37
€ 46.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 463 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HRKP; HRL; JFHF; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Quest Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780835608015
- ISBN
- 9780835608015
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.45
€ 23.99
€ 23.45
Paperback. An English translation of the Chinese "Zhuangzi". It favors an attitude toward life: abandon presuppositions, intellectual debates, and ambitions. Translator(s): Bruya, Brian. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKN5; WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691008820
- ISBN
- 9780691008820
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Hardback. This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from fourth century BCE China called the Stalk Divination Method. The manual presents a competing way of interpreting trigrams to the Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching) that was lost over time. Translator(s): Cook, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature C A (Lehigh University); Lu, Research Fellow Zhao (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HRK; HRKP; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190648459
- ISBN
- 9780190648459
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Condition: New
€ 140.08
€ 140.08
Hardback. "Columbia University Press first published Watson's translation as The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu in 1968"--ECIP data view. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164740
- ISBN
- 9780231164740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.51€ 57.06
€ 73.51
€ 57.06
Paperback. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141659
- ISBN
- 9780231141659
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.14
€ 19.99
€ 16.14
Paperback. This book examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism as a version of consequentialism. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HPDF; HPQ; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107407329
- ISBN
- 9781107407329
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Condition: New
€ 59.98
€ 59.98
Hardcover. How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? This title identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. It shows how the religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; HBJD; HBLA; HRKP; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226481968
- ISBN
- 9780226481968
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Condition: New
€ 94.85€ 78.49
€ 94.85
€ 78.49
Paperback. Brigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. This book reveals when and by whom the goddess was 'conceived' and evidence that St Brigid was a real person. It explains how she 'became' a saint, and discusses her first documented visit to England in AD 488. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752448657
- ISBN
- 9780752448657
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.89
€ 29.99
€ 20.89
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperOne
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060692452
- ISBN
- 9780060692452
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.67
€ 15.99
€ 13.67
Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 376 pages, 30 illus & 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016538
- ISBN
- 9780674016538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.45
€ 54.99
€ 46.45
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Southwater
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857236708
- ISBN
- 9780857236708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. Explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, this book focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a trans-national fight for Khalistan. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JH; 3JJ; HRKS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326151
- ISBN
- 9780822326151
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.50
€ 31.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Career Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564148780
- ISBN
- 9781564148780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.64
€ 24.99
€ 22.64
Paperback. Simple accessible techniques to bring modern Druidry to the general populace. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: HRKP2; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782793762
- ISBN
- 9781782793762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
This accessible guide to the development of Japan's indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto's enduring religious identity. Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRKN3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155151
- ISBN
- 9781405155151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 125.77
€ 125.77