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Paperback. Martin E. Marty argues here that religion in 20th-century America was essentially shaped by its encounter with modernity. In this first volume, he records and explores the diverse ways in which American religion embraced, rejected or cautiously accepted the modern world. Num Pages: 398 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226508948
ISBN
9780226508948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Editor(s): Marty, Martin E.; Appleby, R. Scott. Series: Fundamentalism Project S. Num Pages: 888 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226508788
ISBN
9780226508788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.52
€ 52.69

Paperback. Examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service. This book represents a variety of disciplines, faiths, and nations and offer a wide range of narratives, analyses, and critiques. Editor(s): Marty, Martin E. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285187
ISBN
9780520285187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165301
ISBN
9780691165301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. Martin Buber believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415278270
ISBN
9780415278270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.50

Paperback. No one will deny that we live in a world where evil exists. But how are we to come to grips with human atrocity and its diabolical intensity? This work considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyday life. Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219688
ISBN
9780253219688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. Today, organised religion is still a powerful political force in most parts of the world. In many its political significance has grown. Editor(s): Nettler, Ronald (Mansfield College, Oxford); Marquand, David. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLP; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631221845
ISBN
9780631221845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.93

Hardcover. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875807522
ISBN
9780875807522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.52

Hardback. Examines the religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, this title views commerce through the eyes of Boston merchants and reveals how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of the transitions in the puritan understanding of the meaning of New England. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143590
ISBN
9780691143590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.32

paperback. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media.Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion. Series: Public Express Religion America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252067426
ISBN
9780252067426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

Paperback. Reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. This title argues that the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau was instrumental in the evolution of modernity. In Rousseau, it pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HPCD; HPS; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231139694
ISBN
9780231139694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.81

Hardback. A leading biblical scholar, Hans Heinrich Schmid, believes that righteousness, or the right order of the world, is 'the fundamental problem of our human existence'. It is a key theme in the Hebrew Bib Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
ATF Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922239976
ISBN
9781922239976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.41
€ 43.18

Paperback. A leading biblical scholar, Hans Heinrich Schmid, believes that righteousness, or the right order of the world, is 'the fundamental problem of our human existence'. It is a key theme in the Hebrew Bib Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Publisher
ATF Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922239969
ISBN
9781922239969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. Containing many engravings and ground plans, this guidebook to the ancient cathedrals of England features interesting facts and stories, and is written by a stonemason and letter carver. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 5AQ; AMN; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 155 x 123 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Wooden Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904263418
ISBN
9781904263418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations , maps , ports. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 424.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007120222
ISBN
9780007120222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. .
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590179024
ISBN
9781590179024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.42

Hardback. Raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today. Series: Lives of Great Religious Books. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 124 x 204 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147598
ISBN
9780691147598
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.30

Paperback. Uncovering forgotten but still powerful arguments and approaches, this reader provides both an historical and contemporary examination of the practical and theoretical challenges that evil poses to faith, reason, and practice. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220145
ISBN
9780631220145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.72

Paperback. From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. This book provides a road map through this complex religious terrain. It puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised, Updated, Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520261570
ISBN
9780520261570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? This book answers these questions and more. It analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world's major religious traditions. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 408 pages, 26 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520291355
ISBN
9780520291355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. An anthology that provides the comprehensive overview for understanding the relationship between religion and violence - historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. It includes original source materials justifying violence from various religious perspectives: Hindu, Chinese, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist. Editor(s): Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HRAM9; JFFE; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129143
ISBN
9780691129143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. This book explores all of these directions, based on a five-year Luce Foundation project that involved religious leaders, scholars, and public figures. Num Pages: 176 pages, 6 b/w photos. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM2; JPB; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283473
ISBN
9780520283473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, the author shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. He claims that supernaturalism is idolatry. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152615
ISBN
9780691152615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

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