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Hardback. Offers perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic control or influence. This book investigates their influence on early Christians and examines how the two communities defined themselves in relation to each another. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBTB; HRAX; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128568
ISBN
9780231128568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 86.38

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

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

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
€ 27.76

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

€ 154.09

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
€ 27.68

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

€ 129.61
€ 98.65

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
€ 27.68

Paperback. The collection's central theme is the way in which the diversity of religious beliefs and practices-from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism-relates and can conflict with the moral universalism implied by the concept of human rights. Editor(s): Cohen, Irene; Martin, J. Paul; Proudfoot, Wayne. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: HRA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104173
ISBN
9780231104173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231064521
ISBN
9780231064521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.72
€ 57.47

Paperback. Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature, but from their social character. Building upon this insight, this work uses Islamic legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 35. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226888040
ISBN
9780226888040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. This work attempts to see the satis - the Hindu custom of women sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands - through Hindu eyes, providing an experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Translator(s): Mehlman, Jeffrey; White, David Gordon. Num Pages: 328 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRAX; HRG; HRLF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226885698
ISBN
9780226885698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Paperback. Travelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's "The Confidence-Man" through the film "Wall Street". Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 292 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB; HRLK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791623
ISBN
9780226791623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226791425
ISBN
9780226791425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Translator(s): Moua, Mitt. Num Pages: 234 pages, 8 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; CF; HRA; HRLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226762876
ISBN
9780226762876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. This text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HRAB; JFCX; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226757544
ISBN
9780226757544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Examines the turbulent modern history and sociology of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Monkhood and its effects upon contemporary society. Using translated Sinhalese documents and interviews with monks, this text unravels the inner workings of this New Buddhism and the ideology on which it is based. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HRAX; HRE; HRLP7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226748665
ISBN
9780226748665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.73

Paperback. Regina Schwartz examines the story of Cain and Abel, as she sees it; that is, emblematic of a tragic biblical influence over Western secular notions of identity - notions often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, nationalistic terms. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1; JFFE; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226742007
ISBN
9780226742007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

paperback. This study examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. It discusses Augustine's influence on medieval authors, and monastic visions and folklore. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 290 pages, 28 colour plates, 3 halftones, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HRAC; JFHF; VXQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226738888
ISBN
9780226738888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign. This title demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and, usually, unrecognizable forms. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HP; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226735368
ISBN
9780226735368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardback. In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign. This title demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and, usually, unrecognizable forms. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HP; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226735351
ISBN
9780226735351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.28
€ 100.64

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