Religion & beliefs
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Religion & beliefs
Hardcover. Textbook Gods offers perspectives on representations of religion and religions in textbooks. The contributions emerge from different contexts, ranging from European countries, to North America, Japan and Australia. Editor(s): Andreassen, Bengt-Ove; Lewis, Professor James R. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: HRA; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781790540
- ISBN
- 9781781790540
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€ 42.88
€ 42.88
Paperback. A collection of previously published essays by Russell T. McCutcheon highlighting different identifying claims within the work of a number of leading scholars of religion is combined with new, substantive introductions, authored by other scholars, discussing the strategies of identification employed by the scholars whom McCutcheon analyzes. Editor(s): Miller, Monica. Series: Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781790748
- ISBN
- 9781781790748
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Condition: New
€ 41.96
€ 41.96
Hardcover. Entanglements attempts to argue against those who claim that scholarship on the category religion is only of secondary interest, in that it fails to do primary research on real religions. The volume collects eighteen responses, written across twenty years, that each exemplify the inevitably situated, give-and-take nature of all academic debate. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781790762
- ISBN
- 9781781790762
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Condition: New
€ 130.50
€ 130.50
Paperback. Entanglements attempts to argue against those who claim that scholarship on the category religion is only of secondary interest, in that it fails to do primary research on real religions. The volume collects eighteen responses, written across twenty years, that each exemplify the inevitably situated, give-and-take nature of all academic debate. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781790779
- ISBN
- 9781781790779
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Condition: New
€ 42.66
€ 42.66
Hardcover. The book is based on a local study of contemporary popular or new religiosity in the area of Dalarna, Sweden. Religious expression always reflects its time. One of the book's purposes is to explore how religion is perceived in our time and how Christianity has shaped our view of what belongs to the "religion" and what is seen as "superstition". Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791172
- ISBN
- 9781781791172
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Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Hardcover. This volume explores the way in which various religious traditions, including Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, have represented and reflected upon the botanical environment - the sacred nature of trees and flora, the significance of plants as food and medicine, agriculture and the use of plants in ritual and myth. Editor(s): Ferrari, Dr. Fabrizio M.; Dahnhardt, Thomas. Num Pages: 326 pages, 48 figures. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRAC; HRLK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 73.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791196
- ISBN
- 9781781791196
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Condition: New
€ 44.10
€ 44.10
Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient Ind...
Professor Peter Jackson (Ed.)
Hardcover. A selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology examines philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation - especially in Ancient India and Greece - and considers the commonalities of their historical raison d'etre. Editor(s): Jackson, Professor Peter; Sjodin, Anna-Pya. Series: The Study of Religion in a Global Context. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRLF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 276 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791240
- ISBN
- 9781781791240
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Condition: New
€ 128.43
€ 128.43
Hardcover. The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called aIsraela, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts. Editor(s): Niesiolowski-Spano, Lukasz; Peri, Chiara; West, Jim. Num Pages: 270 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: HRCG3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 471.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791264
- ISBN
- 9781781791264
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Condition: New
€ 141.20
€ 141.20
Paperback. This collection brings together some of the columns written by Reed M. N. Weep which satirize the academic discipline of religious studies, contemporary university life, and popular culture. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791462
- ISBN
- 9781781791462
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Condition: New
€ 41.74
€ 41.74
Hardcover. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy. Editor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn. Series: The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives. Num Pages: 286 pages, 97 figures. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLK; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 5135.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791677
- ISBN
- 9781781791677
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Condition: New
€ 135.46
€ 135.46
Paperback. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy. Editor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLK; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 5135.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791684
- ISBN
- 9781781791684
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Condition: New
€ 59.49
€ 59.49
Hardcover. This book is a study on the nature and effects of the Theravada Buddhist religious experiences of the four supramundane fruits of the Noble Eightfold Path - the experience of the fruit which is stream-entry, once returning, non-returning and Arahanthship - with special focus on the experience of stream-entry. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: HREP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781792032
- ISBN
- 9781781792032
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Condition: New
€ 45.38
€ 45.38
Paperback. This collection of essays from scholars of his own generation and from his best students cover the three major strands of Luther Martin's work: the Greco-Roman world, cognitive science approaches to explaining religious phenomena and methodological issues in the academic study of religions. Editor(s): Pachis, Panayotis; Wiebe, Donald. Num Pages: 584 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1128.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781792070
- ISBN
- 9781781792070
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.70
€ 33.99
€ 32.70
Hardcover. This volume provides a composite of contemporary Sufi involvement in politics using a range of approaches and disciplines. Editor(s): Bennett, Clinton. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HRHX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 421.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Equinox
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781792209
- ISBN
- 9781781792209
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Condition: New
€ 130.75
€ 130.75
Hardback. This book considers nonviolence in relationship to specific social, political, ecological and spiritual issues. Through case studies and examinations of social resistance, gender, the arts, and education, it provides specialists and non-specialists with a solid introduction to the importance and relevance of nonviolence in various contexts. Editor(s): Eaton, Heather; Levesque, Lauren. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPS; HRAM1; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781794715
- ISBN
- 9781781794715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.04
€ 140.04
Paperback. This book considers nonviolence in relationship to specific social, political, ecological and spiritual issues. Through case studies and examinations of social resistance, gender, the arts, and education, it provides specialists and non-specialists with a solid introduction to the importance and relevance of nonviolence in various contexts. Editor(s): Eaton, Heather; Levesque, Lauren. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPS; HRAM1; JFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 250 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781794722
- ISBN
- 9781781794722
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Condition: New
€ 53.59
€ 53.59
Paperback. This volume revisits the concepts of enchantment and sacralization in light of perspectives which challenge the modern notion that man (alone) is the measure of all things. Editor(s): Utriainen, Terhi; Broo, Mans. Series: The Study of Religion in a Global Context. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781794753
- ISBN
- 9781781794753
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Condition: New
€ 41.07
€ 41.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 205 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General. Dimension: 305 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 690.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841271347
- ISBN
- 9781841271347
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Condition: New
€ 86.44
€ 86.44
Hardcover. Offers a survey of Zoroastrianism. This book addresses Zarathustra and the origins of the religion, religious concepts and narratives, ethics and gender, priesthoods and rituals, transitions and festivals. It discusses the influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Translator(s): Preisler-Weller, Margaret. Num Pages: 136 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781845533199
- ISBN
- 9781845533199
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Condition: New
€ 29.59
€ 29.59
Hardcover. Explores the richness of Pakistan's religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that are believed to infest cities such as Lahore. Series: Comparative Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HRH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 489.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845533458
- ISBN
- 9781845533458
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Condition: New
€ 48.11
€ 48.11
Paperback. Explores the richness of Pakistan's religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that are believed to infest cities such as Lahore. Series: Comparative Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; HRH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845533465
- ISBN
- 9781845533465
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Condition: New
€ 48.11
€ 48.11
Hardcover. Examines 'Arabi's teachings through the work of the Beshara Trust and the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society. This title investigates how the Beshara School has used Ibn 'Arabi's teachings in assisting a range of students from around the world towards personal, spiritual development. Series: Comparative Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPDC; HRAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845536701
- ISBN
- 9781845536701
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Condition: New
€ 50.73
€ 50.73
Paperback. Examines 'Arabi's teachings through the work of the Beshara Trust and the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society. This title investigates how the Beshara School has used Ibn 'Arabi's teachings in assisting a range of students from the world towards personal, spiritual development. Series: Comparative Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPDC; HRAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845536718
- ISBN
- 9781845536718
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Condition: New
€ 50.73
€ 50.73
Hardcover. In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. Series: Comparative Islamic Studies. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 95.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845538996
- ISBN
- 9781845538996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.45
€ 50.45