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Paperback. This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata Masayoshi and Maeda Masana. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBL; HRA; JP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532766
- ISBN
- 9781349532766
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A study of Dante from an Arabo-Islamic perspective. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL; HRAB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349532926
- ISBN
- 9781349532926
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€ 53.53€ 47.53
€ 53.53
€ 47.53
Paperback. An introduction to Vodou practices and beliefs, with a focus on Haiti. Editor(s): Michel, C.; Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAX; JFC; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533053
- ISBN
- 9781349533053
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€ 160.92
€ 160.92
Paperback. This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of peace educational labour. A strong emphasis is given to integrative and sustained long-term peace education efforts. Editor(s): Bekerman, Zvi; McGlynn, Claire. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JNA; JNMT; JPS; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533114
- ISBN
- 9781349533114
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€ 53.53€ 47.53
€ 53.53
€ 47.53
Paperback. Through extended readings of English, French, and Italian writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries, Claustrophilia shows that medieval enclosures actually make room for desires and communities that a poetics of pure openness would exclude. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HRA; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533329
- ISBN
- 9781349533329
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€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing, and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories. Editor(s): Ortiz, Gaye Williams; Joseph, Clara A. B. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533343
- ISBN
- 9781349533343
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa" discusses political crisis in Africa, covering such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society, and the African renaissance. This book proposes humanistic interventions centered on the recovery of interpersonal relations. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAB; JFC; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533411
- ISBN
- 9781349533411
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HRA; HRAM; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349533473
- ISBN
- 9781349533473
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. "Practicing Catholic "brings together top scholars from various backgrounds to explore methodologies for studying ritual and Catholicism. The essays focus on particular aspects of ritual within Catholic practice, such as liturgy and performance and healing rituals. Editor(s): Ziegler, J.; Rodgers, S. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; HRCC7; JHB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534197
- ISBN
- 9781349534197
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Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Paperback. This book is a survey of the relationship between the two Celtic and Roman traditions in Merovingian Gaul, Lombard Italy, and the British Isles during the period of the Easter controversy. It looks at baptismal liturgy, the style of tonsure, and the correct dating of Easter. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBLA; HPC; HRAX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534241
- ISBN
- 9781349534241
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Condition: New
€ 127.09
€ 127.09
Paperback. Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 191 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRAB; HRAC; JHB; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534913
- ISBN
- 9781349534913
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Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. An examination of resilient Hindu elites who lived, fought, and adapted to political and social change during the turbulent late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the princely state of Hyderabad. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJF; HRAM; HRAX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535101
- ISBN
- 9781349535101
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This groundbreaking work explores media scholar Sut Jhally's thesis that advertising functions as a religion in late capitalism and relates this to critical theological studies. Sheffield argues that advertising is not itself a religion, but that it contains religious dimensions - analogous to Durkheim's description of objects as totems. Series: Religion/Culture/Critique. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAB; HRAM; JFC; KJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 281 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535453
- ISBN
- 9781349535453
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. This book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world. Set against an imploding grammar of socio-political life, the modern liberal public sphere appears in a new light. Series: Culture and Religion in International Relations. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB; HRAC; HRH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535484
- ISBN
- 9781349535484
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; HRAC; JFC; JHM; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535507
- ISBN
- 9781349535507
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
paperback. This book explores the manifold connections between fundamentalism and literature in English. Carefully selected case studies and surveys document an unexpected richness and variety in this unlikely relationship Editor(s): Pesso-Miquel, Catherine; Stierstorfer, Klaus. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRAB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535613
- ISBN
- 9781349535613
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Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
paperback. Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- SKU
- V9781349535637
- ISBN
- 9781349535637
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Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. The book is an exploration of the creative crossings between the liberative stream of the eschatology of Edward Schillebeeckx and the stylistic strategies of 'Third Cinema', political cinema dedicated to the representation of Third World liberation. Num Pages: 243 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HRAM; HRCC7; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535767
- ISBN
- 9781349535767
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Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. The unique essays in this collection use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to underscore the deep affinities between the three monotheistic traditions while at the same time encouraging respect for the differences between the traditions to be preserved. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAC; HRCG; HRH; HRJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536030
- ISBN
- 9781349536030
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Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Paperback. This book uses political process theory to examine three cultural movements around Christopher Columbus. The author examines the religious, ethnic and anti-colonial movements most successful at rewriting national origin myth, demonstrating the political process model while telling the story of how a powerless public mobilized to rewrite its past. Num Pages: 278 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HR; JFSL; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349536498
- ISBN
- 9781349536498
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95