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Mind, Body & Spirit

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Mind, Body & Spirit

Paperback. Considers the appeal of the Christian right wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFC; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319672
ISBN
9780822319672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Traces the history of the Jesuits' invention of Confucius and of themselves as native defenders of Confucius' teaching. This book demonstrates how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the historical figure who has since been globally celebrated as philosopher, and prophet. Num Pages: 472 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320470
ISBN
9780822320470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.90

Paperback. Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements. Editor(s): Sernett, Milton C. Series: C.Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Second
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324492
ISBN
9780822324492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Examines sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. This book shows that the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are approached through an experience of narrative in which we come to know ourselves and our actions through stories. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325246
ISBN
9780822325246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. A collection of essays demonstrating the ways diverse religious rituals, symbols, ethics and ideologies perform as primary planks in the construction of the public realm, with particular focus on peripheral nations and politicised spiritualities of resistance. Editor(s): Hopkins, Dwight N.; Lorentzen, Lois; Mendieta, Eduardo; Batstone, David. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327950
ISBN
9780822327950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately affected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRCC7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329435
ISBN
9780822329435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work. Num Pages: 288 pages, 31 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HRKN3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822330622
ISBN
9780822330622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822334170
ISBN
9780822334170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. A collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms. Editor(s): Jakobsen, Janet R.; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: A Social Text Book. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HRLP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341499
ISBN
9780822341499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. A leading political theorist s impassioned call for the democratic left to counter the conservative stranglehold over American religious and economic culture. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCX6; JPA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342724
ISBN
9780822342724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Analyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 illustraions, 18 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822345046
ISBN
9780822345046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. In the Old Testament book of Job, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The heart of the story is Job's quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. This book presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story. Translator(s): Mandarini, Matteo. Series: New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF1; JPA; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346340
ISBN
9780822346340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

Paperback. A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received. Editor(s): Reeves-Ellington, Barbara; Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Shemo, Connie Anne. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 432 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTQ; HRCX7; JFSJ1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346500
ISBN
9780822346500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scale-a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosque-to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JHB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822352310
ISBN
9780822352310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. Mayra Rivera outlines the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh." Rivera's analysis furthers developments in new materialism and helps us to better understand the influence of Christian texts on contemporary theorizations of social structure, gender, race, and faith. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359876
ISBN
9780822359876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.21

Hardback. In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AB; HRC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361534
ISBN
9780822361534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Hardback. In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBTB; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362067
ISBN
9780822362067
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823210367
ISBN
9780823210367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Hardback. ." . . a comprehensive review and criticism of the major deductive and inductive arguments against theism [and] a morally sufficient reason for the presence of evil."-Religious Studies Review Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823210800
ISBN
9780823210800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.82

Paperback. ." . . serious students of contemporary Catholic theology will welcome this important background study." -Library Journal Num Pages: 301 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
SKU
V9780823212576
ISBN
9780823212576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.88

Paperback. Focusing on the 16th-century religious renewal that remained within the Catholic Church, this work argues that this reform began as a parallel movement to the Protestant Reformation. It includes an examination of the course of reform from 1495 to 1563 and key documents illustrating its character. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823212811
ISBN
9780823212811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Reason, Experience, and God provides an important and comprehensive look at the work of John E. Smith by collected essays which each address aspects of his life-long work. A response by John E. Smith himself draws a line of continuity between the pieces. Editor(s): Colapietro, Vincent. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217076
ISBN
9780823217076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Paperback. "Here is comfort for the faithful and rewarding reading for almost anyone, religiously inclined or not, interested in the examined life."-The Washington Times Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217335
ISBN
9780823217335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Christian Zen is a ground breaking book for all Christians seeking to deepen and broaden their inner lives. Providing concrete guidelines for a way of Christian meditation that incorporates Eastern insights, it is a helpful book that can open new spiritual vistas and reveal profound, often undreamed-of dimensions of the Christian faith. Num Pages: 134 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV9; HREZ; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 203.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823218011
ISBN
9780823218011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

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