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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Editor(s): Noake, Richard; Buxton, Nicholas. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HRCC; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
SCM Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780334049265
ISBN
9780334049265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.00

Hardback. This study of refugees from Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan examines the relationship between their religious/spiritual frameworks and the refugee experience, from home country to initial settlement in Australia. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HRA; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137563774
ISBN
9781137563774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kuriakose, K. K. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 266 x 183 x 15. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594545535
ISBN
9781594545535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.17
€ 126.58

Paperback. Editor(s): Cady, Linell E.; Fessenden, Tracy. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231162494
ISBN
9780231162494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Editor(s): Cady, Linell E.; Fessenden, Tracy. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231162487
ISBN
9780231162487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.54
€ 90.75

Paperback. This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and what we can learn from a renewed engagement with the topic. This volume discusses what new discourses regarding notions of gender, ethnicity, and race might add to developments on notions of class. Editor(s): Rieger, Joerg. Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRCM; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137351425
ISBN
9781137351425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Paperback. Editor(s): Schlehe, Judith; Sandkuhler, Evamaria. Num Pages: 286 pages, 4 b/w & 4 colour illus. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFCA; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837626131
ISBN
9783837626131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.00
€ 38.20

Hardback. Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly. This title articulates an agenda for better understanding these social processes. Editor(s): Keister, Lisa. Series Editor(s): Keister, Lisa. Series: Research in the Sociology of Work. Num Pages: 405 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 739.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
405
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780523460
ISBN
9781780523460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.67

Hardback. Presents an overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. This work explores how these communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation. Editor(s): Min, Pyong Gap; Kim, Jung Ha. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 224 pages, references, index, glossary. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780759100824
ISBN
9780759100824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.61

Paperback. Brings together the important selections from the volumes on Buddhism, India, China, Tibet, and Japan to give an overview of how religions have been lived by both ordinary and extraordinary people throughout the continent of Asia. This work offers a look at the spectrum of religious practices in Asia over almost three millennia. Editor(s): Lopez, Donald S. Series: Princeton Readings in Religions. Num Pages: 752 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HRAC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
Edition
Paperback Octavo
SKU
V9780691090610
ISBN
9780691090610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.65
€ 51.18

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

€ 36.99
€ 27.67

paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; JFF; JFSL1; JPF; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220. Weight in Grams: 101.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Policy Studies Institute United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853747109
ISBN
9780853747109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.57

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138252455
ISBN
9781138252455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.77

Paperback. New media flows have sparked a boom of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels in the Middle East. This is a close content analysis of the impact on religious broadcasting in the Middle East. It examines how the highly charged political and religious ferment in the Middle East plays out in the media Editor(s): Hroub, Khaled. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; APT; HRA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041331
ISBN
9781849041331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.95

Hardcover. While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that conversions represent for national, legal and policy ways of dealing with religious minorities. Editor(s): Roy, Olivier; Marzouki, Nadia. Series: Islam and Nationalism. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HRH; JFSL1; JFSR; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137004888
ISBN
9781137004888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. Considers the role of religion and religiosity in modern Mexico, with an emphasis on popular religion and its relationship to politics. This book looks at individual stories and vignettes, and on local elements of religion, showing that despite efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong component of Mexican culture. Editor(s): Nesvig, Martin Austin. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRCC2; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742537477
ISBN
9780742537477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.99

Paperback. This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion. Editor(s): Schmidt-Leukel, Perry; Gentz, J. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJF; HRA; HRAC; HRAX; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349462087
ISBN
9781349462087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. Contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. This book focuses on the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 436 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HRCX7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253215888
ISBN
9780253215888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 601.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312218973
ISBN
9780312218973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.91

Paperback. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass-roots activism and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights. Editor(s): Howland, Courtney W. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFSJ1; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
351
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293062
ISBN
9780312293062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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