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By: John Tolan

ISBN: 9780691270982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman The contradictory Western visions of MuhammadIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren't the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and


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By: Alana Harris

ISBN: 9781784993658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .


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By: Kerrie Handasyde

ISBN: 9781350181489
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kerrie Handasyde

ISBN: 9781350252127
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mark Valeri

ISBN: 9780691162171
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merc


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By: William Hallo

ISBN: 9780275916084
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: William Hallo

ISBN: 9780275916091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kenneth Mills

ISBN: 9780691155487
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides material and interpretation for understanding native Andeans and Spanish Christians as participants in a common, if not harmonious, history. This title explores the notions of reformation and correction that fueled the extirpating process in the central Andes, as elsewhere.


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By: Laura Schwarz

ISBN: 9780719085826
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.


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By: Laura Schwarz

ISBN: 9780719097287
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of womens rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.


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By: Dr Diana Arghirescu

ISBN: 9781350256897
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gustave E. Von Grunebaum

ISBN: 9780275916152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written in straight-forward language by leading Islamic scholars, 14 essays cover the basics of Islamic faith and practice, the foundations of state and society, the early Muslim empires, Islamic universalism in the later Middle Ages, and the later Muslim empires.


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By: Michael L. Satlow

ISBN: 9780691002552
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Marriage might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. This book offers the study of Jewish marriage in antiquity, from ca 500 BCE to 614 CE. Placing Jewish marriage in its cultural milieu, it investigates whether there was anything essentially "Jewish" about the institution as it was discussed and practiced.


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By: John Calvin

ISBN: 9781400096480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Austin Cooper

ISBN: 9780860121596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jack Finegan

ISBN: 9780691648422
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David D. Hall

ISBN: 9780691016733
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores various facets of how Americans carry out their religious beliefs. This volume features essays that: offer an overview of the study of lived religion; explore the co-existence of regulation and spontaneity within religious practice; examine family strategies and church membership in New England; and, look at the meanings of gift-giving.


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By: Elliot Vernon

ISBN: 9781526157805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.


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By: Elliot Vernon

ISBN: 9781526174611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.


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By: John L. Kater

ISBN: 9781978716476
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book traces the evolution of global Anglican ministry through a century marked by wars, Depression, and struggles against oppression and discrimination to a communion rooted in multiple cultures and marked by enormous diversity, which has brought both blessings and challenges.


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By: Patrick J. Hayes

ISBN: 9781610695985
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Brian Heffernan

ISBN: 9781526177209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society.


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By: Maite Ojeda-Mata

ISBN: 9781498551748
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book scrutinizes the hitherto-unchallenged idea of the Sephardic identity as a mix of Spaniard and Jew. Ojeda-Mata examines the processes by which this conceptualization of the Sephardim developed from the nineteenth century onward and the consequences of this conceptualization for Sephardic Jews during World War II and in the present day.


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By: Robert Ellwood

ISBN: 9781847062345
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Myth is a complex but vital component of an understanding of religion, and issues surrounding the modern discipline of mythology are often fraught with difficulty. This book covers the major theories concerning the meaning and interpretation of myth, from structuralist to psychoanalystic.

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