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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: 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: A. G. Dickens
ISBN: 9780907628064
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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: Professor Halvor Eifring
ISBN: 9781350036260
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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: Robert Ellwood
ISBN: 9781847062352
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 presents an introduction to the major theories concerning the meaning and interpretation of myth, from structuralist to psychoanalystic.
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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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By: Professor Robert A. Yelle
ISBN: 9781350327757
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Robert A. Yelle
ISBN: 9781350145641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Juraj Franek
ISBN: 9781350277854
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Juraj Franek
ISBN: 9781350082373
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Maria Carlson
ISBN: 9780691636337
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Maria Carlson
ISBN: 9780691607818
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Among the various kinds of occultism popular during the Russian Silver Age (1890-1914), modern Theosophy was by far the most intellectually significant. This contemporary gnostic gospel was invented and disseminated by Helena Blavatsky, an expatriate Russian with an enthusiasm for Buddhist thought and a genius for self-promotion. What distinguished
