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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.


(Paperback)

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: 9781350082373
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Juraj Franek

ISBN: 9781350277854
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David W. Kim

ISBN: 9781793634047
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The new religious movements (NRMs) of Modern Asia commonly offered a new way of hope for enduring the socio-political situation of colonial life. This volume explores particular cases in relation to the aspects of origin, identity, transnational activity, text, hybrid conditions, religionized politics, geopolitical exchange, and millennialism.


(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


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By: Wallace D. Best

ISBN: 9780691133751
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward. This book illustrates how the migration launched a new sacred order among blacks in the city that reflected aspects of both Southern black religion and modern city life.


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By: David M. Gitlitz

ISBN: 9780275987633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The history and breadth of Jewish pilgrimage traditions is rich and varied. They trace the history of Jewish pilgrimage and show how the repeated cycles of exile and return to Israel serve the Jews as a kind of pilgrimage in reverse.


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By: Michelle D. Brock

ISBN: 9781526160904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world.


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By: Dr Simeon Zahl

ISBN: 9780567472403
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Identifies the impasse between classical Protestant and contemporary charismatic and Pentecostal pneumatologies as a fundamental theological problem. This title aims to contribute a constructive pneumatological proposal for moving beyond this impasse, based on the resources of the theology of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919).


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By: Prof Nigel Yates

ISBN: 9780567031419
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Scottish post-Reformation church interiors for fifty years. It describes the developments in the Presbyterian churches which are set in the context of comparative developments in other parts of Britain and Europe, especially those in the Reformed churches of the Netherlands and Switzerland.


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By: Dr Richard Bohannon

ISBN: 9781441103574
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Nature and the city have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. This book argues that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another.


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By: Emily Suzanne Clark

ISBN: 9781350063969
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Lee Irwin

ISBN: 9781498554077
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents a history of reincarnation, from ancient times to the present; it is written for a diverse readership interested in theories of life after death. The survey offers an exciting journey through a maze of fascinating ideas that all contribute to an underlying theory that after death comes rebirth.


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By: Mark Fielding

ISBN: 9781666970760
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the impact of six major religious traditionsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhismon societies across the region, particularly as they relate to migration


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By: Dr Julian Droogan

ISBN: 9781472570871
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Originally published: London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.


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By: Colleen McDannell

ISBN: 9780691009995
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America, this work explores faith through action from Colonial times through the 19th-century. It offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States.


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By: Colleen McDannell

ISBN: 9780691010014
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, this work explores faith through action in the 19th- and 20th-centuries. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people.


(Hardback)

By: Aaron Kitch

ISBN: 9781350511620
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Betsy Perabo

ISBN: 9781350101753
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Marianne Delaporte

ISBN: 9781498546690
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This interdisciplinary book examines the shifting meaning of spirituality and birth practices in the modern world in the context of biomedical advances as well as colonial incursions. It indicates that spirituality in the birth place has managed to reemerge in many parts of the world.


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By: Mary Thurlkill

ISBN: 9780739174524
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the sweet smells of sanctity within early Christianity and Islam. It is a comparative study of two nascent religious communities, located in disparate times and space, employing scent to define cultural, social, and theological ideals. It will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, gender studies, and history.

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