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In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

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Drawing on research for a dissertation he began before September 2001, Al-Khattar explores religion, terrorism, and the relationship between them; views by leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the US.

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The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. This title shows that religion became sectarian and partisan whenever it entered the political fray, and that religious agendas have always mixed with nonreligious ones.

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Dress provides a window for viewing the culture of a community, because it visually attests to its salient ideas, fundamental concepts and categories. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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Dress provides a window for viewing culture, because it visually attests to the salient ideas, concepts and categories fundamental to that culture. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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This book describes how the United States can integrate religious considerations into its foreign policy, moving towards a new leadership paradigm that effectively counters the challenge of Islamist extremism.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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This book tackles the assumptions behind common understandings of religious nationalism, exploring the complex connections between religion, nationalism, conflict, and conflict transformation.

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Throughout history, remarkable women have taken breathtaking risks, and overcome tremendous societal, gender and racial barriers to make their indelible mark on society and culture, with impacts that still reverberate today. But most of these important stories have not been celebrated until now.

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This work offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. The Greek island of Kalymnos, where islanders claim to remember meals long past, provides the main setting for a discussion of embodiment, memory and material culture.

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Offering a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food, and memory, this book deals with anthropology's focus on issues of embodiment, memory, and material culture, in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture. It argues for the crucial role of a simultaneous consideration of food and memory.

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Britons spend an average of four hours a day watching television - television has become our national obsession. This work reveals the alarming reality of what television is actually doing to us physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. It also show us how we can re-establish control away from the remote control.

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This definitive account now has a new Afterword by the author as it captures the "courage of New York City's firefighters and the spirit of the city's firehouses, bloody but unbowed in the wake of that terrible September morning" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times").

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The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia. This anthology collects some of the best and most interesting papers, articles and op eds commissioned by the Lowy Institute since they first opened ten years ago, in April 2003.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime.

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My audience is of dreamers, those that can understand the reasons why. Those that can feel the beauty because of the pain and rise above the shadows of hypocrisy. The ones that know change is needed. The goddess is the one, blamed, abused, bullied the onslaught of male impregnation of division.