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God on High examines four North American cannabis-based religions: the Church of the Universe, the Church of Cognizance, the Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, and Temple 420. It contextualizes these religions by looking at the patterns presented by earlier groups, such as the Rastafari religion, the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, and The Farm.

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Goliath as Gentle Giant cuts through biblical biases and post-biblical images and considers sensitive and more nuanced portrayals of the giant in popular media, offering revisionist retellings of Goliath that challenge readers to humanize the other.

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Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.

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The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. This work explores the similarities and differences between these two experiences. It examines Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history. It also offers a perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands.

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This book explores modern Islamic terrorism in the context of globalization and cultural evolution.

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Examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, of the late 1980s. This book provides insights into the complex social dynamics through which Islamism has reshaped what it means to be Palestinian.

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Examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop. At a time when fear and confusion permeate their experiences, Identity, Education and Belonging is an all-important study of the lives of Muslim and Arab youth in Australia.

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In the context of the Palestinians, whose national status in so many instances remains unresolved, the articulation and `imagination of national identity is particularly urgent.

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Presents the history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity. This book probes more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, and argues that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life.

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Chapters of this volume, written by authorities from around the world, explore various instances of Islamophobia and examine discursive contexts such as media coverage and manipulation, political discourse, and general attitudes in the public sphere. The book extends existing discussions and highlights some hitherto less--debated concerns.

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Chapters of this volume, written by authorities from around the world, explore various instances of Islamophobia and examine discursive contexts such as media coverage and manipulation, political discourse, and general attitudes in the public sphere. The book extends existing discussions and highlights some hitherto less--debated concerns.

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An examination of a key relationship in the Middle East through the prism of Iranian Jews living in Israel.

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Brings together the ideas of a number of contemporary modernist and liberal Muslim thinkers, exposing an intellectual current in Islamic thought.

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Saeed explains that the chaotic conditions existing in the Muslim world are largely a result of a crisis of thought, that the grossly distorted and misunderstood Islam, as presently practiced, is a major obstacle to the development of Muslim countries--but that Muslim countries can develop and progress only through Islam.

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How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror' This book presents the debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West.

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The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Islam and social and cultural milieus with the aim of reconceptualising the sacred as a socially constructed reality and not a transcendental supernatural phenomenon.

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This book examines local forms of Islam in France by analyzing secular politics and Muslim discourses from 1989 until the present.

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Traces the story of America's Muslims from the seventeenth-century slave trade to the eighteenth-century immigration wave to the Nation of Islam. Drawing on interviews in communities from industrial Michigan to rural California, Curiel portrays the diversity of practices, cultures and observances that make up Muslim America.