Religion: general

Mysteria: The Ancient Mysteries and the Evolution of Consciousness (Paperback / softback - 31 Aug 2010)

Mysteria
David Ulansey’s Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries won wide acclaim for its splendid scholarship and what Gnosis magazine called "an absolutely spell-binding detective story of antique lore." Ulansey returns here with another detective story, this time unearthing the once-flourishing religious movements snuffed out by the arrival of Christianity. Based on a series of lectures presented at San...

By (author) David Ulansey

ISBN-13: 9781556438813 ; ISBN-10: 1556438818

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Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time (Hardback - 16 Feb 2010)

Paul Among the People
It is a commonηand fundamentalηmisconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love one another.  Paul was a Hellenistic Jew, originally named Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, who made a...

By (author) Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780375425011 ; ISBN-10: 0375425012

Price: £20.62 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (Paperback / softback - 15 Apr 2010)

Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs
Until recently, the figure of the medieval anchorite and the underlying ideological concepts that framed her day-to-day existence have escaped detailed examination, despite the anchorite’s importance to the study of medieval culture. This collection brings together leading scholars in the field of gender and anchoritic studies in order to examine anchoritic enclosure from a variety of different perspectives....

Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy; Mari Hughes-Edwards

ISBN-13: 9780708322000 ; ISBN-10: 070832200X

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Seeking the Truth: How Science Has Prevailed Over the Supernatural Worldview (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Seeking the Truth
In this sweeping intellectual history, philosopher Richard H Schlagel compares the conceptual worldviews of science and religion, their distinct historical origins, their radically different experiential foundations, and their contrasting methods of justification. With great clarity and an impressive command of the historical facts, he depicts Western civilisation as a composite of two diverse traditions -- the...

By (author) Richard H Schlagel

ISBN-13: 9781591027744 ; ISBN-10: 1591027748

Price: £32.50 £23.85 Not Available

The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion (Paperback / softback - 18 Feb 2010)

The Re-enchantment of the World
This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of European philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy, Gordon Graham investigates the idea that art has the potential to re-enchant an irreligious world. The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art...

By (author) Gordon Graham

ISBN-13: 9780199581375 ; ISBN-10: 0199581371

Price: £16.99 £15.29 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (Paperback / softback - 18 Feb 2010)

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s
The 1960s were a time of explosive change and innovation in the Christian churches, as well as of charismatic leaders like Pope John XXIII and Martin Luther King. Using oral history, Hugh McLeod explains what happened to religion in the 1960s, why it happened, and how the events of that decade shaped the rest of the 20th century. The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the Christian churches it was a...

By (author) Hugh McLeod

ISBN-13: 9780199582020 ; ISBN-10: 0199582025

Price: £21.99 £19.79 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune (Paperback / softback - 25 Feb 2010)

The Love Israel Family
Makes up an important chapter in the history of communal experiments in the United States In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle’s middle-class Queen Ann Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they, too, adopted the Israel surname, along...

By (author) Charles P. Lewarne

ISBN-13: 9780295988856 ; ISBN-10: 0295988851

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Is There a God? (Paperback / softback - 7 Jan 2010)

Is There a God?
Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science but Richard Swinburne, one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion of our day, argues that on the contrary, science provides good grounds for belief in God. Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about...

By (author) Richard Swinburne

ISBN-13: 9780199580439 ; ISBN-10: 019958043X

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SERMON TO THE PRINCES: WU MING PRESENTS (Paperback - 1 Jan 2010)

SERMON TO THE PRINCES
Discusses about the Reformation which was originally an attack on a corrupt Church, sparked by Martin Luther.

By (author) THOMAS MUNTZER

ISBN-13: 9781844673209 ; ISBN-10: 1844673200

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Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Hardback - 4 Feb 2010)

Sharing the Sacred
Inter-religious relations in India are notoriously fraught, not infrequently erupting into violence. This book looks at a place where the conditions for religious conflict are present, but active conflict is absent. Bigelow focuses on a Muslim majority Punjab town (Malkerkotla) where both during the Partition and subsequently there has been no inter-religious violence. Bigelow explores the complicated history of the...

By (author) Anna Bigelow

ISBN-13: 9780195368239 ; ISBN-10: 0195368231

Price: £45.00 £38.35 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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World Religions: Eastern Traditions (Paperback / softback - 28 Jan 2010)

World Religions: Eastern Traditions
World Religions: Eastern Traditions, third edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the major traditions originating in Asia, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto. In each case, the authors explain the historical background, how the tradition has developed over time, and how it is situated in the contemporary world. Religion is a common element of everyday life. No one escapes its...

By (author) Willard Oxtoby (the late); Roy Amore

ISBN-13: 9780195426762 ; ISBN-10: 0195426762

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A New History of Shinto (Paperback / softback - 12 Jan 2010)

A New History of Shinto
This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity. This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths,...

By (author) John Breen; Mark Teeuwen

ISBN-13: 9781405155168 ; ISBN-10: 1405155167

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A New History of Shinto (Hardback - 12 Jan 2010)

A New History of Shinto
This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity. This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths,...

By (author) John Breen; Mark Teeuwen

ISBN-13: 9781405155151 ; ISBN-10: 1405155159

Price: £50.00 £43.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Writing the Self: The Life and Philosophy of a Bengali Baul Guru (Hardback - 24 Dec 2009)

Writing the Self
This book examines the life, 'lineage', and legacy of the Baul Guru, Raj Krishna, in the context of the Renaissance in colonial Bengal, the growth of urban middle classes, transforming identities and the development of spiritual philosophy in the subcontinent. This book investigates the largely unexplored terrain of the lives of Baul Gurus by studying the autobiography of Baul Guru, Raj Krishna, and situating Baul...

By (author) Jeanne Openshaw

ISBN-13: 9780198062479 ; ISBN-10: 0198062478

Price: £48.00 £40.54 Not Available

A Place of Springs (Paperback / softback - 15 Dec 2009)

A Place of Springs
In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity, she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist...

By (author) Grace M. Jantzen; Edited by Jeremy Carrette; Morny Joy

ISBN-13: 9780415470001 ; ISBN-10: 0415470005

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A Place of Springs (Hardback - 15 Dec 2009)

A Place of Springs
In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity, she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist...

By (author) Grace M. Jantzen; Edited by Jeremy Carrette; Morny Joy

ISBN-13: 9780415469999 ; ISBN-10: 0415469996

Price: £65.00 £48.25 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions (Hardback - 18 Dec 2009)

Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions
Sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: 'Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?' Each essay examines scriptural sources as read in the classical and medieval traditions, addressing issues including how each tradition addresses the 'other' within its tradition and without, and the challenges of modernity. This book invites a broad audience of educated readers to see how...

Edited by Peter Ochs; William Stacy Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780230618251 ; ISBN-10: 0230618251

Price: £60.00 £45.70 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Reading Genesis after Darwin (Paperback / softback - 10 Dec 2009)

Reading Genesis after Darwin
From creationism to The God Delusion, the public dialogue of science and religion either uses the early chapters of Genesis in a naïve and simplistic way or rejects their relevance to contemporary questions. This is reinforced by the myth that Darwin caused a rejection of a literalistic reading of Genesis 1 and from that point most Christian theology lost any confidence in these texts. The truth is far more...

Edited by Stephen C Barton; David Wilkinson

ISBN-13: 9780195383362 ; ISBN-10: 0195383362

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What the Holy Spirit Showed Me about the Book of Revelation (Paperback / softback - 8 Dec 2009)

What the Holy Spirit Showed Me about the Book of Revelation

By (author) Bei Chang

ISBN-13: 9781436345453 ; ISBN-10: 1436345456

Price: £14.86 UK delivery 4 to 7 days

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Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies Unit 4A: Religion & Life - Islam Student Book (Paperback / softback - 2 Dec 2009)

Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies Unit 4A: Religion & Life - Islam Student Book
Edexcel's own resources for the 2009 Religious Studies GCSE specification. Written by experienced examiners to give you confidence in our resources, these books provide support for all options, giving you complete flexibility. Differentiated and contemporary content boosts motivation and caters for every student, and ResultPlus combines real exam performance data with examiner insight to give guidance on how to...

By (author) Diane Spradbery

ISBN-13: 9781846904226 ; ISBN-10: 1846904226

Price: £14.84 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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