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The Way of the Strangers
Encounters with the Islamic State
- Allen Lane, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29962-3
EAN 9780241299623
A radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants From Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants," comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. Based on Wood's unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members of the most ...
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Ancient Religions, Modern Politics
The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17334-4
EAN 9780691173344
Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles ...
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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42409-5
EAN 9780226424095
Tantra occupies an odd position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its relationship to sex has made its name instantly recognizable, but this emphasis on sex has obscured its philosophical concerns and ritual practices, to say nothing of its overall importance to Hindu religious life. This book offers a clear, well-grounded overview of Tantra that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 38,15 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41597-0
EAN 9780226415970
The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next. Death Be Not Proud, the inaugural book in the Class 200 series, explores the precedents of Malebranche's advice by reading John Donne's poetic prayers ...
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- Scribe Publications, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-1-925228-68-7
EAN 9781925228687
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David Ngong offers a comprehensive view of African Christian thought that includes North Africa in antiquity as well as Sub-Saharan Africa from the period of colonial missionary activity to the present. Challenging conventional, colonial divisions of Africa, A New History of African Christian Thought demonstrates that important continuities exist across the continent. Chapters written by ...
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PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39123-6
EAN 9780226391236
We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr.offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the ...
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During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. Yet as Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon reveals, most of the methodological values underlying scientific practice were virtually identical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-226-33323-6
EAN 9780226333236
We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings of nonviolence, and his practice of meditation. But who was this Buddha, and how ...
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The Menorah
From the Bible to Modern Israel
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-08879-5
EAN 9780674088795
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western worlds oldest continuously used religious symbol. This meticulously researched yet deeply personal history explains how the menorah ...
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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
The First 1000 Years
- Thames & Hudson, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-0-500-11030-0
EAN 9780500110300
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societies? Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in ...
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- Watkins Publishing, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 172 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78028-964-9
EAN 9781780289649
'This is an extraordinary book, enlightening and insightful in personal and social realms. Many readers will value it as a work of art, others because of the new meaning it gives to their lives. Dr. Dale's work is, in fact, a treasure for today and for the future.' Milton Schwebel, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 170 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54513-7
EAN 9780674545137
The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empires conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation ...
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- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35338-9
EAN 9780393353389
Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes. Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books. One of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this smart, clear and timely book (Washington Post). Still essential and still timely ...
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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1104 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-794685-3
EAN 9780007946853
With an attractive new slipcase and binding, this compact Bible is an ideal gift and spiritual companion. The full text of the ever-popular Authorized King James Version Bible, with all its literary beauty and poetic grandeur, in an attractive size and with beautiful binding and slipcasemaking it an ideal gift. Includes silver gilt edged pages ...
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- Hutchinson, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78633-044-4
EAN 9781786330444
'The ultimate source of happiness is within us.' DALAI LAMA'We grow in kindness when our kindness is tested.' DESMOND TUTUArchbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama have been friends for many, many years. Between them, they have endured exile, violence and oppression. And in the face of these hardships, they have continued to radiate compassion, ...
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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium
The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05761-6
EAN 9780674057616
In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective ...
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A Book of Conquest
The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-66011-3
EAN 9780674660113
The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphates incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the ...
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Picard, Jacques L.; Revel, Jacques; Steinberg, Michael P.; Zertal, Idith
Makers of Jewish Modernity : Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers of Jewish Modernity features entries on political figures such as Walther Rathenau, Rosa Luxemburg, and David ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20883-2
EAN 9780300208832
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion-from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century-with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young readers, ...
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