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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29412-7
EAN 9780520294127
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-447-9
EAN 9781849044479
Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularisation has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198050-8
EAN 9780141980508
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-877952-0
EAN 9780198779520
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05762-3
EAN 9780674057623
The seventh-century CE Hebrew work Sefer Zerubbabel (Book of Zerubbabel), composed during the period of conflict between Persia and the Byzantine Empire for control over Palestine, is the first full-fledged messianic narrative in Jewish literature. Martha Himmelfarb offers a comprehensive analysis of this rich but understudied text, illuminating its distinctive literary features and the complex ...
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The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus's ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world's largest religion, Tom ...
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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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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 · 320 páginas
PVP: 46,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-878422-7
EAN 9780198784227
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-875371-1
EAN 9780198753711
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-049900-6
EAN 9780190499006
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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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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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