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87 produkter
Comparison
A Critical Primer
Häftad, 2017
349 kr
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Comparison is held to be one of the central methods of the academic study of religion. While many ostensibly engage in the comparative act, often overlooked is what it actually means to do this. What is comparison? Why engage in it and for what purposes? Can there be such a thing as a valid or …
Muslim Identities
An Introduction to Islam
Häftad, 2022
576 kr
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Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (Second Edition) presents a fully updated introduction to the religion of Islam and the various social groups who define themselves as Muslim. Unlike other such works, it presents both insider and outsider accounts with the aim of striking a unique …
Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch
How Football and Religion are Shaping Identity and Society
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Leif Stenberg
Inbunden, 2025
1755 kr
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This book showcases how football and religion are increasingly coming together in Muslim contexts to interact with and influence both identity and society. The first part of the volume is devoted to issues of identity, showing how football aids in its construction, maintenance and subversion. The …
Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch
How Football and Religion are Shaping Identity and Society
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Leif Stenberg
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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This book showcases how football and religion are increasingly coming together in Muslim contexts to interact with and influence both identity and society. The first part of the volume is devoted to issues of identity, showing how football aids in its construction, maintenance and subversion. The …
Muslim Identities
An Introduction to Islam
Inbunden, 2013
1197 kr
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Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich …
Muslim Identities
An Introduction to Islam
Häftad, 2013
409 kr
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Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich …
What Is Religion?
Debating the Academic Study of Religion
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon
Inbunden, 2022
1437 kr
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Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of …
What Is Religion?
Debating the Academic Study of Religion
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Aaron W. Hughes m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
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514 kr
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Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of …
What Is Religion?
Debating the Academic Study of Religion
Av Russell T. McCutcheon, Aaron W. Hughes
E-bok, 2021
385 kr
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Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of …
What Is Religion?
Debating the Academic Study of Religion
Av Russell T. McCutcheon, Aaron W. Hughes
E-bok, 2021
385 kr
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Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of …
Shared Identities
Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam
Inbunden, 2017
2215 kr
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In this controversial study, Aaron W. Hughes breaks with received opinion, which imagines two distinct religions, Judaism and Islam, interacting in the centuries immediately following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes these relations using tropes such as that …
Shared Identities
Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam
E-bok, 2017
1448 kr
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Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes …
Shared Identities
Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam
E-bok, 2017
1448 kr
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Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes …
An Anxious Inheritance
Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur'an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study …
Anxious Inheritance
Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy
E-bok, 2021
1283 kr
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An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur''an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study …
Anxious Inheritance
Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy
E-bok, 2021
1283 kr
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An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur''an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study …
Rethinking Jewish Philosophy
Beyond Particularism and Universalism
Inbunden, 2014
1894 kr
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Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox. Is it theology or is it philosophy? Does it use universal methods to articulate Judaism's particularity or does it justify Judaism's particularity with appeals to illuminating the universal? These two sets of claims are difficult if not impossible to …
Rethinking Jewish Philosophy
Beyond Particularism and Universalism
E-bok, 2013
935 kr
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Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox. Is it theology or is it philosophy? Does it use universal methods to articulate Judaism''s particularity or does it justify Judaism''s particularity with appeals to illuminating the universal? These two sets of claims are difficult if not impossible to …
Abrahamic Religions
On the Uses and Abuses of History
Inbunden, 2012
1720 kr
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Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a virtual cottage industry in all things ''Abrahamic.'' Directly proportionate to the rise of religious exclusivism, perhaps best epitomized by the attacks of 9/11 and the problems now plaguing the Middle East and Afghanistan, there has been a real …
Abrahamic Religions
On the Uses and Abuses of History
E-bok, 2012
1192 kr
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Recently, the term "Abrahamic religions" has been used with exceeding frequency in the academy. We now regularly encounter academic books, conferences, and even positions (including endowed chairs) devoted to the so-called "Abrahamic religions." But what exactly are "Abrahamic religions"? Although …
Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Av Aaron W. Hughes, James T. Robinson
Inbunden, 2019
1126 kr
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Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval …
Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Av Aaron W. Hughes, James T. Robinson
Häftad, 2019
497 kr
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Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval …
Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
287 kr
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Aaron W. Hughes presents the first major study of dialogue as a Jewish philosophical practice. Examining connections between Jewish philosophy, the literary form in which it is expressed, and the culture in which it is produced, Hughes shows how Jews understood and struggled with their social, …
New Directions in Jewish Philosophy
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Elliot R. Wolfson
Häftad, 2009
343 kr
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Breaking with strictly historical or textual perspectives, this book explores Jewish philosophy as philosophy. Often regarded as too technical for Judaic studies and too religious for philosophy departments, Jewish philosophy has had an ambiguous position in the academy. These provocative essays …
Invention of Jewish Identity
Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation
Häftad, 2010
273 kr
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Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular times and needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believes translation has profound implications for Jewish identity. The Invention of Jewish Identity presents the first sustained analysis of Bible …
Muslim and Jew
Origins, Growth, Resentment
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about …
Religion in 50 Words
A Critical Vocabulary
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Arranged …
Religion in 50 Words
A Critical Vocabulary
Av Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon
Häftad, 2021
414 kr
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Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Arranged …
Muslim and Jew
Origins, Growth, Resentment
E-bok, 2018
399 kr
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Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about …
Muslim and Jew
Origins, Growth, Resentment
E-bok, 2018
399 kr
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Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about …
