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Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
Häftad, 2017
262 kr
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Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly …
Saints and Virtues
Häftad, 1987
419 kr
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This book explores a larger family of saints--those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.
Pious Passion
The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran
Häftad, 1998
428 kr
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Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements--in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran--he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as …
New Cold War?
Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State
Häftad, 1993
400 kr
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Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned …
Devi
Goddesses of India
Av John Stratton Hawley, Donna Marie Wulff
Häftad, 1996
298 kr
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The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess". This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the …
Absent Lord
Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture
Häftad, 1996
263 kr
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What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence …
Leveling Crowds
Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia
Häftad, 1997
323 kr
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Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian …
China's Catholics
Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society
Inbunden, 1998
771 kr
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After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its …
Bridge Betrayed
Religion and Genocide in Bosnia
Häftad, 1998
400 kr
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The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of …
Imagining Karma
Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth
Häftad, 2002
428 kr
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With "Imagining Karma", Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, …
Challenge of Fundamentalism
Political Islam and the New World Disorder
Av Bassam Tibi
Häftad, 2002
306 kr
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Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of …
Global Rebellion
Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, "The New Cold …
Mama Lola
A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Häftad, 2011
289 kr
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Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five …
Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Häftad, 2013
262 kr
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American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack …
Utopias in Conflict
Religion and Nationalism in Modern India
Häftad, 2018
515 kr
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This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between …
Utopias in Conflict
Religion and Nationalism in Modern India
Inbunden, 2024
844 kr
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This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between …
