American Religion, American Politics
An Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300203516,
Yale University Press,
June 2017
272 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
272 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history.
Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...
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Flourishing
Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130,
Yale University Press,
May 2017
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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Holy Ignorance
When Religion and Culture Part Ways
ISBN: PB: 9781849044479,
ISBN: HB: 9781850659921,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2017
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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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 fro...
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Before Religion
A History of a Modern Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780300216783,
Yale University Press,
September 2015
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...
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Devil's Long Tail
Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace
ISBN: HB: 9781849043434,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2015
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media – and not all are as harmless as the...
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Art of Secularism
The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India
ISBN: HB: 9781849042956,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2014
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India's most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art wit...
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Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849043380,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2014
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this book examine sectarian politics in the Persian Gulf, including the GCC states, Y...
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Solomon's Secret Arts
The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300123586,
Yale University Press,
April 2013
412 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
412 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...
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Religion and Development
Ways of Transforming the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849041409,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2011
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress.
But we now know that this rarely happens. People in most countries continue to look at t...
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Spirit of Zoroastrianism
ISBN: PB: 9780300170351,
Yale University Press,
May 2011
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
256 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires un...
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