Buddhism and the Political
Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores traditions of Buddhist po...
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Exclusionary West
Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781787383159,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the...
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Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
ISBN: HB: 9781911723585,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.
This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English con...
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Vatican Spies
From the Second World War to Pope Francis
ISBN: HB: 9781911723400,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A revelatory history of the priests, nuncios and missionaries whose "special operations" have served the Holy See and the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide.
"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean that no one carries ou...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 52
Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781911723851,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Today, genocide has almost entirely lost its meaning. Either its occurrence is denied into oblivion, or its frequency allows it to fall on stone-deaf ears in a world on fire. As our newsfeeds inundate us with the agony of the Palestinians, the Rohi...
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Hezbollah
The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God (New Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781911723431,
ISBN: HB: 9781849043335,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2024
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisation. Drawing on a wi...
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Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey
The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan
ISBN: HB: 9781911723837,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 illus.
A new history of modern Turkey, focussing on its fifty-year retreat from Kemalist secularism.
This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of Turkey,...
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Zanzibari Muslim Moderns
Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period
ISBN: HB: 9781911723820,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Reveals how a generation of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and civil servants adapted and adopted ideas of modernity in colonial interwar Zanzibar.
"Zanzibari Muslim Moderns" is a historical study of Zanzibar during the interwar years. This was a...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 51
Desire
ISBN: PB: 9781911723844,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
To be human is to desire. But often desire finds itself in opposition to values and virtues. Giving in to one's desires denies one moral righteousness; in the Islamic tradition, humanity, tested by selfish wants, must temper and tame our earthly de...
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God is No Thing
Coherent Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9781805261612,
ISBN: HB: 9781849046374,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
136 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
136 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
"God is no thing, but not nothing". These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and their fol...
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