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 poli...
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35.00 GBP
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Nirvana Express
How the Search for Enlightenment Went West
ISBN: PB: 9781805263104,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260196,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
536 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 17 black&white illus.
536 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 17 black&white illus.
The captivating story of the West's love affair with Indian spirituality - from the orientalism of the British Empire to modern counterculture.
In 1897, an Indian yogi exhibited himself at London's Westminster Aquarium, demonstrating yoga positions...
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Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia
Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging
ISBN: PB: 9781805262992,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
A revelatory account of the cohabitation of religious traditions and practices in South Asia.
Across the world, religious and cultural identities are being weaponised for political gains. South Asia is no exception, with frequent conflicts between f...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 54
Liberalism
ISBN: PB: 9781805263074,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Since its beginnings - born out of the Enlightenment - liberalism has risen to become the global standard; an almost utopian ideal, against which political and moral philosophies have been judged. Yet, one quarter of the way through the twenty-first...
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19.99 GBP
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Dazzling Darkness
The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics
ISBN: HB: 9781911723905,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
464 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A captivating journey through the lives of Christian mystics - from the early Church to the twentieth century.
For 2,000 years, women and men of the Christian faith have experienced what some mystics call a "dazzling darkness": the spiritual journey...
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Another India
The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77
ISBN: PB: 9781805263272,
ISBN: HB: 9781787388086,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
464 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
464 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fresh take on the history of post-independence India, revealing how Muslim leaders in Congress and the community abandoned those they claimed to represent.
"Another India" tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together...
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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 ma...
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25.00 GBP
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Critical Muslim, Volume 53
Water
ISBN: PB: 9781805263067,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Muslims have a very special relationship with water. In the desert-dwelling populations where Islam was born, it was a coveted asset. The great Muslim cities were built around rivers. Water still accompanies each of the daily prayers, through the per...
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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 const...
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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 out...
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