Nirvana Express
How the Search for Enlightenment Went West
ISBN: HB: 9781805260196,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 30 illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 30 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 position...
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25.00 GBP
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We Are Pilgrims
Journeys in Search of Ourselves
ISBN: PB: 9781787383036,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2020
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A beguiling exploration of our primal urge towards journeys of purpose, wonder and self-discovery.
Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancestor...
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Understanding "Sectarianism"
Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World
ISBN: HB: 9781787382060,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2020
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Much has been published on sectarianism in the Middle East but few writers have separated received wisdom from the facts, as Haddad does in this book.
"Sectarianism" is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analysed concepts in debates about th...
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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
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 from religion, secularis...
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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
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 Virtual Church of th...
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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
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 with political secularis...
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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
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, Yemen, Iran and Iraq,...
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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
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 the world through the...
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Sectarianism in Iraq
Antagonistic Visions of Unity
ISBN: PB: 9781849041287,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2011
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and definition, ever be a u...
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Listening People, Speaking Earth
Contemporary Paganism
ISBN: PB: 9781850652724,
Hurst Publishers,
April 1997
261 pp., 21,6x15,2 cm
261 pp., 21,6x15,2 cm
This work introduces the main movements and trends in paganism. Individual chapters focus on druidry, witchcraft, heathenism, goddess spirituality and magic. These are followed by discussions of shamanism and geomancy. Sources of inspiration are tr...
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12.99 GBP
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