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  • Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence
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    Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence

    In this book David Martin brings together a coherent summary of his many years of ground-breaking academic work on the sociology of religion. Covering key and contentious areas from the last half century such as secularisation, religion and violence and...
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  • Pop Islam Pop Islam
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    Pop Islam

    In the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to popular culture-a frozen faith unable to engage with the dynamic way popular culture shifts over time, its followers reduced to tropes of terrorism and enemies of...
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  • Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life
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    Time, Consumption and the Coordination of Everyday Life

    Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications? This book...
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  • Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
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    Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

    Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic...
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  • Holocaust and the Stars Holocaust and the Stars
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    Holocaust and the Stars

    This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author...
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  • Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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    Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Exploring a new political phenomenon in the Middle East, this book studies the reconciliation of nationalism and Islamism by Islamic political parties in the context of nation states. Islamism in Kurdistan has become significantly framed by the...
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  • Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran
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    Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran

    Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political...
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  • Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture
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    Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture

    Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex'd Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West
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    Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West

    With new topics and contributions, this updated second edition discusses the history and contemporary presence of Islam in Europe and America. The book debates the relevance and multi-faceted participation of Muslims in the dynamics of Western societies,...
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  • Dying for Heaven Dying for Heaven
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    Dying for Heaven

    In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion--its ability to make...
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  • Chechen Jihad Chechen Jihad
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    Chechen Jihad

    Yossef Bodansky, the author whose #1 New York Times bestseller Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America first introduced American readers to al Qaeda's evil mastermind prior to 9/11, returns to sound an important alert. In this authoritative look...
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    The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
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    The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

    “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”--Miami Herald In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel...
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  • What's Right with Islam What's Right with Islam
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    What's Right with Islam

    An American imam offers answers for today's toughest questions about Islam, and a vision for a reconciliation between Islam and the West.One of the pressing questions of our time is what went wrong in the relationship between Muslims and the West...
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  • A New Religious America A New Religious America
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    A New Religious America

    Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us TodayThe 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque.There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles,...
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    Perfect Soldiers Perfect Soldiers
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    Perfect Soldiers

    "The definitive book on the 19 men who brought such devastation and terror to this country ... a well-told, meticulously researched cautionary tale." -- Washington Post Book WorldUsing research undertaken in twenty countries on four continents, Los...
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  • The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies
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    The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

    This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics - probably...
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  • Islamophobia in the West Islamophobia in the West
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    Islamophobia in the West

    Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and...
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  • Israel in History Israel in History
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    Israel in History

    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society,...
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  • Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey
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    Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey

    It is commonly believed that during the interwar period, Kemalist secularism successfully eliminated religion from the public sphere in Turkey, leaving Turkish national identity devoid of religious content. However, through its examination of the impact...
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  • The Harp and the Shield of David The Harp and the Shield of David
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    The Harp and the Shield of David

    Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine's partition and the delay in Ireland's recognition of the State of Israel until 1963.Analyzing the Irish attitude to the...
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  • Dimyonot Dimyonot
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    Dimyonot

    Explores the layers of signification that A. B. Yehoshua constructs in his fiction to draw readers into a critical analysis of the condition of Israel as well as his representations of place, vocational identities, names, holidays, and love.
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  • Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile
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    Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile

    Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth...
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  • Life in Citations Life in Citations
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    Life in Citations

    In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives,...
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    Religion, Modernity, Globalisation

    This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism. These...
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    Reconcliation

    In this book, which emerges from the Cambridge Hulsean Lectures for 2002, one of the world's leading authorities in theology and politics offers a compelling account of hope for reconcliation. Amidst a world torn apart by conflit and now engaged in a...
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    Becoming All Things

    A practical guide to cross-cultural relationships that invites readers of every ethnicity and skin color to embark together on a journey of adaptability and connection.
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  • Religion in the Age of Digitalization Religion in the Age of Digitalization
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    Religion in the Age of Digitalization

    This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. As technologies are introduced and improved, they continue to raise pressing questions about the impact, both...
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  • The Dynamics of Pilgrimage The Dynamics of Pilgrimage
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    The Dynamics of Pilgrimage

    This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the existing literature, by providing a broad historical...
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  • Israelism in Modern Britain Israelism in Modern Britain
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    Israelism in Modern Britain

    This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK. Remarkably, this subject has had very little attention: remarkable, because at its height in the post-war era, the British-Israelist movement could claim to have tens of thousands of...
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  • Character and Dystopia Character and Dystopia
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    Character and Dystopia

    This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork...
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  • Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland
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    Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland

    This book explores the role of evangelicalism in the conflict in Northern Ireland and discusses how it may contribute to a peaceful political transition. Ganiel analyzes the 'traditional' evangelicals who are associated with the Reverend Ian Paisley, as...
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  • Church and State in 21st Century Britain Church and State in 21st Century Britain
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    Church and State in 21st Century Britain

    Granted that it originated in the geopolitics of the late seventeenth century, what should now be the relationship of the established Church of England with a British state at once more secular and plurally religious? What are the implications for the...
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  • Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics
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    Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics

    What does it mean for a painter to remain a visual artist even as a writer? Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics engages this question through a critical re-examination of one of the most influential Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, the painter and...
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  • The Sociology of Language and Religion The Sociology of Language and Religion
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    The Sociology of Language and Religion

    Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entails a fundamental shift in macroeconomic policy for participating member states. Adjusting to EMU examines the design and delivery of monetary, fiscal and supplyside policies within the euro area. It appraises the...
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