The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia

John Binns

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest arc... Lees meer

Visualising a Sacred City

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London. But Blake was not the first or the last to visualise a shimmering new metropolis o... Lees meer

Hegel and the Art of Negation

Andrew W Hass

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion | nr. 37
• Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history h... Lees meer

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia

John Binns

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart. It has the longest arc... Lees meer

Making Spirits

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the material world. Through... Lees meer

Returning to Religion

Jonathan Benthall

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• How can one explain the resurgence of religion, even in a western context of rationality, postmodernity and scientific endeavour? The persistence of r... Lees meer

Dharma

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cann... Lees meer

Sufism Today

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Sufism is the subject of intensive discussion and debate. Yet, it is also true that the study of contemporary Sufism has been overlooked by the fields... Lees meer

Ethnographies of Doubt

M E Pelkmans

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion | nr. 32
• Religious and secular convictions have powerful effects, but their fundaments are often surprisingly fragile. Because of the conspicuous role that nat... Lees meer

Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam

Meir Hatina

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West ... Lees meer

Twenty-First Century Jihad

Elisabeth Kendall, Ewan Stein

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious... Lees meer

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism

Abbas Amanat

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion | nr. 4
• Interest in Shi'i Islam is running at unprecedented levels. International tensions over Iran, where the largest number of Shi'i Muslims live, as well ... Lees meer

Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists

Namira Nahouza

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Wahhabism is often described as one of the most conservative branches of Islam and its fundamentalist approach seen as fuelling jihadist extremism. Bu... Lees meer

Cyborg Theology

Scott A Midson

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature,... Lees meer

Chinese Philosophy

Ronnie L Littlejohn

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous ph... Lees meer

Dying for Faith

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion | nr. 6
• From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepres... Lees meer

The Politics of Iconoclasm

James Noyes

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts... Lees meer

The Politics of Iconoclasm

James Noyes

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts... Lees meer

Sufis, Salafis and Islamists

Sadek Hamid

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades. What have been its main groups and how do their leaders compete to attract followers... Lees meer

Dharma

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cann... Lees meer

Chinese Philosophy

Ronnie L Littlejohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous ph... Lees meer

Shi'i Islam and Identity

Lloyd Ridgeon

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion | nr. 25
• From the Civil War in Lebanon to the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, from the dismantling of the Ba'athist regime in Iraq to the virtual splintering of... Lees meer

Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam

Elizabeth Sirriyeh

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• People in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likely to seek inte... Lees meer

Encounters with Islam

Malise Ruthven

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Religion
• For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secular... Lees meer