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Judaism and Collective Life

Self and Community in the Religious Kibbutz

By Aryei Fishman

Examining the relationship between Judaism as a religious culture and kibbutz life, this is a ground-breaking work in the research of Judaism.
The book takes…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28966-5 (Routledge)

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God, Gender and the Bible

By Deborah Sawyer

Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17484-8 (Routledge)

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

A Study in Human Nature

By William James

First published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experience initiated the psychological study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27809-6 (Routledge)

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Capitalism and Religion

The Price of Piety

By Philip Goodchild

Our global ecological crisis demands that we question the rationality of the culture that has caused it: western modernity's free market capitalism. Philip Goodchild develops…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28224-6 (Routledge)

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The Rise of the Laity in Evangelical Protestantism

Edited by Deryck Lovegrove

This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27193-6 (Routledge)

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Teaching Buddhism in the West

From the Wheel to the Web

By Richard P. Hayes, Victor Sogen Hori, James Mark Shields

At a time when the popularity of Buddhism is at a peak in the west, both inside and outside the university setting, scholars and students…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1557-2 (Routledge)

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Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

By Gay Byron

How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?
Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks,…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24369-8 (Routledge)

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Thinking Through Myths

Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Kevin Schilbrack

Eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct perennial problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs, origins,…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25461-8 (Routledge)

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Science and the Spiritual Quest

New Essays by Leading Scientists

By Phillip Clayton, Mark Richardson, Robert J. Russell, Kirk Wegter-McNelly

Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe, Science and the Spiritual Questexamines the ways in which scientists negotiate the complex frontiers between their…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25767-1 (Routledge)

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Disability in Jewish Law

By Tzvi C. Marx

In recent decades, record numbers of Jews are taking a newfound interest in their legal heritage - the Bible and the Talmud, the law codes…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27889-8 (Routledge)

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