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Jehovah's Witnesses

Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement

By Andrew Holden

This is the first major study of the enigmatic religious society. By examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic recent expansion, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26610-9 (Routledge)

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French Feminists on Religion

A Reader

Edited by Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady, Judith Poxon

French Feminists on Religion: A Reader offers the first representative selection of important writings by French feminist thinkers on the topic of religion, including the…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21538-1 (Routledge)

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Religion Without God

By Ray Billington

This criticism of theism, especially monotheism, questions the assumption that rejecting God means rejecting religion. Drawing on Western philosophical critiques of religion and non-theistic Eastern…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21786-6 (Routledge)

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Enchanted Feminism

The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco

By Jone Salomonsen

This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22393-5 (Routledge)

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The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore

By Phd, John Dececco, Devdutt Pattanaik

A god transforms into a nymph and enchants another god.

A king becomes pregnant.

A prince discovers on his wedding night that he is not a man.


Another…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-1-56023-181-3 (Routledge)

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What is Religion?

By Robert Crawford

We all know what religion is - or do we? Confronted with religious pluralism and cultural diversity, it manifests itself in many forms. What is

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22671-4 (Routledge)

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Cyprian the Bishop

By J. Patout Burns Jr.

This is the first up-to-date, accessible study on the rule of Cyprian as the Bishop of Carthage in the 250s AD. It controversially shows that…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23850-2 (Routledge)

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Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

By Jenny Blain

This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25651-3 (Routledge)

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Religions Today

An Introduction

By Mary Pat Fisher

Religions Today provides a sympathetic account of what living religions really are. Fisher traces the historical development and practices of major religious movements and explores…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26282-8 (Routledge)

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Religions in the Modern World

Traditions and Transformations

Edited by David Smith, LINDA WOODHEAD, Hiroko Kawanami, Christopher Partridge

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21784-2 (Routledge)

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