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Truth in the Making

Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy

By Robert C. Miner

Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too?
Spanning more than…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27698-6 (Routledge)

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Religion: The Basics

By Malory Nye

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26379-5 (Routledge)

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The Dialectics of Myth

By Aleksei Fyodorovich Losev

Aleksei Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988) was among the greatest Russian philosophers, thinkers, and classicists of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Mikhail Bakhtin, and a scholar…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28467-7 (Routledge)

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Sufis and Scholars of the Sea

Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925

By Anne Bang

Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31763-4 (Routledge)

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Natural Symbols

Explorations in Cosmology

By Professor Mary Douglas

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31454-1 (Routledge)

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Vietnamese Supernaturalism

Views from the Southern Region

By Thien Do

The beliefs and practices surrounding the meanings and symbols of the spirit world in Vietnam are explored in detail in this innovative study on popular…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30799-4 (Routledge)

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Religion in French Feminist Thought

Critical Perspectives

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

Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives brings together some of the leading modern religious responses to major French feminist writings on religion. It considers…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21536-7 (Routledge)

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Gaia's Gift

Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus

By Anne Primavesi

Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28835-4 (Routledge)

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Action Dharma

New Studies in Engaged Buddhism

Edited by Damien Keown, Charles S. Prebish, Christopher Queen

Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1594-7 (Routledge)

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The Discipline of Religion

Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric

By Russell T. McCutcheon

The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27490-6 (Routledge)

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Muslims on the Edge of China: Religious Knowledge and Authority Amongst the Uyghurs of Xinjiang
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Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
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Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation
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