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Focused on Amad Ibn Ajba an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qurnic exegesis this book engages crit...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study foc...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

Written by Libby Ahluwalia - an experienced teacher and examiner, and a trusted author - this new textbook fully supports Component 2 of the Eduqas...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practi...

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe. But other values like equality, justice, ...

Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse...

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Gree...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public ...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesth...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s Anglosphere to counter the r...

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent c...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it consid...

Religious freedom has become increasingly important across the global spectrum over the past decades but has remained a contested concept. This boo...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This book explores and expounds upon questions of paradox and contradiction in theology with an emphasis on recent contributions from analytic phil...

This volume is a collection of K. Satchidananda Murtys unpublished writings. It presents Murtys views on the theory and praxis of education. Murty ...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. More specifically, t...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israels society, economy, religion, language, c...

This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. The papers are contempora...

K Satchidananda Murty (19242011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy, he was a...

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

This volume is the first monograph in English dedicated to the study of the Greek mythical hero Pelops. While popular in antiquity, Pelops populari...

This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Helleni...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

This book reclaims Hegels notion of the end of artor, more precisely, of arts past characternot just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Quran translation in Indonesia the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world with a highly d...

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-lengt...

Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European for...

This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, r...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

This book addresses central theological issues and biblical narratives in terms of a bold thesis regarding relations between God and humans: that t...

This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal syst...

Luke and the Jewish Other takes up the debated question of the orientation of Luke toward the Jewish people. Building on recent studies in the soci...

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European r...

This book offers a concise, yet provocative, summation of Christos Yannaras long reflection on the meaning of politics. It provides vital clarifica...

Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion comprises translations from Ravaissons notes on the history and philosophy of religion, datin...

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contempo...

Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international line up of sch...

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction fro...