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The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The style of peacemaking of the Olso Accor...

The complicated link between women and religion in the Middle East has been a source of debate for centuries, and has special resonance today. Whe...

In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of ro...

This is an unrivalled guide to contemporary religions. It brings together the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences to offer a cu...

Each society has a corpus of images and models to which individuals aspire. These role models explicitly and implicitly shape people's understandi...

The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as...

The second edition of this popular introduction to the anthropology of religion now features new chapters on mythology and pilgrimage, as well as c...

This anthology brings together key essays by and about Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), the widely influential Romanian-American historian of religions. ...

I Pastorala landskap bjuder författaren Barbro Santillo Frizell på en lika bildande som fascinerande resa genom rummet och tiden. Från den ofta be...

This history-based introduction to the study of religion introduces the main methods, theories and theorists in the field. * Introduces the main m...

This Reader brings together material that illustrates the problem of ritual as a type of religious behaviour, in relation to belief and thought, an...

When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling ...

Hvad sker der, når vi dør? Det spørgsmål har optaget mennesker på tværs af tidsaldre og kulturer. Det har ofte været set som religionens opgave a...

Graham Harvey explores current and past animistic beliefs and practices of Native Americans, Maori, Aboriginal Australians, and eco-pagans. He con...

»Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field.» With those words in Genesis, God condemns the...

A Brief History of Spirituality tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament to the present day. * Charts the m...

The Templars fought against Islam in the crusader east for nearly two centuries. During that time the original small band grew into a formidable ar...

I den tibetanska kulturen är religion och läkekonst intimt förenade. Vägen till hälsa och välbefi nnande rör människans hela sätt att leva - den i...

»In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scrat...

This work maps out the history, beliefs, influence and interactions of the world's religions. The world's religions have emerged as one of the gre...

The author calls upon the world's religions to assist in combating the destructive trends of our time, mobilizing a virtual »alliance of religion a...

Distinctive both in scope and approach, »A Faithful Sea» addresses a wide array of cases of Mediterranean interreligious tradition and identity in ...

A manifesto for a more active, compassionate, and socially engaged Buddhism, The New Buddhism asserts that Buddha was a radical critic of society, ...

This is the first introduction to Pureland Buddhism, also called Amida Buddhism. Under-represented in literature, Pureland Buddhism is closely con...

De nya religiösa rörelserna - vart tog de vägen? handlar om fem nya religiösa rörelser som var mycket omtalade och kontroversiella på 60- och 70-ta...

An overview of the development of new religions and the controversies surrounding them in late modern society. [Språk: Engelska] Häftad

Denna bok avser att ge en översiktlig orientering om antikens Rom, med särskild markering av romarrikets roll som födelseplats och kraftcentrum för...

Comparing existing evidence from the USA and Europe, with a UK-based study of religion and spirituality, this fascinating book addresses the most p...

Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to twenty-fir...

Though Christians and Muslims hold differing views on the mission and death of Jesus, careful study of the Qur'an and the New Testament may bridge ...

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in fro...

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Explores the causes of evil in myth, encompassing themes such as defilement, the figure of the trickster, evil people both within and outside the s...

Since the early 1990s there have been various waves of interest in what is often described as »masculine spirituality». While diverse, a commonalit...

Providing a comprehensive exploration of the teachings and beliefs of the world's living faiths, the third edition of this popular book has been re...

»The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.» So begins the first verse of the mysterious...

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories» provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that...

Författaren, Pierre Grimal (1912-1996), var en av vår tids stora auktoriteter på grekisk och romersk historia, litteratur och kultur. Han är förfa...

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU • to appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life • to recognize the key traditions and festivals...

This book is an ideal work for basic information about better-known religions such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Latter Day Saints (Mormons), ...

Religion är ett gåtfullt fenomen. Vad får människor över hela världen att avsätta enorma resurser på att utföra till synes meningslösa ritualer? ...

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition - a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of l...

I Afrika spelar religion en stor roll, och dess betydelse har på senare tid ökat snarare än minskat. Även om de flesta afrikaner i dag är kristna ...

För första gången på svenska presenteras denna religion som har ca 100000 utövare. Mandéerna har haft sin hemvist i främst Irak och Iran. P g a f...

Handboken om religioner är skriven av drygt 80 författare som tillsammans har skapat en heltäckande bild av rörelser, organisationer och den religi...

Recent events - from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations a...

Most overviews of Hindu belief and practice follow a history from the ancient Vedas to today. Such approaches privilege Brahmanical traditions and ...

Österns religioner lockar och fascinerar. Där finns en stillhet och öppenhet på det andliga området som tilltalar vår tid. De religiösa tradition...