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Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
ISBN: 9780199759996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence surveys intersections between religion and violence throughout history and around the world.
The forty original essays in this volume include overviews of major religious traditions, showing how violence is justified within the literary and theological foundations of the tradition, how it is used symbolically and in ritual practice, and how social acts of violence and warfare have been... Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terr...
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781,16 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
ISBN: 9780199767649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region, the Buddhist/Confucian, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim regions, and the African cultural region. In each section an introductory essay discusses the social development of that religious tradition historically. The other essays cover the basic social factsthe communitys size,...
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on co...
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291,25 zł |
Religion in Global Civil Society
ISBN: 9780195188356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of political encounter, including new movements of nationalism, the clerical leadership of political sects, and the religiously motivated acts of terrorism. Religion seems to be trying to tear the planet apart, even as other cultural forces seem to be trying to pull it together. The technology of the Internet, film, television,...
The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier obse...
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116,22 zł |
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends
ISBN: 9780520384736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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98,49 zł |
God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare
ISBN: 9780190079178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence
ISBN: 9780691129143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence--historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to unite primary sources--justifications for violence from religious texts, theologians, and activists--with invaluable essays by authoritative scholars. The first half of the collection includes original source materials justifying violence from various religious perspectives: Hindu,... This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence... |
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155,53 zł |
Krieg Und Religion: Erkundungen Einer Ambivalenten Verbindung
ISBN: 9783451380433 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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129,07 zł |
Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
ISBN: 9780520291355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world's major religious traditions: European Christians who oppose Muslim immigrants; American Christians who support abortion clinic bombings and militia actions; Muslims in the Middle East associated with...
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody w...
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129,64 zł |
Global Religions: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780195158748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Can Islam be located on a map? Is Europe the center of the Christian world? Is India a Hindu nation? While decades ago these questions were often answered in the affirmative, the truth has never been that simple. Not only are adherents of particular faiths spread across the globe, but there are many variations of a particular faith practiced side by side. This has only become more true in recent years as the pace of globalization has quickened. The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts. The volume begins with...
Can Islam be located on a map? Is Europe the center of the Christian world? Is India a Hindu nation? While decades ago these questions were often answ...
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151,22 zł |
When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends
ISBN: 9780520384729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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444,36 zł |
Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority: A Tribute to the Work of Michael Jerryson
ISBN: 9781800501010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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388,82 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
ISBN: 9780195137989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region, the Buddhist/Confucian, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim regions, and the African cultural region. In each section an introductory essay discusses the social development of that religious tradition historically. The other essays cover the basic social factsthe communitys size,...
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on co...
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906,13 zł |
Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780367030896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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174,08 zł |
Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
ISBN: 9780520244979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict---at home or in business; in local, national, or international arenas. This invaluable handbook, updated with a new preface and a new case study on terrorism in Northern Ireland, sets out Gandhi's basic methods and illustrates them with practical examples. Juergensmeyer shows how parties at odds can rise above a narrow view of self-interest to find resolutions that are satisfying and beneficial to all...
Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step appro...
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138,86 zł |
Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780367030865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaedavolume 16
ISBN: 9780520261570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on...
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a st...
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The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular Statevolume 5
ISBN: 9780520086517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Muslim leaders in Egypt, Palestine, and Algeria, political rabbis in Israel, militant Sikhs in India, and triumphant Catholic clergy in Eastern Europe are all players in Juergensmeyer's study of the explosive growth of religious movements that decisively reject Western ideas of secular nationalism....
Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of...
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200,74 zł |
Thinking Globally: A Global Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780520278448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer's own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters explore the history of globalization in each region of the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and cover key issues in today's global era, such as: -...
In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies fr...
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Buddhist Warfare
ISBN: 9780195394849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military conquest throughout history. Buddhist soldiers in sixth century China were given the illustrious status of Bodhisattva after killing their adversaries. In seventeenth century Tibet, the Fifth Dalai Lama...
Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leader...
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208,71 zł |
Buddhist Warfare
ISBN: 9780195394832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leaders have sanctioned violence, and even war. The eight essays in this book focus on a variety of Buddhist traditions, from antiquity to the present, and show that Buddhist organizations have used religious images and rhetoric to support military conquest throughout history. Buddhist soldiers in sixth century China were given the illustrious status of Bodhisattva after killing their adversaries. In seventeenth century Tibet, the Fifth Dalai Lama...
Though traditionally regarded as a peaceful religion, Buddhism has a dark side. On multiple occasions over the past fifteen centuries, Buddhist leader...
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693,67 zł |