This is the third of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an outstanding archaeological discovery which has supplied the basis for Egyptian decipherment; the final volume explores the 'Stele of Canopus', discovered in 1866.

This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the 'Am-Tuat' and of the 'Book of Gates', with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. In the 'Book of Gates' the doctrines of the sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily upon his eternal body. The object of all the 'Books of the Other World' was to provide the dead with a 'guide' or 'handbook, ' containing a...

Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran's interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh interpretation of liberal culture. First published in 1990, this analysis begins with a reassessment of the nature of the public and the private in relation to the political. The controversy over religion and politics is examined in light of such contested issues of political life as sexuality, abortion, and the...

In this volume David Chidester emphasises the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid.

Since the 1880s, the Conservative Party has been an important political force in Britain. In this study of Conservative ideology since the end of Second World War, Andrew Gamble considers the nature of Conservative party opinion and the factors that have accounted for its success.

This is the first of three volumes which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the 'Book Am-Tuat', with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. This text, at least in the form that we have it, was produced by the priests of Amen-Ra at Thebes, with the intention of demonstrating that their god was the overlord of all the gods, and the supreme power in the universe.

This is the third of three volumes, first published in 1906, which treat the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. This volume explores the origin of the 'Books of the Other World', highlighting and comparing the most remarkable features, with prefatory remarks and a full index to the whole work.

This, the first volume of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge's 'The History of Ethiopia', presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540. Using a vast range of sources - Greek and Roman reports, Biblical passages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ethiopian chronicles - an enthralling narrative history is presented with clarity.

This is the second volume of Sir E.A. Wallis Budge's narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540. The list of kings ends with the Regent Ras Tafari, who still reigned at the time of first publication in 1928. Thereafter, the author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the cultural, social and political idiosyncrasies of the Ethiopian people: literature, spells and magic, architecture, ethnography, the alphabet, and a wide range of other engrossing topics.

This title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of sociology, Islam and Marxism. Both sociology and the study of Islam draw on an orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology, ethnocentric values and an evolutionary view of historical development. Bryan Turner challenges the basic assumptions of orientalism by considering such issues as the social structure of Islamic society, the impact of capitalism in the Middle East and the effect of Israel on territories, revolutions, social classes and...