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Whether one is new to the subject or seeking a deeper scholarly analysis of the topic, this book is an indispensable resource. * Mohammad Amin Mansouri, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment  Introduction Chapter One: Jihad in the Quran and Commentary Literature Chapter Two: Jihad in the Hadith Literature Chapter Three: Jihad in the Legal Literature Chapter Four: Jihad in Morally Edifying, Ethical, and Mystical Literature Chapter Five: Jihad as Conceived by Modern Revolutionaries and Militants Chapter Six: Jihad in the Thought of Modern and Contemporary Mainstream Scholars Chapter Seven: Jihad as Non-Violent Struggle and Peacemaking Chapter Eight: Jihad and Its Perceptions in the West Bibliography Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732540862807,"sku":"9780190647322","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"experimenting-with-religion-9780190875541","title":"Experimenting with Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross history, our understanding of God, the soul, spirituality, and even science itself has shifted dramatically. Today, we have more scientific knowledge than ever, yet some age-old questions persist: Why do we believe in gods, souls, and rituals? Are these beliefs innate? Do existential fears drive us toward or away from religion? What can we learn about spirituality from children? How can we leverage scientific thinking to study spirituality?This book invites you into the labs and minds of some of the world''s most renowned psychological scientists for an in-depth look at how psychologists can study religion and spirituality-and how they wrestle with doubts about ostensibly established findings and methods, even as the field advances. From China, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Tuva, this book takes a balanced perspective on a diverse range of experiments and studies, casting a light on both their brilliance and their limitations. 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The science of religion offers an opportunity to apply the best methodologies available to gain insight into how and why people believe. Unexpectedly, the subjects of Jong's story are not really the participants in the experiments, but the scientists conducting them. How do scientists come to believe how people believe? Jong exposes the uncertainty and challenge of gaining true insight on religion, and the natural world more generally, with a personal and arresting account of scientists doing their daily work. Even the most rigorous science will produce a slow walk toward the truth with plenty of false starts along the way. That isn't to suggest that the journey isn't worth it, just that we should do so with humility and recognition that what we know and what we think we know are not the same thing. * Brian Nosek, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia *\u003cbr\u003eExperimenting with Religion provides a unique view into the labs—and minds—of psychologists who study religion. Whether or not you are interested in religion, this is the perfect book for anyone who wants to know how psychologists know what they know, and also how to make sense of scientific research that is sometimes confusing and contradictory. * Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Ungifted^ and Wired to Create *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and acknowledgements  1. (How) can psychologists study religion? 2. Does thinking cause atheism?  3. Are children creationists? 4. Is God like Superman? 5. Do children believe in souls?  6. What does God know? 7. 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These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been transformed in the process.Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. 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Confronting the Global: Hadimba and Climate Change Conclusion Notes References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732548497751,"sku":"9780190913588","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-flag-and-the-cross-9780197618684","title":"The Flag and the Cross","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracyMost Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation''s Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; Jesus saves and Don''t Tread on Me; Christian flags and Confederate Flags; even a prayer in Jesus'' name after storming the Senate chamber. Where some saw a confusing jumble, Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry saw a familiar ideology: white Christian nationalism.In this short primer, Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is and is not; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it''s headed and why it threatens democracy. Tracing the development of this ideology over the course of three centuriesand especially its influence over the last three decadesthey show how, throughout American history, white Christian nationalism has animated the oppression, exclusion, and even exterminati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the book classes as religion, it will be important reading for students of sociology and political science as well as students of religion, given its sophisticated survey work. It will also interest nonacademic readers struggling to understand the impact of this movement on American politics. * A. W. Klink, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eDeeply researched and immensely clarifying, The Flag and the Cross offers a sobering account of the history of white Christian nationalism and the threat it poses in our present moment. Anyone who cares about the fate of American democracy should read this book. * Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation *\u003cbr\u003eWhite Christian nationalism is the key concept to understand the authoritarian American right today. In this exceptional investigation, drawing on sociology, social psychology, philosophy, and history, Gorski and Perry show how the various apparently incoherent strands of libertarianism, racism, and authoritarianism combine to make a toxic moral and political stew. This book makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the current moment. * Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them *\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone concerned about the future of religion and democracy in America, Gorski and Perry's The Flag and the Cross is essential reading. This book helps us understand how white Christian nationalism divides Americans along racial and religious lines. * Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism *\u003cbr\u003eGorski and Perry make sense of the seemingly senseless January 6 uprising. Built on powerful evidence, they show how white nationalism wove itself into the very fabric of modern conservative values. By making visible the creation of white nationalism, this book gives me hope that we can unmake it. * Beth Allison Barr, Professor of History at Baylor University and author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth *\u003cbr\u003eParticularly for those concerned with gaining a basic understanding of Christian nationalism in order practically to engage it, Gorski and Perry's book is a valuable resource...The Flag and the Cross is able to bridge the often-vexing divide between theory and practice...Gorski and Perry's work compliments that of scholars and activists concerned with the wider project of anti-racism by offering an account which is both critical and constructive, and importantly, relevant to all readers. * Nathan Dever, Modern Believing *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Eruption Chapter 1: What is WCN? Mapping the Landscape Chapter 2: When did it Begin? Bedrock Foundations Chapter 3: How Does it Work? Seismographic Readings Conclusion: Where It's Going: Herrenvolk Autocracy or Multiracial Democracy?","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732658925911,"sku":"9780197618684","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197618684.jpg?v=1719997835"},{"product_id":"texts-after-terror-9780197764114","title":"Texts After Terror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTexts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite''s concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume moves beyond the usual feminist approaches to these stories and, as such, is bound to stimulate further discussion and reflection. * ERYL W. DAVIES, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament  *\u003cbr\u003e...this is a book pushes at the issues it raises in ways that linger, and that alone may commend it. * Sandra Gravett, Appalachian State University, Society of Biblical Literature *\u003cbr\u003eHer ultimate conclusion is compelling: feminist readings of texts should be seeking to find ways to contend with stories of sexual violence in the Bible rather than simply retelling difficult stories. * M. M. Veeneman, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *\u003cbr\u003eIn Texts After Terror, Graybill models a way of reading biblical texts that honors and reveals their complexity, and provides the next generation of feminist scholars, and really all biblical readers, a way to continue to engage critically and authentically with many of the Bible's most disturbing narratives. * Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean of List College and the Kekst Graduate School, The Jewish Theological Seminary *\u003cbr\u003eTexts after Terror is a daring and devastating tour de force — raising new questions, evoking new feelings, and proposing new relations for what else and what comes after multiple forms of sexual harm. With characteristic wit and anger, breadth and incision, brilliance and ambivalence, Rhiannon Graybill takes biblical interpretation beyond the depressingly low bar of consent toward other possibilities. Grappling with these texts and their violences requires staying with their manifest troubles and refusing their redemption or recuperation. In this and many other ways, Texts after Terror is as unsettling as it is indispensable. * Joseph Marchal, Professor of Religious Studies, Ball State University *\u003cbr\u003eRhiannon Graybill shows herself a worthy inheritor of feminist biblical scholarship to build upon, poke holes in, push further, and complexify how rape tales have been read. Her \"unhappy readings\" of these tales take up feminist, queer, and strands of other theorization about sex, rape, rape culture, and power by reading through literature to situate the tales in the persistent misogyny that sadly still marks our own times. * Steed Vernyl Davidson, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, McCormick Theological Seminary *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction: Reading Sexual Violence 1. Fuzzy, Messy, Icky: How to Read a Rape Story 2. The Edges of Consent: Dinah, Tamar, and Lot's Daughters 3. Narrating Harm in the Bathsheba Story: Predation, Peremption, and Silence 4. Rape and Other Ways of Reading: Hagar and Sarah in the Company of Women 5. A Grittier Daughter Zion: Lamentations and the Archive of Rape Stories 6. Sad Stories and Unhappy Reading Conclusion: After Terror Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732677112151,"sku":"9780197764114","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"blasphemy-a-very-short-introduction-a-very-short-introducton-very-short-introductions-9780198797579","title":"Blasphemy A Very Short Introduction A Very Short","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world where not everyone believes in God, ''blasphemy'' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise. In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the case, looking at factors such as the increased visibility of religious and racial minorities, new media, and engines of surveillance (which are far more omniscient than the old gods could ever be), and the legacies of colonial blasphemy laws. 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It advances the view that reflecting on angels can teach us something about human existence and whether or not we believe that they exist in their own right, the angels can still illuminate our thoughts.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. 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This is a fascinating and exciting recasting of interpretive categories familiar to historians of nineteenth-century religion, a bold intervention yielding important lessons not just about American religious history but equally about the study of religion.” -- John Corrigan, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003e“How do you behave \u003ci\u003eas if\u003c\/i\u003e you are in authority when you have done away with kings?  In her truly brilliant study of \"sovereign rituals\" in America from 1790 to 1850, Dana W. Logan has found the answer: awkwardly. Initiating a brother Mason, reading the minutes, raising the flag, and ordering the housework highlight some of the graceless quotidian performances that created the sensation of coherent authority even in its absence. \u003ci\u003eAwkward Rituals\u003c\/i\u003e is not only fun to read, it is essential across the disciplines.” -- Joseph Roach, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 Uncomfortable Rites in Early Republican Freemasonry\u003cbr\u003e 2 Conventional Behavior in the American Bible Society\u003cbr\u003e 3 Involuntary Association in the American Seamen’s Friend Society\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Head and the Hands in Catharine Beecher’s Domesticity\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue Awkward Ritual, Once More with Feeling\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732925657431,"sku":"9780226818504","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226818504.jpg?v=1719998976"},{"product_id":"the-superhumanities-9780226820248","title":"The Superhumanities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s relentlessly fascinating, profoundly important and beautifully written. 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This is a major and indeed essential cultural enterprise, and this book is an extraordinary \u003ci\u003etour de force \u003c\/i\u003eto this end.\" * Paradigm Explorer *\u003cbr\u003e“An electrifying, glorious, loving, and almost deranged romp through humanity’s greatest recurrent ideas and experiences, \u003ci\u003eThe Superhumanities\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who senses that the transformative power of books, ideas, and spiritual experiences are intertwined and too often estranged.” -- Jonathan Haidt, author of 'The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion'\u003cbr\u003e“One of the foremost historians of religion and a consummate storyteller, Kripal makes a compelling case for restoring the anomalous and inexplicable to the heart of inquiry in the humanities. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of education, society, and indeed reality and for all who have experienced or would like to experience amazement.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of 'Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative'\u003cbr\u003e“In this magical mystery tour of the superhumanities, Kripal takes us inside and out of the pantheistic, the paranormal, the metaphysical, the extrasensory, the anomalous, the weird, the wonderful, the awe inspiring. Reading the book is an experience—a mind-opening guide to the superhuman and soulful, as you \u003ci\u003efeel \u003c\/i\u003ewhere it leads you.” -- Richard A. Shweder, author of 'Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology'\u003cbr\u003e“Kripal’s recent foray into the troubled waters of the nature of reality and the human may be his greatest work yet. Kripal does not make categorical claims; the end is uncertain, but he does hold space for the hopeful possibility that the superhumanities might help us envision and create a new and more egalitarian world.” -- Stephen C. Finley, author of 'In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam'\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating read.\" * Reader's Labryinth, on Youtube *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue. Teaching the Superman\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. How the Book Came to Be\u003cbr\u003e 1. Legitimate Science Fiction: From the History of Religions to the Superhumanities\u003cbr\u003e 2. “The Truth Must Be Depressing”: Immunological Responses of the Intellectual Body\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Human as Two: Toward an Apophatic Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 4. Theory as Two: Rewriting the Real\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Solid Rock Was Once Flowing\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Phoenix Reborn\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments and the Sigil\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732927164759,"sku":"9780226820248","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226820248.jpg?v=1719998982"},{"product_id":"sinister-yogis-9780226895147","title":"Sinister Yogis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sinister Yogis... successfully provides a fuller, more contextualized history of yoga, opening up some of the elisions that come when a tradition goes cross-cultural.\" (Times Literary Supplement) \"This wondrously captivating, richly detailed book is a must for anyone interested in conceptions of the Indian yogi and of yogic practice.\" (Choice)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732935520599,"sku":"9780226895147","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226895147.jpg?v=1719999015"},{"product_id":"time-maps-collective-memory-and-the-social-shape-of-the-past-9780226981536","title":"Time Maps Collective Memory and the Social Shape","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732935782743,"sku":"9780226981536","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226981536.jpg?v=1719999016"},{"product_id":"divine-audacity-unity-and-identity-in-hugh-of-balma-eckhart-ruusbroec-and-marguerite-porete-9780227178379","title":"Divine Audacity Unity and Identity in Hugh of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new synthesis of the thought of four key Medieval writers on the themes of mystical union, volition and virtue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are we to conceive of union with God? 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