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Cambridge University Press Religion in Mind
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press Saudi Arabia in Transition Insights on Social Political Economic and Religious Change
Book SynopsisMaking sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.Trade Review'After 9/11, Saudi officials opened the kingdom to western researchers, gambling that what professors in the west write about them poses no threat. Bernard Haykel and his co-editors have collected the best of the new work in one volume, and we are all smarter for it. Buy, read and assign it. You won't be sorry.' Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania'Saudi Arabia is one of the most important and least understood places on earth - and this volume illuminates its inner workings across politics, economics and religion. The book will be indispensable for scholars and policy makers, and deeply fascinating for anyone who wants to understand the Kingdom beyond the headlines.' Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School'The authors represent the all-star team of scholars of Saudi Arabia. Together, they have created a book full of fresh insights and novel perspectives. Even veteran Saudi watchers will find much new and valuable here.' Jon B. Alterman, Senior Vice President, Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy and Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies'Haykel, Hegghammer and Lacroix are amongst the world's most knowledgeable scholars of Saudi Arabia. Based on in-depth fieldwork, a perfect mastery of the language, cultures and history of the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia in Transition is a must read, particularly at a time when the oil monarchy is facing major challenges, both domestic, regional and international.' Gilles Kepel, Sciences Po, Paris'Edited by three of the foremost experts on Saudi Arabia, this volume gathers together a wide range of research on how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has both effected change and been affected by profound changes in the surrounding region.' F. W., The Middle East Journal'… a good source of information and analysis for the general public and for specialists.' William Ochsenwald, Bustan: The Middle East book ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix; Part I. Politics: 2. Rentier exceptionalism: oil and political mobilization in Saudi Arabia Gregory Gause; 3. The dogma of development: technopolitics and power in Saudi Arabia Toby Jones; 4. Enforcing the state's Islam: the functioning of the committee of senior scholars Nabil Mouline; Part II. Oil: 5. Saudi Arabia and the world oil market Giacomo Luciani; 6. The political economy of regional development in post-World War II Saudi Arabia Steffen Hertog; 7. Oil in Saudi Arabian culture and politics: from tribal poets to Al-Qaeda's ideologues Bernard Haykel; Part III. Islam and Islamism: 8. From Wahhabi to Salafi David Commins; 9. Understanding stability and dissent in the kingdom: the role of the jama'at in Saudi politics Stéphane Lacroix; 10. The struggle for authority: the Shaykhs of Jihadi-Salafism in Saudi Arabia, 1997–2003 Saud al-Sarhan; 11. 'Classical' and 'global' jihadism in Saudi Arabia Thomas Hegghammer; Part IV. Social Change: 12. Raiders and traders: a poet's lament of the end of the Bedouin heroic age Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad; 13. Rootless trees: genealogical politics in Saudi Arabia Abd al-Aziz H. Al Fahad; 14. Caught between religion and state: women in Saudi Arabia Madawi al-Rasheed; 15. Engendering Saudi consumerism: a study of young women's practices in Riyadh's shopping malls Amélie Le Renard.
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Cambridge University Press Esotericism and the Academy
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Cambridge University Press Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine 1963 The Wiles Lectures
Book SynopsisInterest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all thoTrade Review'The outstanding characteristics of [Dodds's] work … are a rather rare union of detachment and sympathy, a combination of precise scholarship and a degree of acquaintance with contemporary psychological theories unusual in a classical scholar, and last but not least, an ability to write very well.' The Times Literary Supplement'Professor Dodds mutes and muffles nothing … His tone is level and just, his understanding is comprehensive and his emphasis is never polemic. There is a dry inner light in his writing which falls evenly in every sentence, a distillation of restrained wit and of the lifelong exercise of scholarship.' Peter Levi, The TabletTable of ContentsPreface; Key to references; 1. Man and the material world; 2. Man and the daemonic world; 3. Man and the divine world; 4. The dialogue of paganism with Christianity; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Creation and the God of Abraham
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard on Faith and Love Modern European Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Emotions An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology
Book SynopsisLife, on a day to day basis, is a sequence of emotional states: hope, disappointment, irritation, anger, affection, envy, pride, embarrassment, joy, sadness and many more. We know intuitively that these states express deep things about our character and our view of the world. But what are emotions and why are they so important to us? In one of the most extensive investigations of the emotions ever published, Robert Roberts develops a novel conception of what emotions are and then applies it to a large range of types of emotion and related phenomena. In so doing he lays the foundations for a deeper understanding of our evaluative judgments, our actions, our personal relationships and our fundamental well-being. Aimed principally at philosophers and psychologists, this book will certainly be accessible to readers in other disciplines such as religion and anthropology.Trade Review'It is clearly and engagingly written, uses vivid examples throughout, and covers an impressively wide range of emotions. Roberts discusses the philosophical and neurological literature on emotion, as well as many literary case studies. He makes a strong case for the importance of emotions to ethics. In fact, anyone who believes otherwise will have a hard time responding to Roberts because of the enormous number of examples and arguments presented in this book.' Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma'… a strong and sustained piece of work that presents a truly original and thought-provoking analysis of emotions …' Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne'The clarity, subtlety, breadth, and depth of Roberts's book are richly rewarding and make it essential reading. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a milestone in the development of the philosophical analysis of emotions.' Journal of Moral PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Studying emotions; 2. The nature of emotions; 3. The variety of emotions; 4. The play of emotional feelings.
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Cambridge University Press Church State and Civil Society
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard A Biography
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Cambridge University Press Under God
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Cambridge University Press Religion in China Today 3 The China Quarterly Special Issues Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Priests Witches and Power Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania 112 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 112
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Cambridge University Press Varieties of Javanese Religion An Anthropological Account 111 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 111
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Cambridge University Press Pericles Prince of Tyre The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press Christianity and Roman Society Key Themes in Ancient History
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
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Cambridge University Press The Evidence for God Religious Knowledge Reexamined
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Cambridge University Press Science and Spirituality Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science
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Cambridge University Press Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges c.13001520
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Cambridge University Press Social Theory and Religion
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Cambridge University Press Social Theory and Religion
Book SynopsisThis 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. It clarifies the social processes involved in constructing religion and non-religion in public and private life.Trade Review'Some books transform our understanding of their topics. Fewer books transform their disciplines. And a very few transform those who read them, such that they can never again approach their own subject matters in their accustomed ways. Jim Beckford's long-awaited 'summa' may do all three.' Sociology of Religion'… a long-pondered distillation of major themes in the sociology of religion, expressed with clarity and logical consistency … should be mandatory reading for all sociologists seeking, in Max Weber's well-known phrase, 'to understand religion at the level of meaning'. Journal of Contemporary ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Religion: a social constructionist approach; 2. Secularisation; 3. The vagaries of religious pluralism; 4. Globalisation and religion; 5. Social theory and religious movements; 6. Constructing religion, self and society.
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Cambridge University Press Religion in Mind
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
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Cambridge University Press Schleiermacher
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer
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Cambridge University Press Emotions
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Cambridge University Press Church State and Civil Society
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Cambridge University Press The Holy Reich Nazi Conceptions of Christianity 19191945
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Cambridge University Press Religious Liberty in Transitional Societies
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Cambridge University Press Under God
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Cambridge University Press Logic and Theism
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Cambridge University Press Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society
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Cambridge University Press Religion in Republican Italy 33 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
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Cambridge University Press Saints and Symposiasts
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Cambridge University Press Saints Goddesses and Kings Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 17001900 43 Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 43
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Cambridge University Press Brainwashing
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Cambridge University Press Violated and Transcended Bodies
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Cambridge University Press Violence and Religious Change in the Pacific Islands
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Cambridge University Press The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment?Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The mortal soul: biblicism, materialism and the new science; 2. Nature and idolatry. The ambivalence of the natural from Henry Stubbe to Christian Gabriel Fischer; 3. The doctrine of the temperaments: medicine and the problem of atheism; 4. Natural law, religion and moral scepticism; 5. From Becmann to Stosch: the Socinian contexts of the concordia rationis et fidei [the harmony of reason and faith] (1692); 6. The founders of religion as human beings: Moses and Jesus between inflation and deflation; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Heretical Orthodoxy
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Cambridge University Press Angels and Monotheism
Book SynopsisWhile angels have played a decisive role in all the world''s major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically interpreted them as mere symbols and metaphors: they are said to offer glimpses not of the divine order, but of human desires, anxieties, and ideologies. Angelology has collapsed into anthropology. By contrast, this polemical book argues for the indispensable importance of studying angels as divinely created beings, for theology at large, and for understanding the defining doctrine of monotheistic religions in particular. Additionally, the book contends that the spirit of modern science did not originate with the so-called Scientific Revolution but was actually inspired centuries earlier by the angelological lucubrations of medieval scholastics.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative and Religion in the Superdiverse City
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Cambridge University Press The Revelation Spiritual Home
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Cambridge University Press Creation and the God of Abraham
Book SynopsisCreatio ex nihilo - the principle that God created the world from nothing - is a foundational doctrine in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This edited collection explores how we might recover a place for this doctrine and a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific and theological terms.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This book is an example of inter-faith dialogue at its most constructive … This collection is a magnificent achievement. It left me hoping for a thoroughgoing formulation of 'theology and science' which started from what this book lays before us. I venture that almost all we need for the renewal of that field could be found in this exceptional volume.' Church TimesTable of ContentsList of contributors; Preface David D. Burrell and Janet M. Soskice; Introduction Carlo Cogliati; 1. Creation ex nihilo: early history Ernan McMullin; 2. Creatio ex nihilo: its Jewish and Christian foundations Janet M. Soskice; 3. The act of creation with its theological consequences David D. Burrell; 4. Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo Alexander Broadie; 5. Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas Dan Davies; 6. Creation: Avicenna's metaphysical account Rahim Acar; 7. Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility question Pirooz Fatoorchi; 8. Will, necessity, and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition Ibrahim Kalim; 9. Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo Simon Oliver; 10. The big bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo William R. Stoeger; 11. What is written into creation? Simon Conway Morris; 12. Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality James R. Pambrun; 13. God and creatures acting: the idea of double agency Thomas F. Tracy; 14. Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know: the Beatific vision and learning from contingency Eugene F. Rogers.
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Cambridge University Press Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide
Book SynopsisWhen Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of fifty-one Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting white men committing violent crime to further the radical white nationalist aim to save the white race from extinction and establish a white ethnostate. From where did white nationalists get the notion of an ongoing white genocide? Why should ''resistance'' against a perceived invasion of ''white'' territory be launched by individual ''lone wolves'' massacring noncombatants they have no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a unique collection of interviews with lone wolves, their victims, and their supporters, and a close reading of lone wolf, fascist, and radical nationalist material and communication, this Element provides solid answers to these and adjacent questions of importance.Table of Contents1. The Wolves are Coming to Fight; 2. What are Lone Wolf Tactics?; 3. The History of the Lone Wolf; 4. Wolves of the North; 5. White Genocide and the Great Replacement; 6. Digital Fascism and the Gamification of the Lone Wolf; 7. Hero Quest; References.
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