The Crisis of the Holy: Challenges and Transformations in World Religions 9781498503433, 9781498503440, 2014030909

Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions 9780231879781

A collection of four Bampton Lectures given in the fall of 1961in the Low Memorial Library of Columbia University on dec

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Mystery Religions in the Ancient World

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Great Religions of the Modern World 9781400877638

Here is the answer to the desire of many thoughtful laymen for an intelligent appraisal of the great contemporary faiths

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Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World 1439913129, 9781439913123

Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of comba

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The Primitive World and its Transformations

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The Iranian Diaspora: Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations 9781477316665

The Iranian revolution of 1978–1979 uprooted and globally dispersed an enormous number of Iranians from all walks of lif

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Kinship and Killing: The Animal in World Religions 9780231519601

Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relation

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The Holy People of God: Identity, Contexts, Challenges 1666772712, 9781666772715

This collection of essays addresses aspects of Christian identity formation as God’s holy people in a global context in

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Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) 9004116761, 9789004116764

This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient wo

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Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain 9781501715464

Among the works—obscure and canonical—he analyzes are Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni and A Strange Story; Forest Life in

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