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This collection of essays deals with anthropological rather than theological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions from the archaic period to Late Antiquity. Part one focuses on "Confession and Conversion", part two on "Guilt, Sin and Rituals of Purification".
€217.00$281.00
This volume is the most wide-ranging religio-historical study on (de)canonization ever published. It contains significant contributions to the study of canonization in different religions in ancient times as well as in modern societies. An Annotated Bibliography adds greatly to its value.
€93.00$120.00
What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the academic study of religion. The volume includes a critical introductory essay by the editors and a selected bibliography.
€145.00$188.00
This volume deals with the emergence of a scientific discourse on religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and North America. This process is examined in a broad academic context, among different disciplines, in terms of socio-historical developments.
€168.00$218.00
This book proposes a novel approach to the analysis of ritual action.
Founded upon an in-depth study of the transvestism naven ceremony of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, it focuses on the relational and interactive forms entailed by ritual performance.
€194.00$251.00
These papers were delivered at the first international colloquium of the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center at Bar Ilan University. They investigate concepts of Self, Soul and Body across the religious traditions of the Mediterranean world, as well as in Africa and Asia.
€194.00$251.00
This collection on messianic expectations from biblical times to the present represents a fresh re-evaluation of a variety of religious, political and cultural phenomena. The focus is on Judaism, but aspects of messianism in Graeco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic worlds alongside modern political ...
€119.00$154.00
This publication deals with contemporary Islamic sects such as the Alevis, Druzes, Alawis, Ahl-i Haqq, and Shabak, discussing various aspects of their beliefs and rituals, modes of recent religious and social transformations, and their involvement in national and ethnic politics.
€119.00$154.00
This contextual study of narrative reliefs depicting Hindu epics and puranas on specific South Indian Hoysaḷa temples provides a detailed exposition of narrative episodes paired with photographs, illustrating and reviewing the stories and exploring techniques of Indian visual narrative.