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Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an
introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully
selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to
form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam's rise and
evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining
historical and chronological approaches, the book examines
intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the
extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social
and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional
practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday
existence. Islam in Historical Perspective is designed to help
readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it
to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a
wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources
that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable
way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated
text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter
summaries.
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing
prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a
central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern
technologies - such as organ transplants, stem-cell research,
nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics - have changed how we
think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays
by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a
number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including
pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism,
cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of
case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants,
racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders,
religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise
these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores
various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a
body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on
empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine,
gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the
debate over the globalization of the body: how have military
technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this
contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook's
clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in
the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical
sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies,
social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to
consolidate the new field of body studies.
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Sermons
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Thomas Treadwell Stone
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Thomas Treadwell Stone
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Uniting Thomas Lawson's essays on the cognitive science of
religion, this volume explores theoretical issues in the study of
cultural phenomena such as religion, the role of imagination, and
the experiments that emerge from these theories. The book begins
with Lawson's influential essay “Towards a Cognitive Science of
Religion,” which was the first to employ the phrase, and has
since become widely adopted in many different disciplines. It
signals to scholars in the humanities that the cognitive revolution
has finally reached them and serves to introduce them to the world
of science. The rest of the book focuses on theoretical issues in
the study of cultural phenomena and describes experiments by
scholars working on the connections between cognition and culture.
Described as "the grandfather of the cognitive science of
religion," Lawson offers a unique perspective on the development of
the field and the principles that underlie it, which will be
relevant to both newcomers and established scholars.
This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History
spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps, starting
with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia
and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first century.
It presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials
and tribulations which have haunted the Jewish story, as well as
Jewish achievements. The themes covered include: Prejudice and
Violence – from the destruction of Jewish independence between
722 and 586 BC to the flight from German persecution in the 1930s.
Also covers the incidence of anti-Semitic attacks in the Americas
and Europe. Migrations and Movements – from ancient dispersals
from the promised land, to new maps on the ingathering of exiles
from Arab and Muslim lands from 1948, and from the break-up of the
Soviet Union in 1992. Society, Trade and Culture – from Jewish
trade routes between 800 and 900, the geography of the Jews of
China, of India, to communal life in the ghettoes and the situation
of world Jewry in the opening years of the twenty-first century.
Politics, Government and War – from the Court Jews of the
fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of
Israel. This new edition now includes an additional 39 of Martin
Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history,
originally published across a range of publications, now gathered
in this one volume for the first time. Over 50 years on from its
first publication, this book is still an indispensable guide to
Jewish history.
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