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The Hidden Jesus (Hardcover): Dan R Mitchell The Hidden Jesus (Hardcover)
Dan R Mitchell
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World - Phantom Territoriality (Hardcover, New): Dejan Lukic Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World - Phantom Territoriality (Hardcover, New)
Dejan Lukic
R4,921 Discovery Miles 49 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How is hostage space constructed? In this age-long procedure found in conflicts around the world, strange forms of terror and intimacy arise, particularly in the contemporary Islamic cultures of Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This book investigates the modes of desire and politics found in kidnapping, in order to reveal the voices of victims and kidnappers that often remain closed up. Dejan Lukic explores the spaces where hostages and hostage takers come into contact - spaces of accident, sacrifice, hope, and catastrophe - or, in other words, the spaces that announce utopias bound to fail. In this book, the figures of the victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness - among others - emerge with a new face; one that will contribute to our understandings of what it means to act politically and ethically today.

From Mecca To Christ - Son of (Hardcover): Ahmed Joktan From Mecca To Christ - Son of (Hardcover)
Ahmed Joktan
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Byzantium and the Crusades (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jonathan Harris Byzantium and the Crusades (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jonathan Harris
R4,929 Discovery Miles 49 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new edition of "Byzantium and the Crusades" provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history.The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time of the Crusades. It argues that one of the main keys to Byzantine interaction with Western Europe, the Crusades and the crusader states can be found in the nature of the Byzantine Empire and the ideology which underpinned it, rather than in any generalised hostility between the peoples.Taking recent scholarship into account, this new edition includes an updated notes section and bibliography, as well as significant new additions to the text: - New material on the role of religious differences after 1100- A detailed discussion of economic, social and religious changes that took place in 12th-century Byzantine relations with the west- In-depth coverage of Byzantium and the Crusades during the 13th century- New maps, illustrations, genealogical tables and a timeline of key dates"Byzantium and the Crusades" is an important contribution to the historiography by a major scholar in the field that should be read by anyone interested in Byzantine and crusader history.

Religion and War - Exploring the Issues (Hardcover): Timothy J Demy, Gina Granados Palmer Religion and War - Exploring the Issues (Hardcover)
Timothy J Demy, Gina Granados Palmer
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war. There is a long and deep relationship between religion, politics, and war in U.S. history. While there is a constitutional and legal separation of religion and the state in American society, religion has been and remains a potent force in American culture and politics affecting many aspects of life, including perspectives on war and peace and the experience of war in U.S. history. From the American Revolution to the wars of the 21st century, religious values have informed and influenced American attitudes toward war and peace and have provided rationale for support and non-support of American participation in conflicts. An overview essay surveys the background and significance of religion in American culture and provides historical context for discussions of contemporary topics. A timeline highlights key events related to wars and conflicts. The volume then includes more than 50 topical essays that discuss specific wars as well as religious themes within culture and politics, ultimately providing a detailed overview of the intersection of religion, war, and politics in contemporary America. Features roughly 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that provide objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion and war, with an emphasis on modern society Includes entry bibliographies that direct users to specific sources with additional information Features a timeline that identifies key developments related to conflicts throughout American history Emphasizes that there is not a single or unified perspective on religion and war in the United States.

Dying for Faith - Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World (Hardcover): Madawi Al-Rasheed, Marat Shterin Dying for Faith - Religiously Motivated Violence in the Contemporary World (Hardcover)
Madawi Al-Rasheed, Marat Shterin
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From India to Iraq, from London to Lahore, the relationship between religion and violence is one of the most bitterly contested and casually misrepresented issues of our times. This groundbreaking volume brings together expert perspectives from a variety of fields to probe it. It seeks to shift analytical focus on to the contexts in which violence is expressed, enacted and reported. Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, "Dying for Faith" offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention.

Religion and Terrorism - The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism (Hardcover): Veronica Ward, Richard Sherlock Religion and Terrorism - The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism (Hardcover)
Veronica Ward, Richard Sherlock; Contributions by Gideon Aran, Donna Lee Bowen, Daniel Brown, …
R3,667 R2,582 Discovery Miles 25 820 Save R1,085 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abrahamic Monotheism provides theoretical analysis of the nature of religious terrorism and religious martyrdom and also delves deeply into terrorist groups and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious terrorism is found in all three of the great monotheistic faiths, and while the public is most aware of Islamic terrorism, Jewish and Christian faiths have extremist groups that warp their teaching -in ways unrecognizable to most adherents- to support terrorism. This work will be of interest to scholars in religious studies, political science, and sociology.

Nature's Eternal Religion (Hardcover): Ben Klassen Nature's Eternal Religion (Hardcover)
Ben Klassen
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam (Hardcover): Mohammed Jafar Amir Mahallati Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam (Hardcover)
Mohammed Jafar Amir Mahallati
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nearly four decades after a revolution, experiencing one of the longest wars in contemporary history, facing political and ideological threats by regional radicals such as ISIS and the Taliban, and having succeeded in negotiations with six world powers over her nuclear program, Iran appears as an experienced Muslim country seeking to build bridges with its Sunni neighbours as well as with the West. Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam explores the wide spectrum of theoretical approaches and practical attitudes concerning the justifications, causes and conduct of war in Iranian-Shi'i culture. By examining primary and secondary sources, and investigating longer lasting factors and questions over circumstantial ones, Mohammed Jafar Amir Mahallati seeks to understand modern Iranian responses to war and peace. His work is the first in its field to look into the ethics of war and peace in Iran and Shi'i Islam. It provides a prism through which the binary source of the Iranian national and religious identity informs Iranian response to modernity. By doing so, the author reveals that a syncretic and civilization-conscious soul in modern Iran is re-emerging.

A History of Fear - Screenplay (Hardcover): Karl Smith A History of Fear - Screenplay (Hardcover)
Karl Smith; Edited by Karl Smith
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A child's wish melds the soul of a kind-hearted simpleton to a toy BEAR. Secret for three generations the GUARDIAN wakes in time of need. Surviving the sinking of the TITANIC the BEAR passes into the hands of the JEWISH community. Aboard the rescue ship CARPATHIA it travels on...to the gas chambers of AUSCHWITZ. The BEAR brings with it...A HISTORY OF FEAR.

The Era of the Martyrs - Remembering the Great Persecution in Late Antique Egypt (Hardcover): Aaltje Hidding The Era of the Martyrs - Remembering the Great Persecution in Late Antique Egypt (Hardcover)
Aaltje Hidding
R3,759 Discovery Miles 37 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of the most traumatic experiences of Late Antique Christians was the Great Persecution, begun by Emperor Diocletian and his Tetrarchic colleagues in 303 CE. Here Aaltje Hidding unites research of traditional memory studies with work done by cognitive scientists to examine how they remembered the Persecution. The resulting methodological framework, the 'cognitive ecology', systemically studies all what can be covered by this term - social surroundings, cognitive artefacts and the physical environment - and bridges the gap between individual and collective memory. The author analyses the remembrance of the Persecution in three different regions along the Nile river. In Oxyrhynchus, the thousands of papyrus fragments found at the city's rubbish dump give a vivid image of the martyrs in the daily lives of the Oxyrhynchites. In Antinoopolis, known for the cult of the physician saint Colluthus, she zooms in on the rituals and practices at a martyr's sanctuary. Finally, in Dandara, the rich hagiographical dossier of the anchorite Paphnutius shows how old memories of the Persecution became mixed with new monastic experiences. The Bohairic and Greek Passion of Paphnutius appear in their first complete English translations.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Hardcover): John Foxe Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Hardcover)
John Foxe
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the... Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (Paperback)
Kim Ghattas
R495 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R63 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Conflict, Violent Extremism and Development - New Challenges, New Responses (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Andrew Glazzard, Sasha... Conflict, Violent Extremism and Development - New Challenges, New Responses (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire, Emily Winterbotham
R1,613 Discovery Miles 16 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts. The threat from terrorism and violent extremism has never been greater - at least in the global South where the vast majority of violent extremist attacks take place. Some of the most violent extremist groups are also parties to civil conflicts in regions such as the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. But are these groups - especially the violent Islamists which constitute the greatest current threat - qualitatively different from other conflict actors? If they are, what are the implications for development practitioners working in war zones and fragile or poverty-afflicted countries? This study aims to answer these questions through a combination of theoretical enquiry and the investigation of three case studies - Kenya, Nigeria, and Iraq/Syria. It aims to illuminate the differences between violent Islamists and other types of conflict actor, to identify the challenges these groups pose to development practice, and to propose a way forward for meeting these challenges.

Religion and Violence (Hardcover): John L. Esposito Religion and Violence (Hardcover)
John L. Esposito
R1,522 R1,320 Discovery Miles 13 200 Save R202 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (Hardcover, New): Paul Middleton Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (Hardcover, New)
Paul Middleton
R6,293 Discovery Miles 62 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Several view of martyrdom co-existed in the early Church. The orthodox position, generally accepted by scholars, was that a Christian should choose martyrdom rather than deny the Faith, but should not, on any account, court death. Although it has been recognised that some in the early Church did seek a glorified death, by giving themselves over to arrest, most scholars have dismissed such acts as differing from the accepted attitude to martyrdom in the early Church. Therefore, instances of volitional, or radical martyrdom, have been largely overlooked or sidelined in scholarly investigations into the theology and origins of Christian martyrdom. Paul Middleton argues that, far from being a deviant strand of early Christianity, radical martyrdom was a significant, and widely held idealised form of devotion in the late first to early third centuries. Christian martyrdom is placed within the heritage of Jewish War tradition, with each martyr making an important contribution to the cosmic conflict between Satan and God. Radical Martyrdom re-examines the presentation, theology, and origins of Christian martyrdom up to the beginning of the Decian persecutions in the light of new perspectives on the subject.

Out From The Shadow Of Men (Hardcover): Laila El-Sissi Out From The Shadow Of Men (Hardcover)
Laila El-Sissi
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
What Would Bonhoeffer Say? (Hardcover): Al Staggs What Would Bonhoeffer Say? (Hardcover)
Al Staggs
R959 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Religion and Space - Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World (Hardcover): Lily Kong, Orlando Woods Religion and Space - Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World (Hardcover)
Lily Kong, Orlando Woods
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and violence in the contemporary world. Lily Kong and Orlando Woods argue that because space is both a medium and an outcome of religious activity, it is integral to understanding processes of religious competition, conflict and violence. The book explores how religious groups make claims to both religious and secular spaces, and examines how such claims are managed, negotiated and contested by the state and by other secular and religious agencies. It also examines how globalisation has given rise to new forms of religious competition, and how religious groups strengthen themselves through the development of social resilience, as well as contribute to resilient societies. Throughout the book, case studies from around the world are used to examine how religious competition and conflict intersect with space. The case studies include topical issues such as competing claims to the Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif in Jerusalem, opposition to the "Ground Zero mosque" in New York City, and the regulation of religious conversion in India and Sri Lanka. By helping readers develop new perspectives on how religion works in and through space, Religion and Space: Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World is an innovative contribution to the study of religion.

Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia - An Interdisciplinary Study of Norse-Saami Relations in the Medieval Period (Hardcover):... Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia - An Interdisciplinary Study of Norse-Saami Relations in the Medieval Period (Hardcover)
Solveig Marie Wang
R2,969 Discovery Miles 29 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. The investigative analysis is anchored in postcolonial methodologies and argues for the inherent need to decolonise the medieval source-material as well as recent historiography. This is achieved by presenting the historiographic and political background of research into Norse-Saami relations, before introducing an overview of textual sources discussing Saami peoples from the classical period to the late 1400s, an analysis of the textual motifs associated with the Saami in medieval literature (their relevance and prevalence), geo-political affairs, trading relations, personal relations and Saami presence in the south. By using decolonising tools to read Norse-Saami relations in medieval texts, influenced by archaeological material and postcolonial frameworks, the study challenges lingering colonial assumptions about the role of the Saami in Norse society. The current research episteme is re-adjusted to offer alternative readings of Saami characters and emphasis is put on agency, fluidity and the dynamic realities of the Saami medieval pasts.

Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective - Catholics, Protestants and Muslims (Hardcover): John Wolffe Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective - Catholics, Protestants and Muslims (Hardcover)
John Wolffe
R2,179 R1,991 Discovery Miles 19 910 Save R188 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to widely held views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western European and North Atlantic worlds.

Extremism in the Digital Era - The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Adib... Extremism in the Digital Era - The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Adib Abdulmajid
R3,380 Discovery Miles 33 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups. It provides new insights into the ideological mechanisms utilized by such organizations to incite sectarian conflicts and recruit local and foreign guardians to their alleged cause. This book examines diverse aspects and dimensions of the discourses of Sunni-based ISIS and Shia-based al-Hashd al-Shaabi and explores manipulative and ideological discursive strategies utilized by media outlets associated with these groups. It delves into linguistic and contextual activities, implicit and explicit messages within the discourses of various media outlets operating in the heart of the Middle East. It also scrutinizes and explains aspects of politicization, religionization and sectarianization within the media discourse of terrorist groups in the digital era.

Experiencing the Beyond - Intercultural Approaches (Hardcover): Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta Experiencing the Beyond - Intercultural Approaches (Hardcover)
Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
R3,107 Discovery Miles 31 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives - Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies... Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives - Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies (Hardcover)
Bettina Koch
R3,859 Discovery Miles 38 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. It examines the ways in which Christianity and Islam are utilized for political ends, in particular how violence is used (or abused) as an expedient to justify political action. This research focuses on premodern as well as contemporary discourses in the Middle East and Latin America, identifying patterns frequently used to justify the deployment of violence in both hegemonic and anti-hegemonic discourses. In addition, it explores how premodern arguments and authorities are utilized and transformed in order to legitimize contemporary violence as well as the ways in which the use of religion as a means to justify violence alters the nature of conflicts that are not otherwise explicitly religious. It argues that most past and present conflicts, even if the discourses about them are conducted in religious terms, have origins other than religion and/or blend religion with other causes, namely socio-economic and political injustice and inequality. Understanding the use and abuse of religion to justify violence is a prerequisite to discerning the nature of a conflict and might thus contribute to conflict resolution.

Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Hardcover): Jimmy Yu Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)
Jimmy Yu
R2,035 Discovery Miles 20 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and self-immolation, arguing that each practice was public, scripted, and a signal of certain cultural expectations. Yu shows how individuals engaged in acts of self-inflicted violence to exercise power and to affect society, by articulating moral values, reinstituting order, forging new social relations, and protecting against the threat of moral ambiguity. Self-inflicted violence was intelligible both to the person doing the act and to those who viewed and interpreted it, regardless of the various religions of the period: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and other religions. Self-inflicted violence as a category reveals scholarly biases that tend to marginalize or exaggerate certain phenomena in Chinese culture. Yu offers a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship on bodily practices in late imperial China, challenging preconceived ideas about analytic categories of religion, culture, and ritual in the study of Chinese religions.

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