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Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 - A Source Reader (Paperback): J urgen Matth aus Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 - A Source Reader (Paperback)
J urgen Matth aus; As told to Emil Kerenji
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Many available for the first time in English translation, these letters, reports, and testimonies, as well as photographs and other visual documents, provide an array of first-hand contemporaneous accounts by victims. With its focus on highlighting the diversity of Jewish experiences, perceptions and actions, the book calls into question prevailing perceptions of Jews as a homogenous, faceless, or passive group and helps complicate students' understanding of the Holocaust. While no source reader can comprehensively cover this vast subject, this volume addresses key aspects of victim experiences in terms of gender, age, location, chronology, and social and political background. Selected from vast archival collections by a team of expert scholars, this book provides a wealth of material for discussion, reflection, and further study on issues of mass atrocities in their historical and current manifestations. The book's cover photograph depicts the 1942 wedding of Salomon Schrijver and Flora Mendels in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Salomon and Flora Schrijver were deported via Westerbork to Sobibor where they were murdered on July 9, 1943. USHMMPA (courtesy of Samuel Schryver).

Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 - A Source Reader (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): J urgen Matth aus Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 - A Source Reader (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
J urgen Matth aus; As told to Emil Kerenji
R2,141 Discovery Miles 21 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully curated selection of primary sources together with basic background information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the Holocaust. Many available for the first time in English translation, these letters, reports, and testimonies, as well as photographs and other visual documents, provide an array of first-hand contemporaneous accounts by victims. With its focus on highlighting the diversity of Jewish experiences, perceptions and actions, the book calls into question prevailing perceptions of Jews as a homogenous, faceless, or passive group and helps complicate students' understanding of the Holocaust. While no source reader can comprehensively cover this vast subject, this volume addresses key aspects of victim experiences in terms of gender, age, location, chronology, and social and political background. Selected from vast archival collections by a team of expert scholars, this book provides a wealth of material for discussion, reflection, and further study on issues of mass atrocities in their historical and current manifestations. The book's cover photograph depicts the 1942 wedding of Salomon Schrijver and Flora Mendels in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Salomon and Flora Schrijver were deported via Westerbork to Sobibor where they were murdered on July 9, 1943. USHMMPA (courtesy of Samuel Schryver).

Saving My Assassin (Paperback): Virginia Prodan Saving My Assassin (Paperback)
Virginia Prodan
R465 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom of Religion at Stake (Hardcover): Dion A. Forster, Elisabeth Gerle, Goeran Gunner Freedom of Religion at Stake (Hardcover)
Dion A. Forster, Elisabeth Gerle, Goeran Gunner
R1,584 R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Save R286 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conflicts in Interreligious Education - Exploring Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Martina Kraml, Zekirija Sejdini, Nicole... Conflicts in Interreligious Education - Exploring Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Martina Kraml, Zekirija Sejdini, Nicole Bauer, Jonas Kolb
R1,960 Discovery Miles 19 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whenever people from different cultural and religious backgrounds converge, it produces tension and ambivalence. This study delves into conflicts in interreligious educational processes in both theory and practice, presenting the results of empirical research conducted at schools and universities and formulating ground-breaking practical perspectives for interreligious collaboration in various religious-pedagogical settings.

Healing in the Homeland - Haitian Vodou Tradition (Paperback): Margaret Mitchell Armand Healing in the Homeland - Haitian Vodou Tradition (Paperback)
Margaret Mitchell Armand
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haitian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haiti's post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haitian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a sociocultural, national educational program, and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect. While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haiti.

Yezidis in Syria - Identity Building among a Double Minority (Hardcover): Sebastian Maisel Yezidis in Syria - Identity Building among a Double Minority (Hardcover)
Sebastian Maisel
R2,532 Discovery Miles 25 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria's minority context. This little known group is connected to the community's main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of Syria's colonial, national, and revolutionary history. Always on the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, the two sub-groups located in the Kurdagh and the Jezira experience a period of sociological and theological renewal in their quest for a recognized and protected status in the new Syria. In this book, Sebastian Maisel transmits and analyzes the Yezidi perspective on Syria's policies towards ethnic and religious minorities.

The Elijah Mandate (Hardcover): Lisa Worthey Smith The Elijah Mandate (Hardcover)
Lisa Worthey Smith
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
Unholy Land - In Search of Hope in Israel/Palestine (Paperback): Witt Raczka Unholy Land - In Search of Hope in Israel/Palestine (Paperback)
Witt Raczka
R1,362 Discovery Miles 13 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land. Here, religion uneasily confronts politics and democracy, sublime nature undergoes militarization, and hospitality and empathy mix with brutality, hatred and violence. Everything becomes security: not just borders and relations with the neighbors, but also water and archaeological evidence, demography and voting Arabs. Control of holy sites, perception of illegal immigrants, separate highway networks and built-up hilltops are all viewed through the prism of threat and security. Threats proliferate, be they real or imaginary, spontaneous or politically-driven. Whether in Jerusalem, the "city of the world", or in small towns, tensions are palpable between Israel's radical Jews and its Arab residents. Even within the Jewish community itself, increasingly nationalistic, animosities between ultra-Orthodox and more secular inhabitants are on the rise. Christians also feel under attack, as do moderate Palestinians from their Islamized brethren. In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villagers confront radical settlers, often protected by Israeli soldiers, while in the isolated Gaza, Hamas imposes ever stricter rules upon its people. Not surprisingly, the Holy Land has become aplenty with both mental and physical barriers, with walls, checkpoints, no-go and firing zones. Will rage and fear, sorrow and despair eventually trump hope? Although glimmers of hope exist-new water technology, Tel Aviv's culture of tolerance, more pressures from the international community-the author remains more pessimistic than ever, as reflected in the book's title.

Embracing Epistemic Humility - Confronting Triumphalism in Three Abrahamic Religions (Hardcover): Donald Borchert Embracing Epistemic Humility - Confronting Triumphalism in Three Abrahamic Religions (Hardcover)
Donald Borchert
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Embracing Epistemic Humility: Confronting Triumphalism in Three Abrahamic Religions builds a case that encourages advocates of world views, especially the children of Abraham Jews, Christians and Muslims to embrace an attitude of epistemic humility toward their world views and thereby defeat the triumphalism which, on the contemporary scene, has infected the world views of all too many in the Abrahamic tradition. Triumphalists see their world view as the ultimate repository of spiritual truth: all other world views are inferior and their adherents need to be converted forcefully, or silenced, or destroyed to prevent their cancerous views from metastasizing.Embracing such epistemic humility is not only the antidote to triumphalism but it is also a powerful motivator to transform world view competitors into comrades engaged in a struggle to combat evil and to promote human flourishing."

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.

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 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.

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.

Contesting the Crusades (Hardcover, large type edition): N. Housley Contesting the Crusades (Hardcover, large type edition)
N. Housley
R3,271 Discovery Miles 32 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book Norman Housley, one of the most distinguished historians of the medieval period, provides an introduction to the complex history of crusading.


Steers readers through the key debates in this popular area of medieval history.
Draws on the author's 30 years' experience of crusading scholarship.
Issues addressed range from the definition of 'crusade', through the motivation and intentions of the crusaders, to the consequences of the crusades for European society

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.

Healing in the Homeland - Haitian Vodou Tradition (Hardcover, New): Margaret Mitchell Armand Healing in the Homeland - Haitian Vodou Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Margaret Mitchell Armand
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haitian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haiti's post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the socio-cultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haitian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a socio-cultural, national educational program and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect.While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haiti.

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
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.

The Rondine Method - A Relational Approach to Conflict (Paperback): Charles Hauss, Franco Vaccari, Miguel H. Diaz The Rondine Method - A Relational Approach to Conflict (Paperback)
Charles Hauss, Franco Vaccari, Miguel H. Diaz
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book describes Rondine Cittadella della Pace and its unique residential peacebuilding program that works with young activists from some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. Set in its own Tuscan village, Rondine invites students to its two-year long residential program that provides them with a master's degree, trauma healing, and training in peacebuilding. While at Rondine, students work in pairs representing "both sides" of a conflict and prepare projects that they will put into place when they return home. Half of the book is devoted to an in-depth description of the Rondine method by its founder, Franco Vaccari, while the remainder consists of essays by Italian and American experts, including the two editors, providing the religious, psychological, and political context for this innovative psycho-social method of conflict resolution.

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