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Religion : What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters.

Christian Smith.

Hardback, 296 pages, 15 halftones. 2017

Robert N. Bellah.

Paperback, 784 pages, 235 x 162 mm. 2017

Islamic Theology. Traditionalism and Rationalism. Paperback.

Binyamin Abrahamov. 192 pages. 1998. The principal theological struggle in Islam has taken place between traditionalist and rationalist theologians. Assessing material from the 3rd/9th century to the 10th/16th century, this book focuses on the foundations of both theologies.

by Alan Barnard. 255 pages, 12 figures, 9 tables, index, bibliography. 2000

Buddhism without Beliefs.

by Catherine Bell. xv, 351 pages.

Anthropology of Religion: The Basics.

By: Bielo, James S.

Pb., 192 pages, 2 black & white tables, 198 x 129 mm.

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams

Paperback, xvii, 336 pages. 4th edition 2016

Religions in Practice: An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion. Paperback

by Jack R. Bowen. xvi, 269 pages. 4th edition, 2007

xi, 332 pages, 16 illustrations. 2000, revised 2006

Guide to the Study of Religion. Paperback

edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon

Science and Religion : Some Historical Perspectives.

Hedley Brooke, John

pb., 576 pages, 43 b/w illus. 216 x 138 mm.

Global South Asians. Introducing the modern Diaspora. Paperback

Judith M. Brown

214 pages. 10 halftones, 6 maps. 2006. By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora.

History and Social Theory. 2nd edition

Peter Burke 2005. Paperback, 198 pages, bibliography, index

Offers a reappraisal of the relations between history and the social sciences.

by Walter Burkert. ix, 181 pages, 12 illustrations, index of Greek terms, general index. 1989. The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology. Concentrating on five major cults. In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.

Christian Materiality : An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

Bynum, Caroline Walker

Pb. 440 pages, 50 b&w illus., 227 x 155 mm.

William T. Cavanaugh 2009

Hardback, 296 pages, 234 x 156 mm

The Penguin History of the Church 1. The Early Church

Henry Chadwick. Revised edition 1993

Paperback, 320 pages, 20x13 cm.

This first volume of the Penguin history of the church looks at the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD and at the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world.

Christianity: A Global History. Paperback. 13x20cm

by David Chidester

xii, 6289 pages. 2001

Beverley Clack, Brian R. Clack. 244 pages. 2nd Edition 2008

Peter Clarke. 2006. Clarke’s in-depth account explores the innovative character of new religious movements and new forms of spirituality from a global vantage point.

by Chas S. Clifton

387 pages, many figures, 15 halftones, index. 2004. A selection of primary sources in Paganism, ranging from its ancient beginnings to its 20th century reconstruction and revival

Religion and the Body. Paperback

edited by Sarah Coakley

330 pages, 12 half-tones. 2000. This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the ‘body’, and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it.

Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom. Paperback. By Norman Cohn

274 pages, with 8 photos. 2nd, revised, edition. 2005. Traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins, and shows how the great witch-hunt erupted, when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive in the 16th and 17th centuries.

by Eric Csapo

xiii, 338 pages, with 11 illustrations. 2005. Eric Csapo introduces the major theories of myth from the 19th century to the present day. He covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories, structuralism and ideological analysis. He also supplies readers with the theoretical tools for imitating each method.

Philip R. Davies and John  Rogerson

Paperback, x, 250 pages, 30 illustrations. 2nd edition 2005

Vorwort von Adrian Schenker. Erstmals hrsg. v. Rudolf Kittel u. a. Neu hrsg. v. Karl Elliger, Wilhelm Rudolph u. a.. lxix, 1574 Seiten. 5. verbesserte Auflage. 1997

Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Paperback

by Mary Douglas

272 pages. 2002. Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge.

by Jack David Eller. xv, 231 pages. 2007

by E.E. Evans-Pritchard, abridged with an introduction by Eva Gillies

xxiii, 265 pages. 1976

Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza : Reason, Religion, and Autonomy.

Fraenkel, Carlos

Pb., 358 pages, black & white illustrations, 229 x 152 mm. 2014

Inger Furseth and Pal Repstad. 272 pages. 2006

Lexikon der Sekten, Sondergruppen und Weltanschauungen. Fakten, Hintergründe, Klärungen. Kartoniert

Hans Gasper, Joachim Müller, Friederike Valentin

viii, 1256 Seiten, durchgesehen und überarbeitete Auflage 2001

Islam Observed. Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. Paperback

by Clifford Geertz. 144 pages. 1971

The Interpretation of Cultures. Paperback

by Clifford Geertz. ix, 470 pages. 1977

Understanding Christianity : Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places.

By:Hale, Rosemary Drage

Hardback, 112 pages, 20 col.ill., 197 x 130 mm. 2004

Malcolm Hamilton 

320 pages. 2001. This expanded second edition combines a discussion of the main theorists with a wide range of material illustrating the diversity of religious beliefs and practices.

Olav Hammer & Rothstein (eds.) 2012

Paperback, 341 pages, 228 x 152 mm

Harding, John S.; Rodrigues, Hillary Peter

Pb., 192 pages, 246 x 174 mm.

An Introduction to Buddhism. Teachings, History and Practices.

P. Harvey.

Paperback, 547 pages, 17 b/w illus. 2 maps 11 tables, 228 x 152 mm.

Second edition,

World History of Christianity. Paperback

by Adrian Hastings

xiv, 594 pages. 2000

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire.

Judith Herring 2008

Paperback, 416 pages, 24pp colour inset, 198 x 129 mm

by Alfred J. Hoerth, Gerald L. Mattingly,  Edwin M. Yamauchi. 1998

Religion and Cyberspace. Paperback

edited by Morten Hojsgaard and Margit Warburg

x, 207 pages. 2007. In the twenty-first century, religious life is increasingly moving from churches, mosques and temples onto the Internet.