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THE SACRED IN THE MODERN WORLD
A Cultural Sociological ApproachGORDON LYNCH
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You Save: 42%It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralised one. Sacred forms -- whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise -- continue to shape social life in the modern wo... Learn More -
POWER PLACES OF KATHMANDU
Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of NepalKEVIN BUBRISKI and KEITH DOWMAN
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You Save: 76%In the environs of Kathmandu, the ancient traditions of goddess worship, animism and shamanism have for centuries co-existed with the high cultures of Buddhism and Hinduism, both orthodox and tantric,... Learn More -
THE HEART OF REALITY
Essays on Beauty, Love and EthicsV S SOLOVIEV
Edited By :VLADIMIR WOZNIUK
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You Save: 75%Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900), social and literary critic, theologian and poet, is considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers. This volume makes many of his writings accessible for the first t... Learn More -
PAUL’S LETTER COLLECTION
Tracing the OriginsDAVID TROBISCH
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You Save: 55%Trobisch’s thesis is that Paul himself initiated the collection of his epistles by creating a literary unit consisting of Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Galatians. The current form of the ... Learn More -
MONASTIC BODIES
Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of AtripeCAROLINE SCHROEDER
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You Save: 76%Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465. Shenoute’s letters, sermons and treatises ... Learn More -
PILGRIMAGE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN JORDAN
A Literary and Archaeological GuideBURTON MACDONALD
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You Save: 81%This volume focuses on early Christian pilgrimage in Jordan, the region east of the Jordan River which has so far been little explored by visitors to the Holy Land. Yet many biblical events are said t... Learn More -
THE BED OF PROCRUSTES
Philosophical and Practical AphorismsNASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
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You Save: 43%An investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. Its title is from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his ... Learn More -
REVERENCE
Renewing a Forgotten VirtuePAUL WOODRUFF
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Drawing on thinking in Greek and Chinese traditions, Woodruff argues that reverence is a virtue that begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whate... Learn More -
ARCHBISHOP RAMSEY
The Shape of the ChurchPETER WEBSTER
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You Save: 54%Michael Ramsey’s archiepiscopate from 1961 to 1974 saw profound renegotiations of the relationship of the Church of England with its own flock, with the nation more widely, with the Anglican church ... Learn More -
THE HIDDEN GOD
A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of RacineLUCIEN GOLDMANN
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You Save: 51%This landmark text, first published in 1964, fleshes out the similarities between Pascal’s Pensées and Kant’s critical philosophy, contrasting them with the rationalism of Descartes and th... Learn More
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