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LITURGICAL SPACE
Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe, 1500-2000NIGEL YATES
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You Save: 61%This is the first comprehensive account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how they have met the liturgical needs of their respective deno... Learn More -
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 -
AFTERLIFE
A History of Life After DeathPHILIP C ALMOND
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You Save: 50%The author takes his readers on a journey to worlds both of torment and delight. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only... 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 -
ATHOS
The Holy MountainSYDNEY LOCH
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You Save: 46%A rugged pyramid rising up from the Aegean Sea, Athos is wreathed in myth and ancient traditions largely hidden from view. Its heart started to beat at the dawn of Christianity and its community lays ... 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 -
RESURRECTING JESUS
Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary MysticADYASHANTI
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You Save: 46%A Buddhist with huge empathy for Jesus and Christianity invites us to rediscover the life and teachings of Jesus as a direct path to what may be the most radical of transformations: spiritual awakenin... Learn More
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