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  • Diversity, Fear and Religions

    Cultural Accommodation in a Globalized World

    Edited by Gennaro Gervasio, Maria Chiara Giorda, Paola Perucchini ...
    Series series Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Religion, Law and Economics in the Mediterranean Space
    This book investigates ways ‘the Other’ can be both a cause of and an answer to religious and cultural fears. The multi-layered question of cultural and religious diversity has received some attention recently both in academic and policy circles. The authors of this work address this issue by focusing on fears and phobias, and the ways they are historically and sociologically produced and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Geographies of Encounter

    The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces

    Edited by Marian Burchardt, Maria Chiara Giorda ...
    This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between different religious groups and traditions, the authors conceptualize three types of spatial arrangements and explore how they ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Without Roots

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  • The Roots of Civilisation

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    PRISON WRITINGS - THE ROOTS OF CIVILISATION Abdullah Ocalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping and arrest in Nairobi in 1999. He has been in Prison ever since. He is the founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the Southeast of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, ... Read more

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  • Nationalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Grosby ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

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  • Jews and the Mediterranean

    by Matthias B. Lehmann, Jessica M. Marglin ...
    A selection of essays examining the significance of what Jewish history and Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowledge of the other.Jews and the Mediterranean considers the historical potency and uniqueness of what happens when Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi Jews meet in the Mediterranean region. By focusing on the specificity of the Jewish experience, the essays gathered in this volume ... Read more

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  • The Oil Has Not Run Dry

    The Story of My Theological Pathway

    by Gregory Baum ...
    Series Book 23 - Footprints Series
    Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic Church’s message.Baum reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Roman Empire in Context

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub ...
    Series series Ancient World: Comparative Histories
    Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies.Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievementFeatures ... Read more

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  • Early Orientalism

    Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

    by Ivan Kalmar ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
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  • Before and After Muhammad

    The First Millennium Refocused

    by Garth Fowden ...
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  • Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

    Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Elazar Barkan, Karen Barkey ...
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    This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not ... Read more

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