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  • Religions, Mumbai Style

    Events-Media-Spaces

    Edited by Prof Michael Stausberg ...
    Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on various aspects of urban history and realities, this volume is the first international academic publication focusing on religion(s) ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • 21st Century Theories of Religion

    Edited by Michael Stausberg ...
    What is religion and how does it originate? What are its functions and how does it work? These are some of the key questions addressed by theories of religion. Far from being a past concern, a series of new answers have been proposed since the beginning of our present millennium by evolutionary biologists and psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and scholars of religion.In 21st Century ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion

    Edited by Steven Engler, Michael Stausberg ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
    This substantially revised second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion remains the only comprehensive survey in English of methods and methodology in the discipline. Designed for non-specialists and upper undergraduate-/graduate-level students, it discusses the range of methods currently available to stimulate interest in unfamiliar methods and enable ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Defining Magic

    A Reader

    by Bernd-Christian Otto, Michael Stausberg ...
    Series series Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

    Edited by Michael Stausberg, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religionsEvenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding with the intersections of Zoroastrianism and other religionsReflects the global nature of Zoroastrian studies with contributions from 34 international authorities from 10 ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion

    Edited by Michael Stausberg, Steven Engler ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Religion and Tourism

    Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters

    by Michael Stausberg ...
    This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as:do travellers leave their religion at home when they are touring – and what happens if not?what are the relationships between tourism and pilgrimage?what happens to religious performances, places and festivals that function as tourism attractions?Other chapters examine ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Contemporary Theories of Religion

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by Michael Stausberg ...
    Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality.Michael ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Eternal Egypt

    Ancient Rituals for the Modern World

    by Richard J. Reidy ...
    Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World is the first comprehensive collection of important temple rituals performed throughout Egypt during the time of the pharaohs. The author presents seven key rites from official temple records and ancient esoteric texts for personal or group use.This guidebook also:- presents rituals in a form designed to assist initiates in restoring the ancient ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • God

    A Human History

    by Reza Aslan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Zealot examines humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this “timely, riveting, enlightening, and necessary” (HuffPost) history of our understanding of God.“A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with . ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts

    The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt

    by Jeremy Naydler ...
    A radical reinterpretation of the Pyramid Texts as shamanic mystical wisdom rather than funerary rituals• Reveals the mystical nature of Egyptian civilization denied by orthodox Egyptologists• Examines the similarity between the pharaoh’s afterlife voyage and shamanic journeying• Shows shamanism to be the foundation of the Egyptian mystical traditionTo the Greek philosophers and other peoples of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Egyptian Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Geraldine Pinch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The complex world of Egyptian myth is clearly illuminated in this fascinating new approach to ancient Egypt. Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden statue, to a story on papyrus of the gods misbehaving. What did they mean, and how have they been interpreted? The reader is taken ... Read more

    $7.99 USD