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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by Joel Robbins, Simon Coleman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • Christian Temporalities

    Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed

    Edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Simon Coleman, Matt Tomlinson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Powers of Pilgrimage

    Religion in a World of Movement

    by Simon Coleman ...
    **Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of ReligionA groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage**Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa

    Remaking the City

    Edited by Dr David Garbin, Simon Coleman, Gareth Millington ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Religion in Cathedrals

    Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman ...
    This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices. Contributors from history, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies trace major continuities and shifts in the location of cathedrals within religious, civic, urban, and economic landscapes of pre- and post-Reformation Christianity.While much of the focus is on England, other European ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Different Repetitions

    Anthropological Engagements with Figures of Return, Recurrence and Redundancy

    Edited by Andreas Bandak, Simon Coleman ...
    This book takes the concept of repetition beyond older anthropological debates over habit, structure, or cultural continuity and demonstrates its value in attempts to comprehend the temporal, spatial and ideological fields in which contemporary social scientists must operate.Repetition has an ambiguous value in human societies. It may contribute to desired social and cultural reproduction or, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Tourism

    Between Place and Performance

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Mike Crang ...
    Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Tourism

    Between Place and Performance

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Mike Crang ...
    Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Pocket Guide to Bad Boyfriends

    How to Identify 40 Types of Boys Gone Wrong

    by Ruby Turner ...
    A Fun Gift Book for Anyone Who’s Totally Over Modern Dating Culture!“Filled with witty illustrations, interactive checklists, and quizzes that will delight anyone who's been spurned by the modern dating scene . . . Get it for your friend who's deleted and re-downloaded Tinder more times than you can count, your unlucky-in-love work wife, or yourself. Then spend February 14 laughing about it with a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pilgrimage and Political Economy

    Translating the Sacred

    Edited by Simon Coleman, John Eade ...
    Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Pilgrimage and Political Economy

    Translating the Sacred

    Edited by John Eade, Simon Coleman ...
    Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Religion, Identity and Change

    Perspectives on Global Transformations

    Edited by Peter Collins, Simon Coleman ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
    Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New Age. Religion has long been regarded by social scientists and psychologists as a key source of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD