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The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept th...
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The Reign of the Vedic Gods
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Home to one of the ancient civilizations of the world, India is also the birthplace of numerous gods worshipped by millions of Hindus living in I...
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Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects...
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The Beta Israel: Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.-Foreign AffairsKap...
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The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa...
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest...
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of ...
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The Crusades: An Epitome
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthes...
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Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hatina (Middle Eastern history, Tel Aviv U., Israel) traces the history of the Palestinian Jihad movement from its origins in 1981, in Gaza up to...
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Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval culture that has been largely ignored by modern li...
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Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is g...
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Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evang...
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The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible ...
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History of Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, a...
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The world's leading Islamicist offers a concise introduction to this rich and diverse tradition of 1.2 billion adherents. In this informative an...
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book reveals how, for well over a millennium and across three continents - Asia, Africa, and Europe - non-Muslims who were vanquished by jih...
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcu...
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In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In just over a hundred years—from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet ...
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Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original t...
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The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In 1880 the Jewish community in Palestine encompassed some 20,000 Orthodox Jews; within sixty-five years it was transformed into a secular proto...
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The Friend
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by two men,...
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The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sac...
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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the socie...
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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great Fren...
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