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Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight Of Three Thousand Years
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish O...
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Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites, Foreword by Judge Abby Abinanti
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Responding to Vine Deloria, Jr.'s call for all people to "become involved" in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd's Land Is...
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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Dep...
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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The first major book on the new Iranian revolutionOn Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birt...
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Lies with a Straight Face: Exposing the Cranks and Cons Inside the 'Ex-Gay' Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Lies with a Straight Face tells the fascinating story of the precipitous rise and fall of the "ex-gay" conversion industry in a manner that is both...
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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Newly updated, an accessible chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History bo...
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Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /On Israel's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced examination of the country's past, present, and future, from the two-time National Jewish Boo...
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Hezbollahland: Mapping Dahiya and Lebanon's Shia Community
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In this Policy Focus, richly illustrated with local maps, former Lebanese journalist Hanin Ghaddar reveals the widening gaps between the country's ...
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The Damascus Seat of Power: Syria's Heads of State, 1918-1946
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /While recent scholarship has focused on wartime Syria, this book is dedicated to heads of state in the immediate post-Ottoman era until the end of ...
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Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya's...
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The Kings of Buddhism: Power, Religion, and Fury in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The Kings of Buddhism explores the consequences of state regulation and protection of a country's majority religion. Sterken argues that religious ...
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Kim Il Sung's Children
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Historical records of the diaspora of North Korean war orphans to Eastern Europe in the 1950sIt's a mostly forgotten slice of Cold War history, but...
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Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and '70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverb...
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Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Friendship--particularly interreligious friendship--offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how...
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The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy--A Retelling for Our Times
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /5,000 years of history--from the Bhagavad Gitā to Bollywood--fill this masterful portrait of the world's most populous nation and a rising global p...
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Religion, State, and Political Culture in Japan: Implications for the Post-Secular World
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Japan had developed a secular civilization long before going through its modern period, characterized by the officially-sanctioned unification of n...
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Religion and Tourism in Japan: Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religionand tourism more generally and into the contemporary religiou...
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Mad Rulers and Worthy Sons: A Translation and Analysis of the Newly Excavated Zhouxun
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book presents the first study and translation of the ancient text Zhouxun (Instructions of the Zhou). Lost early but mentioned in the history ...
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Spiritual Contestations - The Violence of Peace in South Sudan
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authoriti...
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Jesus' Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Patience Museveni Rwabwogo's Jesus' Africa provides a refreshing view concerning contemporary issues confronting the African continent and her peop...
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FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND WORLDVIEW Revised Edition 2019
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This book is an introduction to the foundations of African traditional religions and worldview. The theological basis of the traditional belief- in...
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Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongo...
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South Sudan On The Brink
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Do you want to know the unknown to the outside world and the untold about South Sudan? I guess so, but all in one book.South Sudan on the Brink is ...
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South Sudan On The Brink
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Do you want to know the unknown to the outside world and the untold about South Sudan? I guess so, but all in one book.South Sudan on the Brink is ...
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