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This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. The c
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In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted
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This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and Asia. Thro
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After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for cri
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Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The pr
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In recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no long
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This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing o
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Trevor Kerry draws together contributions from leading academics in the field based in Europe, Canada and Australia to e
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A growing number of people are claiming or reclaiming a religious or spiritual identity for themselves. Yet, in contempo
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The uprisings which spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 irrevocably altered the way in
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