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  • New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion

    by Olav Hammer, Karen Swartz ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Religious Innovation in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

    by Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein ...
    Series series Elements in New Religious Movements
    The scholarly study of new religious movements focuses on the contemporary period, but religious innovation is nothing new. This Element explores a historical epoch characterized by a multitude of emergent religious concepts and practices – the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A precondition for the intense degree of religious innovation during this time was a high level of cultural exchange. ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe

    by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer, David Warburton ...
    "The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

    Edited by Olav Hammer, Mikael Rothstein ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious movements (NRMs) often present novel doctrines and advocate unfamiliar modes of behavior, and have therefore often been perceived as controversial. NRMs have, however, in recent years come to be treated in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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  • Empires of the Word

    A Language History of the World

    by Nicholas Ostler ...
    A "monumental" account of the rise and fall of languages, with "many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities" ( Chicago Tribune).Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling ... Read more

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  • The Book that Made Your World

    How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Vishal Mangalwadi ...
    Understand where we came from.Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the ... Read more

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  • The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

    The Conflict Between Word and Image

    by Leonard Shlain ...
    Series series Compass
    This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and ... Read more

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  • Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

    by David Bentley Hart ...
    Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion’s most passionate antagonists—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others—have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions ... Read more

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  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

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  • The Future of Faith

    by Harvey Gallagher Cox ...
    Legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. Cox identifies three fundamental shifts over the last 2,000 years of church history:The Age of Faith was when the early church was more concerned with following Jesus' teachings than enforcing what to believe about Jesus.The Age of Belief marks a significant shift-between the fourth ... Read more

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  • Empire and Communications

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    Series Book 4 - Voyageur Classics
    It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the ... Read more

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