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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Curtis Lee Jr
The Symbolism of Holiness

The Symbolism of Holiness explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both being and doing in the lives of human persons in a postmodern world. Both the Old and New Testament testify that God require…

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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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Michael Lambek
Cohabiting with Spirits

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come t…

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Michael Lambek
Cohabiting with Spirits

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come t…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues of Fire , anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an 18-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigmatic p…

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Katie Rose Hejtmanek
The Cult of Crossfit

Reveals the Christian foundations of CrossFit CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devo…

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Elisabetta Porcu
Negotiations of the Sacred

Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan's most famous festivals, the Gion Matsuri, held in Kyoto in July. Dating back more than a thousand years, the festival today features …

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Water Powers

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals---from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales---and environmental chan…

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H P R Twiston Davies
The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

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A Cultural History of Magic

What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has magic been understood and represented? And how has this understanding differed accordin…

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Steven Mark Lowenstein,
The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939

This book is the definitive demographic study of German Jewry from the age of Napoleon to the tie of Hitler. With exquisite details and vast range, Steven Lowenstein details the impact of industrializatio…

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The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

This volume brings together case studies and surveys of recent research to address foundational questions regarding the scope, structuring, use, and consequences of ritual language. The chapters examine t…

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Chris Jennings
End of Days

The gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era."Vi…

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Artie Bennett,
The Tenth Man

The true story of how a nearly 100-year-old synagogue and its elderly congregation found new life, hope, and community in New Orleans.In Orthodox tradition, one needs ten Jewish men to perform certain pra…

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Calum Lister Matheson
Post-Weird

Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream is an ambitious look at how communities form when old forms of authority and meaning seem to be collapsing around us. This book goes…

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Astrid Hovden
LIMI, the Land In-Between

This book examines the art of governing a Himalayan frontier community through local institutions and customary law in the context of extensive socio-economic and political change. Limi, the Land In-Betwe…

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Bonnie Bader,
Passover: A Celebration of Freedom

Celebrate Passover by reading about how Moses helped lead the Israelites to freedom. In addition to the story of Passover, which includes the Ten Plagues, the Burning Bush, and the Parting of the Red Sea,…

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Pamela Lothspeich,
Raslila and Ramlila

This short volume introduces readers to the interrelated devotional theatres of Raslila or Krishnalila (the play of Krishna), and Ramlila (the play of Ram), in a clear, accessible style.Pamela Lothspeich …

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Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg

"The story of the mass exodus of Jews out of Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century and the titans of industry who made it possible"--

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