Alan Dershowitz 
Abraham [EPUB ebook] 

Nigel Zimmermann presents critical reflections from leading Catholic prelates and scholars on the significance of the Second Vatican Council fifty years after it began. These include two senior Cardi …

Studies of gender in African Christianity have usually focused on women. This book draws attention to men and constructions of masculinity, particularly important in light of the HIV epidemic which h …

A unique and major contribution to the scholarly and policy debate on American foreign and economic policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. A volume that will be of interest to scholars and polic …

Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced or co-opted mainstream churches. Reconciliation and …

This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi”kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi”kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as tradit …

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If …

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic inform …

This is the first up-to-date, accessible study on the rule of Cyprian as the Bishop of Carthage in the 250s AD. It controversially shows that Cyprian radically enforced the primary emphasis on the un …

This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz” anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. I …

This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims” perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the …