Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change Across the Longue Duree
Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel
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The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history,...
Islamism: A History of Political Islam from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of Isis
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An incisive analysis of Islamist movements in the Middle East A political, social, and cultural...
Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion
Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman
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Ritual happens in distinct places - in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes - and religious...
Loose Fit City: The Contribution of Bottom-Up Architecture to Urban Design and Planning
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Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly...
On Anxiety
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We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and...
Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection
Kipling D. Williams and Steve A. Nida
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Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection examines research into the related phenomena of ostracism,...
Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church
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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and...
Policing the 2012 London Olympics: Legacy and Social Exclusion: 2012
Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Iain Lindsay and Gavin Hales
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The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event....
Postsecular Geographies: Re-Envisioning Politics, Subjectivity and Ethics
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Over recent years there has been a surge of interest in postsecularity. The complex blurring of...
Scriptural Polemics: The Qur'an and Other Religions
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A number of passages in the Qur'an contain doctrinal and cultural criticism of Jews and Christians,...