
Introducing Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
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Metaphysics and the theory of knowledge lie at the heart of the Western philosophical tradition, and...

Jesus and Magic: Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions
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It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even...

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...
Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood
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Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western...
Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City
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What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization...

Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies
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Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet...

Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
Andreas Mayer and Christopher Barber
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In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing...

Sport and Alcohol: An Ethical Perspective
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There is a clear sense in which sport has played, and continues to play an important role in the...

The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies...
Bibliography of the East India Company: Contemporary Printed Sources, 1786-1858: Volume 2
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This annotated bibliography continues and completes the earlier volume, Bibliography of the East...