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Knowing Feminisms: On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes by Elizabeth Stanley 9780803975415
Booksplease Price: £116.74Knowing Feminisms looks at feminism as a vital source of new knowledge and new ways of working throughout a range of disciplines. It also scrutinizes the sometimes highly problematic forms its... -
The Material Subject: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion by Urmila Mohan 9780367610531
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matiere a Penser (MaP) school of thought, which... -
American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World by Peter Gardella 9780700615377
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40From figurines to bumper stickers, Broadway to prime-time TV, angels have taken over America. Our fascination with angels has become big business but, as Peter Gardella shows, this phenomenon has... -
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae
Booksplease Price: £39.70When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the... -
Citizens' Reactions to European Integration Compared: Overlooking Europe by Sophie Duchesne 9780230354340
Booksplease Price: £46.28Pre-financial crisis, EU citizens were 'overlooking' Europe ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption. Innovative focus group methods allow an... -
Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels by Ken Koltun-Fromm 9780271087757
Booksplease Price: £30.65Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of... -
Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve by Sam Gill 9781498580908
Booksplease Price: £106.59Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of... -
The Miracle of Amsterdam: Biography of a Contested Devotion by Charles Caspers 9780268105655
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.15The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a "cultural biography" of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning... -
Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice by Ellen T. Armour 9780231209052
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Social media platforms are often denounced as "bubbles" or "echo chambers." In this view, what we see tends to reinforce what we already believe, and what we already believe shapes what we see. Yet... -
The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness Rod Tweedy 9781782204091
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich... -
Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism by Amy DeRogatis 9780199942251
Booksplease Price: £31.94When it comes to evangelicals and sex, it seems, whatever the question, the answer is no. In Saving Sex, Amy DeRogatis argues that this could not be further from the truth. Demolishing the myth of... -
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico by Frank Graziano 9780199790852
Booksplease Price: £47.93Mexican statues and paintings of figures like the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Lord of Chalma are endowed with sacred presence and the power to perform miracles. Millions of devotees visit these... -
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Touraj Daryaee 9781780763781
Booksplease Price: £27.58I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationOf profound importance in late antiquity,the Sasanian Empire is almost completely unknown today,except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire... -
Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture by Diana Walsh-Pasulka 9780195382020
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £43.85After purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the... -
Aztlan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place by Roberto Ramon Lint Sagarena 9780814740606
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in... -
Aztlan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place by Roberto Ramon Lint Sagarena 9781479850648
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in... -
Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World by Pamela Kyle Crossley 9781442214439
Booksplease Price: £42.66This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Distinguished historian... -
The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.66In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him, Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg... -
Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art by Phoebe Wolfskill 9780271077758
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.24Many of the most celebrated African American artists have created works that visually manifest Christian motifs and themes, yet this component of the history of African American art is often subsumed... -
Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert by Lisa Bitel
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.76For more than twenty years, Maria Paula Acuna has claimed to see the Virgin Mary, once a month, at a place called Our Lady of the Rock in the Mojave Desert of California. Hundreds of men, women, and... -
Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage by Hillary Kaell
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's life and death. Why do these... -
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health David Reiss 9781855758483
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... -
Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store by Nicole C. Kirk 9781479835935
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12How a pioneering merchant blended religion and business to create a unique American shopping experience On Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stood in the middle of his elaborately decorated... -
Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage by Hillary Kaell 9780814738368
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's life and death. Why do these pilgrims... -
Does God Make the Man?: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity by Stewart M. Hoover 9781479811779
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Many believe that religion plays a positive role in men's identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative... -
Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store by Nicole C. Kirk 9781479827237
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46How a pioneering merchant blended religion and business to create a unique American shopping experience On Christmas Eve, 1911, John Wanamaker stood in the middle of his elaborately decorated... -
Does God Make the Man?: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity by Stewart M. Hoover
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Many believe that religion plays a positive role in men's identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative... -
A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time Kinneret Lahad 9781526115393
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £28.15"What are you waiting for?" Stop wasting your time" "You will die alone," "You will miss the train and stay on your own!" These are some of the questions and warnings that single women hear on an... -
Beware the Tall Grass: A Novel by Ellen Birkett Morris 9798988732105
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.15Beware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie's troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young... -
Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall by Alexis L. Boylan 9780822348528
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from... -
Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago by Kymberly N. Pinder
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N... -
The Hip Hop and Religion Reader Monica R Miller 9780415741019
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.63Edited by two recognized scholars of African-American religion and culture, this reader, the first of its kind, provides the essential texts for an important and emerging field of study - religion... -
Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago by Kymberly N. Pinder 9780252039928
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N... -
Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process by Lynn Jamieson 9780230252448
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships, with an emphasis on the actualities of doing research and the experiences of... -
When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America by Jeanne Halgren Kilde 9780195179729
Booksplease Price: £51.83For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan. In the 1880s, however, profound socio-economic and technological... -
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by S. Frederick Starr 9780691165851
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.38In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing... -
The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-Garde and the Art of the Concept by Cordula Grewe 9780271064147
Booksplease Price: £118.12In The Nazarenes, Cordula Grewe presents a timely revisionist account of the Nazarenes, a group of early nineteenth-century German artists who have been occasionally reviled, but more often ignored,... -
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotion Every Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement... -
Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US by Monica R. Miller 9781472509079
Booksplease Price: £34.47Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society... -
bird of winter Alice Hiller 9781800348691
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2021Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022PBS Special Commendation Summer 2021Alice Hiller's debut...