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Teaching Ritual by Catherine Bell 9780195176469
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £26.60There is a great deal of interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into religious studies classes, but many teachers are uncertain how to go about doing this. Religious studies faculty... -
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions by Catherine Bell 9780199735105
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £23.65From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors,... -
Catherine: Belle Catherine by Juliette Benzoni 9781845831233
Booksplease Price: £17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845831233Author Juliette BenzoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Telos Publishing... -
Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice by Catherine Bell 9780199733620
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject,... -
A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria by Catherine Belling 9780199892365
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £66.52The "hypochondriac" is a complicated figure, often treated with scorn and derision, resented for making excessive demands on attention and health care resources. Lacking credibility but needing to be... -
Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts by Catherine Bell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04In the last twenty years, there has been a growing interest in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as scholars and practitioners seek more effective, context-sensitive approaches to conflict. Where... -
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy, and Reform by Catherine Bell 9780774814645
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site... -
Tracing the Ritual Body: Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World Professor Ada Taggar Cohen 9780567710581
Booksplease Price: £34.10This volume utilizes Catherine Bell's ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that... -
Tracing the Ritual Body: Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World Professor Ada Taggar Cohen 9780567710550
Booksplease Price: £91.39This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean texts. In recent decades scholars of religion have come to realize that... -
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion by David DeSteno
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them-and to anyone, regardless of... -
The Performance of Religion: Seeing the sacred in the theatre Cia Sautter 9781138385993
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a... -
Religion: The Basics by Malory Nye
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95From the local to the global level, religion is - more than ever - an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to... -
Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich by Dr. Theodore M. Vial 9780415865050
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was... -
Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship by Professor of Liturgy Paul Bradshaw 9780801034992
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.31The new field of ritual studies applies anthropological methodology to the study of religious actions. The first collection of its kind, Foundations in Ritual Studies offers students of Christian... -
Whenever They Prayed: Dimensions of New Testament Prayer by Rodney A. Werline 9781978705586
Booksplease Price: £86.43Rodney A. Werline shifts the scholarly approach to New Testament prayer from source and genre analyses to seeing prayer as a cultural practice, bringing new dimensions of the prayers to light... -
Rahner beyond Rahner: A Great Theologian Encounters the Pacific Rim by Paul G. Crowley 9780742549630
Booksplease Price: £91.39One hundred years after the birth of Karl Rahner, the contributors to this book ask whether and how RahnerOs theology can address new religious and cultural realities in the twenty-first century,... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods by M. Cooper Minister 9781350303089
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.86Examining the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped the field, this updated textbook includes cultural approaches from anthropology,... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods by M. Cooper Minister 9781350303102
Booksplease Price: £28.09Examining the analytic tools of scholars in religious studies, as well as in related disciplines that have shaped the field, this updated textbook includes cultural approaches from anthropology,... -
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang 9780367619053
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is... -
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 - Perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas by Maria-Isabel Porras-Gallo
Booksplease Price: £109.33Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and... -
Artist Animal by Steve Baker
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In... -
The Bloomsbury Reader in Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion Sarah J. Bloesch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 9781350039803
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £20.83This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting the wide-ranging and nuanced theoretical debates... -
Revival: The Return of the Primitive (2001): A New Sociological Theory of Religion Richard K. Fenn 9781138733435
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.98This title was first published in 2001. This work presents a sociological theory of religion. Richard K. Fenn demonstrates that the shape of the sacred depends on what aspects of the psyche and of... -
Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism by Lisa Diedrich 9781517900007
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa... -
Revival: The Return of the Primitive (2001): A New Sociological Theory of Religion by Richard K. Fenn
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03This title was first published in 2001. This work presents a sociological theory of religion. Richard K. Fenn demonstrates that the shape of the sacred depends on what aspects of the psyche and of... -
Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism by Lisa Diedrich 9781517900014
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The experience of illness (both mental and physical) figures prominently in the critical thought and activism of the 1960s and 1970s, though it is largely overshadowed by practices of sexuality. Lisa... -
Rahner beyond Rahner: A Great Theologian Encounters the Pacific Rim by Paul G. Crowley 9780742549647
Booksplease Price: £34.14One hundred years after the birth of Karl Rahner, the contributors to this book ask whether and how Rahner's theology can address new religious and cultural realities in the twenty-first century,... -
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion by Sarah J. Bloesch 9781350023734
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £52.13This is the first book to provide an introduction to contemporary cultural approaches to the study of religion. This book makes sophisticated ideas accessible at an introductory level, and examines... -
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada, Third Edition: Current Trends and Issues by Yale Belanger 9781895830323
Booksplease Price: £48.78Building on the success of the first two editions, this volume briefly recaps the historical development and public acceptance of the concept of Aboriginal self-government, and then proceeds to...