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Mortality and Music by Christopher Partridge 9781350026896
Booksplease Price: £40.79The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres,... -
UFO Religions by Christopher Partridge 9780415263245
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The spectre of the UFO, as popularized by shows such as The X-Files, has brought an astonishing slant to the face of modern religious practice. But what motivates the fantastical and sometimes... -
Introduction to World Religions Christopher Partridge 9780745956879
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.03A leading textbook for world religion, this new edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and... -
A Brief Introduction to Buddhism by Christopher Partridge 9781506450308
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450308Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
A Brief Introduction to Hinduism by Christopher Partridge 9781506450346
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450346Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
A Brief Introduction to Judaism by Christopher Partridge 9781506450407
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450407Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
A Brief Introduction to Islam by Christopher Partridge 9781506450360
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450360Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
A Brief Introduction to Christianity by Christopher Partridge 9781506450322
Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450322Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
Cannabis, Sacred and Profane Christopher Partridge 9781350115880
Booksplease Price: £29.91Focussing on the ways in which cannabis been demonized, sacralized and normalized, Christopher Partridge analyses the complex and often difficult relationship Western societies have had with the... -
Cannabis, Sacred and Profane Christopher Partridge 9781350115897
Booksplease Price: £81.77Focussing on the ways in which cannabis been demonized, sacralized and normalized, Christopher Partridge analyses the complex and often difficult relationship Western societies have had with the... -
A Brief Introduction to Jainism and Sikhism by Christopher Partridge 9781506450384
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506450384Author Christopher PartridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Fortress Press,U.S... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music Christopher Partridge 9781350286870
Booksplease Price: £41.36The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analysis of the most important themes and concepts in the field, combining research... -
The Occult World Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University, UK) 9781138219250
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.59This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via... -
New Religions, Spiritualities, and Popular Music Christopher Partridge 9781350500044
Booksplease Price: £85.65This groundbreaking volume examines the relationship between new religions, alternative spiritualities, and popular music. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on scholarship within the... -
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane by Christopher Partridge 9780199751402
Booksplease Price: £25.62The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within... -
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane by Christopher Partridge 9780199751396
Booksplease Price: £114.91The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within... -
Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought by Christopher Partridge 9781907534348
Booksplease Price: £75.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907534348Author Christopher PartridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Sheffield Phoenix... -
High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World by Christopher Partridge
Booksplease Price: £31.08Throughout history, humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making... -
Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk Christopher Partridge 9781845533113
Booksplease Price: £72.02Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique... -
Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk by Christopher Partridge 9781845533120
Booksplease Price: £21.64Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique... -
Holy Terror: Understanding Religion and Violence in Popular Culture by Eric S. Christianson
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39The authors of religious scriptures had little difficulty enhancing sacred narratives with the rhetoric of violence. The phenomenon continues in the habitual linkage of violence and religion in... -
The Re-enchantment of the West: v. 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture by Christopher H. Partridge 9780567041333
Booksplease Price: £103.41The Re-Enchantment of the West challenges those theories that predict widespread secularization beyond traditional institutional religiosity. Spiritualities are emerging that are not only quite... -
Coastal Environments in Popular Song: Lost Horizons Glenn Fosbraey 9781032137964
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing,... -
The Re-enchantment of the West: v. 1: Understanding Popular Occulture by Christopher H. Partridge 9780567084088
Booksplease Price: £76.50As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the... -
William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult by Amandeep Kaur Mann 9781032149080
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular. Using detailed analysis of Lethaby's drawings... -
Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations Linda Woodhead, MBE (Lancaster University, UK) 9780415858816
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.14Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep... -
Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group George D. Chryssides 9781032099279
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they... -
Punk Rock is My Religion: Straight Edge Punk and 'Religious' Identity Francis Stewart 9780367884437
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80As religion has retreated from its position and role of being the glue that holds society together, something must take its place. Utilising a focused and detailed study of Straight Edge punk (a... -
Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland by Martha Mcgill 9781783273621
Booksplease Price: £91.38An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enlightenment. SHORTLISTED for the Katharine Briggs... -
The A to Z of New Religious Movements by George D. Chryssides 9780810855885
Booksplease Price: £45.06Alongside the older and more established religions, there are hundreds, indeed, thousands more, which have recently emerged. These "new religious movements" or NRMs-for lack of a better name-are not... -
Reader in New Religious Movements: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements by George Chryssides 9780826461681
Booksplease Price: £91.69There are over 600 New Religious Movements (NRMs) in Great Britain alone, and more than 2000 in the United States. A Reader in New Religious Movements provides an introduction to the main teachings... -
The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach by Gordon Lynch 9780198705215
Booksplease Price: £30.00It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms--whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise--continue to shape social life in the modern... -
Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction by Andreas Onnerfors
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35Freemasonry is one of the oldest and most widespread voluntary organisations in the world. Over the course of three centuries men (and women) have organized themselves socially and voluntarily under... -
Paranormal Britain: Belief in the Uncanny in England, Scotland, and Wales Christopher D. Bader 9781350561656
Booksplease Price: £65.97Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British... -
Paranormal Britain: Belief in the Uncanny in England, Scotland, and Wales Christopher D. Bader 9781350561649
Booksplease Price: £25.66Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British... -
Christianity Today: An Introduction by George D. Chryssides 9781847065421
Booksplease Price: £27.89A series of case studies illustrate the contemporary issues facing Christianity in contemporary society. This new introduction aims to present Christianity through the lens of contemporary issues... -
The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape Darryl Caterine (Le Moyne College, USA) 9780367731779
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims... -
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Booksplease Price: £15.55"One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points about...