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The Price of Monotheism by Jan Assmann
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan... -
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search... -
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that... -
Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies by Jan Assmann
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as... -
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The Price of Monotheism by Jan Assmann 9780804761598 [USED COPY]
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £7.60Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan... -
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism by Jan Assmann
Booksplease Price: £29.48Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography... -
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism by Jan Assmann 9780299225544
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many false gods - was once a new and radical idea. ""Of God and... -
The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus by Jan Assmann 9780691157085
Booksplease Price: £25.51A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular... -
The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus by Jan Assmann 9780691203195
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.10A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular... -
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination by Jan Assmann
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.82Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human... -
Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion Jan Assmann 9780745668437
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual... -
From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and Religious Change by Jan Assmann 9789774167492
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and... -
Religio Duplex: How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion by Jan Assmann 9780745668420
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual... -
Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory by Elena Bollinger 9781032379753
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.34This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of... -
Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State by Salam Hawa 9781032079110
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies by Siobhan Kattago 9780367606152
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23Memory has long been a subject of fascination for poets, artists, philosophers and historians. This timely volume, edited by Siobhan Kattago, examines how past events are remembered, contested,... -
Theories of Culture by Arnold Groh
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual... -
Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning: Contributing to the Common Good Through Religious Education by Manfred L. Pirner
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book describes the relationship of Christian Public Theology to other religions and their ways of contributing to the common good. It also promotes mutual learning processes in public education... -
Thinking and Killing: Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Alon Segev 9781614511281
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £79.80This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and... -
The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by... -
Making Memories in Ancient Egypt by Leire Olabarria 9781009419048
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.68Memory is a fascinating way to approach modern and ancient cultures, as it raises questions about what, why, and how individuals and groups remember. Egyptology has had a major impact on the... -
Making Memories in Ancient Egypt by Leire Olabarria 9781009598552
Booksplease Price: £51.20Memory is a fascinating way to approach modern and ancient cultures, as it raises questions about what, why, and how individuals and groups remember. Egyptology has had a major impact on the... -
Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome by Martin T. Dinter 9781009327770
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.78Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This... -
The Political Theology of Paul by Jacob Taubes 9780804733441
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.20This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by... -
Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash by Rivka Ulmer 9783110223927
RRP: £181.00Booksplease Price: £117.63Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts. These textual images are compared to Egyptian culture. Midrash is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the... -
Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies by Martin Bommas 9781472508065
Booksplease Price: £40.79In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as... -
Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought by Colby Dickinson 9781472587190
Booksplease Price: £40.79Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter... -
Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory by Dr. Marek Tamm 9781349500628
Booksplease Price: £90.56Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact... -
Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory by Dr. Marek Tamm 9781137470171
Booksplease Price: £90.56Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact... -
Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories by Aleida Assmann 9780230272910
Booksplease Price: £80.72A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international... -
The Gods of Egypt Claude Traunecker 9781501784385
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12The Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of... -
Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World by Martin Bommas 9781472530530
Booksplease Price: £41.59Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World brings together scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious... -
Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories by S. Conrad 9781349323562
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £65.96A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international... -
Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion by Gilad Sharvit 9780823280025
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis,... -
Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics by Christopher A. Haw
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Discussions of monotheism often consider its bigotry toward other gods as a source of conflict, or emphasize its universality as a source of peaceful tolerance. Both approaches, however, ignore the... -
In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Adi M. Ophir
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.54This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical... -
In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Adi M. Ophir 9781531501402
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical... -
Idol Anxiety by Josh Ellenbogen
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together... -
Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome by Martin T. Dinter 9781009327756
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.04Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This... -
Idol Anxiety by Josh Ellenbogen 9780804760423
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.41This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes. Idol Anxiety brings together...