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Alternative Christs by Olav Hammer 9781107651890
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.52Few, if any, individuals have had such a profound influence on Western culture as Jesus, even though not a single detail of his life or teaching can be confirmed with certainty. This lack of reliable... -
Alternative Christs by Olav Hammer 9780521889025
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Few, if any, individuals have had such a profound influence on Western culture as Jesus, even though not a single detail of his life or teaching can be confirmed with certainty. This lack of reliable... -
The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements by Olav Hammer
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious... -
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion by Olav Hammer 9781009500746
Booksplease Price: £56.13This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular... -
The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements by Olav Hammer 9780521196505
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93New religions emerge as distinct entities in the religious landscape when innovations are introduced by a charismatic leader or a schismatic group leaves its parent organization. New religious... -
New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion by Olav Hammer 9781009014595
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular... -
Religious Innovation in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods by Olav Hammer 9781009015257
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52The scholarly study of new religious movements focuses on the contemporary period, but religious innovation is nothing new. This Element explores a historical epoch characterized by a multitude of... -
Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age by Olav Hammer 9789004136380
RRP: £86.40Booksplease Price: £74.30This volume deals with the transformation of unchurched religious creativity in the late modern West. It analyzes the ways in which the advance of science, globalization and individualism have... -
The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79"The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local... -
Nordic Neoshamanisms by Siv-Ellen Kraft 9781137461391
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributors' objective is to explore the myriad of ways late... -
Appropriating the DAO: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China Lukas K. Pokorny 9781350289604
Booksplease Price: £30.54Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.Positioned between eighteenth-century's mesmerism and... -
Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy by Julie Chajes 9780197846957
Booksplease Price: £36.66A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly... -
The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate by Michael Stausberg 9781350162914
Booksplease Price: £102.21Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this open access book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International... -
Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization by Edward Bever
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.07This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then...