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Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Book 7)

Ziba Mir-Hosseini - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers of the law have faced the social realities of women's lives and aspirations, positive...

Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States (Studies in Comparative Religion)

Helen A. Berger - University of South Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

A compelling portrait of an emerging religious groupVoices from the Pagan Census provides unprecedented insight into the expanding but largely unstudied religious movement of Neo-Paganism in the United States. Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer present the findings of "The...

Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law (Modern Classics in Near Eastern Studies)

Ignaz Goldziher - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

The book description for the previously published "Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law" is not yet available.

Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul (Transformation of the Classical Heritage Book 8)

Raymond Van Dam - University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth century Gallic aristocrats were...

Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism (Princeton Classics, 123)

Miranda Shaw - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback

The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra. The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual bliss....

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death - and what might follow - by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest...

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