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Spanning 450 years of conflict between religion and modernization, Religion in the Modern World offers an engaging look at the evolution of western ... More

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The pioneering essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious ... More

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Loyalty to the community is the highest value in Native American cultures. Taking his sense of community as both a starting point and a lens, this ... More

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On the social life and customs of the two villages in Nubra valley of Ladakh district.

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How secular is contemporary society? Are pockets of sectarianism embedded in societies of developed countries? This timely book examines the ... More

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Scholarly and popular commentators lament the deterioration of civil society as a result of American individualism, a decline in some part based on ... More

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Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close theoretical analysis of recent developments in ritual ... More

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Clarke draws upon his unique perspective and firsthand experience to examine the relationship between the marginalized Dalit and the mainstream ... More

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The first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads in more than half a century, Olivelle's work incorporates the most recent historical and ... More

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With the plight of escalating numbers of refugees around the world growing more desperate every year, the American religious organizations dedicated ... More

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Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in ... More

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This text is an attempt to understand the practice of Christianity in a small neighbourhood in Kerala, and argues that people's interpretations of ... More

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The law governing the administration of prisons and prisoners' rights is not separate from the mainstream of English law. It consists of a body of ... More

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This book explores the special link between religion and family and the interconnections between them and other social institutions.

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Amit Bhaduri has never conformed to the intellectual conventions in economic theory. He has contributed to leading international journals and held ... More

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This elegantly written book explores the practice of Christianity among the Yakoba in the small region of Kerala. Susan Viswanathan uses the ... More

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This volume is a collection of essays by the late Richard Burghart. It makes an important contribution to the study of religion, politics, and ... More

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This volume brings together original essays by leading scholars of religion, history, and society refelcting upon the idea and practice of conversion ... More

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Sociologist Rodney Stark combines his expertise in social science with historical evidence to offer a provocative report. Stark finds that early ... More

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Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed ... More

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Readers have repeatedly called "The Lord of the Rings" the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical ... More

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