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  • Antisemitism and Social Democracy

    The Case Study of Norway

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    How can antisemitism persist in a social democracy that prides itself on justice and equality? In this book, Torkel Brekke provides a historical analysis and interpretation of how far-left anti-Zionism entered the political mainstream, using Norway as a case study. Drawing on antisemitic rhetoric and symbols shaped during the Cold War, the far left and the Palestine movement gradually influenced ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Fundamentalism

    Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

    A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into ... Read more

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  • Faithonomics

    Religion and the Free Market

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be analysed as a market similar to markets for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. Faithonomics is about today's religious markets, but in sweeping detours ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism

    Edited by Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series The Oxford History of Hinduism
    The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the historical background to modern conceptualizations of Hinduism. Moving away from the reforms of the 19th and early 20th century, part ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Torkel Brekke ...
    This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world.While the chapters are written by specialists in Asian cultures, some of the conceptual apparatus is drawn from the scholarly discourse on ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Buddhism and Violence

    Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

    Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of ‘peaceful’ behavior. This stereotype – which may well be termed ‘positive Orientalism,’ ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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    Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

    by Anthony Julius, David Hirsh, Rosa Freedman, Howard Jacobson, Jeffrey Herf, Flora Cassen, Robin Douglas, Matthew Bolton, Alan Johnson, David Seymour, Jonas Hessenauer, Lukas Uwira, Torkel Brekke, Anna Zawadzka, Yaron Matras ...
    Narrated by Sarah Kants, Simon Schatzberger ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it.It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century ‘Jewish Question’ rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The World After Gaza

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  • Israel

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  • Off-White

    The Truth About Antisemitism

    by Rachel Shabi ...
    What is and isn't antisemitism?'I cannot wait for Off-White to be read, debated and put into practice.' Naomi Klein, author of DoppelgangerAs claims of antisemitism continue to distort our politics at home and abroad, it has become almost impossible to talk about constructively, even in private. Instead, we find ourselves in a storm of misinformation, political mudslinging and bad-faith ... Read more

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