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  • Neighborhood and Boulevard

    Reading through the Modern Arab City

    by K. Ziadeh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Born into the Children of God: Part 3 of 3

    My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside

    by Natacha Tormey ...
    Born into the Children of God can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual mix of evangelical Christianity, free love and rejection of the mainstream, from an early age Natacha was brainwashed to believe she had a special destiny – that she was part of an elite ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Violence and New Religious Movements

    Edited by James R. Lewis ...
    The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups. Some of these incidents have made international headlines. When New Religious Movements make the news, it's usually because of some violent episode. Some of the most famous NRMs are known ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

    by David Tresilian ...
    Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Egypt: Pyramids and Pharaohs

    Egyptian Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Ancient History Books
    Bring ancient Egypt back to life with this fun educational book! What makes this book unique is that it tackles the subject of pharaohs and pyramids in a highly interactive way. There are only a handful of texts included so there’s more space for pictures, and the imagination. Go ahead and secure a copy of this learning resource today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Can Islam Be French?

    Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State

    by John R. Bowen ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of French non-Muslims to focus on those of the country's Muslims themselves. Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating in France?- ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The New Age in the Modern West

    Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

    by Dr Nicholas Campion ...
    New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West argues that New Age culture is part of a family of ideas, including utopianism, which construct ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The Thousand and One Nights

    Space, Travel and Transformation

    by Richard van Leeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement.These events often symbolize a process of transformation, in which the hero has to search for his destined role or strive to attain the object of his ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Somehow I Am Different: Narratives of Searching and Belonging in Jewish Budapest

    by Alyssa Petersel ...
    “A journey through the lives of young Eastern European Jews that's not to be missed.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)How do we come to be who we are spiritually? How does our political and social environment influence our development of self?A young American author immerses herself in modern Jewish Hungary. The twenty-one stories she shares will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you want to ... Read more

    $7.18 USD

  • UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age

    Millennial Conspiracism

    by Prof David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
    How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary.Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Baudrillard and the Culture Industry

    Returning to the First Generation of the Frankfurt School

    by Amirhosein Khandizaji ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today's world. It begins by considering the neglect of the culture industry in the second and third generation of the Frankfurt School, presenting historical background information and criticisms on the theories of Habermas and Honneth.In our age, the culture industry is something quite different from what Adorno and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

    Literature, Cinema and Music

    Edited by Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even ... Read more

    $69.99 USD