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  • - Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film
     
    £38.49

    How Hysterical reads scenes from the films Light It Up , Three Kings , Remember the Titans , Paris is Burning , Boys Don't Cry , and Magnolia alongside biblical texts from Numbers , Exodus , Isaiah , Micah , Ezekiel and Revelation .

  • - Responses to a New Medium
    by M. Rosenthal
    £47.99

    Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.

  • - Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India
    by A. Feldhaus
    £93.99

    This book examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in Western India to illustrate the idea that regions are not only created by humans, but given meaning through religious practices.

  • - Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India
    by A. Feldhaus
    £93.99

    This book examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in Western India to illustrate the idea that regions are not only created by humans, but given meaning through religious practices.

  • - Media, Religion, and the Senses
    by Birgit Meyer
    £47.99

    This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema.

  • - Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making
     
    £93.99

    Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata .

  • - Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making
     
    £93.99

    Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata .

  • by T. Sheffield
    £37.49

    This groundbreaking work explores media scholar Sut Jhally's thesis that advertising functions as a religion in late capitalism and relates this to critical theological studies. Sheffield argues that advertising is not itself a religion, but that it contains religious dimensions - analogous to Durkheim's description of objects as totems.

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    £38.49

    This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.

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    £47.99

    This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.

  • - Reading a Page of Scripture With a Little Help From Derrida
     
    £42.99

    In the last few years, Derrida has gained a great deal of attention from scholars of biblical studies and theology. Unlike other books on Derrida, this collection is primarily focused on biblical studies, where others are concerned with Derrida and religion in general.

  • by B. Britt & A. Cuffel
    £47.99

    This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

  • by G. Grieve
    £47.99

    Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.

  • - Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers
     
    £104.49

    This volume brings together compelling new research on South Asian women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with intimate ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.

  • - Responses to a New Medium
    by M. Rosenthal
    £47.99

    Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.

  • by T. Sheffield
    £47.99

    This groundbreaking work explores media scholar Sut Jhally's thesis that advertising functions as a religion in late capitalism and relates this to critical theological studies. Sheffield argues that advertising is not itself a religion, but that it contains religious dimensions - analogous to Durkheim's description of objects as totems.

  • - Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film
     
    £47.99

    How Hysterical reads scenes from the films Light It Up , Three Kings , Remember the Titans , Paris is Burning , Boys Don't Cry , and Magnolia alongside biblical texts from Numbers , Exodus , Isaiah , Micah , Ezekiel and Revelation .

  • - Global and Future Perspectives
    by Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Musa W. Dube & Althea Spencer-Miller
    £47.99

    This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The essays call into question feminist social engagement that does not extend beyond academic halls, churches and Christians, suggesting directions for future research and teaching in Feminist Biblical Studies.

  • by G. Grieve
    £47.99

    Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.

  • by B. Britt & A. Cuffel
    £47.99

    This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century. Contributors address three areas: depictions of homosexual and transgendered behaviours, conceptualizations of femininity and masculinity, and the marriageability of ethnic and religious minorities.

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