Religious Studies
World Religious Traditions
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Mystical Dimensions of Islam
by Annemarie Schimmel "Students of Islam and of comparative religion as well as those who respond to mysticism are deeply in the author's debt for giving us what will surely be the standard treatment of Sufism for a long time to come."America 527 pp., 1271-4 $18.95 pa |
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And Muhammad Is His Messenger
The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety by Annemarie Schimmel Based on four decades of work by the author, this is the first English-language book to deal with all aspects of the veneration of the Prophet Muhammad. Using original sources in the various Islamic languages, Annemarie Schimmel explains the central place of Muhammad in Muslim life, mystical thought, and poetry. 389 pp., 1639-6 $39.95 cl
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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
by Michael Taussig "Taussig succeeds brilliantly in his central purpose: to help us to see the challenge as being to defetishize, to control our culture and its poetic products, and not be controlled by them."Labour 277 pp., 4106-4 $12.95 pa |
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The Faces of the Gods
Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti by Leslie G. Desmangles A Choice Outstanding Academic Book "The first comprehensive overview of Vodou. . . . [The book is] vital for students of African-American religions, but also of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and historians of religion. Likely to be the authoritative study on this topic for years to come." Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska at Kearney 240 pp., 2059-8 $34.95 cl 4393-8 $14.95 pa |
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New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism
by George A. Kennedy "The single best introduction to some of the key rhetorical dimensions in the biblical text." Quarterly Journal of Speech "We have seen a growing interest in ancient rhetoric as one context for the comparative study of the New Testament, but up until now there has been no general introduction to this kind of anaylsis." Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University 181 pp., 1601-9 $24.95 cl 4120-X $10.95 pa Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada |