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Fundamentalism
Edited by David Lehmann, Humeira Iqtidar
The term fundamentalism carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call ‘integrism’, meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity. The...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55615-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Ancient World to the Present
Edited by Yigal Levin, Amnon Shapira
The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times. However, the ways in which both concepts are understood have changed many times over the ages, and both have different implications for an independent nation in its own land...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-58715-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Jews of Islam
By Bernard Lewis
Against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history, Bernard Lewis portrays the Judaeo-Islamic tradition – a cultural relationship parallel to the Judaeo-Christian heritage. He traces its origins in the early Middle Ages, its flowering, and its ending, followed by the incorporation of most of...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-61180-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Anthropology of Religion
Edited by Phillips Stevens Jr.
Religious belief is an extremely powerful motivator of human behaviour. Religious considerations permeate and influence all parts of a culture. Religious systems are universal in human cultures, around the world and through all stages of human history and prehistory. Of all academic approaches to...
October 2010 | 978-0-415-49423-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide
By Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs
This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Studying each scholar’s background and influences, the authors examine the ways in which their major works have been received by critics and supporters,...
August 2010 | 978-0-415-77551-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite
Edited by Tudor Parfitt, Emanuela Trevisan Semi
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a special focus on Europe and the role played by German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, it investigates such...
July 2010 | 978-0-415-59305-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Contemporary Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction
By Irene Kajon
This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas. It shows how for them the dialogue between...
July 2010 | 978-0-415-59337-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Jewish Cultural Nationalism: Origins and Influences
By David Aberbach
Jewish Cultural Nationalism explores the development of Jewish nationalism from the Bible to modern times, focusing on particular movements and places as well as texts which signified, or themselves brought about, change: the Bible (Hebrew prayer book), and the modern Hebrew literature,...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-78148-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Jewish-Chinese Nexus: A Meeting of Civilizations
Edited by M. Avrum Ehrlich
The Jewish Chinese Nexus explores through a collection of articles the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on earth; Jews and Chinese. This volume studies how they are interacting in modernity; how they view each other and what areas of...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-59341-0 | Paperback (Routledge)