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  • Muslim Identities
    Aaron W. Hughes
    Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam presents a fully updated introduction to the religion of Islam and the various social groups who define themselves as Muslim. Unlike other such works, it presents both insider and outsider accounts with the aim of striking a unique balance between overly apologetical and overly Orientalist perspectives. With the first edition describe...
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    62,50 €

  • Religion in 50 More Words
    Aaron W. Hughes / Russell T. McCutcheon
    Religion in 50 More Words: A Redescriptive Vocabulary provides a succinct historical, social, and political examination of some of the key words used in the modern study of religion. ...
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    44,52 €

  • Religion in 50 Words
    Aaron W. Hughes / Russell T. McCutcheon
    This book is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. ...
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    44,45 €

  • Somewhere Between Islam and Judaism
    Aaron Hughes
    One would think that the space between Islam and Judaism would prove fertile enough to engage in questions of social, religious, cultural, and intellectual interactions. Yet, for a variety of political reasons, this is unfortunately rarely the case. In Somewhere Between Islam and Judaism, Aaron W. Hughes reflects on what it means to work in both traditions, but feel at home in ...
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    40,85 €

  • Nucleus
    Aaron Hughes
    Life is pretty uneventful for seventeen-year-old Warren Avery, getting through his final year of school in damp, windy Southway, an isolated forest town. He studies hard, less from passion than duty, and longs for something to happen that might bring some excitement to his dull days.But then a mysterious stranger arrives in town to set up a secret research facility and, recogni...
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    21,11 €

  • Comparison
    Aaron Hughes
    Comparison is held to be one of the central methods of the academic study of religion. While many ostensibly engage in the comparative act, often overlooked is what it actually means to do this. What is comparison? Why engage in it and for what purposes? Can there be such a thing as a valid or invalid comparison?This book starts with the premise that while there are good compar...
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    35,89 €

  • Jacob Neusner on Religion
    Aaron W Hughes
    Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the first full critical assessment of his thought on the subject of religion. Aaron ...
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    75,15 €

  • Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity
    Aaron Hughes
    Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, and modern version of the religion that they believe to be explicit in the pages of the Qur’ān, but missed by earlier interpreters. In so doing, they create “good” Islam and, in the process, seek to define what does and does not get to count as authentic. As the purveyors of what they...
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    38,41 €

  • Theorizing Islam
    Aaron W. Hughes
    The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, authenticity, experience and meaning and has effectively avoided discussion of larger social, cultural and ideological issues. Many scholars of Islam have presented themselves to their colleagues, the media and the public as the interpreters...
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    77,73 €

  • Defining Judaism
    Aaron W. Hughes
    Judaism is a monotheistic religion with a history of over 3,500 years. ’Defining Judaism’ illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues required for comparative and historical study of the faith. The texts range from historical attempts to define individual ’Jews’ to imagining Judaism as a religion like other religions, to modern and post-modern attempts to decentre...
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    76,21 €

  • Jewish Philosophy A-Z
    Aaron W. Hughes
    In an accessible style and format, Jewish Philosophy A-Z covers everything from Philo to Levinas and explores non-Jewish thinkers, such as Plotinus and Heidegger, who have had an important influence on Jewish philosophy. ...
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    37,36 €