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The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media...

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€35.50

Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

2018, Winner of the Charles Smith Award In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against...

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€37.80

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East...

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€16.20

Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World

An exploration of pilgrimage, through nineteen breath-taking sites across the globe 'One simply c...

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What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife

A lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating death-related beli...

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The Catholic Reformation: A Very Short Introduction

The Catholic Reformation: A Very Short Introduction traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginni...

€12.00

Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way commu...

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€24.40

Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement

In the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region...

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The Quotable Kierkegaard

“Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven—in the spring at th...

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Why God Needs War and War Needs God

or decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, in...

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€16.40

Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics

A captivating journey through the lives of Christian mystics—from the early Church to the twentieth...

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€31.40

Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint

An award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the...

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€24.60

Abraham: The First Jew

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the con...

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€20.90

Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today

In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. B...

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€26.20

Buddhism: A Journey Through History

One of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across th...

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€18.30