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Roger Casas,
Worldly Engagements

The Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, located in China's southern Yunnan province, is the largest community of Theravada Buddhists in a country where the Mahayana tradition is dominant. In recent decades, and in …

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues of Fire, anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an eighteen-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigma…

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H P R Twiston Davies
The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

T exts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or…

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Elisabetta Porcu
Negotiations of the Sacred

Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan's most famous festivals, the Gion Matsuri, held in Kyoto in July. Dating back more than a thousand years, the festival today features …

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Water Powers

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals---from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales---and environmental chan…

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Steven Mark Lowenstein,
The Population History of German Jewry 1815-1939

AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judais…

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A Cultural History of Magic

What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has magic been understood and represented? And how has this understanding differed accordin…

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Melissa F Lavin
Greater Secrets

To be human is to crave prediction, especially during frightening and destabilizing times. We turn to all sorts of things to create meaning from the mayhem; from religion, to family, to therapy, to work. …

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Melissa F Lavin
Greater Secrets

To be human is to crave prediction, especially during frightening and destabilizing times. We turn to all sorts of things to create meaning from the mayhem; from religion, to family, to therapy, to work. …

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Chris Jennings
End of Days

"A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle...reminiscent of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood." ---The New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the hist…

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Artie Bennett,
The Tenth Man

The true story of how a nearly 100-year-old synagogue and its elderly congregation found new life, hope, and community in New Orleans.In Orthodox tradition, one needs ten Jewish men to perform certain pra…

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Calum Lister Matheson
Post-Weird

An ambitious look at rhetoric and psychosis that explores how communities form when society collapsesAmerican society seems to have fractured. Common touchpoints of authority have receded in recent decade…

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Pamela Lothspeich,
Raslila and Ramlila

This short volume introduces readers to the interrelated devotional theatres of Raslila or Krishnalila (the play of Krishna), and Ramlila (the play of Ram), in a clear, accessible style.Pamela Lothspeich …

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Steven Ujifusa
The Last Ships from Hamburg

"Thoroughly researched and beautifully written history."---New York Times Book Review"Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age."---Wall Street JournalA propulsive…

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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Basit Kareem Iqbal
The Dread Heights

"The Dread Heights is a remarkable contribution to the anthropology of religion. Iqbal traces the different ways refugees fleeing from the political cruelty and oppression of the Syrian regime resort…

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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of the Body

Attention to the body is an exciting emerging dimension of anthropological research. A collection of diverse conversations contributed by a global team of scholars, this Handbook is a state-of-the-field s…

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