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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Religion and Postmodernism | Reading Level: very good
In this work, Jacques Derrida guides the reader through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - all occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. The archival concept has played a pivotal role in numerous critical debates - a place of origin, yet of ...Show more
Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an by Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion Ser. | Reading Level: very good
As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to introduce the Qur'an and its intellectual heritage to En ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture - Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Religion | Reading Level: very good
Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture - the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions - may not be im ...Show more
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