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  • ON FREEDOM
    EILEEN BARKER
    The London School of Economics and Political Science has embraced the full range of the social sciences and its related disciplines. Contributors to this book were invited to write on the subject of freedom. ...

    $1,280.00

  • THE CENTRALITY OF RELIGION IN SOCIAL LIFE
    EILEEN BARKER
    James A. Beckford's work is internationally acclaimed not only in the sociology of religion, but also in other fields of the social sciences. Beckford has long been arguing that the barriers that have grown up between the different sub-disciplines should be broken down, with those specialising in religion becoming more cognisant of new theoretical developments, and sociologists...

    $1,240.00

  • REACTIONS TO THE LAW BY MINORITY RELIGIONS
    EILEEN BARKER / JAMES T. RICHARDSON
    Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority religions, but relatively little has been written about how such religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of responses by minority religions to the legal environments within which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer examples from North America, Europe and Asia demon...

    $1,240.00

  • REVISIONISM AND DIVERSIFICATION IN NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
    EILEEN BARKER
    New Religious Movements tend to start their lives with a number of unequivocal statements, not only of a theological nature but also about the world and appropriate behaviours for the believer. Yet these apparently inalienable Truths and their interpretations frequently become revised, ’adjusted’ or selectively adopted by different believers. This book explores different ways...

    $1,420.00

  • HEALTH AND HEALING IN MINORITY RELIGIONS
    EILEEN BARKER
    This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and meanings that religions use to indicate their understandings of the body and its b...

    $1,240.00