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  • THE BRAHMA KUMARIS AS A ‘REFLEXIVE TRADITION’
    JOHN WALLISS
    This title was first published  in 2002. Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious Movement of Indian origin, this book examines the status of tradition in the contemporary world through a critical engagement with the recent social theory of Anthony Giddens on the emergence of a post-traditional society. Wallis exa...

    $859.00

  • THEORISING RELIGION
    JOHN WALLISS
    Religion is controversial and challenging. Whilst religious forces are powerful in numerous societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life in other places. The task of theoretical work in the sociology of religion is, therefore, to make sense of this apparently paradoxical situation in which religion is simultaneously significant and in...

    $1,059.00

  • THE END ALL AROUND US
    JOHN WALLISS / KENNETH G. C. NEWPORT
    The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film. The essays draw on representations of the apocalypse in heavy metal music, science fiction, disaster movies and anime. The book examines key apocalyptic texts...

    $999.00