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  • Introduction to World Religions

    Edited by Christopher Partridge ...
    A leading textbook for world religion, this new edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations.The second ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cannabis, Sacred and Profane

    Focussing on the ways in which cannabis has been demonized, sacralized and normalized, Christopher Partridge analyses the complex and often difficult relationship Western societies have had with the plant since the nineteenth century.After an introduction to cannabis and its uses, the book discusses how and why it was constructed as a profane influence and a marker of deviance. It then examines ... Read more

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  • The Lyre of Orpheus

    Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane

    The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Mortality and Music

    Popular Music and the Awareness of Death

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
    The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, ... Read more

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  • High Culture

    Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World

    History is littered with evidence of humanity's fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states. From early Romanticism to late-nineteenth-century occultism and from fin de siècle Paris to contemporary psychedelic shamanism, psychoactive substances have playedcatalyzing people. Yet serious analysis of the religious dimensions of modern drug use is still lacking. the use of drugs and the ... Read more

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  • A Brief Introduction to Jainism and Sikhism

    Series series Brief Introductions to World Religions
    This brief introduction to Jainism and Sikhism is designed to help readers understand these important religious traditions. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of Jainism and Sikhism with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both historical overviews and modern perspectives on Jain and Sikh beliefs and practices. The user-friendly content is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Occult World

    Edited by Christopher Partridge ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as ... Read more

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  • The Lure of the Dark Side

    Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture

    Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature. Their religious significance has only recently begun to be explored. 'The Lure of the Darkside' brings together the work of some of the most important and creative scholars in the field of Biblical and Religious Studies. The essays explore demonology in popular culture from a range of ... Read more

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  • A Brief Introduction to Hinduism

    Series series Brief Introductions to World Religions
    This brief introduction to Hinduism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of Hinduism with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both historical overviews and modern perspectives on Hindu beliefs and practices. The user-friendly content is enhanced by charts of religious ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief Introduction to Buddhism

    Series series Brief Introductions to World Religions
    This brief introduction to Buddhism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage of various forms of Buddhism with an arresting layout with rich colors. It offers both historical overviews and modern perspectives on Buddhist beliefs and practices. The user-friendly content is enhanced by charts of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to World Religions

    This leading textbook for world religion is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations. Introductory sections on ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Religions, Spiritualities, and Popular Music

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
    This groundbreaking volume examines the relationship between new religions, alternative spiritualities, and popular music.Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on scholarship within the study of new religions, the sociology of religion, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and critical musicology. It examines the ways in which devotion to a band can lead to the establishment of a ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD