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71. Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity

    A Reader in the Anglophone Caribbean

    By J.W. Pulis

    Although the religions of the Caribbean have been a subject of popular media, there have been few ethnographic publications. This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at...

    Published April 22nd 1999 by Routledge
72. A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism

    By Karel Werner

    A multi-purpose reference work which should become an indispensable companion for anybody who comes into touch with Hinduism. Includes a dictionary of Sanskrit and vernacular terms; a glossary of terms and concepts; and a survey of the historical development of Hinduism....

    Published December 15th 1997 by Routledge
73. The World of Goods

    2nd Edition

    By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood

    This revised edition with new Introduction from a leading anthropologist and an economist is unique in being about consumption but not a sermon for consumers, nor a moan against consumerism. The World of Goods bridges the gap between what anthropologists know about why objects are desired and what...

    Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
74. The Dark Side of Humanity

    By Robert Parking

    Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the Coll&...

    Published March 17th 1996 by Routledge
75. The Selfless Mind

    Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism

    By Peter Harvey

    This careful analysis of early Buddhist thought opens out a perspective in which no permanent Self is accepted, but a rich analysis of changing and potent mental processes is developed. It explores issues relating to the not-Self teaching: self-development, moral responsibility, the between-lives...

    Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge
76. Social Laws Of The Qoran

    By Robert Roberts

    First published in 1995...

    Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge
77. The British

    Their Religious Beliefs and Practices 1800-1986

    Edited by Terence Thomas

    Series: The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices

    A source book for the study of religions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenging the view that Britain is and has been a predominantly single religion country. This pluralism is shown to apply within Christianity as well as outside....

    Published September 7th 1988 by Routledge