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The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World

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Sustainable Qatar : Social, Political and Environmental Perspectives

This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water…

The Great Disruptor = Über Trump, die Medien und die Politik der Herabsetzung

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Het Sultanaat Palembang 1811-1825 : Een bijdrage tot de studie van de Maleise…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-90-04-28703-7

Collation

xii, 512 pp

Series Title

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 72

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Heirs to World Culture : Being Indonesian, 1950-1965

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Healers on the Colonial Market : Native Doctors and Midwives in the Dutch Eas…

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Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One : Mantras, Initiation an…

Sanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement and older, Brahminical tradition. On the basis of eleven manuscripts, thi…

Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion : Exploring Ritual Cr…

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Handbook of Leaving Religion

The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The handbook consists of three sections: 1) Major debates about leaving religion; 2) Case studies and empirical insights; and 3) Theoretical and methodological approaches. Section one …