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Product Description: This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond examines the way in which the gaps, hints and illusions within this biblical story were filled out in seventeenth-century English thought...read more
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9780521660761 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Paperback:
9780521090841 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 27, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Hardcover:
9780521355032 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $99.99
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9780521033855 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 12, 2007, cover price $44.99
Product Description: Exclusively devoted to demonic possession amd exorcism in early modern England, this book offers modernized versions of the most significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from 1570 to 1650. The nine stories of demonic possession were either written by eyewitnesses or derived from eyewitness reports...read more
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9780521037129 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 20, 2007), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Exclusively devoted to demonic possession amd exorcism in early modern England, this book offers modernized versions of the most significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from 1570 to 1650.
Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contempory Text and Their Cultural Contexts
Product Description: Exclusively devoted to demonic possession amd exorcism in early modern England, this book offers modernized versions of the most significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from 1570 to 1650. The nine stories of demonic possession were either written by eyewitnesses or derived from eyewitness reports...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521813235 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 16, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Exclusively devoted to demonic possession amd exorcism in early modern England, this book offers modernized versions of the most significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from 1570 to 1650.
Hardcover:
9780801453373 | Cornell Univ Pr, August 5, 2014, cover price $29.95
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9781784536398 | Gardners Books, March 30, 2016, cover price $16.80
Product Description: 'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.' Reginald Scot, whose words these are, published his remarkable book The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584...read more
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9781848857933, titled "England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot & 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'" | Tauris Academic Studies, July 15, 2011, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: "The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can endure with patience the hand and correction of God.
Paperback:
9781780769639, titled "England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot & 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft'" | Reprint edition (Tauris Academic Studies, December 4, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.
Product Description: This book offers the first full account of life after death and the changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650-1750. It explores seventeenth and eighteenth century images of the journey of body and soul from Platonist accounts of preexistence, to the intermediate state between death and the Last Day, to the Final Judgment and beyond into heaven or hell...read more
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9780521453714 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This book offers the first full account of life after death and the changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650-1750.
Paperback:
9780521101257 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 12, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book offers the first full account of life after death and the changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650-1750.
Product Description: This book is concerned with Western images of Muhammad and Islam, and examines changing attitudes to the Prophet and Islam in 19th-century England: It analyzes the shifts in images of the Prophet from that of the profligate, heretical, lustful, ambitious imposter of the late medieval and early modern period to the much more sympathetic portrayal of Muhammad in the 19th century as a noble Arab, sincere, heroic, pious and courageous...read more
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9783447029131 | Otto Harrassowitz, December 31, 1989, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: This book is concerned with Western images of Muhammad and Islam, and examines changing attitudes to the Prophet and Islam in 19th-century England: It analyzes the shifts in images of the Prophet from that of the profligate, heretical, lustful, ambitious imposter of the late medieval and early modern period to the much more sympathetic portrayal of Muhammad in the 19th century as a noble Arab, sincere, heroic, pious and courageous.
Product Description: In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness, and popery...read more
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9781780760629 | Tauris Academic Studies, September 15, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness, and popery.
Product Description: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion...read more
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9789027931603 | Mouton De Gruyter, August 1, 1982, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion.
Product Description: Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists. Elements of Otto's theories are shown to be closely related to the social and intellectual milieu of Germany both before and after World War I...read more
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9780807815892 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists.
Paperback:
9780807896044 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 6, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists.
Product Description: There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of The Witches of Warboys. On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow...read more
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9781845115081 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 6, 2008, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of The Witches of Warboys.
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