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Paul Gifford
A compelling analysis of the connection between violence and the sacred, using Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to point the way towards Christian reconciliation.
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Paints a clear and coherent picture of the evolution of erotic ideas and their imaginary and formal expressions in modern French writing. This book retraces the formative matrix of French…
Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals?
‘Religion’ can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition–based on the premise of superhuman powers–can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion…
This book describes and analyses the role the Christian churches have played in Africa’s political restructuring since the mid-1980’s. It contains theoretical discussions and 13 case studies, covering events up…
This study examines the role of Christianity in Liberia under the corrupt regime of Samuel K. Doe (1980-1990).
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This study examines the role of Christianity in Liberia under the corrupt rule of Samuel K. Doe (1980-90). Paul Gifford argues that the Church encouraged obedience and acceptance of the…
These detailed analyses of the state of the churches in each country suggest more general patterns operating widely across sub-Saharan Africa.
No other book brings forth the complex nature of Africa’s new Christianity with such clarity or offers such a searching analysis of its power to tackle Africa’s predicament.
An account of the work of the French modernist writer Paul Valery.
The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Paul Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. This 1999 volume of essays by…
Emeritus Professor Paul Gifford (Soas)
Argues that science's focus on the natural has displaced the supernatural in Western religion, such that it is now largely reduced to a concern for liberal causes.
Europe and its Others
This book asks: How far do cultural mechanisms of controlling violence, which allowed humankind to cross the threshold of hominization - i.e., to survive and develop in its evolutionary emergence…
Joining disciplinary worlds, this book explores this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy.
Paul M. Gifford
This book offers a discussion of the medieval origins of the dulcimer and its subsequent spread to other parts of the world. Special attention is paid to the North American…
Professor Paul Gifford (University of St Andrews Scotland)
Contemporary African Christianity encompasses at least two profoundly different conceptions of religion, with important implications for development and modernity on the continent
Paul McKee Gifford
Attempts to trace all male lines from the lairds of Halkerton beginning with Alexander Falconer of Halkerton, who died about 1499. Nearly all of the cadet lines descend from his…
Steve Brouwer,Paul Gifford,Susan D. Rose
An interdisciplinary study that explores the pervasive influence of Christian fundamentalism in a variety of nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. It explains how American evangelicalism has developed and…
Edwin Hamilton 1820-1905 Gifford
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
A detailed historical account of the emergence of economic history as an academic discipline in England told through a combination of biography, institutional change and the history of scientific thought…
An interdisciplinary study exploring the pervasive influence of Christian fundamentalism in a variety of nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. It explains how American evangelicalism has developed and exported…
Clive Gifford
This exciting picture book for curious kids measures and compares a huge variety of different subjects. Absorbing and entertaining, you’ll never look at the world in the same way again.
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This absorbing and surprising book measures and compares a huge variety of different subjects: the strongest animals, the biggest poopers and eaters, the amount of water in the oceans, the…
Covers a range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. This title includes chapters that examine such general…
Gender and African Prehistory emphasizes environmental reconstructions over the past four decades and uncovers paleoenvironmental factors on both the macro and microscopic levels.
Paul Valery
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