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Religious Conflict in Brazil Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300243352, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity and nuance, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and vio...
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New Testament A Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780300248449, Yale University Press, December 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm
David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur," "as if doctrine is not given". Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produ...
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Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, ISBN: HB: 9780300140972, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...
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Atlas of Religions in Czechia
ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...
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£30,00
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Christianity and Race in the American South A History
ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...
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£32,00
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Philology of the Flesh
ISBN: HB: 9780226572826, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...
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Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota
ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Little History of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...
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Martin Luther Visionary Reformer
ISBN: PB: 9780300226379, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther. The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious...
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£14,99
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God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony
ISBN: HB: 9780226359625, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine".God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question": How can th...
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