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America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Stroup Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...

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Christianity

Biography & Memoires

Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life

Sladek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...

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Christianity

America

America's Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life

Sands Kathleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300213867, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When Americans fight about "religion", we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core politi...

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Christianity

First Christian Hymnal The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944394684, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2019
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection offers the first English translation of the oldest known Christian hymnal, a book of hymns which was compiled in Jerusalem during the later 4th or early 5th century. "The First Christian Hymnal" offers an unmatched resource for unders...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Patriarch and the Caliph An Eighth-Century Dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi

Samir Khalil Samir

ISBN: HB: 9780842529891, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Patriarch and the Caliph" presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich deb...

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Christianity

Becoming a New Self Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism

Sluhovsky Moshe

ISBN: HB: 9780226472850, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Becoming a New Self", Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the ca...

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Christianity

Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Calvin's Exegesis of Job from Medieval and Modern Perspectives

Schreiner Susan E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529240, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through countless retellings, from the Talmud to Archibald MacLeish and since, the story of Job has become a fixture in the cultural imagination of the West. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the...

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Christianity

Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529884, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed interest in literature on martyrs, which represented a potential reaction among some Christian communities to the rise of Islam in the region. The adaption...

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Christianity

Chinese Theology Text and Context

Starr Chloe

ISBN: HB: 9780300204216, Yale University Press, September 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chines...

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