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Philosophy

Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...

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America

American Catholics A History

Woodcock Tentler Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...

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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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Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

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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Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Apocalypse as Holy War Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

Wasserman Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300204025, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interp...

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America

American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Jewish Studies

Age of Secrecy Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800

Jutte Daniel, Riemer Jeremiah

ISBN: HB: 9780300190984, Yale University Press, July 2015
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge which extended into all areas of daily life. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this engrossing, vivid,...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Europe

Atheist's Bible The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

Minois Georges

ISBN: HB: 9780226530291, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
264 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line illus.

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous...

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