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Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...
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£28,00
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Is Europe Christian?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381902, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In this short but bracing book, Olivier Roy traces the Church's long battle against a tide of secularization in Europe. Since the Enlightenment, religion has been losing ground as the source of moral norms. But while the questi...
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Introduction to the New Testament
ISBN: PB: 9780300173123, ISBN: HB: 9780300140163, Yale University Press, May 2016
928 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps
From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the "New Testament" with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic content and issues of the "New...
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£24,00
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Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics
ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...
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£39,00
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Introduction to the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9780300181791, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...
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Invention of Religion in Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...
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£78,00
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Inconstancy of the Indian Soul The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9780984201013, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, September 2011
108 pp., 18x11.5 cm
In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to re...
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Idea of the Catholic University Proceedings from the 30th Annual Conference of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9781589662193, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2010
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For decades, those involved in Catholic higher education – including professors, administrators, theologians, philosophers, and students – have perennially taken on the challenge of defining and clarifying what exactly and uniquely characterizes thei...
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£15,00
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I Corinthians
ISBN: HB: 9780300140446, Yale University Press, September 2008
688 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus., maps
This new translation of "First Corinthians" includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated wi...
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II Chronicles
ISBN: PB: 9780300139549, Yale University Press, December 2007
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible Commentary" series) is a crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible. Like "I Chronicles", it has been both over- and undervalued. In recent years it has,...
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