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Migrants in the Profane Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization

Gordon Peter E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250763, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Migrants in the Profane" takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theolog...

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Make Yourselves Gods Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism

Coviello Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226474335, ISBN: HB: 9780226474168, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexually, even racially––by the extravagances of belief they called "religion". "Make Yourselves Gods" of...

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Ministry of Presence Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226641836, ISBN: HB: 9780226779751, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most people in the United States today no longer live their lives under the guidance of local institutionalized religious leadership, such as rabbis, ministers, and priests; rather, liberals and conservatives alike have taken charge of their own reli...

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Biography & Memoires

Martin Luther Visionary Reformer

Hendrix Scott H.

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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Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217216, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm

For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strange...

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More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918

Urvina Anthony, Urvina Sally

ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...

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Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)

Meier John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...

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Europe

Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

de Certeau Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...

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Meister Eckhart Philosopher of Christianity

Flasch Kurt, Schindel Anne, Vanides Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300204865, Yale University Press, October 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and posthum...

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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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