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Literary Criticism

Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials

Vaughan Lock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones

Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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Women Studies

Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...

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Sensational Religion Sensory Cultures in Material Practice

Promey Sally M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227086, Yale University Press, May 2017
832 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 81 black&white illus., 103 colour images

The result of a collaborative, multi year project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense", the studies assembled here ask, How hav...

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Anthropology

Christianity

Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

Blanton Thomas R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220407, Yale University Press, March 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul's letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion. The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Ro...

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Spiritual Defiance Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Meyers Robin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219814, ISBN: HB: 9780300203523, Yale University Press, May 2016
168 pp., 21x14 cm

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the c...

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Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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