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Anthropology

Apples and Oranges Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226564074, ISBN: HB: 9780226563916, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 tables

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to tak...

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Philosophy

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Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity

Levene Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...

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Philosophy

On Faith and Science

Larson Edward J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300216172, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 21x14 cm

Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...

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America

Secularism in Antebellum America

Lardas Modern John

ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...

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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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