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America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Stroup Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...

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Christianity

Biography & Memoires

Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life

Sladek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...

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Islam

Radical Love Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Safi Omid

ISBN: PB: 9780300248616, Yale University Press, November 2019
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love fo...

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Christianity

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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Judaism

American Judaism A History (Second Edition)

Sarna Jonathan D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190397, Yale University Press, August 2019
552 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

This magisterial work traces American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, exploring how Judaism adapted, how American culture affected Jewish religion and culture, and how American Jews shaped their own communities a...

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Christianity

First Christian Hymnal The Songs of the Ancient Jerusalem Church: Parallel Georgian-English Texts

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944394684, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2019
338 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection offers the first English translation of the oldest known Christian hymnal, a book of hymns which was compiled in Jerusalem during the later 4th or early 5th century. "The First Christian Hymnal" offers an unmatched resource for unders...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 30 West Africa

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: PB: 9781787381506, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How does one navigate the rich cultural and political geography of West Africa? Mapping the diverse manifestations of Islamic influence, this issue of "Critical Muslim" brings together the resplendent but manifold articulations...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 29 Futures

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: PB: 9781787381490, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How is the future changing? Is there a single determinant future or a plethora of alternative futures? How do we actually study futures and can we trust anything anyone says about 'the future'? Are Muslim societies prepared for...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 28 Narratives

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: PB: 9781787380219, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How do we communicate meaning in the age of fake news? What is the difference between narrative and information; between ideology and political narrative; between "narrative fiction" and a story? Will the narration continue for...

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