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Judaism

Jewish Studies

History of German Jewish Bible Translation

Gillman Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226477725, ISBN: HB: 9780226477695, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational...

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Islam

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

Calvert John

ISBN: PB: 9781849049498, ISBN: HB: 9781849040068, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and...

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Islam

Middle East

Boko Haram Reader From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State

Kassim Abdulbasit, Nwankpa Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849048842, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if an...

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Islam

Military

Islamist Terrorism in Europe A History

Nesser Petter

ISBN: PB: 9781849049504, ISBN: HB: 9781849044059, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings and the grisly murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 are stark reminders of the terrorist threat posed by militant Islamist extremism in Europe. Whereas the death of Osama bin Laden a...

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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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Christianity

America

American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Hinduism

Keshab Bengal's Forgotten Prophet

Stevens John A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849049016, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India,...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 26 Gastronomy

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: PB: 9781849049726, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What is halal? Does Islam have a particular flavour? Is culture transferred through gastronomy? In this issue we resist intoxication by wine and soberly sample the culinary delights of the Muslim world – then and now. By explo...

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Buddhism

Secular Buddhism Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300234251, Yale University Press, March 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism. As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation....

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Europe

Christianity

Conscience and Conversion Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France

Kselman Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300226133, Yale University Press, March 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons...

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