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Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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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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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Apocalypse as Holy War Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

Wasserman Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300204025, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interp...

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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

Against Dharma Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics

Doniger Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300216196, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14 cm

Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal n...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Amos A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Eidevall Goran

ISBN: HB: 9780300178784, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculat...

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Philosophy

Islam

Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"

Al-Ghazali

ISBN: PB: 9780226526478, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his "Incoherence of the Philosophers", "Moderation in Belief" is his most profound work of philosop...

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Political Science

Islam

Al-Qaeda 2.0 A Critical Reader

Holbrook Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781849048101, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 16 June 2011, three days before his sixtieth birthday, Ayman al-Zawahiri was declared the new leader of Al-Qaeda, replacing the fallen Osama bin Laden. The veteran Egyptian jihadist has little of his predecessor's charisma a...

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Political Science

American Religion, American Politics An Anthology

Kosek Joseph Kip

ISBN: PB: 9780300203516, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Essential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's history. Despite the centrality of separation of church and state in American government, religion has played an important role in t...

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Buddhism

After Buddhism Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300224344, Yale University Press, April 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Ste...

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