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Islam

Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

Hirschkind Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226746951, ISBN: HB: 9780226746814, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftones

Today it seems the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, are hardening. Daily editorials compare the contemporary arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711", warn...

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Christianity

Vida y muerte de San Cristobal by Juan de Benavides

Grubbs Anthony J.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986298, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, December 2020
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

As the patron of travelers, Saint Christopher inspired one of the most popular cults in the medieval era, which spread across Europe and especially the Iberian Peninsula. Artistic renderings of the saint were found near the doors of most Spanish Goth...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...

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Judaism

Jewish Question Again

Dalsheim Joyce, Starrett Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781734643503, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge in right-wing authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and white supremacism, and the racist, xenophobic, and misogynist violence they spread. Like historic ne...

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Christianity

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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Hinduism

Chandrabati's Ramayan

ISBN: HB: 9789385932946, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. I...

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Esoteric

Buddhism

Little Bit of Zen An introduction to Zen Buddhism

O'Hara Roshi Pat Enkyo

ISBN: HB: 9781454940593, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.

This entry in the popular Little Bit of series introduces the ancient practice of Zen Buddhism. What is Zen? It's an ancient spiritual system rooted in Buddhism that began in China and spread throughout Asia, finally reaching the West. It encompasses...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism

Nahmanides Law and Mysticism

Halbertal Moshe, Tabak Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300140910, Yale University Press, October 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides w...

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Christianity

Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300255331, ISBN: HB: 9780300241419, Yale University Press, October 2020
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Evangelicalism is arguably America's most controversial religious movement. Nonevangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what "evangelical" means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white R...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition

Layton Bentley, Brakke David

ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...

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