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Jewish Studies

War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution

Iyigun Murat

ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...

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Christianity

Emptiness Feeling Christian in America

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226237466, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves – a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In "Emptiness", John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Chris...

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Christianity

Revival and Awakening American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

Becker Adam H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226145310, ISBN: HB: 9780226145280, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as...

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Buddhism

Rescued from the Nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Kemper Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226199078, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drov...

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Christianity

Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...

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Christianity

Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Other

Anthropology

Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...

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Asia

Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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Christianity

Empire of Religion Imperialism and Comparative Religion

Chidester David

ISBN: PB: 9780226117430, ISBN: HB: 9780226117263, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in "Empire of Religion", documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparati...

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Middle East

Islam

Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

Iqtidar Humeira

ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm

"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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