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Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Religion of Falun Gong

Penny Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226655017, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights a...

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Islam

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proof of Prophecy A Parallel Arabic-English Text

Khalidi Tarif

ISBN: HB: 9780842527873, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2012
400 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known to medieval Europe as "Rha...

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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Christianity

Jewish Studies

Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown

Skinner Andrew C., Davis D. Morgan, Griffin Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.

Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...

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Buddhism

Shots in the Dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Yamada Shoji

ISBN: PB: 9780226947655, ISBN: HB: 9780226947648, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the years after World War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of spirituality in Japan. Pursuing the sources of Zen as a Japanese ideal, Shoji Yamada uncovers the surprising role of two cultural touchstones: Eugen He...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Seeking the Straight and Narrow Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

Gerber Lynne

ISBN: PB: 9780226288123, ISBN: HB: 9780226288116, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals – and that God will provide reliable paths towar...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Philosophy

Saints Faith without Borders

Meltzer Francoise, Elsner Jas

ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...

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Philosophy

Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...

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