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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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Christianity

Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

Oliphant Elayne

ISBN: PB: 9780226731261, ISBN: HB: 9780226731124, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage". In a creative inve...

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Islam

Criminology

Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet

Tugendhaft Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...

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Islam

Christmas and the Qur'an

Kuschel Karl-Josef

ISBN: PB: 9781909942387, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The familiar and heartwarming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus. It is also a story that unites Christianity and Islam – two faiths that have often been at odds with each other. The accounts of the Nativ...

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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