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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad

Crosson J. Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...

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Christianity

Law

Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...

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Christianity

Lives of Objects Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

Kotrosits Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226707587, ISBN: HB: 9780226707440, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Our lives are filled with objects – ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When these are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they change. An object out...

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Christianity

Biography & Memoires

Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life

Sladek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...

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Christianity

Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood

Clevenger Casey Ritchie

ISBN: PB: 9780226697550, ISBN: HB: 9780226697413, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 3 tables

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asi...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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America

Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Volume 1: Fragments The Existential Situation of Our Time

Tracy David

ISBN: HB: 9780226567297, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy's range and erudition, collecting essay...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Volume 2: Filaments Theological Profiles

Tracy David

ISBN: HB: 9780226567327, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought...

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Christianity

Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

Gaston Healan K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...

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