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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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America

American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Political Science

Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State

Johnson Paul Christopher, Klassen Pamela E., Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...

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Islam

Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...

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Credulity A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

Ogden Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226532332, ISBN: HB: 9780226532165, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the...

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Reclaiming Catherine of Siena Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others

Tylus Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226529103, ISBN: HB: 9780226821283, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no...

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Philosophy

Patriarch and the Caliph An Eighth-Century Dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi

Samir Khalil Samir

ISBN: HB: 9780842529891, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Patriarch and the Caliph" presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich deb...

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Buddhism

Prisoners of Shangri-La Tibetan Buddhism and the West

Lopez Jr. Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226485485, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, "Prisoners of Shangri-La" pr...

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Buddhism

Hyecho's Journey The World of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226517902, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 1 halftone

In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam,...

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Philosophy

Other

Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity

Levene Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...

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