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Christianity

Europe

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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America

Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Philology of the Flesh

Hamilton John T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226572826, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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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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Christianity

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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Christianity

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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Christianity

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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