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To Care for Creation The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement

Ellingson Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226367385, ISBN: HB: 9780226367248, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as...

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Gender Studies

Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church

Allie Tichenor Kimba

ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...

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God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony

Hart Ray L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226359625, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine".God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question": How can th...

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More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918

Urvina Anthony, Urvina Sally

ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...

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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – February

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529402, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, November 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...

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Europe

Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

de Certeau Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...

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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...

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Political Science

Politics of Religious Freedom

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred, Shakman Hurd Elizabeth, Mahmood Saba, Danchin Peter G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226248509, ISBN: HB: 9780226248479, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have r...

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Jewish Studies

War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution

Iyigun Murat

ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...

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Emptiness Feeling Christian in America

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226237466, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves – a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In "Emptiness", John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Chris...

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