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Christianity

Revival and Awakening American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

Becker Adam H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226145310, ISBN: HB: 9780226145280, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as...

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Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...

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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Empire of Religion Imperialism and Comparative Religion

Chidester David

ISBN: PB: 9780226117430, ISBN: HB: 9780226117263, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in "Empire of Religion", documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparati...

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Christianity

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities

Lassner Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...

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America

Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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Christianity

Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics

Leon Sharon M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...

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Buddhism

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson Jason Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...

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Europe

Atheist's Bible The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

Minois Georges

ISBN: HB: 9780226530291, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
264 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line illus.

Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous...

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Judaism

Promise of Salvation A Theory of Religion

Riesebrodt Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226006932, ISBN: HB: 9780226713915, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm

Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that...

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