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V&R unipress Religionen und Freiheiten
Book SynopsisFreiheit in verschiedenen historischen Epochen, religiÃsen Kontexten und kulturellen RÃumen
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religionen Und Tod
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V&r Academic Elitekultur Und Christliche Religiositat in
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Wenn Engel Lachen: Die Unverhoffte
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Brill Processus contra Templarios in Francia.
Book SynopsisIn Processus contra Templarios in Francia Magdalena Satora presents the first complete critical edition of the records of the Paris proceedings against the Order of the Temple (1309-1311). Dans Processus contra Templarios in Francia, Magdalena Satora présente la première édition critique complète des procès-verbaux de la procédure menée contre l’Ordre du Temple à Paris (1309-1311).Table of ContentsRemerciements Table des illustrations Abréviations Introduction Le procès des templiers en France (1307-1314) Contenu de la source – les travaux de la commission pontificale de Paris (1309-1311) Manuscrits conservés Utilisation antérieure du document et discussion sur sa valeur comme source historique Les éditions précédentes Principes adoptés pour l’ édition Processus contra Templarios in Francia Août 1309 Séance du 8 août 1309 Séance du 9 août 1309 Novembre 1309 Séance du 12 novembre 1309 Séance du 13 novembre 1309 Séance du 14 novembre 1309 Séance du 15 novembre 1309 Séance du 17 novembre 1309 Séance du 18 novembre 1309 Séance du 22 novembre 1309 Séance du 24 novembre 1309 Séance du 26 novembre 1309 Séance du 27 novembre 1309 Séance du 28 novembre 1309 Février 1310 Séance du 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Finnish Literature Society Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious
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Central European University Press Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism:
Book SynopsisThis book examines the rehabilitation over the past two decades of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1881-1956), the controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian philosopher, written fifty years after his death. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a traitor, antisemite and a fascist, Velimirovic has come to be regarded in Serbian society as a saintly figure and the most important religious person since medieval times. This book charts the posthumous passage of Velimirovic from 'traitor' to 'saint' and examines the complementary dynamics of repression and denial that were used to divert public attention from the controversies surrounding his life. This book presents the first detailed examination of the way in which an Eastern Orthodox Church manages controversy surrounding the presence of anti-Semitism within its ranks and considers the implications of the continuing reverence of Nikolaj Velimirovic for the persistence of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox culture and Serbian society as a whole. This study is based on a detailed examination of the changing representations of Velimirovic in the Serbian media and in commemorative discourse, as well as interviews with a number of prominent public figures who have been actively involved in the bishop's rehabilitation over the past two decades.Trade Review"It is hard to believe that there are almost no scholarly works on such an important and controversial figure. Therefore, the appearance of Jovan Byford's book is a welcome and timely contribution. A native of Serbia trained as a psychologist, Byford conducted interviews and drew on the secondary literature of his profession to create this unique study of the psychological operations behind the making of Velimirović's cult. Byford meticulously demonstrates the textual, rhetorical, and argumentative tactics employed by the promoters of Velimirović's cult to repress, deny, or justify Velimirović's antisemitism." * American Historical Review *"This book provides an authoritative vivisection of the goals, behavior, and strategies of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and sheds light on the chuavinism behind the myths of martyrdom. Byford's claims and conclusions are well supported by strong evidence, most of which comes from Church sources and Velimirović's own works. No serious student of Serbia should miss this impressive book." * Journal of Politics and Religion *Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Disputed Biography Of Nikolaj Velimirovic and His Changing Public Image 1945-2003 Chapter Three: Collective Remembering and Collective Forgetting: Memory of Nikolaj Velimirovic and the Repression of Controversy Chapter Four: From Repression to Denial: Responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to Accusations of Antisemitism Chapter Five: 'He Was Merely Quoting The Bible!': The Denial of Velimirovic's Antisemitism Chapter Six: Antisemitism as Prophecy: Social Construction of Velimirovic's Sanctity Chapter Seven Conclusion References Index
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Wipf & Stock Publishers The Jewish and the Christian Messiah: A Study in the Earliest History of Christianity
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Wipf & Stock Publishers The Jewish and the Christian Messiah: A Study in the Earliest History of Christianity
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National Book Network The Book of Jasher
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Oxford University Press The Reception of Continental Reformation in
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together reformation and reception studies by exploring the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in Britain. The 11 papers shed new light on familiar associations, draw attention to under-explored relationships, and identify how British reception in turn contributed to continued reform on the continent. Different aspects of reception from biblical translation and book history to popular politics and theological polemic are addressed. The volume also prompts further questions regarding British integration and the perception (and invention) of England''s ''exceptional'' status.Trade ReviewThere are no weak essays here: all deserve their place. * Glen Bowman, Church History *This volume contributes to that scholrarly movement of thought by rediscovering the Continental dimentions of the Reformations in Britain ... All most enlightening, reminding us of the 'strange death of Lutheran England' and the clear shift after Edward VI to a more Reformed version of Protestantism that characterised the settled state of the Church here in this formative period. * Dr Lee Gatiss, Churchman *Table of ContentsReformation and the Uses of Reception ; The Fog in the Channel Clears: The Rediscovery of the Continental Dimension to the British Reformation ; The Authority of Antiquity: England and the Protestant Latin Bible ; Unreliable Witnesses ; Erasmus or Calvin? The politics of book purchase in the early modern English parish ; The Reception of Martin Luther in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England ; Peter Martyr Vermigli's political theology and the Elizabethan Church ; John Knox, Christopher Goodman and the 'Example of Geneva' ; The Church of England and the Palatinate, 1566-1642 ; Martin Bucer and Early Seventeenth-Century Scottish Irenicism ; 'A Reformation of Common Learning': Educational reform in Reformed central Europe and its reception in the English-speaking world, c. 1642 ; Afterword
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Oxford University Press Charters of Glastonbury Abbey
Book SynopsisGlastonbury Abbey was the wealthiest and most influential monastery in later Anglo-Saxon England. It was a noted centre of scholarship, and claimed ancient origins which were later extravagantly embellished to link the house with such luminaries as St Patrick, St David and King Arthur. The historiographical evidence for Glastonbury is particularly challenging, because the accounts of the monastery''s early history were revised and interpolated over centuries, as the legends grew. There are also complications in the study of its archive: the manuscripts are mostly late and corrupt, and the whole is overshadowed by the contents list of a lost cartulary (the Liber Terrarum), which included many more early charters than now survive. The present volume is the first critical edition of the sixty-one surviving charters from the abbey''s pre-Conquest archive, which date from the later seventh century to the reign of Cnut. The texts are edited to a high standard, with comprehensive commentariesTrade Reviewimpressively learned work. Anyone working on any aspect of early medieval Glastonbury abbey and its lands must consult it, but anyone more generally interested in the Anglo-Saxon period in Wessex will find many unexpected insights in this important set of records. * Barbara Yorke, Southern History *This splendid volume by Susan Kelly is ... substantial, 624 pages, reflecting the size and wealth of the abbey of Glastonbury, and the mass of surviving charters and documentation. ... this must be seen as a very welcome addition to the study of Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury. * Teresa Hall, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History *a formidable work of scholarship ... a great accomplishment and a very important addition to the Anglo-Saxon Charters series. * Francesca Tinti, The English Historical Review *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; LIST OF CHARTERS; SIGLA; THE CHARTERS; APPENDIXES
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Oxford University Press Charters of Christ Church Canterbury
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Oxford University Press Charters of Christ Church Canterbury
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Oxford University Press Religion Language and Community in the Roman Near East
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OUP Oxford Bath and Wells 12061247
Book SynopsisThe volume is concerned with the pontificates of two bishops: Jocelin of Wells, 1206-42 and Roger of Salisbury, 1244-7. Jocelin was a supporter of King John and a witness to Magna Carta. His successor, Roger, was pre-eminently a scholar and theologian. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, edited texts, full critical apparatus, and indexes.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; THE ACTA; APPENDICES
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Oxford University Press Convent Autobiography
Book SynopsisConvent Autobiography reveals how English Catholic women wrote about themselves, their families, and their lives in a period where it was illegal to practice Catholicism in England. These nuns went into a two-fold kind of exile for their beliefs. They moved abroad and they died to the world, trying to cut ties with family and friends. Yet their convents needed support from outsiders to thrive. The nuns studied here reveal how they navigated this through their letters, printed works, paintings, and prayers. Often times these women wrote anonymously, a common practice for nuns, monks, and devout people of many religious persuasions up until the twentieth century. But anonymity was not just a neutral way of signalling humility or deep religious belief; it could allow people to write about themselves a lot more than they would have while writing under their own name. Exploring how some nuns exploited this to shape their convent''s chronicle around their own points of view, Convent AutobiogTrade ReviewThis book should be welcomed by those whose own interests lie beyond the spheres of Catholic history and women's writing. The book was undoubtedly framed with a broad readership in mind. Indeed, the author at all times assists in making it as accessible as possible to those unfamiliar with the topic. * Cormac Begadon, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Readers will also value the glossary of conventual terms, the painstakingly detailed index and the fulsome bibliography, all of which are in keeping with the rigorous and methodical work offered in this study of conventual texts through the lens of autobiography studies. * Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Journal of Religious History *One of the most impressive aspects of Van Hyning's findings is her ability to isolate what she refers to as "acts of self-betrayal" (32), or moments where an individual nun inadvertently reveals facts about her own identity. When combined with palaeographic observations, manuscript analysis, and prosopographical data, Van Hyning convincingly identifies individual nuns as authors, often for the first time. * Liam Peter Temple, Church History *Convent Autobiography is a major contribution to criticism on early modern Catholicism, and it belongs on the bookshelves of scholars interested in autobiography, the convents abroad, cloistered writing, and monastic history. Van Hyning's intrepid detective work and ground-breaking treatment of autobiography will open up valuable new terrain for anyone specializing in history, literary studies, religious studies, and women's studies. * Jaime Goodrich, Wayne State University, British Cathlic History *
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Oxford University Press Stephen Langton Quaestiones Theologiae
Book SynopsisStephen Langton (c.1228), later Archbishop of Canterbury, was a prominent master of theology, belonging to the first generation of scholars working at the faculty of theology of the nascent University of Paris. The Quaestiones Theologiae constitute his chief speculative work. Book III, volume 1, offers a critical edition of 24 disputed questions on Christology and faith. Each question is accompanied by a critical apparatus and source notes. The edition is preceded by an extensive analysis of Langton''s views. The volume also contains an important supplement to the study of the whole manuscript tradition of Langton''s QQuaestiones Theologiae and offers the first general stemma codicum of the Quaestiones.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and Editorial Policies Introduction Overview 1: Christology 2: Faith 3: Philological Introduction 4: List of Stemmata Codicum 5: Quaestiones Theologiae - Liber III, Tomus 1 Extra Indicem Bibliography Analytical Index Index of Names Biblical Index
£98.80
The University of Chicago Press Strong Religion The Rise of Fundamentalisms
Book Synopsis"Strong religion" draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project to answer questions on the future of fundamentalism, the turn to violence and the threats posed to human rights, security and democratic forms of government.Trade Review"At a time when misinformation and common misperceptions might aggravate international conflicts, Strong Religion offers an explanatory framework for understanding fundamentalisms around the world and establishes a vocabulary necessary for dialogue among different faiths and peoples." - Martin E. Marty
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Unconverted Self Jews Indians and the
Book SynopsisCompares the Christian efforts aimed toward European Jews and toward indigenous people of the New World, focusing on the intersection of colonial expansion with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the question of the colonial encounter. This title offers a major reassessment of early modern European identity.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and intriguing attempt to trace the ongoing processes of European self-definition from the relationship to Jews in the later Middle Ages to the encounter with New World peoples in the early modern period." - Barbara Fuchs, University of Pennsylvania"
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The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Readings in Western
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The University of Chicago Press Jews Christians and the Abode of Islam
Book SynopsisLooks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries.Trade Review"Lassner [is] one of the greatest authorities on medieval Islam." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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The University of Chicago Press Revival and Awakening
Book SynopsisShows that Americans through their missionaries had a strong hand in the development of one of the Middle East's most intriguing groups: the modern Assyrians. This book details the history of Christian minority and influence American missionaries had on them. It unveils a relationship between modern global contact and more.Trade Review"Unraveling the complex process in which the American Protestant project of moral and religious reform helped to stimulate the development of 'Assyrian' national consciousness, Becker provides an excellent example of how secular modernity could be configured in a noncolonial missionary context in the encounter between two different Christian communities." (Talal Asad, author of Formations of the Secular)
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The University of Chicago Press Socrates and the Jews
Book Synopsis"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Posed by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.Trade Review"A brief review can only testify to the richness of Leonard's readings of her primary sources and the book's many surprises and insights, all based on a profound grasp of the vast secondary literature.... Highly recommended." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in
Book SynopsisArgues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship.Trade Review"A fascinating study, which provides a series of striking insights into the career of one of the most colorful and influential figures in Christian antiquity. Jerome's Latin Bible would become the foundational text for the intellectual development of the West, providing words for the deepest aspirations and most intensely held convictions of an entire civilization. Williams's book does much to illumine the circumstances in which that fundamental text was produced, and reminds us that great ideas, like great people, have particular origins, and their own complex settings." (Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books) "Williams has written a provocative book, for it encourages us to look behind Jerome's rather difficult and oft-studied personal and theological conflicts with his contemporaries to view him in the light of his importance in the history of late-antique education and book culture." (Michele Renee Salzman, Speculum)"
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University of Chicago Press Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1844, and it was read by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism. It provides a view of how the Buddhism religion was understood in the nineteenth century.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Religious Question in Modern China
Book SynopsisHighlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to this day.Trade Review"This is a pioneering and original work of scholarship that draws on long-term and painstaking research to successfully redefine the role of religion in modern Chinese history. Experts and casual readers alike will benefit immensely from its publication." (Paul Katz, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Cult of Draupadi
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The University of Chicago Press Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of
Book SynopsisAt first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce, and real estate scarcity as one of the forces that shaped the New York City we know today. In Evangelical Gotham, Roberts explores the role of the urban evangelical community in the development of New York between the American Revolution and the Civil War. As developers prepared to open new neighborhoods uptown, evangelicals stood ready to build meetinghouses. As the city's financial center emerged and solidified, evangelicals capitalized on the resultant wealth, technology, and resources to expand their missionary and benevolent causes. When they began to feel that the city's morals had degenerated, evangelicals turned to temperance, Sunday school, prayer meetings, antislavery causes,
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The University of Chicago Press War Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God The
Book SynopsisDifferences 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? This book focuses on the big three monotheisms - Judaism, Islam, and Christianity - to consider such questions.Trade Review"Iyigun has written a fascinating and detail-rich book on the links between religion, economic growth, and conflict over a broad swath of history. War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including history, political economy, and religious studies, as well as being of interest to the broader public intrigued by the historical origins of differences in modern-day development." (Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University)
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The University of Chicago Press The Word and Its Witness
Book SynopsisExplores the development of religious media in America. This book shows how the homiletic tradition in Protestant sermons provided a foundation for the development of visual and literary realism.Trade Review"This is a smart and ambitious book. Jackson exhibits a refreshing mixture of punchy prose, playful allusiveness, lucid explanation, and careful use of sources. By reconnecting realist narrative to its religious roots, his book is destined to leave its mark on critical narratives about American readers and texts." - Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin - Madison"
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The University of Chicago Press The Word and Its Witness
Book SynopsisExplores the development of religious media in America. This book shows how the homiletic tradition in Protestant sermons provided a foundation for the development of visual and literary realism.Trade Review"This is a smart and ambitious book. Jackson exhibits a refreshing mixture of punchy prose, playful allusiveness, lucid explanation, and careful use of sources. By reconnecting realist narrative to its religious roots, his book is destined to leave its mark on critical narratives about American readers and texts." - Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin - Madison"
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press The Invention of Religion in Japan
Book SynopsisThrough most of its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." In this book, the author reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed.Trade Review"The Invention of Religion in Japan is truly revolutionary. Original, well-researched, and engrossing, it overturns basic assumptions in the study of Japanese thought, religion, science, and history." (Sarah Thal, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
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The University of Chicago Press Poetic Relations
Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.
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The University of Chicago Press Becoming a New Self Practices of Belief in Early
Book SynopsisIn Becoming a New Self, Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the case that these practices promoted the idea of achieving a new self through the knowing of oneself. Practices such as the examination of conscience, general confession, and spiritual exercises, which until the 1400s had been restricted to monastic elites, breached the walls of monasteries in the period that followed. Thanks in large part to Franciscans and Jesuits, lay urban elitesboth men and womengained access to spiritual practices whose goal was to enhance belief and create new selves. Using Michel Foucault's writing on the hermeneutics of the self, and the French philosopher's intuition that the early modern period was a moment of transition in the configurations of the self, Sluhovsky offers a broad panorama of spiritual and devotional
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The University of Chicago Press Make Yourselves Gods
Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called religion. Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century's end. Over these turbulent decades, Mormons would appear by turns as heretics, sex-radicals, refugees, anti-imperialists, colonizers, and, eventually, reluctant monogamists and enfranchised citizens. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello deftly crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America. What emerges is a story about the violence, wild beauty, and extravagant imaginative power of this era of Mormonism--an impassiTrade Review"Coviello writes a genealogy of foreclosed intimacies and vexed affiliations, a tale of queer worlds lost or at least winnowed by the wages of U.S. whiteness, citizenship, and territorial recognition. An indispensable intervention in 'postsecular critique, ' this book contains multitudes."--Molly McGarry, University of California, Riverside "Full of splendid insight and erudition, Make Yourselves Gods explores the 'imaginative wildness' of early Mormon thought in tandem with the orthodoxies of secularism that attempted to suppress and discipline this distinctive cosmology, providing an unprecedented way of thinking about how religion and 'bad belief' are vital to American biopolitics."--Nancy A. Bentley, University of Pennsylvania "From a reviled set of bad beliefs and practices, Mormonism became a good white American religion by the end of the nineteenth century by redirecting the carnal life of the spirit to the reproduction of the domestic nuclear family. Make Yourselves Gods is at once a revisionist history of Mormonism and a critical engagement with theories of secularism, told with shining clarity in breathless, gorgeous prose."--Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism
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The University of Chicago Press Gods and Demons Priests and Scholars Critical
Book SynopsisAssembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude. This book tackles many questions central to religious study.Trade Review"Bruce Lincoln is a rara avis. His combination of precise technical analysis of ancient religious texts, allied to a grand, comparative vision of religion in society, past and present, informs a reflection, at once anxious and radical, anchored in the predicament of our own times. This combination produces a humanistic approach, devoid of grandiloquence, and this strikingly original book will be of great importance to all students of ancient religions and to historians of religion in general." -Guy Stroumsa, University of Oxford"
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The University of Chicago Press Prisoners of ShangriLa
Book SynopsisPrisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison those who sought Tibetan independence from China.
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The University of Chicago Press Modern American Religion Volume 3 Under God
Book SynopsisThis third volume chronicling faith in 20th-century America, presents an account of American religious culture from the entry of the United States into World War II through the Eisenhower years. It addresses the role of religion in shaping the social and political life of mid-century America.
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The University of Chicago Press Reclaiming Catherine of Siena Literacy Literature
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The University of Chicago Press Nuns Behaving Badly
Book SynopsisSome nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. In this book, the author resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. The nuns of early modern Italy, it shows, set the standard for religious transgression in their own age - and beyond.Trade Review"Monson, a... self-proclaimed 'archive mouse,' happily scurries into this forgotten repository, retrieving tales of sororal transgressions, which range from affairs to arson." (New Yorker) "Nuns Behaving Badly wears its learning with a smile, but it throws a sharp light into dark Roman Catholic corners." (Economist) "A gem of a book.... Monson writes with wry humour and a novelist's eye for detail, but the stories he uncovers would be extraordinary even without his narrative skill." (Literary Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Story of Radio Mind A Missionarys Journey on
Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du VernetAnglican archbishop and self-declared scientistannounced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance. Retelling Du Vernet's imaginative experiment, Pamela Klassen shows us how agents of colonialism built metaphysical traditions on land they claimed to have conquered. Following Du Vernet's journey westward from Toronto to Ojibwe territory and across the young nation of Canada, Pamela Klassen examines how contests over the mediation of storiesvia photography, maps, printing presses, and radiolucidly reveal the spiritual work of colonial settlement. A city builder who bargained away Indigenous land to make way for the railroad, Du Vernet knew that he lived on the territory of Ts'msyen, Nisga'a, and Haida nations who had never ceded their land to the onrush of Canadian settlers. He condemned the devastati
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The University of Chicago Press Revivals Awakening and Reform
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The University of Chicago Press American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow
Book SynopsisHow to reconcile our idea of the traditional conservatism of Catholicism with the many modernist churches built in the middle of the twentieth century? Osborne shows how, finding links between postwar theology and architectural ambition.
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The University of Chicago Press Christianity and Race in the American South
Book SynopsisThe history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and waterfrom St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. Determination, resistance, survival, even transcendence, shape the story of race and southern Christianities. In Christianity and Race in the American South, Paul Harvey gives us a narrative history of the South as it integrates into the story of religious history, fundamentally transforming our understanding of the importance of American Christianity and religious identity. Harvey chronicles the diversity and complexity in the intertwined histories of race and religion in the South, dating back to the first days of European settlement. He presents a history rife with strange alliances, unlikely parallels, and far too many tragedies, along the way illustrating that ideas about the role of churches in the South were critically shaped by conflicts over slavery and race that defined southern life more broadly. Race, violence, religion, and southern identity remain a volatile brew, and this book is the persuasive historical examination that is essential to making sense of it.
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The University of Chicago Press Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American
Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust and troubled by missionaries' complicity with colonial regimes, they redirected their energies back home. Renewal explores the rise and fall of this movement, which began as a simple effort to restore the church's standing but wound up as nothing less than an openhearted crusade to remake our nation's cities. These campaigns reached beyond church walls to build or lend a hand to scores of organizations fighting for welfare, social justice, and community empowerment among the increasingly non-white urban working class, dovetailing with the contemporaneous War on Poverty and black freedom movement. Renewal illuminates the overlooked story of how religious institutions both shaped, and were shaped by, postwar urban America.
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The University of Chicago Press Hunted
Book SynopsisIt's not a process, one pastor insisted, rehabilitation is a miracle. In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years. Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O'Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release.
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