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The University of Alabama Press Our Southern Zion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is obviously a labor of love. Erskine Clarke, who teaches American religious history at Columbia Theological Seminary, has researched extensively, if not exhaustively, the history of the Reformed churches of the South Carolina low country....Clarke’s argument has broad implications for the understanding of southern culture and the role of religion in Southern history....Clarke’s book will take an important place in the literature on Southern religion and culture. In the literature on regional religious history and denominational history, this work will be a landmark and a model for others to follow."" John M. Mulder, Louisville (KY) Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Theology Today
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The University of Alabama Press To Stand Aside or Stand Alone Southern Reform
Book SynopsisA landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Their stories help elucidate a pivotal moment in time. This is a unique volume offering insights into these rabbis' perceptions and roles in their own words and with more depth and nuance than hitherto available.Trade ReviewTo Stand Aside or Stand Alone will provide the English-speaking world with a documentary treasure trove that is, to the best of my knowledge, sui generis."" - Gary Phillip Zola, author of Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788–1828: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual and coeditor of A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping""In 1966, Rabbi Allen Krause conducted frank interviews with Southern rabbis concerning Jews and the American civil rights movement. Now, fifty years later, transcripts of these precious interviews have finally been unsealed. The results—some of them explosive, some disturbing, and all of them illuminating—form the core of this book. It makes a unique contribution."" - Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews and American Judaism: A History
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Duke University Press African American Religious Studies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface vii General Introduction / Gayraud Wilmore xi Part One Origins, Context, and Conceptualization Introduction 1 1 The Development of Black Religion in America / C. Eric Lincoln 5 2 Black Church Studies and the Theological Curriculum / James H. Evans, Jr. 22 3 Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America / Charles H. Long 34 4 Folk Religion and Negro Congregations: The Fifth Religion / Joseph R. Washington, Jr. 50 5 The Religious Ethos of the Universal Negro Improvement Association / Randall K. Burkett 60 6 Black Spiritual Churches: Thaumaturgical Responses to Rascism and Social Stratification / Hans A. Baer 82 Part Two Biblical Studies Introduction 101 7 Three Thousand Years of Biblical Interpretation with Reference to Black Peoples / Charles B. Copher 105 8 Black experience and the Bible / Robert A. Bennett 129 9 Biblical Historical Study as Liberation: Toward an Afro-Christian Hermeneutic / Vincent L. Wimbush 140 10 The Bible, Re-Contextualization and the Black Religious Experience / Cain H. Felder 155 Part Three Theological and Ethical Studies Introduction 173 11 Black Theology as Liberation Theology / James H. Cone 177 12 Womanist Theology: Black Women's Experience as a Source for Doing Theology, with Special Reference to Christology / Jacquelyn Grant 208 13 African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation / M. Shawn Copeland, O.P. 228 14 Religio-Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation / J. Deotis Roberts, Sr. 249 Part Four Historical Studies Introduction 267 15 Black Religion / Maulana Karenga 271 16 The Rise of African Churches in America (1786-1822): Reexamining the Contexts / Will B. Gravely 301 17 Religion and Black Protest Thought in African American History / Manning Marable 318 18 The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History / C. Eric Lincoln 340 Part Five Mission and Ministry Studies Introduction 357 19 Toward a Theology of Black Preaching / Henry H. Mitchell 361 20 The Woman as Preacher / Cheryl J. Sanders 372 21 Singing Praise to God in African American Worship Contexts / Melva W. Costen 392 22 The New Shiloh Saturday Church School / Sid Smith 405 23 Pastoral Counseling and the Black Perspective / Edward P. Wimberly 420 24 Confronting the System / William A. Jones, Jr. 429 Index 457
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Duke University Press The Antinomian Controversy 16361638
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Duke University Press The Bible in the Sixteenth Century
Book SynopsisIlluminates a spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. This work explores topics including Jewish exegesis and problems of Old Testament interpretation and the relationship between the Bible and social, political, and institutional history.Trade ReviewAll blurbs are from reviews for the cloth edition: 'These essays ... provide a valuable introduction to the sixteenth-century Bible commentary as a genre. However, the contributors have also succeeded in forging links between this genre and larger themes and problems of sixteenth-century history, offering numerous examples of how commentaries mirror the intellectual, social, and institutional developments of their time.' - Stephen G. Burnett, The Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book contributes to the cause of understanding Reformation era exegetical debates in their late medieval context rather than from an anachronistic perspective that attempts to claim the Protestant Reformers for one side or the other in modern debates over doctrines of Scripture.' - Joel E. Kok, Calvin Theological Journal 'All who work in this history of exegesis and its impact on society will want to read this volume...' - Robert Kolb, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Social History and Biblical Exegesis: Community, Family, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Germany / H.C. Eric Midelfort 7 The Consultations of the Universities and Scholars Concerning the "Great Matter" of King Henry VIII / Guy Bedouelle 21 The Use of Scripture in Establishing Protestantism: The Case of Urbanus Rhegius / Scott H. Hendrix 37 issues in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Exegesis / Kalman P. Bland 50 The Hermeneutic of Promise and Fulfillment in Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament Prophecies of the Kingdom / Richard A. Muller 68 Hebraica Veritas and Traditio Apostolica: Saint Paul and the Interpretation of the Psalms in the Sixteenth Century / R. Gerald Hobbs 83 Calvin and the Patristic Exegesis of Paul / David C. Steinmetz 100 Erasmus on Romans 9:6-24 / John B. Payne 119 The Epistle to the Romans (Chapter 11) According to the Versions and/or Commentaries of Valla, Colet, Lefevre, and Erasmus / Jean-Claude Margolin 136 Polemic, Exegetical Tradition, and Ontology: Bucer's Interpretation of John 6:52, 53, and 64 Before and After the Wittenberg Concord / Irena Backus 167 "De Exegetica Methodo": Niels Hemmingsten's De Methodis (1555) / Kenneth G. Hagen 181 Notes 197 Index 257
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Duke University Press Nihil Obstat
Book SynopsisTalks about politics, religion, and social change in the post-communist world of Eastern Europe and Russia.Trade Review“Sabrina Ramet is professor of international studies at the University of Washington. Making use of interview research throughout the Russian–East European region as well as materials published in eight languages, she presents a survey of traditional churches and a variety of new sects and religious movements. She treats politics and religion in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union, with special emphasis on the communist period. . . [and] she looks at some postcommunist trends.” - Theology Digest“This is a rich, if somewhat idiosyncratic book, of value not only to area specialists and ‘transitologists,’ but to anyone interested in church-state relations in our time.” - Australian Journal of Political Science“Sabrina Ramet provides a valuable synthesis of existing scholarship and new insights into the relationship between religion and politics in the former communist world. . . . [Nihil Obstat] should provide a valuable introduction to those unfamiliar with the religious aspects of postcommunist development.” - John Anderson, Slavic Review“Ramet presents a thoughtful re-evaluation of Communist policy towards religion in the former Eastern bloc, and argues that while, as a rule, churches suffered greatly under Communism, some of them in fact benefited from it. . . . Ramet’s new book illuminates, as probably no other book in the field, both change and continuity in the religious policies of East-Central Europe during the region’s turbulent transition period.” - Serhii Plokhy, The International History Review“Nihil Obstat is required reading for anyone interested in the interaction of religion and politics. It is especially recommended to people who think that the nations of East-Central Europe are peas in a pod.” - Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Journal of the American Academy of Religion“Sabrina Ramet’s survey illustrates at least three important connections between religion and politics. First, religious policy often tracks other state policies. Second, religious issues are sometimes an important factor in political events (e.g., the 1989 Romanian revolution). Finally and most importantly, by offering alternative, competing visions of the social order, religious groups challenge political regimes, whether of an authoritarian or a liberal democratic stripe. Moreover, these social visions, linked as they are to the transcendent, may prove more compelling than mere political ideologies.” - Andrew Sorokowski, Harvard Ukrainian Studies"An erudite, encyclopedic treatment of extremely sensitive, often misunderstood and misrepresented issues—its impact will be enduring. Ramet combines keen historical insight with sociological acumen in this pathbreaking contribution to the understanding of the post-communist religious landscape and to the role of religion in the erosion of Leninist ideocracies."—Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland“Nihil Obstat is required reading for anyone interested in the interaction of religion and politics. It is especially recommended to people who think that the nations of East-Central Europe are peas in a pod.” -- Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *“Ramet presents a thoughtful re-evaluation of Communist policy towards religion in the former Eastern bloc, and argues that while, as a rule, churches suffered greatly under Communism, some of them in fact benefited from it. . . . Ramet’s new book illuminates, as probably no other book in the field, both change and continuity in the religious policies of East-Central Europe during the region’s turbulent transition period.” -- Serhii Plokhy * International History Review *“Sabrina Ramet is professor of international studies at the University of Washington. Making use of interview research throughout the Russian–East European region as well as materials published in eight languages, she presents a survey of traditional churches and a variety of new sects and religious movements. She treats politics and religion in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union, with special emphasis on the communist period. . . [and] she looks at some postcommunist trends.” * Theology Digest *“Sabrina Ramet provides a valuable synthesis of existing scholarship and new insights into the relationship between religion and politics in the former communist world. . . . [Nihil Obstat] should provide a valuable introduction to those unfamiliar with the religious aspects of postcommunist development.” -- John Anderson * Slavic Review *“Sabrina Ramet’s survey illustrates at least three important connections between religion and politics. First, religious policy often tracks other state policies. Second, religious issues are sometimes an important factor in political events (e.g., the 1989 Romanian revolution). Finally and most importantly, by offering alternative, competing visions of the social order, religious groups challenge political regimes, whether of an authoritarian or a liberal democratic stripe. Moreover, these social visions, linked as they are to the transcendent, may prove more compelling than mere political ideologies.” -- Andrew Sorokowski * Harvard Ukrainian Studies *“This is a rich, if somewhat idiosyncratic book, of value not only to area specialists and ‘transitologists,’ but to anyone interested in church-state relations in our time.” * Australian Journal of Political Science *
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Duke University Press African American Religious History
Book SynopsisOffers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: "Anyone interested in America's religious past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine 'anthology.'" - Robert Michael Franklin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Sernett deserves the highest marks for this collection."-Stephen J. Stein, Religious Studies Review " . . this book will long stand as a major and valuable tool for the study of Afro-American religious history." - Sandy D. Martin, The Black ScholarTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix Introduction 1 I. From Africa Through Early America 1. Traditional Ibo Religion and Culture / Olaudah Equiano 13 2. African Religions in Colonial Jamaica / Bryan Edwards 20 3. Slave Conversion on the Carolina Frontier / Francis Le Jau 25 4. "Address to the Negroes in the State of New York" / Jupiter Hammon 34 5. Letters from Pioneer Black Baptists / George Liele and Andrew Bryan 44 6. A Black Puritan's Farewell / Lemuel Haynes 52 II. Slave Religions in the Antebellum South 7. Plantation Churches: Visible and Invisible / Peter Randolph 63 8. "Proud of the 'Ole Time' Religion" / Sister Kelly 69 9. Conjuration and Witchcraft / Henry Bibb 76 10. "Great Moral Dilemma" / James W.C. Pennington 81 11. Religion and Slave Insurrection / Nat Turner 89 12. Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ / Frederick Douglass 102 13. Slave Songs and Spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112 III. Black Churches North of Slavery and the Freedom Struggle 14. "Life Experience and Gospel Labors" / Richard Allen 139 15. Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church / Christopher Rush 155 16. A Female Preacher among the African Methodists / Jarena Lee 164 17. African Baptists Celebrate Emancipation in New York State / Nathaniel Paul 185 18. "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Religion" / David Walker 193 19. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston" / Maria Stewart 202 20. "To the Citizens of New York" / Peter Williams 211 21. Black Churches in New York City, 1840 / Charles B. Ray 218 22. Protesting the "Negro Pew" / Jeremiah Asher 224 23. "I Will Not Live a Slave" / Jermain W. Loguen 228 24. "Welcome to the Ransomed" / Daniel Alexander Payne 232 IV. Freedom's Time of Trial: 1865-World War I 25. From Slave to Preacher among the Freedmen / Isaac lane 245 26. "The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" / Lucius H. Holsey 252 27. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South / William Wells Brown 256 28. "Education in the A.M.E. Church" / Daniel Alexander Payne 261 29. The Travail of a Female Colored Evangelist / Amanda Smith 270 30. "The Regeneration of Africa" / Alexander Crummell 282 31. Emigration to Africa / Henry McNeal Turner 289 32. The First African American Catholic Congress, 1889 / African American Catholics 296 33. 1899 Presidential Address to the National Baptist Convention / Elias C. Morris 301 34. Bishop C.H. Mason, Church of God in Christ / Elsie W. Mason 314 35. "Of the Faith of the Fathers" / W.E.B. Dubois 325 36. "The Race Problem in a Christian State, 1906" / Reverdy C. Ransom 337 37. "What Induced Me to Build a School in the Rural District" / Rosa Young 347 V. From the Great Migration to World war II 38. Address on the Great Migration / African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops 359 39. "Dear Mary" and "My dear Sister" / Letters on the Second Exodus 364 40. Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church / S. Mattie Fisher and Mrs. Jessie Mapp 368 41. Effects of Urbanization on Religious Life / Lacy Kirk Williams 372 42. Report of the Work of Baptist Women / Nannie H. Burroughs 376 43. Address to the Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia / Jasper C. Caston 403 A Letter from the "Foreign Field" / Lula E. Cooper 410 44. "Things of the Spirit" / Carter G. Woodson 415 45. "The Genius of the Negro Church" / Benjamin E. Mays and Joseph W. Nicholson 423 46. "The Churches of Bronzeville" / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton 435 VI. Twentieth-Century Religious Alternatives 47. Garvey Tells His Own Story / Marcus Garvey 453 48. "Organized Religion and the Cults" / Miles Mark Fischer 464 49. Black Judaism in Harlem / Rabbi Matthew 473 50. "The Realness of God, to you-wards..." / Father Divine 478 51. Elder Lucy Smith / Herbert Morrisohn Smith 487 52. "Self-Government in the New World" / Wallace D. Muhammad 499 VII. CIvil Rights, Black Theology, and Beyond 53. "National Baptist Philosophy of Civil Rights" / Joseph H. Jackson 511 54. "Letter from Birmingham Jail--April 16, 1963" / Martin Luther King, Jr. 519 55. Singing of Good Tidings and Freedom /Mahalia Jackson 536 56. "The Anatomy of Segregation and Ground of Hope" / Howard Thurman 548 57. "Black Power" Statement, July 31, 1966, and "Black Theology" Statement, June 13, 1969 555 58. "Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go From Here?" / James H. Cone 567 59. "The Black Churches: A New Agenda" / Lawrence N. Jones 580 Index 589
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Duke University Press Shaky Colonialism
Book SynopsisA social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.Trade Review“While Walker’s description and analysis of the earthquake-tsunami of 1746 and the subsequent efforts to reconstruct Lima present a fascinating story, his book is particularly important for its careful delineation of the capital’s society and the reforming efforts of Viceroy Manso de Velasco. . . . Shaky Colonialism is an excellent study that every student of eighteenth-century Spanish America and the history of Peru should read.” - Mark A. Burkholder, Journal of Latin American Studies“Shaky Colonialism is a fascinating and forcefully argued book that fills a major gap in the scholarly literature on the early Bourbon period in the viceroyalty of Peru. By focusing on the natural disaster of 1746, Walker presents a rich mosaic of race, ethnicity, gender, Baroque piety and the beginnings of Enlightenment-inspired Bourbon regalism in a major urban centre during this largely under-studied period.” - Kenneth J. Andrien, Social History“Shaky Colonialism is a superior work of scholarship. Charles F. Walker uses a dramatic incident and its aftermath to present a very intelligent analysis of baroque colonialism and its halting transformation into the Enlightenment-inspired absolutism of the Bourbons. He balances human drama and color to pull the reader into a very serious analysis of colonial society.”—Peter Guardino, author of The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850“As Charles F. Walker shows in this fascinating book, the great earthquake that destroyed Lima in 1746 ruptured along social as well as geological fault lines, exposing profound contradictions between baroque piety, Bourbon Reform, and indigenous identity. Moreover, the extraordinary social aftershocks, ranging from revelation to rebellion, further fragmented Limeño society, leaving fissures that are still visible in the modern megalopolis.”—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums“Charles F. Walker explores the fault lines of colonial society through a painstaking archival study of the controversies that followed the 1746 earthquake-tsunami that nearly wiped out Lima. The analysis of the city’s reconstruction is masterful and multifaceted; it gives a vivid sense of popular and elite understandings of race, gender, religion, and urban space. The book is also an imaginative analysis of how the baroque composite monarchy that was the Spanish empire worked: the absolutist policies of the Enlightenment and the Bourbon Reforms consistently gave way to resistance and negotiation. Shaky Colonialism breaks new ground.”—Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, author of Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550–1700“The devastating Lima earthquake of 1746 set off huge social and political shock waves in all directions. Charles F. Walker’s beautifully written analysis of ‘great balls of fire’ and wandering nuns, enlightened reformers, and real and imaginary rebels shows a colonial city deeply at odds with itself—well before the notorious crises of the late eighteenth century.”—Kathryn Burns, author of Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru“The book draws on extensive archival research and carefully integrates insights from secondary literature on everything from Andean utopias to sumptuary laws to ecclesiastical reform. It is an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the Lima earthquake. . . . This is a lovely work of compelling insights and convincing synthesis.” -- Mark Alan Healy * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Shaky Colonialism is a fascinating and forcefully argued book that fills a major gap in the scholarly literature on the early Bourbon period in the viceroyalty of Peru. By focusing on the natural disaster of 1746, Walker presents a rich mosaic of race, ethnicity, gender, Baroque piety and the beginnings of Enlightenment-inspired Bourbon regalism in a major urban centre during this largely under-studied period.” -- Kenneth J. Andrien * Social History *“While Walker’s description and analysis of the earthquake-tsunami of 1746 and the subsequent efforts to reconstruct Lima present a fascinating story, his book is particularly important for its careful delineation of the capital’s society and the reforming efforts of Viceroy Manso de Velasco. . . . Shaky Colonialism is an excellent study that every student of eighteenth-century Spanish America and the history of Peru should read.” -- Mark A. Burkholder * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsTables ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Earthquakes, Tsunamies, Absolutism, and Lima 1 2. Balls of Fire: Premonitions and the Destruction of Lima 21 3. The City of Kings: Before and After 52 4. Stabilizing the Unstable and Ordering the Disorderly 74 5. Contending Notions of Lima: Obstacles to Urban Reform in the Aftermath 90 6. Licentious Friars, Wandering Nuns, and Tangled Censos: A Shakeup of the Church 106 7. Controlling Women's Bodies and Placating God's Wrath: Moral Reform 131 8. "All These Indians and Black People Bear Us No Good Will": The Lima and Huarochirí Rebellions of 1750 156 Epilogue: Aftershocks and Echoes 186 Notes 193 Bibliography 223 Index 251
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Duke University Press Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism
Book SynopsisAn investigation into how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca during Mexicos turbulent late 1800s and early 1900s.Trade Review“Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism is an important and much-needed exploration of the evolution of religion, both popular and ecclesiastical, from the late nineteenth century to the coming of Lázaro Cárdenas in 1934. Shrewdly avoiding stark dichotomies in favor of understanding how popular needs and practices interacted with church projects, Edward Wright-Rios offers multifaceted insight into the religious experience of turn-of-the-century Oaxacans.”—Terry Rugeley, author of Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800–1876“Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism is original, important, and deeply and creatively researched. A pioneering regional study of church and religion in the early twentieth century, it makes an important contribution to the literature on negotiated modernity in Latin America and to an understanding of the local reworking of Catholicism in Oaxaca in a time of troubles for the church and the Mexican polity. It is a rare achievement.”—William Taylor, author of Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishoners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico“[A]n imaginative, complex, and valuable work. With ample sources, it offers a powerful portrait of institutional revival. With few sources, creatively worked, it eloquently recovers the elusive heartbeat of Indian Catholicism and women’s ever-evolving sense of devotional place. By connecting these realms, Revolutions provides fresh and sophisticated insights into the interactions of Catholicism and modernity. Students of Mexico and religion must read it.” -- Matthew Butler * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“Wright-Rios’s ability to weave together church documents, popular accounts, and oral histories, as well as to engage contradictory sources, leaves us with a refreshing institutional and cultural portrayal of Mexican Catholicism.” -- Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Faith is a difficult thing to research. However, in his work Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios does a wonderful job exploring just this topic. . . . Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, and its well-researched and presented stories, are invaluable to anyone interested in religiosity in contested spaces, gender-faith-power relationships, and the power of popular devotions in the midst of cultural encounter zones (border spaces). . . . It also serves as a powerful instructional tool with stories that are compelling and at times surprising. . . .” -- SilverMoon * Ethnohistory *“Gracefully written and informed by a wide-ranging grasp of religion’s intersections with political and economic life, especially in Oaxaca’s Indian communities, this endlessly absorbing book sets a new standard for twentieth-century Mexican religious history and should inspire comparative regional research for years to come.” -- Pamela Voekel * American Historical Review *“The text in Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism is undeniably a significant and laudable academic undertaking. . . . Wright Rios brings to life the complexities of faithful devotion in the regional Catholic communities, the dynamic and sometimes contentious relationship between clergy and laypersons, as well as the ongoing negotiation and evolving interpenetration of Catholic religious traditions and indigenous customs and understandings of faith and the Divine. . . .[C]ertainly it should be hoped that more work from Wright-Rios is on the horizon.” -- Mark Noll * Missiology *“Wright-Rios’s meticulously researched, engaging, and cautiously argued study is a model of balanced scholarship and essential reading for anyone interested in Mexican religious history.” -- Adrian A. Bantjes * Catholic Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Moving the Faithful 1 Part I. ReformThe Clergy and Catholic Resurgence 1. An Enterprising Archbishop 43 2. Crowning Images 73 3. The Spirit of Association 98 Part II. RevelationIndigenous Apparitions and Innovations 4. Catholics in Their Own Way 141 5. Christ Comes to Tlacoxcalco 164 6. The Second Juan Diego 206 7. The Gender Dynamics of Devotion 242 Picturing Mexican Catholicism 271 Notes 291 Bibliography 335 Index 355
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Duke University Press Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree
Book SynopsisAnalyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America.Trade Review“Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree is a superb book. Erick D. Langer departs from previous historical work with his portrayals of the mission life cycle (which no future historian writing on the topic will be able to ignore); missions in the republican period; the Bolivian Chaco; the frontier as a permeable, advancing and contracting concept, rather than a bright line; and the ethnohistory of the Chirguano, from autonomy to dependence.”—David Block, author of Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880“Culminating over a decade of research, Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree brings the republican-era Franciscan missions of the Chiriguanía of southeastern Bolivia into the center of frontier history. Erick D. Langer integrates the empirical data from numerous archives into cultural frameworks in ways that create a powerful narrative of ethnogenesis in the ‘fields of interaction’ that emerged from the institutional mission.”—Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The "Chiriguano Wars": Indian Warfare and the Establishment of the Missions 21 2. The Franciscans 61 3. Death and Migration: The Population Decline of the Missions 101 4. Daily Life and the Development of Mission Culture 126 5. Conversion, Chiefs, and Rebellions: Relationships of Power on the Missions 160 6. Missions and the Frontier Economy 196 7. Outside Relations and the Decline of the Missions 218 8. From the Chaco War to Secularization, 1932–1949 257 9. Comparions 270 Appendix: The Inauguration of Tiguipa Church (1902) 284 Glossary 289 Notes 291 Bibliography 337 Index 355
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Duke University Press A Flock Divided
Book SynopsisA history examining the interactions between church authorities and Mexican parishioners—from the late-colonial era into the early-national period—shows how religious thought and practice shaped Mexicos popular politics.Trade Review“A Flock Divided is an elegantly written and insightful work that casts new light on religious practice in the Americas. O’Hara has revitalised the study of race, religion, and politics in Latin America setting a new standard for historians interested in these themes.” - Alexander Hidalgo, Itinerario“A Flock Divided is a well-researched and well-written book that makes several important contributions to the discipline. . . . O’Hara also adds significantly to our understanding of cultural, social, and politicaldevelopments in this transitional period of Mexican history.” - Jim Norris, Western Historical Quarterly“A Flock Divided is based on careful archival research and offers new insights into the often hidden practices of local Catholicism and the role of religion in identity formation. . . . [T]his is an impressive work that merits careful attention.” - Brian Larkin, Hispanic American Historical Review“A Flock Divided is true to its title. It is a rich, revisionist history that confounds old notions of indigenous passivity and obsolescence by bringing to light a trove of new sources and interpretations that furnish great insight into what being Indian was about over the longue durée. It is a welcome contribution to the history of early Mexico.” - Susan Schroeder, Journal of Latin American Studies“[T]his is a brilliant and readable book that helps to elucidate the divisiveness of the parish system in Mexico during periods when the official government(vice-regal or republican) was trying to get rid of caste boundaries in the Catholic Church. O’Hara does an incredible job of showing how parishioners and priests alike were frustrated by some government edicts and how they manipulated other edicts to their own benefit. . . . O’Hara should be commended for a job well done.” - Jonathan Truitt, Bulletin of Latin American Research“Carefully researched, engagingly written, and strongly argued, A FlockDivided will be mandatory reading for scholars and students of colonial andnineteenth-century Spanish America for many years to come.” - Matthew Restall, Journal of Social History“A Flock Divided is a pioneering work that contributes to a new understanding of Mexican history. It sheds light on many topics, including the intricacies of colonial and republican politics, the limitations of reform projects imposed by the church and by the state, the often difficult relationship between priests and parishioners, and the religious bases of civil society. This brilliant book also shows how much church documents reveal about popular culture and politics, from the persistence of ethnicity and race in shaping urban identities to the continuing importance of the parish and religious devotions as the locus of sociability.”—Silvia Marina Arrom, author of Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774–1871“Based almost entirely on extensive new archival research, primarily in ecclesiastical records, A Flock Divided is an original, thought-provoking, and compelling contribution to scholarship on late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Mexico. Through subtle analysis and graceful writing, Matthew D. O’Hara illuminates the multiple intersections among race, religion, and politics.”—Margaret Chowning, author of Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752–1863“[A Flock Divided] rests on an extensive base of sources from Mexican and Spanish archives, published documents, and secondary works on religious culture and Mexican colonial society. Recommended.” -- V. H. Cummins * Choice *“A Flock Divided is an elegantly written and insightful work that casts new light on religious practice in the Americas. O’Hara has revitalised the study of race, religion, and politics in Latin America setting a new standard for historians interested in these themes.” -- Alexander Hidalgo * Itinerario *“A Flock Divided is based on careful archival research and offers new insights into the often hidden practices of local Catholicism and the role of religion in identity formation. . . . [T]his is an impressive work that merits careful attention.” -- Brian Larkin * Hispanic American Historical Review *“A Flock Divided is true to its title. It is a rich, revisionist history that confounds old notions of indigenous passivity and obsolescence by bringing to light a trove of new sources and interpretations that furnish great insight into what being Indian was about over the longue durée. It is a welcome contribution to the history of early Mexico.” -- Susan Schroeder * Journal of Latin American Studies *“[T]his is a brilliant and readable book that helps to elucidate the divisiveness of the parish system in Mexico during periods when the official government(vice-regal or republican) was trying to get rid of caste boundaries in the Catholic Church. O’Hara does an incredible job of showing how parishioners and priests alike were frustrated by some government edicts and how they manipulated other edicts to their own benefit. . . . O’Hara should be commended for a job well done.” -- Jonathan Truitt * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“Carefully researched, engagingly written, and strongly argued, A Flock Divided will be mandatory reading for scholars and students of colonial andnineteenth-century Spanish America for many years to come.” -- Matthew Restall * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Children of Rebekah 1 Part I. Institutions and Ideas 1. Geographies of Buildings, Bodies, and Souls 17 2. An Eighteenth-Century Great Debate 55 Part II. Reform and Reaction 3. Stone, Mortar, and Memory 91 4. Invisible Religion 123 Part III. Piety and Politics 5. Spiritual Capital 159 6. Miserables and Citizens 185 Conclusion. The Struggle of Jacob and Esau 221 Notes 239 Bibliography 281 Index 303
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Duke University Press Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Book SynopsisEssays illuminate the extraordinarily varied and dynamic intellectual developments underway in India and Tibet during the three centuries prior to the consolidation of British imperial power in 1800.Trade Review“Cultural and postcolonial studies scholars conceptualize colonial power as overwhelmingly domineering, paying little attention to the complex changes underway in South Asia before British imperial domination. This creates a substantive gap, which Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia begins to fill. This collection of excellent essays is a major addition to the literature on early modern Asia.”—David Ludden, author of Early Capitalism and Local History in South India“Deserving of our attention in their own right as splendid scholarly contributions to the growing field of early-modern studies in South Asia and Tibet, the essays in this collection have the additional merit of addressing, often explicitly, the fallacious but widespread tendency on the part of many to pronounce on colonial knowledge or modernity in the subcontinent without much engagement with what preceded them. Students of both precolonial and colonial South Asia will benefit from this book.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference“Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia succeeds in more than just skimming the surface of South Asian scholarship, and as a new entry in arelatively sparse field, opens several important questions about how we, as scholars, recognize and define systems of knowledge in early modern history.” -- Emily Rook-Koepsel * Journal of Early Modern History *”Yet the synergy created by bringing these excellent essays together in a single volume opens up new frameworks for the analysis of intellectual history. Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia is an exciting and path-breaking volume of essays that will surely entice others to undertake research along similar lines.” -- Cynthia Talbot * Asian Studies Reader *“This compilation of essays is a valuable contribution to a nascent scholarly field that is beginning to chip away at too-long-held assumptions about the degree and kind of modernity that developed in South Asia.” -- Erin E. O’Donnell * History: Reviews of New Books *“Given the range of geographic and linguistic areas that this volume covers, scholars might be tempted to read only those essays pertaining to their fields of specialization. The advantage of this book’s breadth, however, is that it enables the identification of wider trends that cross particular language zones. On the other hand, the overlapping themes that emerge in the course of such a study are balanced by the high level of detail in the individual studies.” -- Supriya Gandhi * Sixteenth Century Journal *“This innovative volume contains thirteen essays on languages, knowledge traditions, and literary cultures in South Asia and Tibet in the three centuries before 1800…. The essays raise many interesting questions and bring to light fascinating material, and the book is highly recommended.” -- Knut A. Jacobsen * Journal of World History *“The text is versatile for both specialist and student, for it introduces hundreds of little-known works that enrich areas where previous scholarship had all-too-often focused exclusively on religious literatures…. The volume ultimately makes the reader hungry for more, for more on South India and for more on the traffic in and out of Southeast Asia. The prospect of what is left to be discovered has never been more tantalizing.” -- Tony K. Stewart * Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Sheldon Pollock 1 Part I. Communication, Knowledge, and Power 1. The Languages of Science in Early Modern India / Sheldon Pollock 19 2. Bad Language and Good Language: Lexical Awareness in the Cultural Politics of Peninsular India, ca. 1300–1800 / Sumit Guha 49 3. A New Imperial Idiom in the Sixteenth Century: Krishnadevaraya and His Political Theory of Vijayanagara / Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 69 Part II. Literary Consciousness, Practices, and Institutions in North India 4. The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi Riti Tradition / Allison Busch 115 5. Writing Devotion: The Dynamics of Textual Transmission n the Kavitavali of Tulsidas / Imre Bangha 140 6. The Teaching of Braj, Gujarati, and Bardi Poetry at the Court of Kutch: The Bhuj Brajbhasa Pathsala (1749–1948) / Françoise Mallison 171 Part III. Inside the World of Indo-Persian Thought 7. The Making of a Munshi / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 185 8. Pages from the Book of Religions: Encountering Difference in Mughal India / Aditya Behl 210 9. "If There Is a Paradise on Earth, It Is Here": Urban Ethnography in Indo-Persian Poetic and Historical Texts / Sunil Sharma 240 10. Early Persianate Modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 257 Part IV. Early Modernities of Tibetan Knowledge 11. New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650–1700 / Kurtis R. Schaeffer 291 12. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity / Janet Gyatso 311 13. Just Where on Jambudvipa Are We? New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet / Matthew T. Kapstein 336 Contributors 365 Index 369
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Duke University Press Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a powerful argument that Catholics and Catholicism had a more pervasive and impeding influence on postrevolutionary state formation in Mexico than historians have recognized or acknowledged.Trade Review"Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico should establish itself as a key text in Mexican revolutionary history. The author has done a prodigious quantity of research and organized it expertly, producing an original and convincing analysis of a major theme: Church-state conflict in the postrevolutionary period. The issue permeated Mexican politics, and its exploration opens a window onto a variety of other themes, including state building, education, land reform, gender, ethnicity, violence, and local politics and elections."—Alan Knight, author of The Mexican Revolution"This important book forces a rethinking of the efficacy and influence of agrarian and cultural revolutions not only in Mexico but throughout the world. In what is nothing short of a massive reappraisal of the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, Ben Fallaw demonstrates how conservative Catholic opposition at the local and state levels consistently obstructed Cardenista reform. Based on his detailed reconstruction of circumstances and events in four very different Mexican states, he reminds us that conditions differed enormously among locales, even between two villages in the same state. His research is blockbuster in every possible way."—Terry Rugeley, author of Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800–1876“In this impressively researched, organized, and written work, Fallaw (Colby College) examines one of the major themes facing Mexico in the 1930s—the conflict between the Catholic Church and the state.” -- J. B. Kirkwood * Choice *“…the author provides one of the best portraits of how the Mexican state’s anticlericalism, rationalist educational reforms, land reform, anticlerical agitation, and indigenism were intertwined and thus galvanized opponents.” -- Edward Wright-Rios * American Historical Review *“Fallaw’s study proves utterly striking, as his study details in multiple ways clerical and governmental failures to serve the basic needs of an impoverished and poorly educated public. His study reveals some of the ways that widespread cultural ignorance of the complex material cultural needs of the Mexican population persisted during the postrevolutionary period.” -- Marjorie Becker * Catholic Historical Review *“[Fallaw’s] careful marshaling of evidence and his sound analysis make clear why agrarian reform and changing religious practice and devotion were extremely difficult to achieve.” -- Linda B. Hall * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Overall, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico is one of the most important books on twentieth century Mexico of the last ten years. Original, thoroughly researched, and ambitious in scope, the work is a must read for those interested in revolutionary Mexico, modern Catholic sensibilities, or the overlap of politics and religion." -- Benjamin Smith * The Americas *“Ben Fallaw’s extraordinary new book, Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, ostensibly explains religious violence in four Mexican states: Campeche, Hidalgo, Guerrero, and Guanajuato. In the process, however, Fallaw tells us much more. Challenging a number of widely held assumptions about this period, he describes convincingly how and why the revolutionary project failed in the countryside.” -- Stephanie Mitchell * The Latin Americanist *"This is a superbly researched and enduring contribution to the history of the Mexican Revolution and Latin America’s political and religious history. For the many researchers who continue to ponder how Mexico’s regions responded to national institutions and discourses, Fallaw’s book will be indispensable." -- Thomas Rath * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This is a prodigiously researched work that weaves together the specificity of four cases within a satisfying analytic framework. It is likely to encourage further work on religion and state formation." -- Jeffrey Mosher * EIAL *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Glossary xv Introduction 1 1. The Church and the Religious Question 13 2. Catholic-Socialists against Anti-Priests in Campeche 35 3. "The Devil Is Now Loose in Huejutla": The Bishop, the SEP, and the Emancipation of the Indian in Hidalgo 63 4. Beatas, Ballots, and Bullets in Guerrero 101 5. "Un sin fin de mochos": Catholic Cacicazgos in Guanajuato 157 Conclusion: The End of the Religious Question 219 Notes 227 Bibliography 295 Index 317
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Fordham University Press Christian Humanism and the Reformation
Book SynopsisThird and expanded edition with a new biography of Erasmus.Trade Review"There are many reasons for welcoming this book." -The Sixteenth Century Journal
£27.90
Fordham University Press Coleridge and Christian Doctrine
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...an invaluable guide to a difficult and hitherto unanalyzed area of Coleridge's thought." -Thought "...Barth's book, with great clarity, organizes Coleridge's views of Christian doctrine...the entire book balances learning and compassion..." -- -Harold Bloom Studies in English Literature "Father Barth's...distinguished study adds significantly to our understanding and appreciation of the range and acuity of Coleridge's mind..." -- -Criticism "Excellent and indispensable for Coleridgeans." -Choice "...Every serious student of Coleridge must read Coleridge and Christian Doctrine." -New Scholasticism
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Fordham University Press Nineteenth Century Scholasticism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"... serious students of contemporary Catholic theology will welcome this important background study." -Library Journal
£31.50
Fordham University Press Catholic Reform From Cardinal Ximenes to the
Book SynopsisFocusing on the 16th-century religious renewal that remained within the Catholic Church, this work argues that this reform began as a parallel movement to the Protestant Reformation. It includes an examination of the course of reform from 1495 to 1563 and key documents illustrating its character.Trade Review“This book introduces people to [16th-century Catholicism]; it is also helpful to seasoned scholars.” * —America *
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Fordham University Press The Church and Social Reform The Policies of the
Book SynopsisA study of the nature and extent of the social reforms and political involvement of Athanasius during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantinople. For Athanasius, the idea of reform was part of the renewal of the centralised institutions of the empire.
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Fordham University Press A View From Rome On the Eve of the Modernist
Book SynopsisContends that, since Catholic Modernism was defined not by the so-called modernists but by the anti-modernists, to understand it one must understand the anti-modernist (or integralist) mind.Trade Review"This is an extraordinary book." -Ecclesiastical History
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Fordham University Press After Nine Hundred Years
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Fordham University Press The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum of 1599 400th
Book SynopsisIn 1599, the guiding pedagogical document for Jesuit education was set out in "Ratio Atque Institutio Studiorum Societatis Jesu". This text consists of selected papers presented at a 400th annniversary celebration of the documents publication, held at Fordham University in October 1999.
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Fordham University Press Neighbors and Missionaries
Book SynopsisA history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded to minister to Catholics in the United States through staffing and administering settlement houses and offering religious education to children enrolled in public schools.Trade Review"McGuinness explores how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine were affected and how they adapted their own lives and work to reflect the transformations taking place in the church and society." -American Catholic Studies Newsletter "Illuminates our understanding of the history of American women religious by examining the unique apostolate of a particular community that blended concern for the spiritual and material wellbeing of the Catholic poor." -- -Christine Anderson Xavier University "Professor McGuinness provides a magisterial account of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine who instilled Catholic values among poor immigrants in New York City, promoted ecumenism in the American South, and remained steadfast to the core values of their mission. McGuinness is an accomplished scholar and her use of sources and sound analytical structure provides a marvelous model for others exploring the history of women religious. Neighbors and Missionaries makes an important and timely contribution to the history of American Catholicism." -- -James T. Carroll Iona College "In bringing to light the history of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, and documenting the evolution of the community from a foundation in settlement work in New York City in the early twentieth century through post war efforts in child care, religious education and social work in the south, Margaret McGuiness reveals an innovative community of women religious continually engaged in responsive ministry. Neighbors and Missionaries enriches our understanding of the development of American sisterhoods and their work, and is an important contribution to the historiography of American Catholic efforts in social welfare in the twentieth century." -- -Bernadette McCauley Hunter College of the City University of New York "In this important book, Margaret M. McGuinness shows that the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Charity, fueled by personal faith and ideals of the settlement house era, shaped a social service ministry that touched modern America's urban and rural poor. McGuinness adds a significant chapter to the narrative of Catholic womanhood, documenting that religious sisters, with slim institutional support, immersed themselves in the communities of the indigent, where they labored tirelessly for social justice. Drawing on an impressive array of fresh sources, the author illuminates the guiding principles of these sisters, who reached across national barriers and economic divides, using practical programs, steady friendships, and spiritual assistance to combat poverty. Neighbors and Missionaries is a major historical contribution, central to understanding the powerful gender issues that influenced women's religious congregations in the growth of an American Catholic church." -- -Anne M. Butler Utah State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction American Women Religious and the Sisters of Christian Doctrine The Catholic Church, the Poor and Catholic Social Settlements The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine Writing the History of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine 1. From Wellesley College to the Lower East Side Education for Service A Church Settlement A Catholic Settlement in New York City A Training School for Catechists A New Community 2. Fighting to Save the City of New York A Catholic Social Settlement on the Lower East Side Madonna House Conflict with Clerical Authority Forming Faithful Citizens Ministering to Veterans Not Just Italians 3. Neighbors and Teachers Growing Pains A Motherhouse and a Second Settlement Hard Times Settlement Work and the Second World War The Closing of the Settlement Houses 4. Settlements Go South A New Foundation Staying Connected A Southern Settlement Growing Friendships Valley Catholics Maintaining the Mission A Problem of Numbers 5. More than Settlement Houses Parish Ministry in the South Northern Apostolates Changes in Ministry 6. Changes and Continuities Adjusting to the Loss of Mother Marianne Moving Forward Responding to Transformations Challenging Times Coming toward the End of a Century Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Neighbors and Missionaries A History of the
Book SynopsisA history of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, a community of women religious founded to minister to Catholics in the United States through staffing and administering settlement houses and offering religious education to children enrolled in public schools.Trade Review"McGuinness explores how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine were affected and how they adapted their own lives and work to reflect the transformations taking place in the church and society." -American Catholic Studies Newsletter "Illuminates our understanding of the history of American women religious by examining the unique apostolate of a particular community that blended concern for the spiritual and material wellbeing of the Catholic poor." -- -Christine Anderson Xavier University "Professor McGuinness provides a magisterial account of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine who instilled Catholic values among poor immigrants in New York City, promoted ecumenism in the American South, and remained steadfast to the core values of their mission. McGuinness is an accomplished scholar and her use of sources and sound analytical structure provides a marvelous model for others exploring the history of women religious. Neighbors and Missionaries makes an important and timely contribution to the history of American Catholicism." -- -James T. Carroll Iona College "In bringing to light the history of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, and documenting the evolution of the community from a foundation in settlement work in New York City in the early twentieth century through post war efforts in child care, religious education and social work in the south, Margaret McGuiness reveals an innovative community of women religious continually engaged in responsive ministry. Neighbors and Missionaries enriches our understanding of the development of American sisterhoods and their work, and is an important contribution to the historiography of American Catholic efforts in social welfare in the twentieth century." -- -Bernadette McCauley Hunter College of the City University of New York "In this important book, Margaret M. McGuinness shows that the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Charity, fueled by personal faith and ideals of the settlement house era, shaped a social service ministry that touched modern America's urban and rural poor. McGuinness adds a significant chapter to the narrative of Catholic womanhood, documenting that religious sisters, with slim institutional support, immersed themselves in the communities of the indigent, where they labored tirelessly for social justice. Drawing on an impressive array of fresh sources, the author illuminates the guiding principles of these sisters, who reached across national barriers and economic divides, using practical programs, steady friendships, and spiritual assistance to combat poverty. Neighbors and Missionaries is a major historical contribution, central to understanding the powerful gender issues that influenced women's religious congregations in the growth of an American Catholic church." -- -Anne M. Butler Utah State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction American Women Religious and the Sisters of Christian Doctrine The Catholic Church, the Poor and Catholic Social Settlements The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine Writing the History of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine 1. From Wellesley College to the Lower East Side Education for Service A Church Settlement A Catholic Settlement in New York City A Training School for Catechists A New Community 2. Fighting to Save the City of New York A Catholic Social Settlement on the Lower East Side Madonna House Conflict with Clerical Authority Forming Faithful Citizens Ministering to Veterans Not Just Italians 3. Neighbors and Teachers Growing Pains A Motherhouse and a Second Settlement Hard Times Settlement Work and the Second World War The Closing of the Settlement Houses 4. Settlements Go South A New Foundation Staying Connected A Southern Settlement Growing Friendships Valley Catholics Maintaining the Mission A Problem of Numbers 5. More than Settlement Houses Parish Ministry in the South Northern Apostolates Changes in Ministry 6. Changes and Continuities Adjusting to the Loss of Mother Marianne Moving Forward Responding to Transformations Challenging Times Coming toward the End of a Century Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press On Religion and Memory
Book SynopsisReligion and Pastness examines the implications of the Augustinian concept of time as favoring a-causality over linear continuity. From this viewpoint the various essays address problems of dynamics and stasis in texts, paintings and music ranging from Augustine to Abelard, Eriugena, Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, Rubens, Bach, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Virginia Woolf, Cavell.Trade ReviewThis creatively eclectic volume launches a bold experiment in exploring what it might mean to take Augustine’s aporetic and non-linear understanding of time and eternity seriously. The questions posed are simultaneously historiographical and literary, on the one hand, and philosophical and theological, on the other. In exploring the relation between religion and pastness, the authors shuttle backward and forward in time, traverse theological and religious differences, and consider works of music and painting alongside those of literature and philosophy. At their best, the essays are fresh, insightful, moving--and challenging.---—Virginia Burrus, Drew University“At once precise and polyphonic, On Religion and Memory takes both terms in a wonderfully wide range of senses. Language, music, and art; meditation and monasticism; memory and oblivion; time’s contraction and its extension are interconnected and played off one another. This provocative anthology deserves to be read widely in philosophy, theology, religious studies, literary studies—indeed, across the humanities—to create and continue conversations about the curious structures and experiences of memory.”---—Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
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Fordham University Press On Religion and Memory
Book SynopsisReligion and Pastness examines the implications of the Augustinian concept of time as favoring a-causality over linear continuity. From this viewpoint the various essays address problems of dynamics and stasis in texts, paintings and music ranging from Augustine to Abelard, Eriugena, Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, Rubens, Bach, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Virginia Woolf, Cavell.Trade ReviewThis creatively eclectic volume launches a bold experiment in exploring what it might mean to take Augustine’s aporetic and non-linear understanding of time and eternity seriously. The questions posed are simultaneously historiographical and literary, on the one hand, and philosophical and theological, on the other. In exploring the relation between religion and pastness, the authors shuttle backward and forward in time, traverse theological and religious differences, and consider works of music and painting alongside those of literature and philosophy. At their best, the essays are fresh, insightful, moving--and challenging.---—Virginia Burrus, Drew University“At once precise and polyphonic, On Religion and Memory takes both terms in a wonderfully wide range of senses. Language, music, and art; meditation and monasticism; memory and oblivion; time’s contraction and its extension are interconnected and played off one another. This provocative anthology deserves to be read widely in philosophy, theology, religious studies, literary studies—indeed, across the humanities—to create and continue conversations about the curious structures and experiences of memory.”---—Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
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Fordham University Press Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the antisemitic interpretation of modernist form as a symptom of a mobile, contagious Jewish spirit needs to be treated as integral to the history of European modernism. The notion of modernist form as Jewified lies at the heart of both a certain modernism’s hostile reception, and its self-conception.Trade Review"Until I saw the cover of Neil Levi's book, I had no idea that 'Jewification' was a real world. It certainly got picked up in spellcheck. But after I read just a few pages of Levi's book, I knew exactly what he meant. The word, strange and twisted as it seems, is an apt way to describe a modern phenomenon that seems to defy description. Levi argues that 'both aesthetic modernism and modern anti-Semitism seek formal solutions to the problem of how to render intelligible the experience of modernity, and that the figure of the Jew is made to personify otherwise unrepresentable, disorienting experiences that enter a condition of chronic crisis in modernity'. Levi contents that many modern and avant-garde works of art neither by Jews nor about Jews can still be interpreted as Jewish, given the way they were conceived and the projections put upon them by those who conceive them and those who 'appreciate' them. Thus, we arrive at the Judaization of art or its Jewification." -Erica Brown, Jewish Quarterly "In this bold and original study, Neil Levi offers a radical unsettling of the relations between aesthetic modernism and the anti-Semitic imagination. Exploring the multiple fantasies and projections woven around notions of Judaism, Levi provides a deeply penetrating insight into modern literature's complex negotiations with the antisemitic imaginary. This is a book no student of modernism should ignore." -- -Peter Nicholls New York University "Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification is an essential contribution to the recent attempt to analyze the phantasms and ideological formations that configured the Jew as a dirty or polluting influence that supposedly permeated modern culture and played a distinctive role in its aesthetic productions. Levi is addressing issues that go beyond the aesthetic while nonetheless playing an important role in it. His analysis is fine-tuned and convincing both as literary criticism and as ideology critique." -- -Dominick LaCapra Cornell University "Neil Levi's brilliant reading of the relationship between Jewishness and modernism recodes the politics of modernism in a highly original and revealing way in a transnational field. From Wagner and Nordau via Wyndham Lewis and Joyce to Beckett and Adorno we are offered theoretically informed readings that cut through many misunderstandings of this riven field of fascism, modernism, and violence. It turns out that European literary modernism is deeply embedded in issues of Jewishness and anti-semitism. A must read for any scholar of modernism!" -- -Andreas Huyssen Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Phobic Reading, Modernist Form, and the Figure of the Antisemite Part I: Modernist Form as Judaization 1. Genealogies: Judaization, Wagner, Nordau 2. Jews, Art, and History: The Nazi Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" as Historicopolitical Spectacle 3. Fanatical Abstraction: Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Modernist Form as Judaization in Time and Western Man Part II: Modernist Form and the Antisemitic Imagination 4. Straw Men: Projection, Personification, and Narrative Form in Ulysses 5. Images of the Bilderverbot: Adorno, Antisemitism, and the Enemies of Modernism 6. The Labor of Late Modernist Poetics: Beckett after Celine Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press City of Gods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"City of Gods breathes fresh life into the religious pluralism tradition of theorizing and study. In this compelling-often lyrical-book, R. Scott Hanson sheds new light on urban religious history and offers vibrant, ethnographically grounded insight into the promise and challenges of life in this remarkably diverse religious environment. In our age of inter-religious conflict and immigration controversy, this work is very timely-but City of Gods is also a landmark to which people concerned with religious pluralism will return for many years to come." -- -Omar M. McRoberts author of Streets of Glory, Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood "Through this narrative, the reader gets close to battlers for religious freedom, will see immigration not as an issue but in a story of people, and come to regard pluralism anew, not as a philosophical analysis of diversity but instead as the perplexing and yet promising story of how people of different faiths share some features of a common life." -- -Martin E. Marty from the Foreword "This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants-religious refugees from both Old and New England -under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth-century beginnings. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past." -- -Evan Haefeli author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty "[an] intimate portrait of lived religion... inspiring ... deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "An illuminating account of what Scott Hanson rightly calls 'perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation." -- -Eboo Patel Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core "Flushing, Queens, is surely one of the most religiously diverse places on the planet today. Scott Hanson's study shows how it got this way. This deeply researched and thickly described account of the gods of Flushing makes an important contribution to the history of immigration after the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and to the study of American urban religions. City of Gods is as well a timely and necessary contribution to the public debate about the nature of American civilization." -- -Robert Orsi author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 "Minutely detailed... a 'case study' of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism." -The New York TimesTable of ContentsPart I 1. Religion in Vlissingen (Flushing) from 1645 to 1945 2. Heralding "the World of Tomorrow": Religion and Community in Flushing, 1898-1965 Part II 3. Beyond Protestant-Catholic-Jew: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Religions of "New Immigrants" in Flushing 4. A Blessing and a Curse? The Possibilities and Limits of Religious Pluralism 5. Flushing Since September 11, 2001 Appendix: Note on Methods Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£100.80
Fordham University Press City of Gods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"City of Gods breathes fresh life into the religious pluralism tradition of theorizing and study. In this compelling-often lyrical-book, R. Scott Hanson sheds new light on urban religious history and offers vibrant, ethnographically grounded insight into the promise and challenges of life in this remarkably diverse religious environment. In our age of inter-religious conflict and immigration controversy, this work is very timely-but City of Gods is also a landmark to which people concerned with religious pluralism will return for many years to come." -- -Omar M. McRoberts author of Streets of Glory, Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood "Through this narrative, the reader gets close to battlers for religious freedom, will see immigration not as an issue but in a story of people, and come to regard pluralism anew, not as a philosophical analysis of diversity but instead as the perplexing and yet promising story of how people of different faiths share some features of a common life." -- -Martin E. Marty from the Foreword "This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants-religious refugees from both Old and New England -under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth-century beginnings. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past." -- -Evan Haefeli author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty "[an] intimate portrait of lived religion... inspiring ... deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "An illuminating account of what Scott Hanson rightly calls 'perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation." -- -Eboo Patel Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core "Flushing, Queens, is surely one of the most religiously diverse places on the planet today. Scott Hanson's study shows how it got this way. This deeply researched and thickly described account of the gods of Flushing makes an important contribution to the history of immigration after the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and to the study of American urban religions. City of Gods is as well a timely and necessary contribution to the public debate about the nature of American civilization." -- -Robert Orsi author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 "Minutely detailed... a 'case study' of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism." -The New York TimesTable of ContentsPart I 1. Religion in Vlissingen (Flushing) from 1645 to 1945 2. Heralding "the World of Tomorrow": Religion and Community in Flushing, 1898-1965 Part II 3. Beyond Protestant-Catholic-Jew: The Immigration Act of 1965 and the Religions of "New Immigrants" in Flushing 4. A Blessing and a Curse? The Possibilities and Limits of Religious Pluralism 5. Flushing Since September 11, 2001 Appendix: Note on Methods Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press White Eagle Black Madonna
Book SynopsisWhite Eagle, Black Madonna charts the remarkable journey of the Polish Catholic community from its tenth-century origins on the eastern edge of medieval Christendom to the twenty-first century, when a Pole occupied the See of Peter. One constant has been Catholicism’s profound influence over Poland’s political, social, and cultural life.Trade Review"No scholar outside of Poland can match Robert Alvis' broad erudition about Polish Catholic history. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the Church's millennium in northeastern Europe, reflecting the most up-to-date research on a wide range of topics. Alvis doesn't shy away from controversial issues, but his presentation is consistently balanced and fair. For those interested in the history of the Catholic Church, this book will fill a significant gap by explaining the distinct characteristics of Polish religiosity. Specialists in Polish history, meanwhile, will gain a much richer understanding of the role of Christianity in Poland's past, which turns out to be much more nuanced and complex than we typically imagine." -- -Brian Porter-Szucs University of Michigan "Perhaps more than any other nation, Poland has been influenced throughout its history by its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church. For over a millennium, Poles have defined themselves in great part as members of this church. White Eagle, Black Madonna is the first work in English to examine this important religious-national nexus from its beginnings to the present day. Profoundly researched and written in an engaging manner, this book deserves a broad readership." -- -Theodore Weeks Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Preface A Timeline of Poland's Political and Ecclesiastical History 1 Baptized into Christendom (966-1138) 2 Chaos and Consolidation (1138-1333) 3 Baptized into Power (1333-1506) 4 The Promise and the Peril of Liberty (1506-1648) 5 Deluge and Illusions (1648-1764) 6 Reform, Romance, and Revolution (1764-1848) 7 The Gospel and National Greatness (1848-1914) 8 From Captivity to Cataclysm (1914-1945) 9 From Stalinism to Solidarity (1945-1989) 10 From Triumph to Turmoil ( after 1989) Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press White Eagle Black Madonna One Thousand Years of
Book SynopsisWhite Eagle, Black Madonna charts the remarkable journey of the Polish Catholic community from its tenth-century origins on the eastern edge of medieval Christendom to the twenty-first century, when a Pole occupied the See of Peter. One constant has been Catholicism’s profound influence over Poland’s political, social, and cultural life.Trade Review"No scholar outside of Poland can match Robert Alvis' broad erudition about Polish Catholic history. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the Church's millennium in northeastern Europe, reflecting the most up-to-date research on a wide range of topics. Alvis doesn't shy away from controversial issues, but his presentation is consistently balanced and fair. For those interested in the history of the Catholic Church, this book will fill a significant gap by explaining the distinct characteristics of Polish religiosity. Specialists in Polish history, meanwhile, will gain a much richer understanding of the role of Christianity in Poland's past, which turns out to be much more nuanced and complex than we typically imagine." -- -Brian Porter-Szucs University of Michigan "Perhaps more than any other nation, Poland has been influenced throughout its history by its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church. For over a millennium, Poles have defined themselves in great part as members of this church. White Eagle, Black Madonna is the first work in English to examine this important religious-national nexus from its beginnings to the present day. Profoundly researched and written in an engaging manner, this book deserves a broad readership." -- -Theodore Weeks Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Maps Preface A Timeline of Poland's Political and Ecclesiastical History 1 Baptized into Christendom (966-1138) 2 Chaos and Consolidation (1138-1333) 3 Baptized into Power (1333-1506) 4 The Promise and the Peril of Liberty (1506-1648) 5 Deluge and Illusions (1648-1764) 6 Reform, Romance, and Revolution (1764-1848) 7 The Gospel and National Greatness (1848-1914) 8 From Captivity to Cataclysm (1914-1945) 9 From Stalinism to Solidarity (1945-1989) 10 From Triumph to Turmoil ( after 1989) Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Europe After Wyclif
Book SynopsisTrade Review"... An essential contribution to the ongoing work on relationships between heresy and mainstream religious thinking, as well as on the relationships between England and the continent." -- -Kantik Ghosh Trinity College, OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael Van Dussen 1. A World Astir: Europe and Religion in the Early Fifteenth Century John Van Engen 2. Cosmopolitan Artists, Florentine Initials, and the Wycliffite Bible Kathleen E. Kennedy 3. Constructing the Apocalypse: Connections Between English and Bohemian Apocalyptic Thinking Pavlina Cermanova 4. Wyclif's Early Reception in Bohemia and his Influence on the Thought of Jerome of Prague Ota Pavlicek 5. Determinism between Oxford and Prague. The Late Wyclif's Retractions and their Defence ascribed to Peter Payne Luigi Campi 6. Before and After Wyclif: Consent to Another's Sin in Medieval Europe Fiona Somerset 7. Interpreting the Intention of Christ: Roman Responses to Bohemian Utraquism from Constance to Basel Ian Christopher Levy 8. The Waning of the "Wycliffites": Giving Names to Hussite Heresy Pavel Soukup 9. Orthodoxy and the Game of Knowledge: Deguileville in Fifteenth-Century England Mishtooni Bose 10. Preparing for Easter: Sermons on the Eucharist in English Wycliffite Sermons Jennifer Illig 11. "If yt be a nacion": Vernacular Scripture and English Nationhood in Columbia University Library, Plimpton MS 259 Louisa Foroughi 12. Re-forming the Life of Christ Mary Raschko Notes List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press Liturgical Power
Book SynopsisSeeks to understand the prevailing conception of government in the light of an important transformation in the idea of politics brought about by Christianity.Trade Review"Heron's book offers a magisterial reconstruction of the Christian idea of government. Liturgical Power makes a crucially important intervention into the emerging field of political theology." -- --Miguel Vatter University of New South Wales "Liturgical Power makes a significant contribution to liturgical studies through its ability to illuminate Agamben's significant work on the subject in his more recent writings. The book demonstrates first-rate scholarship in that it takes up a significant philological discussion that is pursued across centuries and various sources." -- --Colby Dickinson Loyola University ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Economic God 2. Liturgical Power 3. The Practice of Hierarchy 4. Instrumental Cause 5. Anthropology of Office Conclusion Bibliography
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Fordham University Press Our Country Northern Evangelicals and the Union
Book SynopsisOur Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Long Live the Glorious Union” 1. “The Uprising of a Great People”: A Providential Union 2. 1864: Annus Mirabilis 3. “The Harvest of Death Is Complete”: Imagined Unity 4. From Moses to Joshua 5. The Union Saved Again 6. Pax Grantis: The Great Protestant Republic Conclusion: “The Nation Still in Danger” Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Our Country Northern Evangelicals and the Union
Book SynopsisOur Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Long Live the Glorious Union” 1. “The Uprising of a Great People”: A Providential Union 2. 1864: Annus Mirabilis 3. “The Harvest of Death Is Complete”: Imagined Unity 4. From Moses to Joshua 5. The Union Saved Again 6. Pax Grantis: The Great Protestant Republic Conclusion: “The Nation Still in Danger” Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Remembering Wolsey A History of Commemorations
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Memory and Representation 1 1. The Basic Ingredients (1530–c.1600) 19 2. Parchment, Pamphlets, and Plays: Into the Early Stuart Period (c. 1580–1641) 53 3. From Restoration to Catholic Emancipation: Texts and Places (1641–c.1860) 88 4. Historical Fiction, Academic History, and Civic Pageantry (c. 1850–c.1960) 120 5. From A Man for All Seasons to Wolf Hall (c. 1960–present) 157 Conclusion 191 Notes 201 Bibliography 255 Index 279 Color plates follow page 148
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Fordham University Press Remembering Wolsey
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Memory and Representation 1 1. The Basic Ingredients (1530–c.1600) 19 2. Parchment, Pamphlets, and Plays: Into the Early Stuart Period (c. 1580–1641) 53 3. From Restoration to Catholic Emancipation: Texts and Places (1641–c.1860) 88 4. Historical Fiction, Academic History, and Civic Pageantry (c. 1850–c.1960) 120 5. From A Man for All Seasons to Wolf Hall (c. 1960–present) 157 Conclusion 191 Notes 201 Bibliography 255 Index 279 Color plates follow page 148
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Fordham University Press Unknowing Fanaticism Reformation Literatures of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction. Receiving Divine Action: Fanaticism and Form in the Reformation 1 1. Allegorical Fanaticism: Spenser’s Organs 31 2. Lyric Fanaticism: Donne’s Annihilation 59 3. Readerly Fanaticism: Hobbes’s Outworks 83 4. Tragic Fanaticism: Milton’s Motions 114 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 149 Bibliography 207 Index 227
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Fordham University Press Unknowing Fanaticism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction. Receiving Divine Action: Fanaticism and Form in the Reformation 1 1. Allegorical Fanaticism: Spenser’s Organs 31 2. Lyric Fanaticism: Donne’s Annihilation 59 3. Readerly Fanaticism: Hobbes’s Outworks 83 4. Tragic Fanaticism: Milton’s Motions 114 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 149 Bibliography 207 Index 227
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Fordham University Press Who Is a Muslim Orientalism and Literary
Book SynopsisWho is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration | ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 255
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Fordham University Press Who Is a Muslim Orientalism and Literary
Book SynopsisWho is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration | ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 255
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Fordham University Press Material Mystery
Book SynopsisMaterial Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1 1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15 2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38 3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59 4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92 Afterword | 125 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 181 Index | 199
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Fordham University Press Material Mystery
Book SynopsisMaterial Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1 1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15 2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38 3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59 4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92 Afterword | 125 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 181 Index | 199
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Fordham University Press Form and Foreskin
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin | 11 2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin | 32 3. Nicking Sir Gawain | 50 4. The Foreskin of Marriage | 82 Coda | 103 Acknowledgments | 109 Notes | 111 Index | 151
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Fordham University Press A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology
Book SynopsisThis Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first time.Table of ContentsA Guide to Citing the Summa Halensis / ix Introduction / 1 1. The Science of Theology / 55 2. The Knowledge of God in This Life / 80 3. The Necessary Existence of God / 110 4. The Divine Nature / 120 5. The Transcendentals / 138 6. The Trinity / 172 7. Christology / 200 8. Free Choice / 228 9. Moral Theology / 248
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Fordham University Press A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology
Book SynopsisThis Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first time.Table of ContentsA Guide to Citing the Summa Halensis / ix Introduction / 1 1. The Science of Theology / 55 2. The Knowledge of God in This Life / 80 3. The Necessary Existence of God / 110 4. The Divine Nature / 120 5. The Transcendentals / 138 6. The Trinity / 172 7. Christology / 200 8. Free Choice / 228 9. Moral Theology / 248
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University of Hawai'i Press The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture Asian Interactions Comparisons
Book SynopsisThis study uses the I Ching (Book of Changes) to investigate the role of Chinese learning in the development of thought and culture in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). I Ching scholarship reached its apex during the Tokugawa.
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University of Hawai'i Press Letters of the Nun Eshinni Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan
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