{"title":"Religious issues and debates Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"what-is-religion-debating-the-academic-study-of-religion-9780190064983","title":"What Is Religion Debating the Academic Study of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book presents the reader with an original and innovative account of current approaches to, and controversies within, religious studies, gathering and interlinking multifaceted voices. * Hannah Griese, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction The \"Religion is...\" Statements   1. Definition and the Politics of Semantic Drift: A Reply to Susan Henking I Agree, And Yes, I Do Not: A Response to Craig Martin  2. Complicating Classification: Cognitive Sciences Comes to Religion: A Reply to Jeppe Sinding Jensen Religion in Mind? But Where: In Here-or Our There?  3. Negotiating Critical and Constructive Scholarship in the Study of Religion: A Reply to Martin Kavka On Truth and Lie in a Religious-Studies Sense: A Response to Kurtis R. Schaeffer  4. Defining Temptation: A Reply to Anne Koch Religion-ing\/religion*: Tempting Since Aesthetically Irresistible: A Response to Susan Henking  5. Is Judaism a Religion and Why Should We Care?: A Reply to Nicola Denzey Lewis Are World Religions \"Religions\"? What about Ancient \"Religions\"? A Response to Shaul Magid  6.  Minding Our Manners in  World Without the Gods: A Reply to Kathryn Lofton What I Think About: A Response to S. Brent Plate  7.  The Circularity in Defining Religion: A Reply to Shaul Magid Colonialism, Monotheism, and Spirituality: A Response to Kocku von Stuckrad  8.  The Semantic Subject: Religion and the Limits of Language: A Reply to Craig Martin Religion Is..., Not Like Science  9.  Agreed: Religion Is Not a Thing-But Is It an Agent? A Reply to Malory Nye Religion, Capital, and Other 'Things' Which are Not Things: A Response to Nicola Denzey Lewis  10. Is (What Gets Called) Religion an Argument, Discourse, or Ideology: A Reply to Laurie L. Patton Now What? A Response to Malory Nye  11.  Religion is..., What it Does: A Reply to Anthony B. Pinn Optics Matter: A Response to Jeppe Sinding Jensen  12.  Religion is an Ever-Adapting Ecosystem of Objects: A Reply to S. Brent Plate Evolution, Technology, Art: A Reply to Anne Taves  13.  Scripturalization as Management of Difference: A Reply to Kurtis R. Schaeffer Inside\/Outside, Then\/Now: A Response to Vincent L. Wimbush  14.  Critical Voices, Public Debates: A Reply to Kocku von Struckrad The Accountability of Embedded Scholarship: A Response to Laurie L. Patto  15.  Let's Talk About Reading: A Reply to Ann Taves A Reader's Guide to Worldviews and Ways of Life: A Response to Martin Kavka  16.  Arguments Against the Textualization Regime: A Reply to Vincent L. Wimbush Refracting the Scriptural: A Response to Anne Koch  17.  Mapping Religion-religion: A Reply to Laurie Zoloth What Do We Mean When We Say We Teach \"Religion?\": A Response to Anthony B. Pinn  Appendix Definitions of Religion and Critical Comments","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530344279,"sku":"9780190064983","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190064983.jpg?v=1719997294"},{"product_id":"saving-the-protestant-ethic-9780190066680","title":"Saving the Protestant Ethic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProtestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. But not all strands of American Protestantism have elevated secular work to the highest echelons of spiritual significance. This book surveys the efforts of a religious movement within white Protestant fundamentalism and its neo-evangelical successors to make work matter to God.Today, bearing the name the faith and work movement, this effort puts on display the creative capacities of religious and lay leaders to adapt a faith system to the changing social-economic conditions of advanced capitalism. Building from the insights and theory of Max Weber, Andrew Lynn draws on archival research and interviews with movement leaders to survey and assess the surging number of new organizations, books, conferences, worship songs, seminary classes, vocational programming, and study groups promoting classically Protestant and Calvinist ideas of work and vocation. He traces these efforts back to e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these days when almost everything about American evangelicalism is controversial, this well-researched, fair-minded book about the evangelical 'faith and work' movement is a welcome contribution. Andrew Lynn has provided a great deal for supporters of the movement, its critics, and all who worry about the moral malaise present in the marketplace to ponder. * Robert Wuthnow, author of Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy *\u003cbr\u003eThe faith at work movement is an ongoing and evolving social movement, not a flash in the pan or a passing fad. Andrew Lynn brings us a strong contribution to the growing number of scholarly studies of the surprisingly diverse nature of the faith at work movement. Lynn's provocatively titled Saving the Protestant Ethic focuses on and brings us fresh insights into the conservative evangelical Protestant wing of the movement, whose search for meaning and purpose drives their economic activity. * David W. Miller, Princeton University Faith \u0026amp; Work Initiative *\u003cbr\u003eThis brief summary surely fails to capture the depth and breadth of Lynn's extraordinary descriptive project. He does a masterful job of separating the different theological threads that are woven together by the faith and work movement and contextualizing them in socioeconomic terms. Adherents of re-integrating theology will find the portrait of themselves and their views recognizable...What Lynn's book demonstrates above all is that the faith and work movement has not fallen far from the creative class tree...No one wants to go back to the fundamentalist work ethic. Everyone wants their Monday to matter to God. * Charlie Clark, FareForward *\u003cbr\u003eThis book represents an impressive achievement, drawing on a multidisciplinary array of deft ethnographic interviews, attentive participant observations, profound understanding of emic group discourse, impressive historical primary sources, nimbly enhanced and refined sociological theory, and quantitative analysis. * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eSaving the Protestant Ethic explores the faith and work movement within contemporary American Evangelicalism...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part One: The Rise of the Evangelical Faith and Work Movement Chapter One: More Than Toil Chapter Two: The Fundamentalist Work Ethic Chapter Three: The Making of a Movement Chapter Four: The Four Evangelical Theologies of Work  Part Two: Contours, Contingencies, and Contending Interests Chapter Five: Whose Work Matters to God? Chapter Six: From the Christian Right to the Corporate Right Chapter Seven: From Culture Wars to Cultural Stewardship Chapter Eight: On Roads Not (Yet) Taken  Acknowledgements Appendix A: Research Methods","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530639191,"sku":"9780190066680","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190066680.jpg?v=1719997296"},{"product_id":"god-at-war-9780190079178","title":"God at War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, Mark Juergensmeyer has been studying the rise of religious violence around the world, including groups like ISIS and Christian militias that have been involved in acts of terrorism. Over the years he came to realize that war is the central image in the worldview of virtually every religious movement engaged in violent acts. Behind the moral justification of using violence are images of great confrontations of war on a transcendent scale. God at War explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare. Virtually every religious tradition leaves behind it a bloody trail of stories, legends, and images of war, and most wars call upon the divine for blessings in battle. This book finds the connection between religion and warfare in the alternative realities created in the human imagination in response to crises both personal and social. Based on the author''s thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, this book explains why desperate social conflict leads to images of war, and why invariably God is thought to be engaged in battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis short book, based on lectures delivered in several venues, will be of interest to anyone interested in religious violence and should be accessible to intermediate and advanced students as well. * Eugene V. Gallagher, Nova Religio  *\u003cbr\u003eGod at War, although a slim book, is of large importance * Janet M. Powers, Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Why Do We Think About War? 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Laycock rightly frames TST (The Satanic Temple) as provoking consequential questions of classification, religious freedom, and national belonging. * Dusty Hoesly, Religion, Vol 52, no.1 *\u003cbr\u003eSpeak of the Devil ranks its author among influential scholars of contemporary Satanism ... Laycock's work is likely to appeal to both scholars and a broader audience by presenting a fluent, readable, and properly contextualized analysis of the development of The Satanic Temple. * Miroslav Vrzal, Ivona Vrzalová, Religio *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. * C.H. Lippy, emeritus, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Laycock has written an outstanding treatment of one of the most misunderstood new religious movements...The book is well-written and impeccably documented. In addition to producing a fine introduction to TST, Laycock introduces us to a host of important contemporary cultural theorists, religion scholars, and legal experts working at the interface of politics and religion. This book will be valuable to anyone who teaches world religions\/new religious movements, or anyone seeking to understand legal issues related to religion in the public square. * Jonathan P. Case, Evangelical Missions Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eLaycock's book produces several contributions to the field. His survey of satanic history and its use in popular discourse reveals the extent to which the satanic affinity for performance traces back to earlier Church of Satan figures such as Anton LaVey but also the political activism, militant reactionism, and moral sensationalism of conservative Christians * William Chavez, Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is highly recommended. Its sections on the history of Satanism and TST may not be of interest to all Christians, but surely to those interested in a study of new religious movements, and Satanism in particular. Even for those who have no interest in Satanism or TST, and who find such subjects off-putting, the discussion of TST's challenges to our assumptions about religion, religious free-dom, and religious pluralism make this an important addition to select Christian libraries. * John W. Morehead, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture *\u003cbr\u003eLaycock's Speak of the Devil is a valuable contribution to the study of modern Satanism and will be of great interest especially to those studying new religious movements, religion in America, and issues of church and state in the United States. 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Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite''s concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume moves beyond the usual feminist approaches to these stories and, as such, is bound to stimulate further discussion and reflection. * ERYL W. DAVIES, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament  *\u003cbr\u003e...this is a book pushes at the issues it raises in ways that linger, and that alone may commend it. * Sandra Gravett, Appalachian State University, Society of Biblical Literature *\u003cbr\u003eHer ultimate conclusion is compelling: feminist readings of texts should be seeking to find ways to contend with stories of sexual violence in the Bible rather than simply retelling difficult stories. * M. M. Veeneman, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *\u003cbr\u003eIn Texts After Terror, Graybill models a way of reading biblical texts that honors and reveals their complexity, and provides the next generation of feminist scholars, and really all biblical readers, a way to continue to engage critically and authentically with many of the Bible's most disturbing narratives. * Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean of List College and the Kekst Graduate School, The Jewish Theological Seminary *\u003cbr\u003eTexts after Terror is a daring and devastating tour de force — raising new questions, evoking new feelings, and proposing new relations for what else and what comes after multiple forms of sexual harm. With characteristic wit and anger, breadth and incision, brilliance and ambivalence, Rhiannon Graybill takes biblical interpretation beyond the depressingly low bar of consent toward other possibilities. Grappling with these texts and their violences requires staying with their manifest troubles and refusing their redemption or recuperation. In this and many other ways, Texts after Terror is as unsettling as it is indispensable. * Joseph Marchal, Professor of Religious Studies, Ball State University *\u003cbr\u003eRhiannon Graybill shows herself a worthy inheritor of feminist biblical scholarship to build upon, poke holes in, push further, and complexify how rape tales have been read. Her \"unhappy readings\" of these tales take up feminist, queer, and strands of other theorization about sex, rape, rape culture, and power by reading through literature to situate the tales in the persistent misogyny that sadly still marks our own times. * Steed Vernyl Davidson, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, McCormick Theological Seminary *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction: Reading Sexual Violence 1. Fuzzy, Messy, Icky: How to Read a Rape Story 2. The Edges of Consent: Dinah, Tamar, and Lot's Daughters 3. Narrating Harm in the Bathsheba Story: Predation, Peremption, and Silence 4. Rape and Other Ways of Reading: Hagar and Sarah in the Company of Women 5. A Grittier Daughter Zion: Lamentations and the Archive of Rape Stories 6. Sad Stories and Unhappy Reading Conclusion: After Terror Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732677112151,"sku":"9780197764114","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-coherence-of-theism-9780198779704","title":"The Coherence of Theism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Coherence of Theism investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is a God. Richard Swinburne concludes that despite philosophical objections, most traditional claims about God are coherent (that is, do not involve contradictions); and although some of the most important claims are coherent only if the words by which they are expressed are being used in analogical senses, this is the way in which theologians have usually claimed that they are being used. When the first edition of this book was published in 1977, it was the first book in the new ''analytic'' tradition of philosophy of religion to discuss these issues. Since that time there have been very many books and discussions devoted to them, and this new, substantially rewritten, second edition takes account of these discussions and of new developments in philosophy generally over the past 40 years. These discussions have concerned how to analyse the claim that God is ''omnipotent'', whether God can foreknow human free actions, whether God is everlasting or timeless, and what it is for God to be a ''necessary being''. On all these issues this new edition has new things to say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I. RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE; PART II. A CONTINGENT GOD; PART III. 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In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the case, looking at factors such as the increased visibility of religious and racial minorities, new media, and engines of surveillance (which are far more omniscient than the old gods could ever be), and the legacies of colonial blasphemy laws. Throughout, Sherwood uncovers new histories, from the story of accidentally blasphemous cartoons, to the close associations between blasphemy, sex, and birth control. She also argues that blasphemy itself involves an inherent contradiction in imagining the divine as an entity that must be revered above all, yet also a being that could possibly be hurt by anything that happens in the merely human sphere. 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Whether it concerns what''s being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how to address our changing global environment, emotions often run high and answers seem intractable. Yet there is much more to science and religion than the clash of extremes. As Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro show in this balanced and thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, a whole range of views, subtle arguments, and fascinating perspectives can be found on this complex and centuries-old subject. They explore the key philosophical questions that underlie the debate, but also highlight the social, political, and ethical contexts that have made the tensions between science and religion such a fraught and interesting topic in the modern world. In this new edition, Dixon and Shapiro connect historical concepts such as evolution, the heliocentric solar system, and the problem of evil to present-day issues including the politicization of science; debates over mind, body, and identity; and the moral necessity of addressing environmental change. Ranging from medical missionaries to congregations adopting new technologies during a pandemic, from Galileo''s astronomy to building the Thirty Meter Telescope, they explore how some of the most complex social issues of our day are rooted in discussions of science and religion. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea wonderful book * Morteza Hajizadeh, New Books Network *\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition A rich introductory text...on the study of relations of science and religion. * R. P. Whaite, Metascience *\u003cbr\u003eA marvellous book that should be required reading for dogmatic fundamentalists of every persuasion. * Patricia Fara, British Journal for the History of Science *\u003cbr\u003eDixon shows great skill in composing a book which combines coherence and clarity with a strong forward momentum... 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As the foundational text of Judaism and Christianity, the Bible has been interpreted and reinterpreted over millennia, utilized to promote a seemingly endless run of theological and political positions. Adherents and detractors alike point to different passages throughout to justify wildly disparate behaviors and beliefs. Translated and retranslated, these texts lead both to unity and intense conflict. Influential books on any topic are typically called bibles. What is the Bible? As a text considered sacred by some, its stories and language appear throughout the fine arts and popular culture, from Shakespeare to Saturday Night Live. In Michael Coogan''s eagerly awaited addition to Oxford''s What Everyone Needs to Know series, conflicts and controversies surrounding the world''s bestselling book are addressed in a straightforward Q\u0026amp;A format. This book provides an unbiased look at biblical authority and authorship, the Bible''s influence in Western culture, the disputes over meaning and interpretation, and the state of biblical scholarship today. Brimming with information for the student and the expert alike, The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know  is a dependable introduction to a most contentious holy book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill be useful for those with Protestant Christian theological interests. * Meredith J. C. Warren, Theological Journal Modern Believing *\u003cbr\u003every well done, and the book will serve its intended readership well. * KEITH BEECH-GRÜNEBERG, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament  *\u003cbr\u003eAdmiration and gratitude should be equally widespread for Coogan's ability to be at once clear, concise, and convincing. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * L. J. 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He is co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018), and author of \u003ci\u003eCapitalizing Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eDiscourse and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Stoddard \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McDaniel College, USA.  He is co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eRace, Ethnicity, and New Religious Movements \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStereotyping Religion II\u003c\/i\u003e shows, in clear straightforward examples, how the way we think about things limits what we can see. 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[...] The volume is of the utmost importance for the trans and genderqueer people of today, as it is in essence a serious academic endeavour to imagine a transgender past and, thus, offer a sense of historical belonging.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Rose-Marie Peake, \u003ccite\u003eMirator\u003c\/cite\u003e 1\/21 (2021) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"By establishing transness as holy, the authors are not only working to put trans and genderqueer subjects back into the narrative of history, but at its center. Transness is being rewritten as something beautiful and divine.\"\u003cbr\u003e- - Milo, \u003ccite\u003eWhat Lives Here Now\u003c\/cite\u003e blog (2021) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In this important volume, Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt bring together scholarship that rethinks, in creatively productive ways, how gender figures in medieval representations of sainthood and sanctity. [...] All the varied scholarship collected here is excellent, and the volume as a whole mounts a persuasive and invigorating argument about the importance of attending to trans and genderqueer texts and experiences in the Middle Ages.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Steven F. Kruger, \u003ccite\u003eJournal of Medieval Religious Cultures\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ccite\u003eTrans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography\u003c\/cite\u003e is an excellent collection that, by offering a platform for both new and established scholars to revisit their earlier assessments of medieval texts, offers an understanding of the past predicated upon the need for a more just future.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Alexander Flores, \u003ccite\u003eComitatus\u003c\/cite\u003e, Vol. 53, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIList of Figures \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e 'Introduction', Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the Traces: Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities \u003cbr\u003e1.'Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries', Martha G. Newman \u003cbr\u003e2.'Inherited Futures: Capgrave's Life of St Katherine', Caitlyn McLoughlin \u003cbr\u003e3.'Juana de la Cruz: Gender-Transcendent Prophetess', Kevin C.A. Elphick \u003cbr\u003e4.'Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David's Life of Patriarch Ignatios', Felix Szabo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeripheral Vision(s): Objects, Images, and Identities \u003cbr\u003e5.'Gender-Querying Christ's Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ's Body in Late Medieval Imagery', Sophie Sexon \u003cbr\u003e6.'Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine', Vanessa Wright \u003cbr\u003e7.'The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia', Lee Colwill \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenre, Gender, and Trans Textualities \u003cbr\u003e8.'St Eufrosine's Invitation to Gender Transgression', Amy V. Ogden \u003cbr\u003e9.'Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability, and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil', Blake Gutt \u003cbr\u003e10.'The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk', M.W. 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The true accomplishment of Jesus in the Talmud is to show how certain talmudic passages are actually subtle rereadings of the New Testament, 'a literary answer to a literary text.' With considerable skill, Schafer weaves these together until they can be seen to form an intricate theological discourse that prefigures the disputations between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages.\"--Benjamin Balint, First Things \"Meticulously researched and argued as well as clearly and accessibly written, this most intriguing--albeit radical--book is sure to spark interest, debate, and controversy. An essential purchase for academic religion collections and theological libraries.\"--Library Journal \"In [this] book Schafer has proven himself not only a formidable scholar of ancient and medieval Jewish texts ... but also a talented author from whose hands the text flows like the water to which the rabbis likened the Torah.\"--Galit Hasan-Rokem, Jewish Quarterly Review \"Peter Schafer's Jesus in the Talmud reviews well-trodden territory but derives new and important readings from this familiar evidence. 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This subject has a long history, but have never been undertaken with the kind of rigor and sensitivity to contextual factors, including the differences between the evidence available in the Babylonian versus Jerusalem versions...Clear and accessible reading for the non-specialist, this is a careful, scholarly treatment that sets the agenda for future studies\"--Jewish Book World \"One of the greatest Hebrew scholars, Peter Schafer, published a book on a very controversial and difficult subject--Jesus in the Talmud. Jesus in the Talmud is a work of great value. Although the author declares that the book is not a scholarly treatise, but only a kind of extensive essay, the investigation is thorough and all its theses are excellently and fully argued.\"--Maciej Tomal, Palamedes \"Peter Schafer's Jesus in the Talmud is already being picked up by anti-Semitic Web sites as proof that Judaism harbors blasphemous beliefs about Jesus. Yet, it is an important book by a meticulous scholar, the head of Princeton's Judaic studies program. It is also a truthful book and should be received in a spirit of truthfulness.\"--David Klinghoffer, Hadassah Magazine \"Schafer bases his clearly written and exquisitely informed work on a collection of the fragmented texts about Jesus from the heart of the rabbinic period, a cluster of passages he assembles from material scattered throughout the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds and contemporaneous rabbinic literature. The simple gathering of these newly translated texts in one place makes the book an excellent English-language resource for researchers and laypersons alike.\"--Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Haaretz \"This remarkable monograph is required reading for anyone interested in the reception of the NT in rabbinic literature.\"--M. J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament \"[C]ertainly the best modern study of this topic.\"--Simon Gathercole, Journal for the Study of the New Testament \"This is a very interesting book, and the author's arguments are both logical and unique.\"--W. Pretorius, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae \"Schafer's erudite sailing through the 'sea of Talmud' is evident on every page; and, to the extent his thesis is correct, he relocates Talmudic Jesus tradition from Jesus research in the first century to Jewish-Christian relations in late antiquity.\"--Michael A. 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Mahmood's presentation of Coptic Christian struggles highlights why the secular remains a contentious and relevant site for inquiry.\"--Choice \"Mahmood has written an extremely well-researched book with a stimulating theoretical framework.\"--Vivian Ibrahim, Middle East Journal \"A complex and ambitious intellectual tour de force... Mahmood's central thesis is strong and backed by ethnography. She has successfully pointed to the failure of societies, both in the West and the East, to accommodate minorities.\"--Akbar Ahmed, American Anthropologist \"Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age masterfully combines the study of two topics in identity politics with advanced literatures--secularism and minority rights--to create an original and engaging volume about the promises and limits of political secularism.\"--Kristin Fabbe, Journal of Church and State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix  NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION xiii  Introduction 1  Part I  Chapter 1. Minority Rights and Religious Liberty: Itineraries of Conversion 31  Chapter 2. To Be or Not to Be a Minority? 66  Part II  Chapter 3. Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality 111  Chapter 4. Religious and Civil Inequality 149  Chapter 5. 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Troy's update has revitalized Hertzberg's groundbreaking work and opened a new opportunity for conversation about Zionism and the central place of Israel in Jewish life.\"—Jonathan Fass, \u003ci\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Building on Arthur Hertzberg's classic,\u003ci\u003e The Zionist Idea\u003c\/i\u003e, Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries from the 1800s to today.\"—\u003ci\u003eAlgemeiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At its core, Troy's anthology is an invitation to readers to consider what it means to be a Zionist, especially in the 21st century.\"—Jay P. Lefkowitz, \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Instead of replacing Hertzberg, Troy's book will sit neatly on the shelf next to the original. Together, they are the essential primary sources for understanding the complex foundations of Israel and its meaning in the 21st century. Students will be reaching for both of them for a long time to come.\"—nealgold.net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Natan Sharansky    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: How Zionism’s Six Traditional Schools of Thought Shape Today’s Conversation    \u003cbr\u003e Part One. Pioneers: Founding the Jewish State\u003cbr\u003e 1. Pioneers: Political Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Peretz Smolenskin\u003cbr\u003e It Is Time to Plant (1875–77)\u003cbr\u003e Let Us Search Our Ways (1881)\u003cbr\u003e The Haskalah of Berlin (1883)\u003cbr\u003e Leon Pinsker\u003cbr\u003e Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew (1882)\u003cbr\u003e Theodor Herzl\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish State (1896)\u003cbr\u003e From the Diaries of Theodor Herzl (1895)\u003cbr\u003e Third Letter to Baron Hirsch (1895)\u003cbr\u003e Max Nordau\u003cbr\u003e Zionism (1902)\u003cbr\u003e Muskeljudentum, Jewry of Muscle (1903)\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Klatzkin\u003cbr\u003e Boundaries: Judaism Is Nationalism (1914–21)\u003cbr\u003e Chaim Weizmann\u003cbr\u003e On the Report of the Palestine Commission (1937)\u003cbr\u003e Natan Alterman\u003cbr\u003e Shir Moledet (Song of the homeland) (1935)\u003cbr\u003e Magash HaKesef (The silver platter) (1947)\u003cbr\u003e Albert Einstein\u003cbr\u003e Palestine, Setting of Sacred History of the Jewish Race (with Erich Kahler) (1944)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pioneers: Labor Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Moses Hess\u003cbr\u003e Rome and Jerusalem (1862)\u003cbr\u003e bilu\u003cbr\u003e bilu Manifesto (1882)\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Hayyim Brenner\u003cbr\u003e Self-Criticism (1914)\u003cbr\u003e Nahman Syrkin\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish Problem and the Socialist Jewish State (1898)\u003cbr\u003e Ber Borochov\u003cbr\u003e Our Platform (1906)\u003cbr\u003e Aaron David Gordon\u003cbr\u003e People and Labor (1911)\u003cbr\u003e Our Tasks Ahead (1920)\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Bluwstein\u003cbr\u003e My Country (1926)\u003cbr\u003e Berl Katzenelson\u003cbr\u003e Revolution and Tradition (1934)\u003cbr\u003e Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi\u003cbr\u003e The Plough Woman (1931)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pioneers: Revisionist Zionism\u003cbr\u003e The Union of Zionists-Revisionists\u003cbr\u003e Declaration of the Central Committee of the Union of Zionists-Revisionists (1925)\u003cbr\u003e Vladimir Jabotinsky\u003cbr\u003e The Fundamentals of the Betarian World Outlook (1934)\u003cbr\u003e Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)\u003cbr\u003e The Iron Wall ([1923] 1937)\u003cbr\u003e Saul Tchernichovsky\u003cbr\u003e I Believe (1892)\u003cbr\u003e They Say There’s a Land (1923)\u003cbr\u003e The Irgun\u003cbr\u003e Proclamation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (1939)\u003cbr\u003e Avraham (Yair) Stern\u003cbr\u003e Eighteen Principles of Rebirth (1940)\u003cbr\u003e Haim Hazaz\u003cbr\u003e The Sermon (1942)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pioneers: Religious Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Yehudah Alkalai\u003cbr\u003e The Third Redemption (1843)\u003cbr\u003e Samuel Mohilever\u003cbr\u003e Message to the First Zionist Congress (1897)\u003cbr\u003e Isaac Jacob Reines\u003cbr\u003e A New Light on Zion (1902)\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Isaac Kook\u003cbr\u003e The Land of Israel (1910–30)\u003cbr\u003e The Rebirth of Israel (1910–30)\u003cbr\u003e Lights for Rebirth (1910–30)\u003cbr\u003e Moshe “Kalphon” HaCohen\u003cbr\u003e Mateh Moshe (Moses’s headquarters) (1920)\u003cbr\u003e Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)\u003cbr\u003e What Kind of Life Should We Create in Eretz Israel? (1922)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pioneers: Cultural Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Eliezer Ben-Yehudah\u003cbr\u003e A Letter of Ben-Yehudah (1880)\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew (1908)\u003cbr\u003e Ahad Ha’am (Asher Zvi Ginsberg)\u003cbr\u003e On Nationalism and Religion (1910)\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem (1897)\u003cbr\u003e Hayyim Nahman Bialik\u003cbr\u003e The City of Slaughter (1903)\u003cbr\u003e At the Inauguration of the Hebrew University (1925)\u003cbr\u003e Micah Joseph Berdichevski\u003cbr\u003e Wrecking and Building (1900–1903)\u003cbr\u003e In Two Directions (1900–1903)\u003cbr\u003e On Sanctity (1899)\u003cbr\u003e Martin Buber\u003cbr\u003e Hebrew Humanism (1942)\u003cbr\u003e An Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1939)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pioneers: Diaspora Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Solomon Schechter\u003cbr\u003e Zionism: A Statement (1906)\u003cbr\u003e Louis Dembitz Brandeis\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish Problem and How to Solve It (1915)\u003cbr\u003e Henrietta Szold\u003cbr\u003e Letter to Augusta Rosenwald (1915)\u003cbr\u003e Horace Mayer Kallen\u003cbr\u003e Zionism and Liberalism (1919)\u003cbr\u003e Stephen S. Wise\u003cbr\u003e Challenging Years (1949)\u003cbr\u003e Milton Steinberg\u003cbr\u003e The Creed of an American Zionist (1945)\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Builders: Actualizing and Modernizing the Zionist Blueprints\u003cbr\u003e 7. Builders: Political Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948)\u003cbr\u003e David Ben-Gurion\u003cbr\u003e The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution (1944)\u003cbr\u003e Speech to Mapai Central Committee (1948)\u003cbr\u003e Am Segula: Memoirs (1970)\u003cbr\u003e The Law of Return (1950)\u003cbr\u003e Isaiah Berlin\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Slavery and Emancipation (1953)\u003cbr\u003e The Achievement of Zionism (1975)\u003cbr\u003e Abba Eban\u003cbr\u003e Statement to the Security Council (1967)\u003cbr\u003e Teddy Kollek\u003cbr\u003e Jerusalem (1977)\u003cbr\u003e Chaim Herzog\u003cbr\u003e Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1975)\u003cbr\u003e Albert Memmi\u003cbr\u003e The Liberation of the Jew (1966, 2013)\u003cbr\u003e Jews and Arabs (1975)\u003cbr\u003e Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu\u003cbr\u003e Letters from Yoni Netanyahu (1968, 1975)\u003cbr\u003e Elie Wiesel\u003cbr\u003e One Generation After (1970)\u003cbr\u003e A Jew Today (1975, 1978)\u003cbr\u003e Natan Sharanksy\u003cbr\u003e Fear No Evil (1988)\u003cbr\u003e Emmanuel Levinas\u003cbr\u003e Politics After (1979)\u003cbr\u003e Assimilation and New Culture (1980)\u003cbr\u003e Martin Peretz\u003cbr\u003e The God That Did Not Fail (1997)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Builders: Labor Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Golda Meir\u003cbr\u003e A Land of Our Own (1973)\u003cbr\u003e Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1958)\u003cbr\u003e Muki Tsur\u003cbr\u003e The Soldiers’ Chat (1967)\u003cbr\u003e Amos Oz\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of Homeland (1967)\u003cbr\u003e Roy Belzer\u003cbr\u003e Garin HaGolan Anthology (1972)\u003cbr\u003e The Members of Kibbutz Ketura\u003cbr\u003e The Kibbutz Ketura Vision (1994)\u003cbr\u003e Yaakov Rotblit\u003cbr\u003e Shir LaShalom, A Song for Peace (1969)\u003cbr\u003e Leonard Fein\u003cbr\u003e Days of Awe (1982)\u003cbr\u003e Yitzhak Rabin\u003cbr\u003e Our Tremendous Energies from a State of Siege (1994)\u003cbr\u003e Shimon Peres\u003cbr\u003e Nobel Lecture (1994)\u003cbr\u003e Shulamit Aloni\u003cbr\u003e I Cannot Do It Any Other Way (1997)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Builders: Revisionist Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Uri Zvi Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e Those Living-Thanks to Them Say (1948)\u003cbr\u003e Israel without the Mount (1948–49)\u003cbr\u003e Geulah Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Memoirs of a Young Terrorist (1943–48)\u003cbr\u003e The Tehiya Party Platform (1988)\u003cbr\u003e Moshe Shamir\u003cbr\u003e For a Greater Israel (1967)\u003cbr\u003e The Green Space: Without Zionism, It’ll Never Happen (1991)\u003cbr\u003e Menachem Begin\u003cbr\u003e The Revolt (1951)\u003cbr\u003e Broadcast to the Nation (1948)\u003cbr\u003e Statement to the Knesset upon the Presentation of His Government (1977)\u003cbr\u003e Yitzhak Shalev\u003cbr\u003e We Shall Not Give Up Our Promised Borders (1963)\u003cbr\u003e Eliezer Schweid\u003cbr\u003e Israel as a Zionist State (1970)\u003cbr\u003e The Promise of the Promised Land (1988)\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Netanyahu\u003cbr\u003e A Place among the Nations (1993)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Builders: Religious Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Ben-Zion Meir Chai Uziel\u003cbr\u003e Prayer for the State of Israel (1948)\u003cbr\u003e On Nationalism (ca. 1940–50)\u003cbr\u003e David Edan\u003cbr\u003e A Call for Aliyah (ca. 1950)\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Ber Soloveitchik\u003cbr\u003e Listen! My Beloved Knocks! (1956)\u003cbr\u003e Yeshayahu Leibowitz\u003cbr\u003e A Call for the Separation of Religion and State (1959)\u003cbr\u003e Zvi Yehuda Hakohen Kook\u003cbr\u003e On the 19th Anniversary of Israel’s Independence (1967)\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Joshua Heschel\u003cbr\u003e Israel: An Echo of Eternity (1969)\u003cbr\u003e Esther Jungreis\u003cbr\u003e Zionism: A Challenge to Man’s Faith (1977)\u003cbr\u003e Talma Alyagon-Roz\u003cbr\u003e Eretz Tzvi, The Land of Beauty (1976, 2014)\u003cbr\u003e Eliezer Berkovits\u003cbr\u003e On Jewish Sovereignty (1973)\u003cbr\u003e Gush Emunim\u003cbr\u003e Friends of Gush Emunim Newsletter (1978)\u003cbr\u003e David Hartman\u003cbr\u003e Auschwitz or Sinai (1982)\u003cbr\u003e The Third Jewish Commonwealth (1985)\u003cbr\u003e Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism\u003cbr\u003e Emet V’Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism (1988)\u003cbr\u003e Richard Hirsch\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Theology of Reform Zionism (2)\u003cbr\u003e Ovadia Yosef\u003cbr\u003e Oral Torah 14 (1979)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Builders: Cultural Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Haim Hefer\u003cbr\u003e There Were Times (1948)\u003cbr\u003e A. M. Klein\u003cbr\u003e The Second Scroll (1951)\u003cbr\u003e Leon Uris\u003cbr\u003e The Exodus Song \/ This Land Is Mine (1960)\u003cbr\u003e Shmuel Yosef Agnon\u003cbr\u003e Nobel Prize Speech (1966)\u003cbr\u003e Naomi Shemer\u003cbr\u003e Jerusalem of Gold (1967)\u003cbr\u003e Yehudah Amichai\u003cbr\u003e All the Generations before Me (1968)\u003cbr\u003e Tourists  (1980)\u003cbr\u003e Gershon Shaked\u003cbr\u003e No Other Place (1980, 1987)\u003cbr\u003e Letty Cottin Pogrebin\u003cbr\u003e Deborah, Golda, and Me (1991)\u003cbr\u003e Anne Roiphe\u003cbr\u003e Generation without Memory (1981)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Builders: Diaspora Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Hertzberg\u003cbr\u003e Impasse: A Movement in Search of a Program (1949)\u003cbr\u003e Some Reflections on Zionism Today (1977)\u003cbr\u003e Mordecai M. Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e A New Zionism (1954, 1959)\u003cbr\u003e Rose Halprin\u003cbr\u003e Speech to the Zionist General Council (1950)\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Blaustein\u003cbr\u003e Statements by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Mr. Jacob Blaustein on the Relationship between Israel and American Jews (1950, 1956)\u003cbr\u003e Simon Rawidowicz\u003cbr\u003e Babylon and Jerusalem (1957)\u003cbr\u003e Two That Are One (1949)\u003cbr\u003e Irving “Yitz” Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e Twenty Years Later: The Impact of Israel on American Jewry (1968)\u003cbr\u003e Yom Yerushalayim: Jerusalem Day (1988)\u003cbr\u003e Eugene Borowitz\u003cbr\u003e Twenty Years Later: The Impact of Israel on American Jewry (1968)\u003cbr\u003e Herman Wouk\u003cbr\u003e This Is My God (1969, 1974)\u003cbr\u003e Arnold Jacob Wolf\u003cbr\u003e Will Israel Become Zion? (1973)\u003cbr\u003e Breira National Platform (1977)\u003cbr\u003e Hillel Halkin\u003cbr\u003e Letters to an American Jewish Friend: The Case for Life in Israel (1977, 2013)\u003cbr\u003e Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin\u003cbr\u003e Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism (1975)\u003cbr\u003e Alex Singer\u003cbr\u003e Alex: Building a Life (1983, 1986, 1996)\u003cbr\u003e Blu Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e What Do American Jews Believe? A Symposium (1996)\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Torchbearers: Reassessing, Redirecting, Reinvigorating\u003cbr\u003e 13. Torchbearers: Political Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Michael Oren\u003cbr\u003e Jews and the Challenge of Sovereignty (2006)\u003cbr\u003e Tal Becker\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Survival: Aspirational Zionism (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Michael Walzer\u003cbr\u003e The State of Righteousness: Liberal Zionists Speak Out (2012)\u003cbr\u003e Aharon Barak\u003cbr\u003e Address to the 34th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem (2002)\u003cbr\u003e Yael “Yuli” Tamir\u003cbr\u003e A Jewish and Democratic State (2)\u003cbr\u003e Ze’ev Maghen\u003cbr\u003e John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (2010)\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Gordis\u003cbr\u003e The Promise of Israel (2012)\u003cbr\u003e Leon Wieseltier\u003cbr\u003e Brothers and Keepers: Black Jews and the Meaning of Zionism (1985)\u003cbr\u003e Irwin Cotler\u003cbr\u003e Speech to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly (2006)\u003cbr\u003e Gadi Taub\u003cbr\u003e In Defense of Zionism (2014)\u003cbr\u003e Bernard-Henri Lévy\u003cbr\u003e The Genius of Judaism (2017)\u003cbr\u003e Asa Kasher\u003cbr\u003e idf Code of Ethics (1994)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Torchbearers: Labor Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Anita Shapira\u003cbr\u003e The Abandoned Middle Road (2012)\u003cbr\u003e Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir\u003cbr\u003e My Contributions to Science and Society (2005)\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Gavison\u003cbr\u003e Statement of Principles, Gavison-Medan Covenant (2003)\u003cbr\u003e Einat Wilf\u003cbr\u003e Zionism: The Only Way Forward (2012)\u003cbr\u003e Chaim Gans\u003cbr\u003e The Zionism We Really Want (2013)\u003cbr\u003e David Grossman\u003cbr\u003e Speech at Rabin Square (2006)\u003cbr\u003e Nitzan Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e On the Steps of Boorishness (2013)\u003cbr\u003e Alon Tal\u003cbr\u003e Pollution in a Promised Land (2002, 2017)\u003cbr\u003e Peter Beinart\u003cbr\u003e The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment (2010)\u003cbr\u003e Ari Shavit\u003cbr\u003e Back to Liberal Zionism (2014)\u003cbr\u003e A Missed Funeral and the True Meaning of Zionism (2013)\u003cbr\u003e Stav Shaffir\u003cbr\u003e Knesset Speech (2015)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Torchbearers: Revisionist Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Yoram Hazony\u003cbr\u003e The End of Zionism? (1995)\u003cbr\u003e Israel’s Jewish State Law and the Future of the Middle East (2014)\u003cbr\u003e Shmuel Trigano\u003cbr\u003e There Is No “State of All Its Citizens” (2015, 2017)\u003cbr\u003e Israel Harel\u003cbr\u003e We Are Here to Stay (2001)\u003cbr\u003e Caroline Glick\u003cbr\u003e The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East (2014)\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Wisse\u003cbr\u003e Jews and Power (2007)\u003cbr\u003e David Mamet\u003cbr\u003e Bigotry Pins Blame on Jews (2006, 2011)\u003cbr\u003e The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Ze’ev B. “Benny” Begin\u003cbr\u003e The Essence of the State of Israel (2015, 2017)\u003cbr\u003e Reuven Rivlin\u003cbr\u003e Remarks of President Rivlin: Vision of the Four Tribes (2015)\u003cbr\u003e Ayelet Shaked\u003cbr\u003e Pathways to Governance (2016)\u003cbr\u003e 16. Torchbearers: Religious Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Daniel Polisar\u003cbr\u003e Is Iran the Only Model for a Jewish State? (1999)\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Ish-Shalom\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Sovereignty: The Challenges of Meaning, Identity, and Responsibility (2014)\u003cbr\u003e Eliezer Sadan\u003cbr\u003e Religious Zionism: Taking Responsibility in the Worldly Life of the Nation (2008)\u003cbr\u003e Yaacov Medan\u003cbr\u003e Statement of Principles, Gavison-Medan Covenant (2003)\u003cbr\u003e Yehuda Amital\u003cbr\u003e Reishit Tzemichat Ge’ulatenu: What Kind of Redemption Does Israel Represent? (2005)\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin “Benny” Lau\u003cbr\u003e The Challenge of Halakhic Innovation (2010)\u003cbr\u003e Yedidia Z. Stern\u003cbr\u003e Ani Ma’amin, I Believe (2005)\u003cbr\u003e Leah Shakdiel\u003cbr\u003e The Reason You Are Here Is Because You Are a Jew! (2004)\u003cbr\u003e Arnold Eisen\u003cbr\u003e What Does It Mean to Be a Zionist in 2015? Speech to the 37th Zionist Congress: (2015)\u003cbr\u003e Conservative Judaism Today and Tomorrow (2015)\u003cbr\u003e David Ellenson\u003cbr\u003e Reform Zionism Today: A Consideration of First Principles (2014)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Torchbearers: Cultural Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Gil Troy\u003cbr\u003e Why I Am a Zionist (2008)\u003cbr\u003e Yair Lapid\u003cbr\u003e I Am a Zionist (2009)\u003cbr\u003e Micah Goodman\u003cbr\u003e From the Secular and the Holy (2018)\u003cbr\u003e Ronen Shoval\u003cbr\u003e Herzl’s Vision 2.0 (2013)\u003cbr\u003e A. B. Yehoshua\u003cbr\u003e The Basics of Zionism, Homeland, and Being a Total Jew (2017)\u003cbr\u003e Erez Biton\u003cbr\u003e Address at the President’s House on the Subject of Jerusalem (2016)\u003cbr\u003e Bernard Avishai\u003cbr\u003e The Hebrew Republic (2008)\u003cbr\u003e Saul Singer\u003cbr\u003e They Tried to Kill Us, We Won, Now We’re Changing the World (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Sharon Shalom\u003cbr\u003e A Meeting of Two Brothers Who Had Been Separated for Two Thousand Years (2017)\u003cbr\u003e Einat Ramon\u003cbr\u003e Zionism: A Jewish Feminist-Womanist Appreciation (2017)\u003cbr\u003e Adam Milstein\u003cbr\u003e Israeliness Is the Answer (2016, 2017)\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Sharansky Danziger\u003cbr\u003e A New Kind of Zionist Hero (2015, 2017)\u003cbr\u003e 18. Torchbearers: Diaspora Zionism\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Sacks\u003cbr\u003e Will We Have Jewish Grandchildren? (1994)\u003cbr\u003e Alan Dershowitz\u003cbr\u003e The Vanishing American Jew (1997)\u003cbr\u003e Yossi Beilin\u003cbr\u003e His Brother’s Keeper: Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the Twenty-First Century (2)\u003cbr\u003e Scott Shay\u003cbr\u003e Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry (2007)\u003cbr\u003e Donniel Hartman\u003cbr\u003e Israel and World Jewry: The Need for a New Paradigm (2011)\u003cbr\u003e Yossi Klein Halevi\u003cbr\u003e A Jewish Centrist Manifesto (2015)\u003cbr\u003e Ellen Willis\u003cbr\u003e Is There Still a Jewish Question? 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Highly recommended for individual readers and classroom assignment. * Levon Chorbajian, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent collection of primary source material on key topics in the philosophy of death, such as the nature of post-death existence and the (un)desirability of immortality.  The selections, which represent ancient and contemporary thinkers from primarily Western and Indian philosophical traditions, are thoughtfully organized and given helpful and accessible introductions and annotations by the editor.  This book is very well-suited for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of death, as it skillfully presents thought-provoking debates carried on across the centuries and invites students to join. * Mark Berkson, Professor of Religion, Hamline University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eA timely and wide-ranging collection that covers the classic discussions through to the contemporary on a theme that we might well like to ignore, but cannot: the facts of own mortality. The introductions to each section helpfully position the papers. A must-read for every student of death. * Beverley Clack, Professor in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: What This Book Is (Not) About Acknowledgements General Introduction: What Is the Meaning of “Life”?   \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Brains, Death, and “Consciousness”\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I:  Our Immortal Souls  \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to Part One:  Personal Survival and Immortality 1. The Soul Will Not Fade Away (from Phaedo, c. 360 BC)  Plato  2. Letter to Menoeceus  (third century BC) Epicurus 3. Ten Reasons for Believing in Immortality (1929) John Haynes Holmes   4. Next Stop Goofville (1929) Clarence Darrow 5. Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity  (1994) Thomas W. Clark  \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Personal Survival and Immortality\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Rebirth \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to Part Two:  Survival in a Different Body   6. The Katha Upanishad:  Death as a Teacher (fifth cen. B.C.)   Anonymous 7. The Questions of King Milinda (first cen. AD?)  Anonymous \t\t\t8. The World Outlook of the People (14th cen.)  Madhava Acharya 9. Nirodha, the Cessation of Dukkha  (1959) Walpola Rahula     \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFurther Readings on Rebirth \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III:  Resurrection and the Afterlife  \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to Part Three:  Resurrection and the Afterlife 10. Resurrection of the Same Body (13th century) Aquinas, Thomas 11. Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State  (1739-40) David Hume  \t12. The Soul Survives and Functions after Death (1973)  H.H. Price  13. Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection (2007) Lynne Rudder Baker \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays  Further Readings on Resurrection and the Afterlife \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV:  Problems with Immortality \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to Part Four 14. On Mortality and the Soul (c. 50 B.C.)  Lucretius  15. The Hunger of Immortality (1913) Miguel de Unamuno  16. The Makropulos Case:  Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality  (1972) Bernard Williams   17. Immortality without Boredom (2009) Lisa Bortolotti and Yujin Nagasawa 18. Death and Eternal Recurrence (2013)  Lars Bergström  \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Problems with Immortality and the Eternal Return \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart V:  Living with Mortality     \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to Part Five:  Living with Mortality 19. “Supreme Happiness” (Fourth cen. B.C.) Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) 20. Death  (1986)  Thomas Nagel 21. The Collective Afterlife (2013) Samuel Scheffler   22. The Significance of Doomsday (2013) Susan Wolf   23. Death, Failure, and Neoliberal Ideology (2016)  Beverley Clack \u003ci\u003eFor Discussion or Essays Further Readings on Living with Mortality \u003c\/i\u003e Readings that appear in this book Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866592751959,"sku":"9781350069336","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350069336.jpg?v=1722279367"},{"product_id":"heideggers-being-9781487551377","title":"Heideggers Being","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHeidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding\u003c\/i\u003e, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger’s thinking about Being.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger’s thought. 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