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The University of Chicago Press Return to Casablanca Jews Muslims and an Israeli
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The University of Chicago Press The Figural Jew
Book SynopsisReveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. This title provides a consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.Trade Review"In The Figural Jew, Sarah Hammerschlag deftly brings together intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical argument in a wonderfully insightful and engaging account of the role the figure of the Jew plays within twentieth-century French philosophy. She also makes a vital philosophical contribution to contemporary debates about ethics, alterity, and politics." - Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School"
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The University of Chicago Press Summoned Identification and Religious Life in a
Book SynopsisOn a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work Jewish jobsteachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbiswill stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of observance and sociality. In Summoned, Tavory takes readers to the heart of the exhilaratingat times exhaustinglife of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community.
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The University of Chicago Press Covenant of Blood Circumcision and Gender in
Book SynopsisA study to examine why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish psyche. The text traces the symbolism of circumcision through history, examining its evolution as a symbol of the covenant in the post-exilic period of the Bible and its meaning in the era of Mishnah and Talmud.
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The University of Chicago Press Secularizing Islamists
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of two Islamist political parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. This title offers an account of the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization.Trade Review"The real strength of the book is the serious depth of its empirical research, both historical and anthropological - there is no other work that brings such a range of materials to a study of Islamism in contemporary Pakistan. This important book will interest policy professionals worldwide who are concerned with Islamic radicalism." (Aamir Mufti, University of California, Los Angeles)"
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The University of Chicago Press Rights to Difference French Universalism and the
Book SynopsisUniversal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the debate by showing that French equality has not always demanded an erasure of differences. Through close and contextualized readings of the way that major novelists, philosophers, filmmakers, and political figures have struggled with the question of integrating Jews into French society, Maurice Samuels draws lessons about how the French have often understood the universal in relation to the particular. Samuels demonstrates that Jewish difference has always been essential to the elaboration of French universalism, whether as its foil or as proof of its reach. He traces the development of this discourse through key moments in French history, from debates over granting Jews civil
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The University of Chicago Press Islam and Education Myths and Truths
Book SynopsisExplores the world of education in Islam since the medieval era, illuminating the struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. This title also offers an overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education.
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The University of Chicago Press Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement
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The University of Chicago Press German Idealism and the Jew
Book SynopsisUncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition, contending that the redefinition of the Jews as an irrational, oriental Other forms the very cornerstone of German idealism.Trade Review"German Idealism and the Jew is a work long overdue, of great importance to scholarly understandings of Nazi Germany and anti-Semitism and the larger problem of the functioning of the scapegoat mechanism in chaotic societies." (Philosophy in Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Fundamentalisms and the State Remaking Polities
Book SynopsisThis text focuses on fundamentalist movements on five continents and within six religions. It considers the effect that antisecular religious movements have had since 1970 on national economies, political parties, constitutional issues, and international relations.
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The University of Chicago Press Combating Jihadism
Book SynopsisArgues that the distinctiveness of the al Qaeda threat led the international community to change its approach to counterterrorism. This title provides a reinterpretation of the war on terrorism and the role of the United States in leading the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.Trade Review"This book is essential reading for international relations scholars on all levels, from the newest undergraduates to more seasoned researchers and professionals, and it should have a place on every library shelf by virtue of the novelty of the argument and approach." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Islamic Modernism Nationalism and Fundamentalism
Book SynopsisThis premise allows him to unlock for readers the historical process that started with Islamic modernism and ended with fundamentalism.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and important book that offers a unique combination of historical depth and comparative range. It provides much more than a historical survey of the subjects analyzed, expounding a rigorous, comprehensive, and consistent explanatory paradigm for the evolution of modern Muslim discourses." - James P. Jankowski, University of Colorado at Boulder"
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The University of Chicago Press A Memorandum for the President of the Royal
Book SynopsisThe kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers including conversion of its native Muslim population. This title attempts to lodge a protest against assimilationist laws that required converted Muslims in Granada to dress, speak, eat, marry, celebrate festivals, and bury their dead exactly as the Castilian settler population.Trade Review"This is an original and audacious work that heightens the political import of Francisco Nunez Muley's Memorandum even as it highlights its relevance for modern readers interested in the current relations between Islam and the West. Scholars in the humanities will find these intercultural dialogues with Islam to be an extraordinary resource." - Maria Antonia Garces, Cornell University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is chock-full of exciting and provocative ideas, but it is also just plain fun — something akin to Freedman leading the reader by the hand on a tour of a cultural landscape that he knows like the back of his hand." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This is a profoundly important book in Jewish Studies, as well as among the cultural and literary criticism of its artistic subject." * Religion and the Arts *"Erudite, gossipy, nuanced, funny, and moving. . . Freedman serves as collector culling materials from a wide array of sources, arranging them into an often dizzying but unfailingly interesting and almost always entirely persuasive account that supports his thesis, each time from a different direction." * Victorian Studies *"Overall, The Jewish Decadence is a richly rewarding read, blending deep knowledge, provocative insight and unsparing honesty to the role Jews have played in fin-de-siècle culture of Europe and the USA. Barely a page goes by with an insight into cultural production and consumption and unexpected links between creators, places and ideas. This book will be of value to anyone wishing to under early Modernism and Jewish contribution to vanguard art." -- alexanderadamsart: Reviews of art, culture and literature"Freedman’s argument, that Jewish novelists, poets, actors, and philosophers reworked the discourse of decadence, which often linked Jewishness to decline, to their own ends in order to generate a Jewish response to the conditions of modernity, is compelling. More importantly, it offers a model of how work on afterlives and transnational circulation can avoid the trap of thinking in terms of unidirectional influence and attend to the agency and creativity of those influenced." * Journal of British Studies *Bringing his capacious cultural expertise and scholarly rigor to a wide-ranging exploration of the association between Jews and decline and degeneracy, Jonathan Freedman performs an erudite, original, and wonderfully chutzpadik act of reclamation. -- Alisa Solomon, Columbia University“This book takes us on an extraordinary journey through what the author calls ‘something like modernity,’ as it is to be found in dance, literature, song, painting, theatre, film, and history. Decadence turns out to mean what it seems to mean, and an almost unimaginable range of other things as well. Its richness, as well as its constant entanglement in ideas of Jewishness, would have caused any other writer either to simplify or get lost, but Freedman wittily and resolutely does neither. His book is ‘example-drunk,’ as he says, but it doesn’t stumble. It celebrates complication and reflection and masquerade, and we find ourselves wishing the show—the one he is evoking and the one to be seen in the fabulous evocation itself—would never end.” -- Michael Wood, Princeton University“Freedman reconceives of Jews as architects rather than victims of modernity. Although Jews were often demonized as sexual and artistic deviants, they also entered into dialogue with their detractors by contesting or reshaping the prejudices of the day. Most important, Jews played a central role in European culture as artists, critics, sponsors, networkers, and entrepreneurs; throughout the book, Freedman spots Jews where none have been discerned before, testifying to their ubiquity among the avant-garde.” -- Maud Ellman, University of Chicago"A book that transforms our experiences of familiar works and encourages us to carry on the work of Jewish cultural studies, following the example of one of its most gifted practitioners." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface, by Daniel Hack and Amy Hungerford Introduction: “Our Two-Step Is the Modern Decadence!” 1 Qu’est-ce que c’est la décadence? And What Does It Have to Do with Jews? 2 Oscar Wilde among the Jews 3 Salomania and the Remaking of the Jewish Female Body from Sarah Bernhardt to Betty Boop 4 Coming Out of the Jewish Closet with Marcel Proust 5 Pessimism, Jewish Style: Jews Reading Schopenhauer from Freud to Bellow 6 Walter Benjamin’s Paris, Capital of Jewish Aesthetic Modernity 7 Dybbuks, Vampires, and Other Fin-de-Siècle Jewish Phantasms Conclusion: The Deca-danse; or, The Afterlife of the Jewish DecadentNotes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in
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The University of Chicago Press Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in
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The University of Chicago Press Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational
Book SynopsisWhen we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asia. Focused on the transnational Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Unequal Partners explores the ways gender, race, economic inequality, and colonial history play out in religious organizations, revealing how their members are constantly negotiating and reworking the frameworks within which they operate. Taking us from Belgium and the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sociologist Casey Clevenger offers rare insight into how the sisters of this order work across national boundaries, shedding light on the complex relationships among individuals, social groups, and formal organizations. Throughout, Clevenger skillfully weaves the sisters' own voices into her narrative, helping us understand how the order has remained whole over time. A thoughtful analysis of the ties that bindand dividethe sisters, Unequal Partners is a rich look at transnationalism's ongoing impact on Catholicism.
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The University of Chicago Press Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational
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The University of Chicago Press Prophecy in Islam Philosophy and Orthodoxy
Book SynopsisExplores the doctrine of prophetic revelation, a critical and definitive area of Islamic religious and political thought. The author traces the inception of this doctrine from ancient Greek texts, and also its interpretation and elaboration by Muslim philosophers in order to suit their vision of the Prophet.Trade Review"Probably the most learned of the major Muslim thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century, in terms of both classical Islam and Western philosophical and theological discourse." (Association of Islam Researchers)"
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The University of Chicago Press In Whose Image Political Islam and Urban
Book SynopsisThe author was employed as consultant for the Islamic fundamentalist Shari'a Movement's project to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in Khartoum's shanty towns. His book examines the use of Islam as a tool for political transformation and discusses religious discourse in Africa.
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The University of Chicago Press Imagining Religion From Babylon to Jonestown
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The University of Chicago Press Durkheim and the Jews of France Volume 1997
Book SynopsisDiscussing the work of Durkheim, the author of this book discounts the theory that there is anything essentially Jewish in his work. He aims to show that Durkheim's sociology, especially his sociology of religion, was formed in relation to 19th and 20th century Jewish intellectual life in France.
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The University of Chicago Press A Probable State The Novel the Contract and the
Book SynopsisThis work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters.
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The University of Chicago Press Fraternal Critique
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The University of Chicago Press Fraternal Critique
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The University of Chicago Press Recovered Roots Collective Memory and the Making
Book SynopsisBecause new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In this volume Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition.
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The University of Chicago Press The Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion
Book SynopsisIn the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland's borders, Geneviève Zubrzycki sees it as a particularly crucial moment in the development of post-Communist Poland's statehood and its changing relationship to Catholicism. In The Crosses of Auschwitz, Zubrzycki skillfully demonstrates how this episode crystallized latent social conflicts regarding the significance of Catholicism in defining Polishness and the role of anti-Semitism in the construction of a new Polish identity. Since the fall of Communism, the binding that has held Polish identity and Catholicism together has begun to erode, creating unease among ultranationalists. Within their construction of Polish identity also exists pride in the Polish people's long history of suffering. For the ultranationalists, then
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McGill-Queen's University Press Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Book SynopsisA timely critique of the entrenchment of tradition in Islam, with solutions to recover the religion's dynamism.Trade Review"Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice offers many original and compelling insights into Qur'anic exegesis, Muslim laws, and Islamic traditions and is likely to open up new interpretive horizons for rethinking religious knowledge." Asma Barlas, Ithaca College and author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
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McGill-Queen's University Press Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition. Yet these achievements have not produced a significant shift in the lived experience of Islam, particularly with respect to equality and justice in Muslim families. A new approach is needed: one that examines the underlying instruments of tradition and explores avenues for effecting change. In Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice leading intellectuals and emerging researchers grapple with the problem of entrenched positions within Islam that affect women, investigating the processes by which interpretations become authoritative, the theoretical foundations upon which they stand, and the ways they have been used to inscribe and enforce gender limitations. Together, they argue that the Islamic interpretive tradition displays all the trappings of canonical texts, canonical figures, and canon law despite the fact that Islam does not ordain religious authoritTrade Review"Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice offers many original and compelling insights into Qur'anic exegesis, Muslim laws, and Islamic traditions and is likely to open up new interpretive horizons for rethinking religious knowledge." Asma Barlas, Ithaca College and author of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
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McGill-Queen's University Press Under Siege
Book SynopsisThe 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global war on terror, and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions. The millennial generation of Muslim youth has come of age in these turbulent times, dealing with the aftermath and backlash associated with these events.Under Siege explores the lives of Canadian Muslim youth belonging to the 9/11 generation as they navigate these fraught times of global war and terror. While many studies address contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, few have focused on the toll this takes on Muslim communities, especially among younger generations. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 130 young people, youth workers, and community leaders, Jasmin Zine's ethnographic study unpacks the dynamics of Islamophobia as a system of oppresTrade Review“Under Siege is an exceptionally poignant, meticulously researched, and profoundly detailed account of Islamophobia in Canada that will stir the soul and fire the intellect. It is the definitive contribution to the study of Islamophobia and questions relating to the representation of Islam and Muslims in Canadian society to date.” Tahir Abbas, Leiden University and author of Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalization Agenda
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Columbia University Press The Government of God
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Columbia University Press Modern Varieties of Judaism American Lectures on
Book SynopsisIn the sphere of religion Dr. Blau describes the adjustments that Judaism has made in the past two centuries-adjustments that allow both change and continuity within an age-old tradition. He deals in order of their emergence with the religion's major branches (Reform, Neo-Orthodox, and Conservative) and appraises the Zionist movement.Table of Contents1. Emancipation and the Birth of Modern Judaism 2. The Initial Response: Reform Judaism in Europe and America 3. Reformulating Jewish Orthodoxy: Samson Raphael Hirsch and His Successors 4. The Complex Phenomenon of Conservative Judaism 5. Zionism: From Religious Nationalism to National Religion 6. Was Emancipation a Mistake? Mid-Twentieth-Century Appraisals
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Columbia University Press Like Bread on the Seder Plate
Book SynopsisOne of the first women to be ordained as a rabbi explores how lesbians can shape Jewish tradition to resonate with their own experience.Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for scholars of both Jewish and lesbian cultures in the United States. American Studies International A solid contribution to both Jewish feminism and lesbian and gay studies, breaking new ground in its focus on transforming Jewish religious life from a lesbian perspective. Women's Review of Books An extremely valuable and visionary source for Jewish lesbians who long to be recognized and to participate fully in mainstream synagogue life... The author is to be congratulated for bravely taking on such an all-consuming topic and writing such an accessible, powerful and provocative book. Lambda Book Report
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Columbia University Press Marrano as Metaphor
Book SynopsisExamining Jewish presence in French literature, this book explores the many shapes and forms in which Jews are perceived, spoken, and written about. It looks at strains of antisemitism running through French literature, analyzing such antecedents as the nihilism of the 1880s and its meditation on death and absence.
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Columbia University Press No Room of Their Own Gender Nation in Israeli
Book SynopsisUnlike the literary traditions of the United States, England, and France, the first century of Hebrew literature was lacking in women novelists; women tended to write poetry, while prose fiction was mainly the domain of male writers. This book presents a comparative analysis of Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models.Trade ReviewFeldman has produced a provocative look at the tension between Israeli nationalism and an emerging feminist consciousness in Israeli women's fiction. Tikkun Feldman's own style is an achievement in its own right... [her] bifocal outlook on both continents makes the book an exciting experience for two kinds of audiences, Eastern and Western, female and male scholars and writers... will generate fruitful scholarly discussions and will be considered milestones in feminist studies in Israel as well as the United States. -- Yona Shapira Hebrew Studies a fascinating study, full of surprises and insights for scholars of Israeli culture and literature and for feminists everywhere -- Amia Lieblich NashimTable of ContentsIntroduction I. "Running with She-Wolves"? II. The "New Hebrew Woman" III. The Subject of Postmodernism IV. Isreal and the European "Woman Question" One: Emerging Subjects I. The Masked Autobiography: Genre and Gender II. What Does a Woman Want? Shulamit Lapid and the Feminist Romance Two: Alterity Revisited: Gender Theory and Israeli Literary Feminism I. Beauvior's Drama of Subjectivity II. Beauvoir's "Daughters": Otherness as Difference III. Postmodernism's "Other": Mother's Body, Mother's Tongue IV. Empowering the M/Other? Three: Empowering the Other: Amalia Kahana-Carmon I. Feminine, Feminist, or Modernist? II. A Brotherhood of Outsiders: Women/Jews/Blacks in Up in Montifer III. The Brotherhood That Cannot Hold Four: Who's Afraid of Androgyny? Virginia Woolf's "Gender" avant la lettre I. Untangling the Homoerotic Web: Between Orlando and A Room of One's Own II. Who's Afraid of Father and Mother(hood)? Back To The Lighthouse III. Jewish Mothers and Israeli Androgyny Five: Israeli Androgyny Under Siege: Shulamith Hareven I. Gendered Selves in City of Many Days: Same, Different, or Repressed? II. Androgynous "Jewish Parents"? Not in a War Zone! III. Trauma and Homoeroticism: Loneliness, an Israeli Story Six: The Leaning Ivory Tower: Feminist Politics I. Oedipal Tyrannies: Woolf's Psychopolitics in Three Guineas II. The Leaning Israeli Tower: Feminism Reinvented III. Monotheistic Tyrannies: Israeli Psychopolitics Seven: 1948-Hebrew "Gender" and Zionist Ideology: Netiva Ben Yehuda Eight: Beyond The Feminist Romance: Ruth Almog I. From The Madwoman in the Attic to The Women's Room II. The Sins of Their Father(s); or, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl III. Love and Work? Embracing the M/Other in Roots of Air IV. From Hysteria to HerStory: Artistic Mending Afterword: The Nineties-Prelude to a Postmodernist Millennium?
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Columbia University Press The New Crusades
Book SynopsisNot since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. This book explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy.Trade ReviewA book of major importance... Essential. Choice Sophisticated, subtle, richly documented, and wide-ranging. -- L. Carl Brown Foreign Affairs This is an important book... for those engaged in challenging the assumptions that lie behind this current 'war on terror'. The Muslim World Book Review The New Crusades assmbles expert knowledges of some tangled historical roots... this work deserves as wide a readership as possible. -- Max Weiss Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism An insightful work. -- Roxanne D. Marcotte Studies in Religion An important book at an important time in American social thought. -- Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Studies in Contemporary IslamTable of ContentsPreface: A Tribute to Eqbal, by AhmadEmran Qureshi Introduction: Constructing the Muslim Enemy, by Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells Part I Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy, by Fatema Mernissi The Clash of Definitions, by Edward W. Said The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of the Post-Cold War World Order, by John Trumpbour The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist's Critique, by Roy P. Mottahedeh Among the Mimics and Parasites: V. S. Naipaul's Islam, by Rob Nixon Islamic and Western Worlds: The End of History or Clash of Civilizations, by Mujeeb R. Khan Europe and the Muslims: The Permanent Crusade?, by Tomaz Mastnak The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography, by MarIa Rosa Menocal Islamophobia in France and the "Algerian Problem", by Neil MacMaster The Nationalist Serbian Intellectuals and Islam: Defining and Eliminating a Muslim Community, by Norman Cigar Christ Killer, Kremlin, Contagion, by Michael A. Sells Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The New Crusades
Book SynopsisNot since the Crusades of the Middle Ages has Islam evoked the degree of fear, hostility, and ethnic and religious stereotyping that is evident throughout Western culture today. This book explores the historical, political, and institutional forces that have raised the specter of a threatening and monolithic Muslim enemy.Trade ReviewA book of major importance... Essential. Choice Sophisticated, subtle, richly documented, and wide-ranging. -- L. Carl Brown Foreign Affairs This is an important book... for those engaged in challenging the assumptions that lie behind this current 'war on terror'. The Muslim World Book Review The New Crusades assmbles expert knowledges of some tangled historical roots... this work deserves as wide a readership as possible. -- Max Weiss Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism An insightful work. -- Roxanne D. Marcotte Studies in Religion An important book at an important time in American social thought. -- Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Studies in Contemporary IslamTable of ContentsPreface: A Tribute to Eqbal, by AhmadEmran Qureshi Introduction: Constructing the Muslim Enemy, by Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells Part I Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy, by Fatema Mernissi The Clash of Definitions, by Edward W. Said The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington, Bernard Lewis, and the Remaking of the Post-Cold War World Order, by John Trumpbour The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist's Critique, by Roy P. Mottahedeh Among the Mimics and Parasites: V. S. Naipaul's Islam, by Rob Nixon Islamic and Western Worlds: The End of History or Clash of Civilizations, by Mujeeb R. Khan Europe and the Muslims: The Permanent Crusade?, by Tomaz Mastnak The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography, by MarIa Rosa Menocal Islamophobia in France and the "Algerian Problem", by Neil MacMaster The Nationalist Serbian Intellectuals and Islam: Defining and Eliminating a Muslim Community, by Norman Cigar Christ Killer, Kremlin, Contagion, by Michael A. Sells Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish
Book SynopsisFollows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish.Trade ReviewThe book will have a special status within Derrida studies... The most striking thing in Cixous's writing is the sense that something very confidential is being disclosed. -- Devorah Baum Jewish Quarterly Her commentary, helps to illuminate some of the gnarled, complex recesses of Derrida's thought and as such will go far in clarifying his often punishing difficult writing. -- Saul Austerlitz Forward Catches precisely the destabilizing effect of Derrida's practice. -- Josh Cohen Times Literary Supplement Portrait of Jacques Derrida is a rarity, a singular and powerful addition to Cixous' own important oeuvre. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory For anyone who is looking for a way of understanding Derrida but is intimidated by his writings, this is a good place to start. -- Oliver Leaman Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsThe Mark of the Prince Namesakes-No! No's by the Bucketful Of the Kleins and the Grosses The Dream of Naivete Remain/The Child That I Am Point of Honor/Point Donor Circumfictions of a Circumcision Objector The Orchard and the Fishery Second Skin
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Columbia University Press The Ethical Soundscape
Book SynopsisExplores how a popular Islamic media form - the cassette sermon - has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East. Focusing on Cairo's popular neighborhoods, this book highlights the pivotal role these tapes play in an expanding arena of Islamic argumentation and debate - what the author calls an "Islamic counterpublic."Trade ReviewA very timely ethnography of Islam in general and Egypt in specific. Anthropology.net The relevance of this analytic project to readers both within and outside the academy cannot be underestimated. -- Ilan Pappe Arab Studies Journal This stimulating book offers a sustained argument and excellent, accessible ethnography for specialists of Islamic politics and media alike. International Journal of Middle East Studies The Ethical Soundscape provides a timely update to this important genre of Muslim expression. -- Flagg Miller Contemporary Islam Well worth the effort. -- Andre Singer Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute This is a substantial anthropological study that delves deep into the meaning and significance of cassette sermons in the context of Islamic revival... This book is a welcome analytical study which should be of profit to many. The Muslim World Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transcription 1. Introduction 2. Islam, Nationalism, and Audition 3. The Ethics of Listening 4. Cassettes and Counterpublics 5. Rhetorics of the Da'iya 6. The Acoustics of Death 7. Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA succinct but thoroughly researched account of how Israel's security agencies have sought to defeat terrorist organizations from the pre-state Yishuv to events following the 2006 war with Hezbollah. After examining the historical record, Ami Pedahzur concludes that the application of defensive measures has proved more successful in deterring terrorist attacks than 'targeted killings' and other forms of warlike measures. -- Leonard Weinberg, University of Nevada, Reno Ami Pedahzur has written an astute, well-documented, and compelling analysis of Israel's reliance on the 'war model' to combat terrorism. Israel's political and military leaders were consistently unable to resist the temptation of dramatic and costly uses of force when modest defensive or conciliatory measures were preferable. This lesson should not be lost on any national policymaker confronted by terrorism. -- Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University [Pedahzur's] insights are so well reasoned and relevant that the pages almost turn themselves. Publishers Weekly (starred review) [A] superb examination of Israel's secret services. -- Daniel Byman New York Post More than entertaining spy stories... this book will be a great aid to other Western countries around the world struggling to confront terror. Jewish Book World [Pedahzur] offers a brilliant description of Israel's fight against terrorism from 1948 to the present. -- Seth J. Frantzman The Jerusalem Post A fascinating history of counterterrorism by Israeli security agencies... Highly recommended. Choice "The Israeli Secret Services & the Struggles Against Terrorism" is a fine read and solidly recommended. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review the book sheds a great deal of light on the activities of counterterrorism organizations that mostly operate in the shadows and on the seemingly haphazard ways counterterrorism policy is formulated in times of crisis. -- Aaron M. Hoffman ShofarTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Emergence of Israel's Counterterrorism Doctrine 2. The Path to the Defensive Model and Back 3. Rescuing Hostages 4. The Lebanese Puzzle 5. New Challenges from the West Bank and Gaza 6. The Global Challenge of Iran and Hezbollah 7. New Rivals, Old Responses 8. A War Against an Elusive Enemy 9. The Second Lebanon War and Beyond 10. Fighting the Terrorism Plague Notes Glossary Index
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Columbia University Press Reshaping the Holy Democracy Development and
Book SynopsisThrough extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically, she examines the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh who have become increasingly mobilized by the activities of predominantly secular NGOs, yet who desire to retain, reclaim, and reshape-rather than reject-their faith. In their employment and in their interactions with the legal system, the state, NGOs, and political and religious groups, women are changing state practices, views of women in the public sphere, and the nature of lived Islam itself. In contrast to most work on Islam and Muslims, which has focused on the Middle East and has privileged the study of religious and legal texts, this book redirects our attention to South Asia, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, and emphasizes the actual experiences of Muslims. Women and gender, as well as Bangladesh's formally democratic context, are cenTrade ReviewReshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh is a welcome addition to what we know about Bangladesh, Islam, and development practices. Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Gender, Islam, and Politics in Bangladesh 2. Gender and Social Reform 3. "A Little Money for Tea": Rural Women's Encounters with the State 4. Contesting Development: Between Islamist and Secularist Perspectives 5. Democracy on the Ground 6. Beyond Muslim Motherhood Coda Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press In Defense of Religious Moderation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe argument made by William Egginton on behalf of religious moderation is a clear, nuanced, and important one. It shows how the critique of religion offered by well-known atheist authors is guilty of the same fundamentalist logic of which they are so critical. Egginton writes with great ease and clarity, and his many examples drawn from legal cases, popular culture, and his own personal experience will resonate with readers. -- Jeffrey Robbins, Lebanon Valley College, author of Radical Democracy and Political Theology William Egginton has produced an up-to-date account of the political nature of religion to remind us all that Samuel Huntington's clash of religious civilizations may not only be contrasted by religious moderation but also actually avoided. Following on Richard Rorty's and Gianni Vattimo's postmetaphysical weak thought, Egginton dismantles theistic, atheist, scientific, and philosophical arguments that try to accuse such moderate faith of irrationalism, relativism, or nihilism. A genuine must-read for all those concerned with the violent religious groups emerging in our societies. -- Santiago Zabala, ICREA/University of Barcelona, author of The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics A literary rally to restore sanity in religion... temperate and thoughtfully researched. Kirkus Review This treatise is no easy read, but the conclusion is a comfort: People of faith must be tolerant. Star-Ledger Egginton's book is a very useful resource for survey or elective undergraduate courses. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments (and Apologies) Introduction: An Uncertain Faith 1. Dogmatic Atheism 2. The Fundamentalism of Everyday Life 3. The Language of God 4. Faith in Science 5. In Defense of Religious Moderation Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading Index
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Columbia University Press Winged Faith
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA welcome addition to our catalog of religious movements and a timely reminder that circulation does not flow in only one direction-and never will again. -- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database [An] informative and erudite book. -- Alexandra Kent Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute a rich and challenging text. -- Hanna H. Kim H-Asia Winged Faith is a readable and carefully documented account of an extraordinary modern religious figure, but its appeal is much wider. It is an important contribution to the literature on globalization and a valuable corrective to the pervasive view that globalization, especially cultural globalization, is simply westernization. -- Bryan S. Turner Society It is a book that should be widely read by scholars and people coming from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. -- Amit Chaturvedi Contemporary South Asia Srinivas' impressive study argues for new visions of pluralism that hinge upon an engaged cosmopolitanism...One hopes Srinivas' impressive work will be read by scholars from numerous fields, as its reach is incredibly broad. -- Jeffrey M. Brackett Journal of Hindu StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction: Toward Cultural Understanding 1. Becoming God: The Story of Sathya Sai Baba 2. Deus Loci: Economies of Faith, Sacred Travel, and the Building of a Moral Architecture 3. Illusion, Play, and Work in a Moral Community: Divine Darshan and the Practices of Transnational Devotion 4. Renegotiating the Body: Muscular Morality, Truancy, and the Satisfaction of Desire 5. Secrecy, Ambiguity, Truth, and Power: The Global Sai Organization and the Anti-Sai Network 6. Out of God's Hands: Reframing Material Worlds In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Thoughts on Cultural Translation and Engaged Cosmopolitanism Appendix Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Displacing the Divine
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Fiction as a Mirror of Culture Part I. Exposing the Divine: 1790s-1850s 1. Faltering Fathers and Devious Divines: Popular Images 2. Clerics in Contention: Church Images 3. Vulnerable Divines: Radical Images Part II. Discrediting the Divine: 1860s-1920s 4. Compulsives and Accommodators: Popular Images (1) 5. Con Men in Collars and Heroes of the Cloth: Popular Images (2) 6. Activist Preachers and Th eir Detractors: Popular Images (3) 7. Champions of the Faith: Church Images 8. Foundering Divines: Radical Images (1) 9. Flawed Divines: Radical Images (2) Part III. The Legacy: 1930s-2000s 10. Fallen Divines: Some Contemporary Images Conclusion. The Legacy of the Displaced Divine Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press After Pluralism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHow has religious difference been constructed as a problem to which 'pluralism' becomes the solution? From within a rich variety of historical settings and international case studies, the essays collected in After Pluralism reveal 'pluralism' as an ideological and normative space, a discursive frame within which questions of religious difference may legitimately be engaged but which nevertheless cannot account for the messiness of religion on the ground, where 'dialogue' and 'recognition' between discrete religions and religious actors are seldom to be seen. In the process, religions emerge as shifting constellations of belief and practice continually made and remade within relations of power that are not always in need of resolution or amenable to it. An accomplished, exhilarating, and game-changing book. -- Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University After Pluralism is an outstanding collection of essays on religious diversity by a group of multidisciplinary scholars. Their work is at the cutting edge of the relationship between religion, culture, law, and public life in a post-secular age. The introduction is an invaluable guide not only to the book but to the whole field as well. -- James Tully, University of Victoria After Pluralism brings us astonishing new insight into the underpinnings, uses, and limits of religious pluralism in many settings -- from US and Canadian law courts, to the sacred lands of indigenous peoples, the American theatre, Cairo television, German prisons, and more. Its closely reasoned and beautifully illustrated essays make us rethink the ways in which religions are and can be lived in the world. A deeply important book for our time. -- Natalie Zemon Davis, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Habits of Pluralism Pamela E. Klassen and Courtney Bender Part I. Law, Normativity, and the Constitution of Religion 1. Ethics After Pluralism Janet R. Jakobsen 2. Pluralizing Religion: Islamic Law and the Anxiety of Reasoned Deliberation Anver M. Emon 3. Religion Naturalized: The New Establishment Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 4. The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance Benjamin L. Berger Part II. Performing Religion After Pluralism 5. The Birth of Theatrical Liberalism Andrea Most 6. The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History Tracy Leavelle 7. A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams, Islam, and Psychology in Egypt Amira Mittermaier 8. The Temple of Religion and the Politics of Religious Pluralism: Judeo-Christian America at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair J. Terry Todd Part III. The Ghosts of Pluralism: Unintended Consequences of Institutional and Legal Constructions 9. Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment Michael D. McNally 10. Saving Darfur: Enacting Pluralism in Terms of Gender, Genocide, and Militarized Human Rights Rosemary R. Hicks 11. What Is Religious Pluralism in a "Monocultural" Society? Considerations from Postcommunist Poland Genevieve Zubrzycki 12. The Curious Attraction of Religion in East German Prisons Irene Becci Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press After Pluralism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHow has religious difference been constructed as a problem to which 'pluralism' becomes the solution? From within a rich variety of historical settings and international case studies, the essays collected in After Pluralism reveal 'pluralism' as an ideological and normative space, a discursive frame within which questions of religious difference may legitimately be engaged but which nevertheless cannot account for the messiness of religion on the ground, where 'dialogue' and 'recognition' between discrete religions and religious actors are seldom to be seen. In the process, religions emerge as shifting constellations of belief and practice continually made and remade within relations of power that are not always in need of resolution or amenable to it. An accomplished, exhilarating, and game-changing book. -- Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University After Pluralism is an outstanding collection of essays on religious diversity by a group of multidisciplinary scholars. Their work is at the cutting edge of the relationship between religion, culture, law, and public life in a post-secular age. The introduction is an invaluable guide not only to the book but to the whole field as well. -- James Tully, University of Victoria After Pluralism brings us astonishing new insight into the underpinnings, uses, and limits of religious pluralism in many settings -- from US and Canadian law courts, to the sacred lands of indigenous peoples, the American theatre, Cairo television, German prisons, and more. Its closely reasoned and beautifully illustrated essays make us rethink the ways in which religions are and can be lived in the world. A deeply important book for our time. -- Natalie Zemon Davis, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Habits of Pluralism Pamela E. Klassen and Courtney Bender Part I. Law, Normativity, and the Constitution of Religion 1. Ethics After Pluralism Janet R. Jakobsen 2. Pluralizing Religion: Islamic Law and the Anxiety of Reasoned Deliberation Anver M. Emon 3. Religion Naturalized: The New Establishment Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 4. The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance Benjamin L. Berger Part II. Performing Religion After Pluralism 5. The Birth of Theatrical Liberalism Andrea Most 6. The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History Tracy Leavelle 7. A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams, Islam, and Psychology in Egypt Amira Mittermaier 8. The Temple of Religion and the Politics of Religious Pluralism: Judeo-Christian America at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair J. Terry Todd Part III. The Ghosts of Pluralism: Unintended Consequences of Institutional and Legal Constructions 9. Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment Michael D. McNally 10. Saving Darfur: Enacting Pluralism in Terms of Gender, Genocide, and Militarized Human Rights Rosemary R. Hicks 11. What Is Religious Pluralism in a "Monocultural" Society? Considerations from Postcommunist Poland Genevieve Zubrzycki 12. The Curious Attraction of Religion in East German Prisons Irene Becci Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Generation of Postmemory Writing and Visual
Book SynopsisCan we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories--multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethicsTrade ReviewMarianne Hirsch's writings provide us with a varied and complex vocabulary for thinking and writing about the long intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust. Her supple writing wrestles with ghosts, images, shadows, survival, loss and all that we project onto the empty canvas of the aftermath. Moving, urgent, and necessary, this book opens up new ways of thinking about family, relationality, kinship, inheritance, and survival in the wake of cataclysmic violence. -- Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure Marianne Hirsch explores the aftermath of genocide as few scholars have. She is both a brilliant reader of texts (photographs, artifacts, literature, and digital images) and an incisive theorist. As she clarifies the fractured forms of post-Holocaust art and literature, she demonstrates the value of imagination as restorative and as rich and layered in its inter-generational complexities. A groundbreaking book that has broad meaning for the study of traumatic memory and its creative aftermath. -- Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past With her crucial distinction between 'familial' and 'affiliative' postmemory, Marianne Hirsch shows how the transmission of traumatic experiences occurs not only within families but also across a much wider social field. Her emphasis on the role of gender in this mediating process is illuminating. The Generation of Postmemory will be a major reference in Holocaust and genocide studies for years to come. -- Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of Crises of Memory and the Second World War The Generation of Postmemory is Marianne Hirsch's finest and fullest description of her paradigm-changing concept of postmemory. In dialogue with a dazzling array of writers and photographers as well as scholars across the humanities, it shows how the 'hinge generations' that have directly experienced or inherited the traumas of the holocaust and other twentieth-century genocides have sought to conceive and commemorate those staggering losses in the hope of a better future. It also traces Hirsch's own dialectical development as a literary, feminist, visual culture, and Holocaust studies scholar, an intellectual trajectory that she shares with many of the best critics of our time. This book is indispensable. -- Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism And this is precisely where the heuristic value of postmemory comes in: it forces us to question, to mobilize the punctum that launches the relationship between history (with a capital H, of course) and memory, and its artistic representations... -- Sonia Combe La Quinzaine Litteraire significant contributions to Holocaust literature, women's and gender history, and memory studies. -- Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Familial Postmemories and Beyond 1. The Generation of Postmemory 2. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer 3. Marked by Memory II. Affiliation 4. Surviving Images 5. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art 6. Projected Memory 7. Testimonial Objects with Leo Spitzer III. Connective Histories 8. Objects of Return 9. Postmemory's Archival Turn Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press What Does a Jew Want
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA provocative and beautiful portfolio of reflections on Israel-Palestine, written by an Israeli artist/intellectual of the first order. -- Juilia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine This is an extremely inspiring and politically important volume. It will interest students and scholars in the fields of literary studies, religious studies, philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies, as well as the general educated public. The psychoanalytically informed and politically engaged readings of myths and stories from the Bible are especially convincing and truly innovative. -- Katrin Pahl, Johns Hopkins University Udi Aloni has written a remarkable series of love letters to what his country could be, challenging his fellow Jews to escape from all of our ghettos, whether physical or psychological. Aloni's political courage is contagious and reading him is a libratory experience. -- Naomi Klein, social activist and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Aloni's secular theology is definitely one of the most fascinating innovations of our time. So, if you want to dwell in your blessed secular ignorance, then do not read this book--at your own risk! -- Slavoj Zizek Udi Aloni provides us with a measure of the distance between our capacity for understanding and the terrors we choose instead. His art is trembling the underground, indeed. Boundless admiration. -- Tony KushnerTable of ContentsForeword, by Judith Butler Editor's Introduction, by Slavoj Zizek Acknowledgments Prologue: The Visit of the Three Magi in the Holy Land Slavoj Zizek in Ramallah: Back to the Trauma Zone, by Merav Yudilovitch Alain Badiou in Haifa: Their Entire Particular World Judith Butler in Sheikh-Jarrah: "This place which is called Israel" 1 Theology: "Specters of Binationalism" A Manifesto for the Jewish-Palestinian Arab-Hebrew State Why We Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions The Star of Redemption with a Split ? 2 Body Samson the Non-European Pnay El (Face of God): The Place of Radical Encounter Jocasta's Dream: The Birth of Love from the Slaughter of the Innocent 3 Place: Writing from Occupied Territories The Specters of a Borrowed Village For Palestine Is Missing from Palestine The Fish Who Became a Shahid Jenin and Homeopathy A Murder Is a Murder Is a Murder: Between Tel Aviv and Bil'in 4 Politics: Plea to Jewish Artists Trust Your Dreams: To Dorit Rabinian Thus Spoke the Left: An Attack on the Manifesto of the National Left The Betrayal of the Peace Camp: To Achinoam Nini From Now On Say I Am a Palestinian Jew: To David Grossman And Who Shall I Say Is Calling? A Plea to Leonard Cohen Come Out of Your Political Closets: To Israeli Filmmakers Seinfeld, This Time It's Not Funny! Elementary, My Dear Schnabel: Plea to Julian Schnabel What Do You Mean When You Say "Left"? An Answer to Professor Nissim Calderon 5 Art: Visual Midrash An Angel Under Siege: To Hassan Hourani Local Angel: To Walter Benjamin Holy Language, Holy Place: To Franz Rosenzweig Forgiveness: To Jacques Derrida An Angel I Borrowed: To Mahmoud Darwish Stabat Mater: To My Father 6 Language: Conversations and Comments The Jew Is Within You, But You, You Are in the Jew, by Slavoj Zizek What Does a Jew Want? On the Film Local Angel, by Slavoj Zizek "I will tremble the underground": On the Film Forgiveness Angel for a New Place: On the Film Local Angel, by Alain Badiou The Four Dimensions of Art: On the Film Forgiveness, by Alain Badiou Existence on the Boundary: On the Film Kashmir: Journey to Freedom, by Alain Badiou There are some muffins there if you want ... : A Conversation on Queerness, Epilogue Oh, Weakness; or, Shylock with a Split S Jenin in Wonderland Precariousness, Binationalism, and BDS, by Judith Butler My Very Short Bibliography: Ontology of Exile Pledge to Our Language, by Scholem We Are Lacking a Present, by Mahmoud Darwish An Opening for an Interview, by Avot Yeshurun Who Is a Terrorist?, by D.A.M. A Man Goes, by Haviva Pedaya
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