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Book SynopsisRoger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways.Trade ReviewYou don't have to be Jewish to love Roger Horowitz's Kosher USA! It is three-stories in one: a family narrative within a history of kosher within the industrialization of the American food system. Well researched, insightful, and delightful--even for goyim. -- Andrew Smith, editor in chief, Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover's Companion to New York City Roger Horowitz's Kosher USA is a window into the world of the Jewish dietary laws and the conflict between being American and being kosher. The fascinating narrative tells the story of sturgeon, Coca Cola and Jello, as well as the intricate process of koshering meat in the modern world with the pivotal role of Temple Grandin and the large meat processors. An informative read for those who know and those who know nothing about kosher food's place in the American food system. -- Joan Nathan, author of Jewish Cooking in America Kosher USA introduces us to a remarkable cast of characters: the rabbis, scientists, home cooks, food companies and activists who spent decades wrestling with the term "kosher" in a passionate effort to tame it. Based on a rich array of sources, written with warmth and insight, this is an exhilarating study of how an ancient religious scruple became a modern American empire. -- Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Set in the context of Jewish ascendancy into the middle class, Kosher U.S.A. traces the way in which changes in modes of production and the lure of consumption battered, challenged, and sustained an ancient Jewish practice. Horowitz tells a very readable story about the convergence of technology, science, religion, animal-rights activism, and ordinary Jewish consumers. There is no other book like it. -- Hasia Diner, director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, New York University A thoughtful look at the convergence of faith, ethnicity, and the business of food. Kirkus Reviews An informative and endlessly fascinating account of how Jewish law, modern food production, government regulation, business acumen, and religious politics have shaped the American kosher food industry. Roger Horowitz understands that arcane arguments over glycerin, rennet and gelatin, and improbable tales concerning Coke, Kedem, Rubashkin and Manischewitz form part of a larger and more important story. You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate his accomplishment! -- Jonathan D. Sarna, Author of American Judaism: A History Engrossing... Horowitz provides a fascinating window into a rarefied world. Publisher's Weekly I have... fun reading Horowitz's book... Halfway through Horowitz's book, I get nostalgic. Globe and Mail In a work that is equal parts history, memoir, and cultural analysis, Horowitz traces the dramatic rise of kosher food products, specifically how they made their way into American food culture and were later popularized in the mass market of consumer products. Library Journal (starred review) The ever-changing and expanding kosher world makes this book quite timely and significant, as it traces the overlap interaction of religion and science. -- Roberta Scher The Jewish Georgian Kosher USA is the single best book that I have ever read on the American kosher industry. It will entertain and educate both general readers and serious scholars. H-Judaic Fascinating. Western States Jewish History As good food often does, Horowitz's book leaves the reader deeply satisfied-but hoping for a few more morsels. American Historical Review The history of the kosher food industry is thus quite skillfully told by Horowitz. American Jewish HistoryTable of ContentsPrologue: Uncle Stu's Question 1. My Family's Sturgeon 2. Kosher Coke, Kosher Science 3. The Great Jell-O Controversy 4. Who Says It's Kosher? 5. Industrial Kashrus 6. Man-O-Manischewitz 7. Harry Kassel's Meat 8. Shechita Conclusion: Kosher Ethics/Ethical Kosher? Epilogue: Remembering, Discovering, Thanking Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA useful corrective to the powerful voices of those who intersperse claims of Islam's innate bloodthirstiness with advocacy for suppression of the rights of Muslims at home and abroad. Publishers Weekly Lyons takes a chisel to the ancient and venerable edifice that is the anti-Islam discourse and patiently chips away, hoping to demolish what he considers the chief obstacle obscuring the West's view of real-life Islam and Muslims. -- Rayyan Al-Shawaf Boston Globe [Islam Through Western Eyes] offers an excellent and engaging opportunity for critical self-reflection. Booklist Lyons has made a very significant contribution to the study of Islam and Muslims in the 21st century across disciplines...A must read for those interested in the subject. Choice Jonathan Lyons offers a very readable and thought-provoking account of the roots and characteristics of Islamophobia. This book should be added to the reading lists of undergraduate and graduate courses on contemporary world affairs and American foreignpolicy. -- Cemil Aydin H-DiploTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. War Without End? 2. Foucault's Toolbox 3. The Western Idea of Islam 4. Islam and Science 5. Islam and Violence 6. Islam and Women 7. What's Wrong with Us? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlan F. Segal's approach to myth is very illuminating for the 'The Worst, Most Awful Stories of the Bible.' To see how these stories reflect (and attempt to resolve) contradictions-moral, social, and gender-is salutary and fresh. Segal was one of our finest thinkers about the legacy of ancient Judaism for modern thought. This book, his last contribution, is wise and moving. -- Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley ...a book rich in information for intelligent nonspecialists, written in an accessible style that doesn't scrimp on complicated or challenging matters. Publishers Weekly His book's greatest value lies in forcing contemporary readers to grapple with biblical stories that some would prefer to ignore. -- Michael Carasik H-Judaic insightful, lucid observations Choice Professor Segal's writing is easily accessible and can be read as a modern commentary to the Bible providing us with new insights for thought and interpretation. -- Barbara Andrews Jewish Book Council Online A gracefully written introduction to the narrative contents of the Hebrew Bible... A clear, engaging, yet slightly offbeat survey of our knowledge of Israelite history and literature since the work of Albrecht Alt, Martin Noth and William Foxwell Albright. Biblical Archaeology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Bible and Myth 1. The Matriarch in Peril 2. The Golden Calf: A Lesson in Chronology 3. A Historical Tragedy: The Short-lived Deuteronomic Reform 4. The Concubine of the Levite: A Complete Horror 5. The Horror of Human Sacrifice: Sex, Intermarriage, and Proper Descent 6. Ways of a Man with a Woman 7. No Peace in the Royal Family Conclusion: Synoptic Sinning Notes Index

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Trade ReviewA very original project that sheds light on the relations between Sufism and democracy in Senegal, West Africa, and globally by combining successful, high-quality articles from history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religious studies. -- Mohamed Mbodj, coauthor of Senegal: A Country and Its People Talk about timeliness! In a world riven by intolerance, here are ten engaging studies of democratic pluralism at work, ably introduced by Mamadou Diouf. Senegal is no utopia, and far from it; yet the republic is exceptional for its social contract between state and religious authorities across differences of faith, class, ethnicity, and region. Senegalese Sufism-mystical Islam-is deeply reflective but highly hierarchical, matching intellect with structure. Sufism's struggle (jihad) is with the imperfections of one's own soul, and as each pious person follows a path to perfection, there is respectful room for all. In this, 'Sufism is an antidote for political Islam' and perhaps 'the only way that Islam will be able to coexist with the West.' Anyone listening? -- Allen F. Roberts, coauthor of A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal ...the book should be of interest not only to Africanists and Islamicists, but to all scholars interested in documenting the reformulations of the secular and in theorizing Muslim modernities. -- Abdoulaye Sounaye Journal of African History A rich set of writings covering an array of topics and disciplines, this volume offers new insights into Senegalese 'exceptionalism' and an important contribution to the literature on Islam and democratisation. -- Linda Beck Journal of Modern African StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Introduction: The Public Role of the "Good Islam": Sufi Islam and the Administration of Pluralism. A Senegalese Story (Mamadou Diouf)2. A Secular Age and the World of Islam (Souleymane Bachir Diagne)3. Islam's New Visibility and the Secular Public (Beth A. Buggenhagen) 4. Dakar's Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City (Erin Augis)5. Sovereign Islam in a Secular State: Hidden Knowledge and Sufi Governance Among "Taalibe Baay" (Joseph Hill)6. The Senegalese 'Social Contract' Revisited: the Muridiyya Muslim Order and State Politics (Cheikh ANta Babou)7. Religion, Ethnicity and the State: the Triadic Configuration of Tolerance (Etienne Smith) 8. Islam, the Originaires and the Making of the Public Space in a Colonial City: Saint Louis of Senegal (Mamadou Diouf)9. Stateness, Democracy, and Respect: Senegal in Comparative Perspective (Alfred Stepan)10. Negotiating Islam in the Era of Democracy: Senegal in Comparative Regional Perspective (Leonardo A. Villalon)GlossaryContributors

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Book SynopsisThe first book to draw a blueprint for defeating al-Qaeda on ideological rather than military grounds.Trade ReviewMichael W. S. Ryan's illumination of the ideology and strategy of al-Qaeda as seen in the writings of its key theoreticians is unique and valuable. This is an important and insightful book that provides both new information on al-Qaeda and new commentary on its strategy and how to defeat it. -- Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Osama bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda 'prime' in Pakistan is decimated, and yet the anti-Western jihad continues as extremism erupts in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria, and elsewhere. Unless we can match our tactical successes with strategic progress, we seem condemned to endless war. Thankfully, Ryan shows us a way forward in his thoughtful, non-polemic analysis of this enemy's doctrine and motivation-the essential first step in combating not just its actions but also its ideas. This book is a blueprint for taking our fight to the next level. -- General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA A highly readable account of the evolution of al-Qaeda's strategic thinking. Drawing upon existing scholarship and new primary sources, Ryan offers not only a lucid expose of al-Qaeda's key strategic thinkers and their works but also new insight into the logic and rationale informing al-Qaeda's violent campaigns. -- Brynjar Lia, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, author of Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri Knowledge of the enemy is essential in any conflict, and Ryan delivers. His analysis of al-Qaeda's theology, strategy, tactics, and ability to marshal support even among people who disapprove of its methods is timely, well written,deeply researched, and ultimately reassuring. -- Thomas W. Lippman, author of Saudi Arabia on the Edge An outstanding and unique contribution that examines al-Qaeda's strategy against the US... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Historical Roots of al-Qaeda's Ideology 2. The Leadership Inspires a New Strategy 3. Jihad as Revolution 4. An Action Plan for Savagery 5. The Jihadist Legacy of Abu Mus'ab al-Suri Conclusion: What It All Means Appendix 1: Translation of "Revolutionary Wars" Appendix 2: Translation of "Fourth-Generation Warfare" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLike religion, playing and watching sports is a deeply meaningful, celebratory ritual enjoyed by millions across the world. The first scholarly work designed for use in both religion and sports courses, this collection develops and then applies a theoretically grounded approach to studying sports engagement globally and its relationship to modern-day issues of violence, difference, social protest, and belonging. Case studies explore the place of sports in mainstream faiths, such as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, and lesser-known religious groups, particularly in Africa. It covers football, baseball, and basketball but also archery, soccer, bullfighting, judo, and track. Essays reflect all skill levels, from amateur to professional, and find surprising affinities among practices and cultures in locations as disparate as Germany and Japan, Spain and Saudi Arabia. Thoroughly examining a range of phenomena, this collection fully captures the unique overlap of two universal inTrade ReviewIn Religion and Sports, Rebecca T. Alpert offers a series of expertly crafted case studies with innovative, provocative, and compelling suggested exercises for classroom use. The case studies are superb in their content and accessibility and cover a wide range of sports from across the globe, raising important questions related to race, gender, ethnicity, creed, pluralism, and moral complexity. -- Arthur Remillard, Saint Francis University Alpert explicitly seeks to add religions with their similar and different characteristics to the conversation about sports because she wants to explore how these two (nearly ubiquitous) spheres of life together might help us better understand what it means to be human in relation to the environment, to other living creatures, and to each other. -- John B. White, Baylor University The majority of previous books on sport and religion have focused on specific religious traditions. Religion and Sports, however, provides varied and deep insights into the symbiotic relationship between Protestant and Catholic forms of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Zen Buddhism, to name a few. Perhaps, though, the most impressive aspect of this new and important book is its usefulness in the classroom. With rich case studies, study questions for class discussion at the end of each chapter, and a chapter entitled What would Phil Jackson Do?, this book will interest and engage students and will be an invaluable resource for educators. -- Nick J. Watson, York St John University, and coauthor, Sport and the Christian Religion In Religion and Sports Rebecca T. Alpert provides a much needed, interactive introduction to this emerging field in interdisciplinary studies. Using case studies that involve diverse religions and multiple sports, Alpert's ingenious work stimulates students to engage various intersections between sports and religion. To guide them through their encounters with the complex cases, Alpert provides specific learning objectives, assorted exercises and activities, and a series of probing questions for each chapter. Simply, this is a model textbook for cultivating student interest in religious studies and the significance of sports. -- Joseph L. Price, author of Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America This worthy book should be adopted by a number of sport and religion courses and should be required reading for sports officials. Excellent bibliography, notes, and index. Choice Alpert provides an important step in literature of the religion and sport field... Alpert's work is accessible, engaging, and beneficial for students. -- William Whitmore Sport in HistoryTable of ContentsA Note to Instructors on How to Use This Text Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Study Religion and Sports Part 1: Why Do People Think Sports Are a Religion? Case 1. Friday Night Lights: High School Football as Religion in Odessa Case 2. Oscar Pistorius and What It Means to Be Human Part 2: Does Religion Have a Place in Sports, or Sports in Religion? Case 3. Zen and Archery in Japan Case 4. O God of Players: Prayer and Women's Basketball at a Catholic College Case 5. Juju: Witchcraft and African Football Case 6. Jewish Umpires and Baseball Chapel Part 3: What Happens When Religion and Sports Come Into Conflict? Case 7. American Jews and the Boycott of the 1936 Berlin Olympics Case 8. The Belleville Grays and Playing Sports on the Sabbath Case 9. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the National Anthem Ritual in the NBA Case 10. Judo and Hijab at the Olympics Part 4: Religion and Ethical Dilemmas in Sports Case 11. Caroline Pla and CYO Football: Should Girls Be Allowed to Compete with Boys? Case 12. Should the Roman Catholic Church Condemn Bullfighting in Spain? Case 13. Florida State University Seminoles' Osceola and Renegade: Mascots or Symbols Case 14. Jack Taylor's 138 Points: Is "Running Up the Score" Christian? Case 15. Conclusion: What Would Phil Jackson Do? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNothing less than astonishing-The Taliban's Virtual Emirate is a blueprint for how to do cultural analysis of terrorist/insurgent activity online. The depth of what's on offer here should only spur more academics to figure out how they too can do work like this. -- John G. Horgan, author of The Psychology of Terrorism Aggarwal has a detailed understanding of the group, the culture, and their use of language. The scientific research presented when discussing psychological concepts is accurate and wholly representable and (more importantly) relevant and interesting to the discussions. -- Neil D. Shortland, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Aggarwal, who is trained in cultural psychology, demonstrates how to conduct systematic discourse analysis and wed this to leadership analysis. The Taliban's Virtual Emirate will be seen as essential reading for both practitioners and academic analysts. -- Jerrold M. Post, author of The Mind of a Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda It is difficult to overstate the importance of The Taliban's Virtual Emirate, which provides a comprehensive and intelligent analysis of the use of the virtual space by one of the more successful and violent contemporary ideological movements. Scholars, practitioners, and others who are interested in the new ways militant groups shape their communities' and other constituencies' perceptions and understanding of the political reality should read this book. -- Arie Perliger, director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, and author of Middle Eastern Terrorism This remarkable study brings to bear Aggarwal's broad knowledge of South Asian and Middle Eastern languages and cultures and the conceptual frameworks of cultural psychiatry to examine the discourse and rhetoric of the Taliban. The insights will help all concerned to understand the religious idoleogies and aspirations that fuel some of the central conflicts of our time. -- Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University Aggarwal demonstrates an accurate understanding of the Islamic and Afghani cultural contexts. Hismethod of inquiry is rigorous and reproducible. American Journal of PsychiatryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Transcription and Translation Guide Preface 1. Channels of Communication in the Virtual Emirate 2. Mullah Omar's Leadership in the Virtual Emirate 3. Identity in the Virtual Emirate 4. Jihad in the Virtual Emirate 5. International Relations in the Virtual Emirate Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature bridges the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies and enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization.Trade ReviewA rich, consequential, powerful work that will make a difference in Jewish and postcolonial studies alike. -- Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity An engaging and rather unusual study of diaspora Jewry in the West Indies... [that shines a] bright, exalting light... on the Caribbean and its many different peoples. -- Ian Thomson Times Literary Supplement Throughout Calypso Jews, Casteel makes a case for how hidden Sephardism has captured the imagination of culturally diverse authors post-slavery. The fullness and novelty of her research opens a fascinating dialogue on the intersections of black and Jewish relationships as revealed through Caribbean literature. -- Sharon Elswit Jewish Book Council A path-breaking study... By bringing a fresh approach to a much-neglected area of scholarship, Casteel has made a major contribution to our understanding of the Caribbean writer's commitment to bearing witness to the traumas of modernity. -- Patrick Taylor H-Caribbean Casteel's richly informative study...shows us that the peoples of the world do not merely trade and compete with, love and harm one another; they also watch each other in history, become compelled by one another's stories. ALH Online Review Series XTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1: 1492 1. Sephardism in Caribbean Literature: Derek Walcott's Pissarro 2. Marranism and Creolization: Myriam Chancy and Michelle Cliff 3. Port Jews in Slavery Fiction: Maryse Conde and David Dabydeen 4. Plantation Jews in Slavery Fiction: Cynthia McLeod's Jodensavanne Part 2: Holocausts 5. Calypso Jews: John Hearne and Jamaica Kincaid 6. Between Camps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Michele Maillet 7. Writing Under the Sign of Anne Frank: Michelle Cliff and Caryl Phillips Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA witty and absorbing demonstration of the interplay of minority and mainstream-with the minority culture here being of outsize influence over the larger culture of Broadway, Hollywood, and America. Kirkus Reviews The many photos of famous actors and comics, old posters, packed theaters, and stage scenes balance out the richly sourced text, making this a visually lively, comprehensive, and accessible addition to any collection on theater or Jewish American history and heritage. Booklist A comprehensive... readable and lavishly illustrated history of the Yiddish Theater... This essential book is an important addition to library collections focusing on theater, pop culture, and Jewish studies. Library Journal (starred review) A tribute in scholarly scrapbook form to a dramatic phenomenon that acculturated immigrant Jews and left a legacy often defined as New York humor. -- Sam Roberts The New York Times [A] scholarly scrapbook full of vivid illustrations that buttress essays from leading critics and historians. Haaretz A richly-illustrated approachable work about the Lower East Side's entertainment legacy. Southern Jewish Life [A] marvelous book. -- Norman J. Fedder Jewish Book Council A comprehensive guide... the book is as entertaining as New York's once-thriving Yiddish theater. -- Robert A. Cohn St. Louis Jewish Light Anyone interested in Yiddish New York will want to read New York's Yiddish Theater. Theater buffs will be delighted to the learn the connections between Yiddish theater and the American stage. The book is also highly recommended for anyone interested in American Jewish history. -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter New York's Yiddish Theater serves as an excellent history through images, together with illuminating essays... This welcome publication also fills a long-felt need for an illustrated history of an important chapter in the city's musical life. -- Michael Ochs Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association Prodigiously illustrated... This indispensable book is a fun read, easy to browse through, get lost in. It is no dry academic treatise, but a generous yet scholarly account of a now-vanished era of popular Yiddish culture. Highly recommended. -- Richard C. Norton Operetta Research CenterTable of ContentsDirector's Foreword, by Susan Henshaw Jones Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon 1. Yiddish New York, by Hasia Diner 2. Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta, by Nahmha Sandrow 3. Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer, by Barbara Henry 4. Pathbreakers and Superstars, by Edna Nahshon, Stefanie Halpern, and Joshua S. Walden Intermission 5. Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement, by Edna Nahshon 6. Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef, by Edna Nahshon 7. Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design, by Arnold Aronson 8. Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud, by Eddy Portnoy 9. Yiddish Vaudeville, by Edna Nahshon and Judith Thissen 10. Borscht Belt Entertainment, by Edna Nahshon 11. Tevye's Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon, by Alisa Solomon Finale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage, by Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon Editor's Acknowledgments List of Contributors Endnotes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.Trade ReviewDiscussions of Islam and politics typically focus on Islamic states and Islamists, leaving Sufis to appear transcendently above the political realm. These twelve compelling case studies show how Sufi leaders and organizations are entangled in local, national, and transnational politics among the world's largest Muslim communities in India and Pakistan. -- Nile Green, author of Sufism: A Global HistoryA crucial resource for understanding the limits and legacies of 'Sufism'—a category invented by nineteenth-century Orientalism—in shaping patterns of religious and political conflict, affinity, and indifference across South Asian societies. This superb collection offers a powerful rebuttal to the reigning orthodoxy of Sufi contra Salafi within studies of contemporary Islam. -- Charles Hirschkind, author of The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic CounterpublicsModern Sufis and the State shows the diversity, multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements. Its emphasis on complexity and local rootedness is a welcome contribution. The editors and the contributors bridge several different fields and combine expertise to offer new and important perspectives on the Barelwi and Deobandi movements. -- Scott Kugle, author of Sufis and Saints’ Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in IslamThis welcome book explores the roles of those widely influential figures identified as Sufis. This is an important subject given the ignorance about Sufis and much else that often fuels the anti-Muslim violence and Islamophobia all too evident in today's world. The work should be of interest to policy makers involved with Muslim populations as well as to academics and others interested in Islam in the contemporary world. -- Barbara Metcalf, author of Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and PakistanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond, by Katherine Pratt EwingPart I: Sufism and Its Modern Engagements with a Global Order1. Anti-Colonial Militants or Liberal Peace Activists? The Role of Private Foundations in Producing Pacifist Sufis During the Cold War, by Rosemary R. Corbett2. From Taṣawwuf Modern to Neo-Sufism: Nurcholish Madjid, Fazlur Rahman, and the Development of an Idea, by Verena Meyer3. Beyond Barelwiism: Tahir-ul-Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism, by Marcia HermansenCommentary on Part I: Ambiguities and Ironic Reversals in the Categorization of Sufism, by Carl W. ErnstPart II: Sufis, Sharia, and Reform4. Is the Taliban Anti-Sufi? Deobandi Discourses on Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan, by Brannon D. Ingram5. Sufism Through the Prism of Sharia: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India, by Usha Sanyal6. Lives of a Fatwa: Sufism, Music, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat, by Brian E. BondCommentary on Part II:Sufis, Sharia, and Reform, by Muhammad Qasim ZamanPart III: Sufis and Politics in Pakistan7. “A Way of Life Rather Than an Ideology?”: Sufism, Pīrs, and the Politics of Identity in Sindh, by Sarah Ansari8. Sufi Politics and the War on Terror in Pakistan: Looking for an Alternative to Radical Islamism?, by Alix Philippon9. “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shiʿi-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāman, by Noor ZaidiCommentary on Part III: The Problems and Perils of Translating Sufism as “Moderate Islam,” by SherAli TareenPart IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces10. Is All Politics Local? Neighborhood Shrines and Religious Healing in Contemporary India, by Carla Bellamy11. Sufi Healing and Secular Psychiatry in India, by Helene Basu12. Sufi Sound, Sufi Space: Indian Cinema and the Mise-en-Scène of Pluralism, by Rachana Rao UmashankarCommentary on Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces, by Bruce B. LawrenceConclusion: Thinking Otherwise, by Rosemary R. CorbettNotesGlossaryBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions.Trade ReviewDiscussions of Islam and politics typically focus on Islamic states and Islamists, leaving Sufis to appear transcendently above the political realm. These twelve compelling case studies show how Sufi leaders and organizations are entangled in local, national, and transnational politics among the world's largest Muslim communities in India and Pakistan. -- Nile Green, author of Sufism: A Global HistoryA crucial resource for understanding the limits and legacies of 'Sufism'—a category invented by nineteenth-century Orientalism—in shaping patterns of religious and political conflict, affinity, and indifference across South Asian societies. This superb collection offers a powerful rebuttal to the reigning orthodoxy of Sufi contra Salafi within studies of contemporary Islam. -- Charles Hirschkind, author of The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic CounterpublicsModern Sufis and the State shows the diversity, multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements. Its emphasis on complexity and local rootedness is a welcome contribution. The editors and the contributors bridge several different fields and combine expertise to offer new and important perspectives on the Barelwi and Deobandi movements. -- Scott Kugle, author of Sufis and Saints’ Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in IslamThis welcome book explores the roles of those widely influential figures identified as Sufis. This is an important subject given the ignorance about Sufis and much else that often fuels the anti-Muslim violence and Islamophobia all too evident in today's world. The work should be of interest to policy makers involved with Muslim populations as well as to academics and others interested in Islam in the contemporary world. -- Barbara Metcalf, author of Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and PakistanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond, by Katherine Pratt EwingPart I: Sufism and Its Modern Engagements with a Global Order1. Anti-Colonial Militants or Liberal Peace Activists? The Role of Private Foundations in Producing Pacifist Sufis During the Cold War, by Rosemary R. Corbett2. From Taṣawwuf Modern to Neo-Sufism: Nurcholish Madjid, Fazlur Rahman, and the Development of an Idea, by Verena Meyer3. Beyond Barelwiism: Tahir-ul-Qadri as an Example of Trends in Global Sufism, by Marcia HermansenCommentary on Part I: Ambiguities and Ironic Reversals in the Categorization of Sufism, by Carl W. ErnstPart II: Sufis, Sharia, and Reform4. Is the Taliban Anti-Sufi? Deobandi Discourses on Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan, by Brannon D. Ingram5. Sufism Through the Prism of Sharia: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India, by Usha Sanyal6. Lives of a Fatwa: Sufism, Music, and Islamic Reform in Kachchh, Gujarat, by Brian E. BondCommentary on Part II:Sufis, Sharia, and Reform, by Muhammad Qasim ZamanPart III: Sufis and Politics in Pakistan7. “A Way of Life Rather Than an Ideology?”: Sufism, Pīrs, and the Politics of Identity in Sindh, by Sarah Ansari8. Sufi Politics and the War on Terror in Pakistan: Looking for an Alternative to Radical Islamism?, by Alix Philippon9. “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shiʿi-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāman, by Noor ZaidiCommentary on Part III: The Problems and Perils of Translating Sufism as “Moderate Islam,” by SherAli TareenPart IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces10. Is All Politics Local? Neighborhood Shrines and Religious Healing in Contemporary India, by Carla Bellamy11. Sufi Healing and Secular Psychiatry in India, by Helene Basu12. Sufi Sound, Sufi Space: Indian Cinema and the Mise-en-Scène of Pluralism, by Rachana Rao UmashankarCommentary on Part IV: Sufism in Indian National Spaces, by Bruce B. LawrenceConclusion: Thinking Otherwise, by Rosemary R. CorbettNotesGlossaryBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women's experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.Trade ReviewThe author’s insider perspective provides essential insight into fractures within the evangelical movement, and the focus on the experiences of individuals puts a human face on larger trends. This moving and incisive account will resonate with anyone who has struggled with their faith. * Publishers Weekly *The Struggle to Stay offers a vivid, enlightening glimpse into the complex contradictions of Christian life. These women want to stay in the church. But they also want to be sexually active and respected as equals—and that is hard. This book gives a rich, nuanced account of why and how it is hard that respects the complexities of the religious experience. A beautifully written, vivid, insightful book about being a bright Christian woman. -- T. M. Luhrmann, author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible OthersIn The Struggle to Stay, Gaddini does what is rare in a work of scholarship—she marshals deep research while also humanizing her subjects and topic. This book will be an indispensable part of the growing scholarship that reevaluates modern evangelicalism in relation to gender. Gaddini is analytical without being aloof, empathetic without being saccharine. Many readers of this book will feel both seen and informed along the way. In the end, The Struggle to Stay, accomplishes what it set out to do—it describes the conundrum of single evangelical women in churches and the price they pay to remain there. -- Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in RacismDrawing on the author's own experience as well as research with evangelical women in Britain and America, this book takes a long and searching look at what makes women stay in churches that treat them with ambivalence—and why, even when they decide to go, they leave a part of themselves behind. Emotionally and intellectually compelling. -- Linda Woodhead, coauthor of That Was the Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English PeopleVivid descriptions and thoughtful analysis. . . . Gaddini models great care and empathy in her treatment of evangelical women. * Reading Religion *A beautifully written book that evocatively draws the reader into the lives of single, evangelical women as they negotiate what it means to thrive on community while also experiencing a keen sense of separation for being outside the norm. * Gender & Society *For anyone who studies evangelical Christianity, this book adds important, detailed insights to the existing body of research on women and evangelicalism. For those concerned about and committed to building inclusive church communities, this book is essential reading. * Review of Religious Research *Masterfully narrates the stories of evangelical women. . . . Gaddini’s writing and argument shine in chapters that directly confront gendered double standards within evangelical churches. * Sociology of Religion *Written in an accessible and engaging manner, deftly weaving four captivating stories together with a rigorous analysis of Christianity, gender and politics, it is a fascinating read. * Marginalia Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface1. Homecoming2. Without You, I Am Nothing3. In the World4. Purity Culture5. The Ideal Woman6. Wounds That Never Heal7. Reprisals8. The Struggle to StayAcknowledgmentsMethodological NoteNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBased on three decades of ethnographic research, The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state.Trade ReviewBased on extraordinarily rich ethnography, deep historical research, and a subtle theoretical framework, The Space of Religion shows how one of China’s most important temples reemerged, changed, and caused transformations of its political and cultural contexts over the past several decades. It makes a major advance toward understanding the surprising and consequential rise of a dynamic space for religion in China. -- Richard Madsen, coeditor of The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and BelowThe Space of Religion provides a detailed description through extended fieldwork of the functioning of an important Buddhist monastery in China and how the temple 'space' became recomposed on three levels—physical, institutional, and semiotic—after the Cultural Revolution. In doing so, Ashiwa and Wank produce an analysis of the transformation of state policies and related public perception of religion in China. -- Ji Zhe, coeditor of Making Saints in Modern ChinaThe Space of Religion is far more than just a very valuable account of institutional change in a Buddhist context. It also outlines a fresh and important critical analysis, grounded in historical detail and exemplary ethnography, of how the concepts ‘religion,’ ‘superstition,’ and ‘culture’ emerged and were enacted (and contested) between the state, clerics, and the people over the last hundred years of Chinese history. -- David N. Gellner, coauthor of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century NepalAshiwa and Wank have written a superb account, both historical and ethnographic, of Nanputuo, one of the most important Buddhist temples in southern China. Based on decades of intensive study, this immensely readable book offers insights into the developments that have shaped the political environment in which the temple's clerics operate. It also gives a theoretically astute interpretation of the semiotics of space in the temple that allows the reader to get a feeling for the ways in which the teachings of the Buddha take material and ritual shape in the temple's space. For anyone interested in Buddhism or contemporary Chinese society this book is invaluable and a must-read. -- Peter van der Veer, author of The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and IndiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsConventionsGlossary of Temple Names in Xiamen CityIntroductionPart I: Concept, Spaces, History1. Themes and Concepts of the Study2. Physical and Semiotic Spaces of Nanputuo Temple3. Institutional Space and Nanputuo Temple’s Historical CapitalPart II: Recovery and Development of Nanputuo Temple4. Revival of Buddhist Practice and Education, 1982–19895. Expansion and Conflict in the Space of Religion, 1989–19956. Aligning with the Central State, 1996–2004Part III: Nanputuo Temple and Local Buddhist Communities7. Dynamism of Local Temples8. Devotees and Lay Nuns9. The Guanyin Festival: Being Buddhist the Chinese WayConclusionAppendix 1: Leaders of Nanputuo Temple, 1684–Appendix 2: Nanputuo Temple, a Millennium of Construction and RenewalAppendix 3: Buddhist College of Minnan Curriculum, 1989Appendix 4: Ordination Ceremony Schedule, October 13–29, 1989, Guanghua TempleNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewThis book is a glorious romp through the wardrobe of American religions, unraveling the ways in which the clothing and adornment are not mere sidenotes to the study of religious beliefs and practices but integral to understanding the diverse religious communities of North America. -- Rachel B. Gross, John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies, San Francisco State UniversityIn lucid prose, the editors of this handsome volume usher readers into the worlds of religion, attire, and adornment. Beautifully curated, the collection shows us how bodily presentation matters. Contributors explain what the language of sacred garb tells us about how religion is worn; what these vestments mean for those who wear, touch, view, or simply imagine them. This is a book that speaks to glamour and plainness, sartorial splendor and fashionable modesty in so many of its North American guises. This is a book you will want to teach! -- Laura Levitt, author of The Objects that RemainReligion, Attire, and Adornment in North America addresses the relationship between religion and dress in America and the ways that religious practitioners make meaning through their sartorial choices. Its chapters are accessibly written and their breadth is impressive; scholars of American religions, new religious movements, gender studies, and material culture will appreciate this volume. -- Nora L. Rubel, author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American ImaginationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America, by Benjamin E. Zeller and Marie W. DallamPart I. Theological Adornment1. Seventh-day Adventist Dress: “An Index to the Heart,” by Emily J. Bailey2. Clothing Spiritual Reality: The Sartorial Styles of Mary Baker Eddy, byJeremy Rapport3. Faith, Fashion, and Film in the Jazz Age: Catholic Vestments Encounter the Roaring 1920s, Adrienne Nock Ambrose4. Power Before Thrones of God and Man: Women, Adornment, and Public Life in White American Pentecostalism, by Andrea Shan Johnson and Leah PaynePart II. Identity Adornment5. Holy Dashikis! Black Sartorial Nationalism and Black Israelite Religion, by André E. Brooks-Key6. Refined Bodies: Clothing as a Visual Signifier of Piety for Mormon Women in America, by Kate Davis7. The Christian Tattoo: Much More than Skin-Deep, by Jerome R. Koch and Kevin D. Dougherty8. “Queens of the Earth”: The MGT Uniform as a Form of Identity Creation and Nation Building, by Kayla Renée WheelerPart III. Negotiated Adornment9. “Ye Shall Be Naked in Your Rites”: Ritual Attire and Ritual Nudity (Skyclad) in North American Wicca, by Michelle Mueller10. Amish Vogue: Performing Fashion in the Plain World, by Nao Nomura11. “Your Religion Is Showing”: Negotiation and Personal Experience in Mormon Garments, by Jessica Finnigan and Nancy RossPart IV. Activist Adornment12. Dressed for Glory: White Uniforms in African American Church Traditions as Visual Political Theology, by Elaina Smith13. “The Hare Krishna Look”: ISKCON Adornment as Religious Activism, by Benjamin E. Zeller14. Religious Dress, the Church of Body Modification, and the First Amendment, by Marie W. DallamDiscussion QuestionsSuggested Reading ListList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.Trade ReviewThis book is a glorious romp through the wardrobe of American religions, unraveling the ways in which the clothing and adornment are not mere sidenotes to the study of religious beliefs and practices but integral to understanding the diverse religious communities of North America. -- Rachel B. Gross, John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies, San Francisco State UniversityIn lucid prose, the editors of this handsome volume usher readers into the worlds of religion, attire, and adornment. Beautifully curated, the collection shows us how bodily presentation matters. Contributors explain what the language of sacred garb tells us about how religion is worn; what these vestments mean for those who wear, touch, view, or simply imagine them. This is a book that speaks to glamour and plainness, sartorial splendor and fashionable modesty in so many of its North American guises. This is a book you will want to teach! -- Laura Levitt, author of The Objects that RemainReligion, Attire, and Adornment in North America addresses the relationship between religion and dress in America and the ways that religious practitioners make meaning through their sartorial choices. Its chapters are accessibly written and their breadth is impressive; scholars of American religions, new religious movements, gender studies, and material culture will appreciate this volume. -- Nora L. Rubel, author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American ImaginationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America, by Benjamin E. Zeller and Marie W. DallamPart I. Theological Adornment1. Seventh-day Adventist Dress: “An Index to the Heart,” by Emily J. Bailey2. Clothing Spiritual Reality: The Sartorial Styles of Mary Baker Eddy, byJeremy Rapport3. Faith, Fashion, and Film in the Jazz Age: Catholic Vestments Encounter the Roaring 1920s, Adrienne Nock Ambrose4. Power Before Thrones of God and Man: Women, Adornment, and Public Life in White American Pentecostalism, by Andrea Shan Johnson and Leah PaynePart II. Identity Adornment5. Holy Dashikis! Black Sartorial Nationalism and Black Israelite Religion, by André E. Brooks-Key6. Refined Bodies: Clothing as a Visual Signifier of Piety for Mormon Women in America, by Kate Davis7. The Christian Tattoo: Much More than Skin-Deep, by Jerome R. Koch and Kevin D. Dougherty8. “Queens of the Earth”: The MGT Uniform as a Form of Identity Creation and Nation Building, by Kayla Renée WheelerPart III. Negotiated Adornment9. “Ye Shall Be Naked in Your Rites”: Ritual Attire and Ritual Nudity (Skyclad) in North American Wicca, by Michelle Mueller10. Amish Vogue: Performing Fashion in the Plain World, by Nao Nomura11. “Your Religion Is Showing”: Negotiation and Personal Experience in Mormon Garments, by Jessica Finnigan and Nancy RossPart IV. Activist Adornment12. Dressed for Glory: White Uniforms in African American Church Traditions as Visual Political Theology, by Elaina Smith13. “The Hare Krishna Look”: ISKCON Adornment as Religious Activism, by Benjamin E. Zeller14. Religious Dress, the Church of Body Modification, and the First Amendment, by Marie W. DallamDiscussion QuestionsSuggested Reading ListList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities.Trade ReviewThis book ambitiously engages Islam as a global civilizational presence. It offers a fresh rethinking of how we imagine Muslims and Islam, putting Muslim communities and discourses usually treated as ‘marginal’ back in the center. Strongly recommended for both students of Islamic studies and religious studies more widely. -- Omid Safi, author of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical TraditionAcross the Worlds of Islam points to an Islam that is full of both elasticity and contestation by foregrounding Muslims who are often seen as marginal or peripheral. It challenges how scholars have approached the field of Islamic studies and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced and ethnographic approach to the study of Islam in general and minority groups in particular. -- Liyakat Takim, author of Shi’ism Revisited: Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary TimesIslam is more than Sunnism, Middle Eastern regions and language, and ‘orthodox’ norms. This book’s wide range of entries from scholars whose expertise spans the globe is a crucial addition to libraries, college classrooms, and public understanding—precisely because it shows just how much more Islam is than mainstream understandings allow. -- Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and JihadTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Edward E. Curtis IV1. Islam and Its Others: Ambivalent Orientations Toward the Margins of Islam, by Farah Bakaari2. Rethinking the Center: Margins and Multiplicity in Hadith Texts, by Michael Muhammad Knight3. Islamic Tattooing: Embodying Healing, Materializing Relationships, and Mediating Tradition, by Max Johnson Dugan4. Lover’s Words Are Eternal: Alevi Ashik Poetry Beyond the Margins, by Tess M. Waggoner5. On the Margins of Islamic Doctrine, at the Heart of Islamic Ethics: Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam and Black Liberation, by Edward E. Curtis IV6. Love and Care at the Margins of Future Generations, by Holly Donahue Singh7. Writing Mongol History on the Margins: Sufi and Kinship Connectivity in the Tarikh-i Rashidi, by Henry D. Brill8. Journey to the Teaching of Islam, by Kathryn D. BlanchardConclusion: Let the Margins Be the Center, by Vernon James SchubelList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities.Trade ReviewThis book ambitiously engages Islam as a global civilizational presence. It offers a fresh rethinking of how we imagine Muslims and Islam, putting Muslim communities and discourses usually treated as ‘marginal’ back in the center. Strongly recommended for both students of Islamic studies and religious studies more widely. -- Omid Safi, author of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical TraditionAcross the Worlds of Islam points to an Islam that is full of both elasticity and contestation by foregrounding Muslims who are often seen as marginal or peripheral. It challenges how scholars have approached the field of Islamic studies and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced and ethnographic approach to the study of Islam in general and minority groups in particular. -- Liyakat Takim, author of Shi’ism Revisited: Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary TimesIslam is more than Sunnism, Middle Eastern regions and language, and ‘orthodox’ norms. This book’s wide range of entries from scholars whose expertise spans the globe is a crucial addition to libraries, college classrooms, and public understanding—precisely because it shows just how much more Islam is than mainstream understandings allow. -- Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and JihadTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Edward E. Curtis IV1. Islam and Its Others: Ambivalent Orientations Toward the Margins of Islam, by Farah Bakaari2. Rethinking the Center: Margins and Multiplicity in Hadith Texts, by Michael Muhammad Knight3. Islamic Tattooing: Embodying Healing, Materializing Relationships, and Mediating Tradition, by Max Johnson Dugan4. Lover’s Words Are Eternal: Alevi Ashik Poetry Beyond the Margins, by Tess M. Waggoner5. On the Margins of Islamic Doctrine, at the Heart of Islamic Ethics: Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam and Black Liberation, by Edward E. Curtis IV6. Love and Care at the Margins of Future Generations, by Holly Donahue Singh7. Writing Mongol History on the Margins: Sufi and Kinship Connectivity in the Tarikh-i Rashidi, by Henry D. Brill8. Journey to the Teaching of Islam, by Kathryn D. BlanchardConclusion: Let the Margins Be the Center, by Vernon James SchubelList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book Synopsis Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photographs, The Jews of Chicago is the fascinating story of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago''s Jews. This edition of Irving Cutler''s definitive historical volume also includes a new foreword written by the author. The first comprehensive history of Chicago''s Jewish population in eighty years, The Jews of Chicago brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today''s Jewish community. Cutler intertwines neighborhood histories with representative biographical vignettes of some of Chicago''s best known figures, such as Edna Ferber, Saul Bellow, Benny Goodman, Mel Tormé, Studs Terkel, Paul Muni, Mandy Patinkin, Emil G. Hirsch, Julius Rosenwald, Dankmar Adler, Arthur Goldberg, Philip Klutznick, and many others. From their roots in the Old Country to their present-day communities, Cutler captures in exTrade ReviewFirst Place for Best Regional Book, Mid-America Publishers Association Book Awards, 1996. "Deserves a space not only on every Chicagoan's shelf, but on anyone's who is interested in the rich ethnic heritage of the Windy City."--West Coast Jewish News"Concise and thoughtfully written, The Jews of Chicago extends Chicago Jewish history . . . beyond any comparable history. It is a testament not merely to the impressive work that Cutler himself has done, but also to the community he chronicles."--Chicago Jewish History“Cutler does a masterful job of tracing the history of Chicago’s Jews from the German Jews who came in the 1830s and 1840s to the East European Jews who arrived in large numbers from 1880 to 1925.”--Jerusalem Post"A splendid study. . . . Presents the story with marvelous visual evidence, photo documentation, and superb ethnographic mapping of Jewish institutions in Chicago."--American Jewish History"A thought provoking history of the Jewish community's development in Chicago and its contribution to our city."--Chicago Tribune"Deeply absorbing even for non-Jews, because of the astonishing history of this ethnic group, an unmatched rags-to-riches story. . . . with crisp prose."--Chicago Sun-TimesTable of ContentsPreface, xi1. The First Wave The German-Speaking Jews, 1 Introduction / Early Chicago / The Jews of Germany / The First Jewish Arrivals in Chicago / The Emergence of a Community and Its Institutions / The Formative Years / The Civil War Period / The Great Chicago Fire and Its Aftermath / Building South Side Institutions2. The Second Wave The Eastern European Jews, 40 Historical Background / Shtetl Life / Maxwell Street: A Shtetl in Chicago / Earning a Living / Maxwell Street Marketing / Maxwell Street Institution / The Landsmanschaften / The Yiddish Theater / Relations between German Jews and Eastern European Jews / Maxwell Street Legacy3. Through the World Wars Expanding Communal Activity, 103 The Effect of the World's Columbian Exposition / Through the World War 1 Perio / Relief for Eastern Europe and Palestine / The Growth of Zionism / Further Communal Development after World War 1 / Decades of Tragedy and Triumph: The 1930s and 1940s4. Moving Upward The Arts, Professions, and Commerce, 136 The Literary Field / Artists / Music / Sports / Health Care / Bar, Bench, and Other Government Services / Commerce and Industry / The Jewish Labor Movement5. The Last Half-Century Changing Neighborhoods and Lifestyles, 193 Declining Diversity and Shared Concerns / The South Side / Lawndale, the Largest of All / The West Town-Humboldt Park - Logan Square Area / The Albany Park - North Park Area / Rogers Park and Nearby Lakefront Communities / West Rogers Park / The Exodus to the Suburbs / The North and Northwest Suburbs / Chicago-area Jewry Today: Problems and Progress Glossary, 281 Chronology, 283 Notes, 289 Selected Bibliography, 297 Index, 303

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Book SynopsisAs a boy studying "Torah", Isaac Neuman learned to seek the spiritual lessons hidden in everyday life. In this narrative of occupation and holocaust, he uncovers a core of human decency and spiritual strength that inhumanity, starvation, and even death failed to extinguish. It describes the world of Polish Jewry before and during the Holocaust.Trade Review"Neuman's narrative is valuable for his repeated efforts to draw moral lessons from his experiences. . . . Especially useful for readers who wonder how survivors were able to preserve their faith and morality during the Holocaust." -- Richard Lachmann, Multicultural Review"This is an extraordinary book. Rarely do we read so movingly of the intimate moments of deep faith in God that sustained so many pious Jews during the terrible years of the Shoah. Through these memoirs, we have a glimpse of the East European Jewish religious life that no longer exists." -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, and author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus

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Book SynopsisExamines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert reverberates in secular Jewish literature and produces literary rewards. This book argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires an urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.Trade Review"Israel in Exile evokes the importance of a critical and subversive Diaspora perspective for an Israeli society that has not yet found its territorial and individual identity. . . . Raises important questions for the political situation in Israel today."--Shofar"An invaluable addition to scholarship on Jewish literature both biblical and contemporary."--Journal of Jewish Identities"This is an important book."--Religion & Literature

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this book examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts.Trade Review"As can be expected from Richard K. Wolf, The Voice in the Drum is an erudite and masterful contribution to South Asian ethnomusicology. But it is more: a deep contribution to experimental writing, full of nuanced engagement with why the poetics and politics of representation is critical to contemporary music ethnography."--Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico"Emerging afresh from numerous fields of cultural anthropology, including ethnology, ethnomusicology, humanistic anthropology, linguistics, the anthropology of religion, visual anthropology, and others, The Voice in the Drum contributes new insights and creates innovative methodologies much needed in today's growing anthropological and empathic understandings of the performance of emotion in South Asian Islam."--American Anthropologist"The Voice in the Drum, by Richard Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies at Harvard, is a completely unique development in ethnomusicology. By skillfully drawing out his research interests through the character of Muharram Ali, Wolf manages to draw the reader into a historical drama of idealism and naivete falling apart." --Leonardo Reviews"Innovative and richly detailed." --American Ethnologist"No one else has conducted such multi-local research on traditions like this, and he has done a masterful job of relating these otherwise disparate traditions by highlighting their affinities, especially in terms of the ways in which their performers conceive of the drums as speaking in one manner or another. The result is a remarkable and unique scholarly opus."--Peter Manuel, author of East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture

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Book SynopsisExplores the crisis in contemporary Afghan women's lives by focusing on two remarkable Afghan professional women working on behalf of their Afghan sisters. This book also suggests how a new dialogue might be started - in which women from across geopolitical boundaries might find common cause for change and rewrite their collective stories.Trade Review"Kitch writes beautifully and in a very engaging manner that draws the reader into the story she is telling. Jamila and Marzia come across as thoughtful and compelling women of great integrity who have devoted themselves to women's rights and national progress."--Valentine Moghadam, author of Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement "A significant contribution to the literature on women in Afghanistan because of its innovative structure as well as its sensitive, intelligent. ethical approach to cross-cultural issues. . . . Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders not only should be on the reading list of women's studies classes, but it also should be recognized as exemplifying the best in feminist methodology."--Hypatia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Opens a window on one dimension of how younger, politically conscious Kenyan Christians express their faith."--Christianity Today "Well written, entertaining, and eye-opening."--Daily Nation "Refreshing and highly informative."--Christian Century "A remarkably imaginative and personalized approach to popular music and youth culture, which sheds fascinating light on Kenya's changing culture, history, politics, and especially Christianity."--Paul Gifford, author of Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya"A very provocative, fascinating, even entertaining peek into the youthful ferment under way in African Christianity."--Emmanuel Katongole, author of The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa"Reading The Street Is My Pulpit is refreshing in diverse ways. It is a lesson on the intersection between creativity and social media in Africa, a continent that is reaping the benefits of information technologies in fundamental ways. The book is also a journey into ethnographic research in the digital age."--Kimani Njogu, author of Youth and Peaceful Elections in Kenya

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Book SynopsisLong a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. Throughout the project, Jewish labor often operated outside of official channels as non-governmental organizations. Adam Howard explores the untold story of how three influential garment unions worked alone and with other Jewish labor organizations in support of a new Jewish state. Sewing the Fabric of Statehood reveals a coalition at work on multiple fronts. Sustained efforts convinced the AFL and CIO to support Jewish development in Palestine through land purchases for Jewish workers and encouraged the construction of trade schools and cultural centers. Other activists, meanwhile, directed massive economic aid to Histadrut, the General Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine, or pressured the British and American governments to recognize Israel''s independence. What emerges is a powerful account of the motivations and ideals that leTrade Review"Howard’s book offers a thorough case study of the growth of Jewish labor’s support for Israel. Readers will continue to turn to it for insights on a pillar of the U.S.-Israel relationship. " --Journal of American History“Groundbreaking. Adam Howard brings together new information and penetrating analysis of labor, ideology, and international relations that changes the paradigm for how we understand the U.S. role in Israel’s creation and, more generally, the impact of non-state actors in international affairs.”--Robert Anthony Waters, coeditor of American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War "Incorporating much primary research and comprehensive in its scope, this splendid study whets our appetite for additional insight." --Jewish Historical Studies"Sewing the Fabric of Statehood is a substantial contribution to a number of scholarly fields, including American labor history, American Jewish history, and the history of Zionism." --H-Net Reviews"Sewing the Fabric of Statehood would be of use to anyone interested in issues of leadership, interest groups, and foreign policy, as well as labor and Jewish history." --American Historical Review"A welcome contribution to scholarship about US-Israel relations."--H-Net"An immensely useful and detailed account of the dimension of American Labor in the history of the creation of the state of Israel."--Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas

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Book SynopsisDemonstrating how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in Jewish filmmakers films, this trilogy presents the effects of the Holocaust linger. It focuses on the failure of society's institutions to deliver social justice, and analyses works of Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Brian Singer, and Darren Aronofsky.Trade Review"[A] fascinating and challenging study, one that sheds light not only on the changing character of the American Jew, but on the changing nature of American society and the films that reflect it."--Australian Jewish News"There is much here for the serious film buff to relish."--Jerusalem Post Magazine

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Book SynopsisAn introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community Trade Review"Of considerable interest and utlity to students and scholars of the important, multifaceted role of religion in the lives of contemporary immigrants in the US. Recommended."--Choice“This book offers a probing and refreshingly critical lens into [Korean Americans’] religious world . . . . An excellent contribution to the growing literature on religion, race, and ethnicity among new Americans.”--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion“Readily accessible to the general reader, this book provides an excellent study of post-1965 Korean American religions.”--Religious Studies Review"A treat for those exploring the landscape of Korean American spiritual experience. The book offers religious angles on such social issues as gender and patriarchy, marriage and singlehood, family practices, and generational change, as well as such more usual concerns as theology, worship, and church practice. Yoo and Chung also highlight dialogue between Protestant, Buddhist, and Catholic religious perspectives. I particularly like the fact that they include a reflection by a Korean American transnational adoptee, a segment of the Korean American community scholars too frequently overlook. There is much here that will provide food for thought and that will stimulate both scholars and students of Asian American religion."--Paul Spickard, author of Is Lighter Better?: Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian AmericansTable of ContentsForeword ix Roger Daniels Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung Section 1. Traditions 1 Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection 21 Anselm Kyongsuk Min 2. Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America 40 Okyun Kwon 3. The Religiosity and Socioeconomic Adjustment of Buddhist and Protestant Korean Americans 60 Okyun Kwon Section II. Passages 4. Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American Adoption 83 Jae Ran Kim 5. Liminality and Worship in the Korean American Context 100 Sang Hyun Lee 6. The Restoried Lives: The Everyday Theology of Korean American Never-Married Women 116 Jung Ha Kim 7. Korean American Religiosity As a Predictor of Marital Commitment and Satisfaction 137 Ruth H. Chung and Sung Hyun Um Section III. From Generation to Generation 8. Replanting Sacred Spaces: The Emergence of Second-Generation Korean American Churches 151 Sharon Kim 9. Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals on the College Campus: Constricting Ethnic Boundaries 172 Rebecca Kim 10. A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean American Protestantism 193 David K. Yoo Selected Bibliography 217 Contributors 233 Index 235

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Book SynopsisExplores the crisis in contemporary Afghan women's lives by focusing on two remarkable Afghan professional women working on behalf of their Afghan sisters.Trade Review"Kitch writes beautifully and in a very engaging manner that draws the reader into the story she is telling. Jamila and Marzia come across as thoughtful and compelling women of great integrity who have devoted themselves to women's rights and national progress."--Valentine Moghadam, author of Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement "A significant contribution to the literature on women in Afghanistan because of its innovative structure as well as its sensitive, intelligent. ethical approach to cross-cultural issues. . . . Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders not only should be on the reading list of women's studies classes, but it also should be recognized as exemplifying the best in feminist methodology."--Hypatia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Opens a window on one dimension of how younger, politically conscious Kenyan Christians express their faith."--Christianity Today "Well written, entertaining, and eye-opening."--Daily Nation "Refreshing and highly informative."--Christian Century "A remarkably imaginative and personalized approach to popular music and youth culture, which sheds fascinating light on Kenya's changing culture, history, politics, and especially Christianity."--Paul Gifford, author of Christianity, Politics, and Public Life in Kenya"A very provocative, fascinating, even entertaining peek into the youthful ferment under way in African Christianity."--Emmanuel Katongole, author of The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa"Reading The Street Is My Pulpit is refreshing in diverse ways. It is a lesson on the intersection between creativity and social media in Africa, a continent that is reaping the benefits of information technologies in fundamental ways. The book is also a journey into ethnographic research in the digital age."--Kimani Njogu, author of Youth and Peaceful Elections in Kenya

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As can be expected from Richard K. Wolf, The Voice in the Drum is an erudite and masterful contribution to South Asian ethnomusicology. But it is more: a deep contribution to experimental writing, full of nuanced engagement with why the poetics and politics of representation is critical to contemporary music ethnography."--Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico"Emerging afresh from numerous fields of cultural anthropology, including ethnology, ethnomusicology, humanistic anthropology, linguistics, the anthropology of religion, visual anthropology, and others, The Voice in the Drum contributes new insights and creates innovative methodologies much needed in today's growing anthropological and empathic understandings of the performance of emotion in South Asian Islam."--American Anthropologist"The Voice in the Drum, by Richard Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies at Harvard, is a completely unique development in ethnomusicology. By skillfully drawing out his research interests through the character of Muharram Ali, Wolf manages to draw the reader into a historical drama of idealism and naivete falling apart." --Leonardo Reviews"Innovative and richly detailed." --American Ethnologist"No one else has conducted such multi-local research on traditions like this, and he has done a masterful job of relating these otherwise disparate traditions by highlighting their affinities, especially in terms of the ways in which their performers conceive of the drums as speaking in one manner or another. The result is a remarkable and unique scholarly opus."--Peter Manuel, author of East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture

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Book SynopsisLong a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. Throughout the project, Jewish labor often operated outside of official channels as non-governmental organizations. Adam Howard explores the untold story of how three influential garment unions worked alone and with other Jewish labor organizations in support of a new Jewish state. Sewing the Fabric of Statehood reveals a coalition at work on multiple fronts. Sustained efforts convinced the AFL and CIO to support Jewish development in Palestine through land purchases for Jewish workers and encouraged the construction of trade schools and cultural centers. Other activists, meanwhile, directed massive economic aid to Histadrut, the General Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine, or pressured the British and American governments to recognize Israel''s independence. What emerges is a powerful account of the motivations and ideals that leTrade Review"Howard’s book offers a thorough case study of the growth of Jewish labor’s support for Israel. Readers will continue to turn to it for insights on a pillar of the U.S.-Israel relationship. " --Journal of American History“Groundbreaking. Adam Howard brings together new information and penetrating analysis of labor, ideology, and international relations that changes the paradigm for how we understand the U.S. role in Israel’s creation and, more generally, the impact of non-state actors in international affairs.”--Robert Anthony Waters, coeditor of American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War "Incorporating much primary research and comprehensive in its scope, this splendid study whets our appetite for additional insight." --Jewish Historical Studies"Sewing the Fabric of Statehood is a substantial contribution to a number of scholarly fields, including American labor history, American Jewish history, and the history of Zionism." --H-Net Reviews"Sewing the Fabric of Statehood would be of use to anyone interested in issues of leadership, interest groups, and foreign policy, as well as labor and Jewish history." --American Historical Review"A welcome contribution to scholarship about US-Israel relations."--H-Net"An immensely useful and detailed account of the dimension of American Labor in the history of the creation of the state of Israel."--Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas

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Book SynopsisStudies the lives, experiences, and identities of German-Jewish menTrade Review[This book] assembles innovative, vivid, and inspiring inquiries into the intersection of Jewish history, German history, and gender history. By focusing on the male side of Jewish gender history . . . [this] book establishes a new field, profiting from a broad range of never (or rarely) before used primary sources, such as memoirs, letters, interviews, and obscure tabloids.May 2014 * German Studies Review *[A]n excellent introduction to the Zionist remasculinization of the Jewish male.Feb. 2015 * H-Judaic *[I]nsightful, innovative and largely entertaining . . . . [T]his volume makes a very valuable and original contribution to German-Jewish history. * German History *Historians of central Europe will be enriched by the interrogations of 'theory' along with excavations of little-known yet critical avenues of Jewish history in this excellent volume. * Central European History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: German Jews, Gender, and History \ Paul Lerner, Benjamin Maria Baader, and Sharon Gillerman1. Respectability Tested: Male Ideals, Sexuality, and Honor in Early Modern Ashkenazi Jewry \ Andreas Gotzmann2. Jewish Difference and the Feminine Spirit of Judaism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany \ Benjamin Maria Baader3. Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and Their Male Practitioners, 1843–1914 \ Robin Judd4. A Soft Hero: Male Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany through the Autobiography of Aron Liebeck \ Stefanie Schüler-Springorum5. Performing Masculinity: Jewish Students and the Honor Code at German Universities \ Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker6. Whose Body Is It Anyway? Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N. O. Body's Germany \ Sander L. Gilman7. Toward a Theory of the Modern Hebrew Handshake: The Conduct of Muscle Judaism \ Etan Bloom8. Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish Conservative Bohemianism in the Weimar Republic \ Ann Goldberg9. A Kinder Gentler Strongman? Siegmund Breitbart in Eastern Europe \ Sharon Gillerman10. Family Matters: German Jewish Masculinities among Nazi Era Refugees \ Judith GersonList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscusses how orthodox religions advance their religious and social agendasTrade ReviewWhile previous research has found that social movements are more likely to succeed when they espouse flexible ideologies, single-issue agendas, and willingness to compromise, Davis and Robinson find that the religiously orthodox movements they study have been successful without having any of these characteristics. By challenging conventional wisdom about these groups as well as their prospects for success, this book . . . wins a place among the best books in recent social movement scholarship. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *[A] succinct and persuasive continuation of Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson's well known work about religious movements and concern for the poor. The reader will find a carefully developed and clearly explained theory applied to four case studies of religious movements in the Abrahamic traditions. The book will be of interest and use to scholars of religion, civic life, activism, and the welfare state. . . . . Here, we find the strongest statement that cultural matters as much, if not more, than institutions, while not ignoring the complexity of these questions. This book is a welcome addition to the literature not only for its careful development and serious testing of theory, but also for the wealth of historical detail found in the case study chapters. * Contemporary Sociology *[A]dvances our understanding of the ideological complexity of these movements, the role of multifaceted organizational structure for bringing new activists into a movement, and the ways in which movements might overcome liabilities of ideological rigidity, multi-issue agendas, and distaste for compromise. . . It stands out as a model of comparative historical research in the breadth of its research on such disparate cases, as well as the tight integration of its data and analysis. -- Ziad Munson * Social Forces *[A] well-written and very engaging book that will help scholars and other[s] . . . understand a different side of these movements than is usually covered . . . It is easily accessible for a nonacademic audience, while being scholarly rigorous and offering important new theoretical insights into conservative religious movements. . . . should be read by social movement, religion, and political scholars alike. I would recommend it for use in a variety of classroom settings, including undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology of religion, the non-profit sector, and social movements. * Sociology of Religion *[C]ontributes to both political sociology and the sociology of religion in multiple ways. It challenges some of the main tenets of the social movement scholarship. It is a must-read for any scholar in any of these three subfields. Sociology as whole would benefit from further discussion of religion's potential to build alternative sources of power, domination, and struggle; and of the ambiguities, slipperiness, and multilayered nature of orthodoxy's caring, sharing, 'communitarian' face. -- Cohan Tugal * Social Forces *[T]he book's structure is simple, elegant, and cogent . . . It is essential reading for all scholars with interests in the interplay between religion, politics, and social welfare. * Journal of Contemporary Religion *Clearly, Davis and Robinson have written a thought-provoking book, one that is well researched and which should inspire debates among scholars of religion, social movements, politics, and social change. Given that the book is highly assessible and relevant to current events, the book deserves wide readership outside the academy as well. * Mobilization *I can think of no other recent book on orthodox movements that is as broad in its scope, rich and detailed in its narrative, well-grounded in its theory, and insightful in its analysis as Claiming Society for God. Sociologists should read this book as an antidote to the stereotyped, one-dimensional view of religiously orthodox movements so often found in today's popular media. * Review of Religious Research *[Claiming Society for God] contains a . . . sophisticated argument with relevance to those interested in religion, politics, social movements, and civil society.2015 * Politics and Religion *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction1. Contesting the State by Bypassing It 2. The Muslim Brotherhood: Building a State within a State in Egypt3. The Sephardi Torah Guardians: Penetrating the Israeli State to Circumvent It4. Comunione e Liberazione: Laying the Building Blocks of a Parallel Christian Society in Italy 5. The Salvation Army USA: Doing Good to Hasten the Second ComingConclusionNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDescribes how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environmentsTrade ReviewOn the whole, this is a valuable contribution to the growing field of congregational studies that places congregations and their agency on the table as one important element to understanding the changing American metropolis. One need not have any background in any of the religions represented to appreciate the work. Those working in urban studies should welcome this readable elaboration on religious ecology theory and congregational studies. * Journal of Urban Affairs *With the tremendous variety of religious groups and religious places in the New York Metropolitan Area, this book is an excellent example of religious scholarship that could be further expanded and explored. * Review of Religious Research *[T]his book offers nine essays focusing on religious institutions of New York City as they have been impacted by the social dynamics of gentrification, immigration, and entrepreneurial innovation . . . Recommended.Jan 2014 * Choice *[This book] is largely the result of research from the Ecologies of Learning Project, founded by urban religion scholar Lowell Livezey, who led the way in studying how congregations are affected by neighborhood change, yet also exercise a degree of agency in these urban processes.Jan-Feb 2013 * Religion Watch *[This book is] a solid resource for addressing entanglements of religion and urbanism. The case studies have significant richness, and the organizing decision to focus on three structural processes is effective. Scholars in congregational studies, the sociology of religion, and the inter-disciplinary study of urbanism will find value in the empirical and analytical observations2.3 * Critical Research on Religion *Overall, this is a well-developed collection of essays that does an effective job of exploring the breadth of the ecological interaction between religious institutions and their environments in New York City. . . . [T]he editors delineate a careful study of religious institutions within a contested environment, an outstanding contribution that will be used for many years as a reference for students and scholars interested in religious institutions in an urban context. * Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsForeword \ Nancy T. AmmermanAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Ecology of Religious Institutions in New York City \ Richard Cimino and Nadia A. Mian, with Weishan HuangPart 1. Religious Institutions and Gentrification in the Religious Ecology 1. Disneyfication and Religion in Times Square \ Hans E. Tokke 2. Filling Niches and Pews in Williamsburg and Greenpoint: The Religious Ecology of Gentrification \ Richard Cimino 3. Korean American Churches and the Negotiation of Space in Flushing, Queens \ Keun-Joo Christine PaePart 2. Immigration, Religion, and Neighborhood Change 4. Diversity and Competition: Politics and Conflict in New Immigrant Communities \ Weishan Huang 5. The Brazilianization of New York City: Brazilian Immigrants and Evangelical Churches in a Pluralized Urban Landscape \ Donizete Rodrigues 6. Building and Expanding Communities: African Immigrant Congregations and the Challenge of Diversity \ Moses BineyPart 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation and Religious Institutions 7. Changing Lives One Scoop at a Time: The Creation of Alphabet Scoop on the Lower East Side \ Sheila P. Johnson 8. Navigating Property Development through a Framework of Religious Ecology: The Case of Trinity Lutheran Church \ Nadia A. Mian 9. Hinduism at Work in Queens \ Matthew WeinerContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friendsTrade ReviewEthnographic Encounters offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely "edgy" contemporary society. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015 * H-Judaic *A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran MarkowitzPart I. Confrontations and Conversions1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.Part II. State Categories and Global Flows4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella DjerrahianPart III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez

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Book SynopsisExplores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friendsTrade ReviewEthnographic Encounters offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely "edgy" contemporary society. * Journal of Anthropological Research *[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015 * H-Judaic *A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran MarkowitzPart I. Confrontations and Conversions1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.Part II. State Categories and Global Flows4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella DjerrahianPart III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez

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Book SynopsisPresents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness redefined as an integral element of the post-war generation's PolishnessTrade ReviewPoignant and nuanced, this work is an important contribution. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Auerbach's work deserves the highest praise as it is the first attempt at a comprehensive study of Jewish assimilation across generational lines covering the last eighty years of post-Holocaust Poland. . . . Auerbach's book is undoubtedly an achievement. Beautifully written and skillfully contextualized, her study of Jewish assimilation in postwar Poland will become a must read for everyone interested in twentieth-century Polish-Jewish history. * H-Poland H-Net Reviews *Amply illustrated with photographs of the families whose lives Auerbach chronicles, the book reverberates with hope and trembles with the tentative efforts of the people to rekindle the flames of their humanity after inestimable loss and trauma. * Jewish Book Council *This is an interesting and often moving tableau about the efforts of some wounded people to overcome their personal tragedies while redefining their communal loyalties. * Booklist *This imaginative and innovative monograph offers quite a new way of looking at the development of Jewish identity in People's Poland. . . . This book is certainly essential reading for all those interested in the history of postwar Poland and its Jewish minority. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsGlossary of namesIntroduction1 "History Brushed Against Us": The Adlers and the Bergmans2 The Jewish Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue, 1900-19483 "The Entire Nation Builds Its Capital": Ujazdowskie Avenue and Reconstructed Warsaw 4 "Stamp of a Generation": Parents and Children5 "Ostriches in the Wilderness": Children and Parents6 "Finding the Eradicated Traces of the Path": Seeds of RevivalEpilogue: Present and PastNotesBibliography and works cited

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Book SynopsisOffers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world.Trade ReviewSpadola's book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail. * Journal of Religion *Calls of Islam is an instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco's socio-culltural and political idiosyncrasies. * Review of Middle East Studies *Spadola's dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements. * American Ethnologist *[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope. * Contemporary Islam *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Calls of Islam 1. Calls from the Unseen 2. Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology and Control 3. Our Master's Call 4. Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing 5. Rites of Reception 6. Trance-Nationalism; or the Call of Moroccan Islam 7. "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element between People:" The Call as Exorcism Epilogue: The Arab Spring, the Monarchy's Call

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Book SynopsisOffers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world.Trade ReviewSpadola's book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail. * Journal of Religion *Calls of Islam is an instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco's socio-culltural and political idiosyncrasies. * Review of Middle East Studies *Spadola's dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements. * American Ethnologist *[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope. * Contemporary Islam *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Calls of Islam 1. Calls from the Unseen 2. Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology and Control 3. Our Master's Call 4. Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing 5. Rites of Reception 6. Trance-Nationalism; or the Call of Moroccan Islam 7. "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element between People:" The Call as Exorcism Epilogue: The Arab Spring, the Monarchy's Call

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Book SynopsisWhen American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. The author shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish men and discovers what intermarriage has meant to them and their families.Trade ReviewIn Marrying Out . . . historian Keren R. McGinity uses qualitative research to dismantle assumptions about the lives and attitudes of intermarried Jewish men. * Journal of Jewish Identities *McGinity, a groundbreaking scholar, captures the telling details and the idiosyncratic trajectory of interfaith relationships and marriages in America. But as academic as McGinity's work is, it is also highly personal. * The Forward *[A] fresh and lucid look at intermarriage . . .McGinity integrates her findings with an impressive command of the social and historical research on intermarriage, making this book an important analysis of this thorny issue. . . .filled with vivid vignettes about intermarried couples. * Jewish Book World *In Marrying Out . . . historian Keren R. McGinity uses qualitative research to dismantle assumptions about the lives and attitudes of intermarried Jewish men. * Journal of Jewish Identities *[P]rovides a penetrative analysis of how Jewish men are not 'lost' to Jewish communities but rather shape their own identities as Jewish husbands and fathers. * Marginalia *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Of Mice and Menschen1. Professional Men2. Sex and Money3. Shiksappeal4. Heartbreak KidConclusionNotesSuggested ReadingIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions: "[A] timely, well-researched and written analysis of popular and private life that is too often underestimated or overlooked yet which constitutes the majority of human existence in a region too often viewed from the narrow constraints of the state and its unrepresentative elites." —John Entelis "The broadening of Islamic studies (or regional studies on Islam) to include study of ordinary people, their daily lives, and popular cultures has been long overdue. [An] extremely interesting and innovative study which, in its own way, successfully challenges the pervasive misperception of the Middle East simply as a conflict-prone region." —Journal of Islamic Studies ". . . provides useful background reading for introductory courses to everyday history of the Middle East." —Journal of Palestine Studies "presents a grassroots look at what it is like to actually live in the Muslim Middle East . . . from Aghanistan and Iran to Morocco. [It] shows how religion is an important part, but not the sole part, of these people's lives." —Middle East Insight "This book is a welcome addition to the literature. . . ." —The American Journal of Islamic Social SciencesWhat makes this book special is that so many of its contributors really are able to get inside what is going on in the Muslim Middle East, the so-called Arab 'street'. Most of them have actually lived close to those they write about and speak the local language. . . . For those serving in one of our 'fortress' embassies in the Middle East, where getting to know those beyond the elite is difficult, this book should be a must-read. * The Foreign Service Journal *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third EditionNote on TransliterationIntroduction Part I. Generations and Life Passages Introduction to Part I1. Traditional Songs from Boir Ahmad Collected and Translated by Erika Friedl2. Acquiring Reason and Cultivating Strength: Growing up in Rural Morocco in a Time of Development Christine Nutter-El-Ouardani3. Youth Expressions of Class and Mobility in Beirut, Lebanon Kristin Monroe4. Harasiis Marriage, Divorce and Companionship Dawn Chatty5. Two Weddings Jenny B. White6. Kidneys, Kinship, and Muslim Ethics in Egypt Sherine Hamdy7. Contested Traditions: Gender and Mourning Practices in Egypt Farha Ghannem Part II. Gender Relations Introduction to Part II8. Young Women's Sexuality in Tunisia: The Health Consequences of Misinformation among University Students Angel Foster9. A Thorny Side of Marriage in Iran Erika Friedl10. Cars Culture in Contemporary Qatar Andrew Gardner and Momina Zakzouk11. Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Marcia Inhorn12. Few 'Gays' in the Middle East, but Significant Same-Sex Sexuality William O. Beeman 13. The 'Ramallah Girls:' Social Change in Urban Space Natalie K. Jensen14. Tamkin: Stories from a Family Court in Iran Ziba Mir-Hosseini15. A New Jordanian Generation Wears the Hijab Donna Lee BowenPart III. Home, Community, and Work Introduction to Part III16. Politics, Politics, and More Politics: Youth Life Experience in the Gaza Strip Brian K. Barber17. Islamist Activism in Jordan Quintan Wiktorowicz18. Democracy's Collateral Damage Victoria Fontan19. Politics of Class on an Egyptian Factory Floor Samir Shehata 20. 'Madam, You Drive a Hard Bargain:" Selling to Tourists in Tunis' Medina Simon Hawkins21. Human Insecurity in Lebanon Melani Cammett22. Pedagogy, Islamic Education, and Life Lessons in a Jordanian Secondary School for Girls Fida J. Adely23. Networks, Jobs and Everyday Life in Cairo Diane SingermanPart IV. Islam in Practice Introduction to Part IV24. The Sound of the Divine in Daily Life Kristina Nelson25. Abu Illya and Zakat Donna Lee Bowen26. The Hajj in Everyday Life Robert R. Bianchi27. Abdul Qadar and the Sheep of Aid al-Adha Donna Lee Bowen28. Tele-Preachers and Talk Shows: Egyptian Religious Discourse Evelyn A. Early29. Sufism and Everyday Ethics in Turkey Brian Silverstein30. 'Caught Among the Unbelievers:' How Pilgrimage Shapes Iranians' Understandings of Sectarian Difference Anne H. BetteridgeIntroduction to Part V 31. Deposed leaders, YouTube and the Contested Language of Arab Uprisings Becky Schulthies32. From the Death of Sally Zahran to the Trial of Hosni Mubarak: Martyrs and the January 25th Revolution Walter Armbrust33. Reinserting Race as a Relevant Social Category in Turkish Football Yagmur Nuhrat, Marcie Patton, Donna Lee Bowen, and Becky Schulthies34. The Worst Disaster is What Makes You Laugh: Sounds of the Syrian Revolution Jonathan Shannon35. Al-Aris (the Bridegroom): Prison Literature and Human Rights Salah El-Ouadie Translated by Susan Slyomovics 36. "To Mount at-Tiyal He Declared:" Some Poetry from the Yemeni Civil War Steven C. Caton37. Sad Songs of the Western Desert Lila Abu-LughodNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisErica Lehrer is Associate Professor in the History and Sociology/Anthropology Departments at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she also holds the Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography, and Museology.Michael Meng is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Clemson University, South Carolina.Trade ReviewLehrer and Meng have done an admirable job both in obtaining essays from authors in a wide variety of disciplines and in making this material accessible to non-specialists. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Lehrer and Meng have edited an important interdisciplinary work, which should make an immediate impact on the field of Polish Jewish Studies. * Religious Studies Review *There has been a surge of interest in the history and lives of Polish Jews by Polish Gentiles and the descendants of Holocaust survivors in recent decades. . . This collection offers deep insights into and thoughtful analysis of this fascinating phenomenon. Highly recommended. * Choice *Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland evokes a revolution – the word is not too strong – in the possibilities, new goals, and shifting facts on the ground associated with Jewish history and lives in Poland today. * Canadian Jewish News *[T]he authors' understanding of the Jewishness of 'Jewish space' encompasses the plurality of Jewish expression. As the editors note, their approach seeks 'to break out of predetermined, normative views of Jewishness to explore how history and identity inform each other, raise questions about difference and solidarity, and recognize that Jewish culture is shaped in a field of interactions with other cultures.' From the vantage point of Poland, the editors see their work as part of a national discourse, looking to the construction of a new, post-communist Polish identity.May 2015 * Literary Review of Canada *[This] collection is an important step toward deeper and clearer understanding of what Poland's Jewish spaces were, are, and may yet become.October 2016 * H-SAE *The diversity and uniqueness of examples presented in 'Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland' make this book a significant contribution to Polish-Jewish memory studies.10/13/15 * Pol-Int *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng1. "Oświęcim"/ "Auschwitz": Archeology of a Mnemonic Battleground / Geneviève Zubrzycki2. Restitution of Communal Property and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Stanislaw Tyszka3. Muranów as a Ruin: Layered Memories in Postwar Warsaw / Michael Meng4. Stettin, Szczecin, and the "Third Space." Urban nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish borderlands / Magdalena Waligórska5. Rediscovering the Jewish Past in the Polish Provinces: The Socio-Economics of Nostalgia / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz6. Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction: Shifting Modes of Memory in Poland's Jewish Spaces / Slawomir Kapralski7. Jewish Heritage, Pluralism, and Milieux de Memoire: the case of Krakow's Kazimierz / Erica Lehrer8. The Ethnic Cleansing of the German-Polish-Jewish 'Lodzermensch' / Winson Chu9. Stony Survivors: Images of Jewish Space on the Polish Landscape / Robert L. Cohn10. Reading the Palimpsest / Konstanty Gebert11. A Jew, a Cemetery, and a Polish Village: A Tale of the Restoration of MemoryJonathan Webber12. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Post-War, Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Story / Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettEpilogue: Jewish Spaces and their Future / Diana PintoNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLehrer and Meng have done an admirable job both in obtaining essays from authors in a wide variety of disciplines and in making this material accessible to non-specialists. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Lehrer and Meng have edited an important interdisciplinary work, which should make an immediate impact on the field of Polish Jewish Studies. * Religious Studies Review *There has been a surge of interest in the history and lives of Polish Jews by Polish Gentiles and the descendants of Holocaust survivors in recent decades. . . This collection offers deep insights into and thoughtful analysis of this fascinating phenomenon. Highly recommended. * Choice *Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland evokes a revolution – the word is not too strong – in the possibilities, new goals, and shifting facts on the ground associated with Jewish history and lives in Poland today. * Canadian Jewish News *[T]he authors' understanding of the Jewishness of 'Jewish space' encompasses the plurality of Jewish expression. As the editors note, their approach seeks 'to break out of predetermined, normative views of Jewishness to explore how history and identity inform each other, raise questions about difference and solidarity, and recognize that Jewish culture is shaped in a field of interactions with other cultures.' From the vantage point of Poland, the editors see their work as part of a national discourse, looking to the construction of a new, post-communist Polish identity.May 2015 * Literary Review of Canada *[This] collection is an important step toward deeper and clearer understanding of what Poland's Jewish spaces were, are, and may yet become.October 2016 * H-SAE *The diversity and uniqueness of examples presented in 'Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland' make this book a significant contribution to Polish-Jewish memory studies.10/13/15 * Pol-Int *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Erica Lehrer and Michael Meng1. "Oświęcim"/ "Auschwitz": Archeology of a Mnemonic Battleground / Geneviève Zubrzycki2. Restitution of Communal Property and the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Stanislaw Tyszka3. Muranów as a Ruin: Layered Memories in Postwar Warsaw / Michael Meng4. Stettin, Szczecin, and the "Third Space." Urban nostalgia in the German/Polish/Jewish borderlands / Magdalena Waligórska5. Rediscovering the Jewish Past in the Polish Provinces: The Socio-Economics of Nostalgia / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz6. Amnesia, Nostalgia, and Reconstruction: Shifting Modes of Memory in Poland's Jewish Spaces / Slawomir Kapralski7. Jewish Heritage, Pluralism, and Milieux de Memoire: the case of Krakow's Kazimierz / Erica Lehrer8. The Ethnic Cleansing of the German-Polish-Jewish 'Lodzermensch' / Winson Chu9. Stony Survivors: Images of Jewish Space on the Polish Landscape / Robert L. Cohn10. Reading the Palimpsest / Konstanty Gebert11. A Jew, a Cemetery, and a Polish Village: A Tale of the Restoration of MemoryJonathan Webber12. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Post-War, Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Story / Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettEpilogue: Jewish Spaces and their Future / Diana PintoNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs Gunther Jikeli argues in his compelling new book, there is a 'research gap' on Muslim antisemitism in Europe. Although there have been surveys investigating Muslim attitudes to Jews, there is very little fine-grained, detailed research on this issue . . . Jikeli has uncovered a disturbing phenomenon but not a hopeless one. European Muslim antisemitism is not set in stone and, through the efforts of scholars such as Jikeli, by investigating it in more detail we can develop responses accordingly.5/8/15 * Jewish Chronicle *European Muslim Antisemitism is a brilliantly researched and highly accessible book. It makes a valuable contribution to an ongoing scholarly and moral debate on anti-Semitism. It is a book that should be read by everyone – especially students, scholars and policymakers interested in Muslim-Jewish relations7/16/15 * Times Higher Education *A milestone in the scholarly investigation of this phenomenon [i.e., European Muslim antisemitism] is the new book of the historian Günther Jikeli, the leading German expert on this subject. . . . His book has the potential to be the standard work [on its subject]. * Juedische Allgemeine *This thorough, well-presented, social scientific study focuses on the causes of anti-Semitic violence largely carried out by young Muslim males. . . . Jikeli . . . performs an important service for those who seek answers to an extremely troubling problem. . . . Essential. * CHOICE *There is a great deal of empirical data in this academic study that will be useful to track general patterns of anti-Semitism, and anti-Jewish behavior in Europe. The specific nature of this book makes its most suitable for an academic audience or groups working with discrimination against Jewish communities. * AJL Reviews *European Muslim Antisemitism is data, research, and analysis all wrapped into one in a compelling and digestible volume. * Jewish Book Council *Jikeli should be commended for bringing the deep-rooted issues of antiSemitism, and especially the denial, relativism, and unabashed support of the Holocaust, back to serious attention. * AJS Review *What do European Muslims actually think about Jews? Too little is known about the subject, so Günther Jikeli is to be heartily thanked for his pioneering and earnest efforts to supply some basic empirical evidence in European Muslim Antisemitsm. . . . Jikeli has gone to great efforts to make human contact with his subejcts, and his tact and his obvious empathy are much to his credit. * Times Literary Supplement *Jikeli presents the most thorough and systematic study of his topic to date. He writes pellucidly and calmly. The topic aside, his book is a pleasure to read. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. European Muslims: Between Integration and Discrimination2. Debates and Surveys on European Muslim Antisemitism3. An Empirical Study: Interviews with Young Male Muslims in Europe4. Patterns of Antisemitism5. "Classic" Modern Antisemitism6. Antisemitism Related to Israel7. Antisemitism Related to Islam, Religious or Ethnic Identity8. Antisemitism Without Justification or Rationalization9. Perceptions of the Holocaust10. Sources of Antisemitic Attitudes11. Positive Examples: Rejecting Antisemitism12. ConclusionAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a profoundly challenging work of literary criticism by a brave critic who asks us to look beyond the difficult hard facts of the Holocaust to the complex subjectivities of all those affected by it, a scholar whose final legacy to us is the insistence that the subject of humanities scholarship must ultimately and always be the human. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *E. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. . . As Budick rightly acknowledges, it is . . . self-scrutiny performed both by its writers and by its readers, that makes Holocaust fiction so important and that should ensure its future standing. * Literature and History *Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents new readings of well-known and understudied but significant texts of Holocaust fiction. . . This is an important contribution to literary studies. . . . Highly recommended.V.47 2016 * Choice *[E]xamining the themes of mourning, memory, and love, and considering the relationship of the Holocaust to apartheid and animal slaughter, the author provides a framework for students of literature, history, religion, philosophy, and ethics. * American Reference Book Annual *Gathers together almost a dozen essays on key Holocaust writers, from Cynthia Ozick and William Styron (in his role as the author of Sophie's Choice) to W. G. Sebald and Art Spiegelman. 5/11/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Emily Miller Budick packs an astonishing number of texts into The Subject of Holocaust Fiction and explores them through a number of lenses. Students and scholars of comparative literatures, Holocaust studies, or trauma and psychology in literature will all find something of interest, and for those familiar with many of the above texts the intertextual reading the author weaves through the book makes it a useful new resource. * Holocaust Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPrologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and MeSection One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory MomentSection Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love6. See Under: MourningSection Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's AusterlitzEpilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality"NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a profoundly challenging work of literary criticism by a brave critic who asks us to look beyond the difficult hard facts of the Holocaust to the complex subjectivities of all those affected by it, a scholar whose final legacy to us is the insistence that the subject of humanities scholarship must ultimately and always be the human. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *E. M. Budick's The Subject of Holocaust Fiction is a timely addition to the steadily growing academic canon on Holocaust fiction. . . As Budick rightly acknowledges, it is . . . self-scrutiny performed both by its writers and by its readers, that makes Holocaust fiction so important and that should ensure its future standing. * Literature and History *Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents new readings of well-known and understudied but significant texts of Holocaust fiction. . . This is an important contribution to literary studies. . . . Highly recommended.V.47 2016 * Choice *[E]xamining the themes of mourning, memory, and love, and considering the relationship of the Holocaust to apartheid and animal slaughter, the author provides a framework for students of literature, history, religion, philosophy, and ethics. * American Reference Book Annual *Gathers together almost a dozen essays on key Holocaust writers, from Cynthia Ozick and William Styron (in his role as the author of Sophie's Choice) to W. G. Sebald and Art Spiegelman. 5/11/16 * Times Literary Supplement *Emily Miller Budick packs an astonishing number of texts into The Subject of Holocaust Fiction and explores them through a number of lenses. Students and scholars of comparative literatures, Holocaust studies, or trauma and psychology in literature will all find something of interest, and for those familiar with many of the above texts the intertextual reading the author weaves through the book makes it a useful new resource. * Holocaust Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPrologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and MeSection One: Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust1. Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl2. Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus3. Aryeh Lev Stollman's Far Euphrates: Re-picturing the Pre-Memory MomentSection Two: Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Inter-textual Construction of a Jewish Symptom4. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past5. A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love6. See Under: MourningSection Three: Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald7. Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice8. (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Berhard Schlink's The Reader9. Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's AusterlitzEpilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality"NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis edited volume is a welcome contribution to debates on Islamic schooling in Africa both past and present, and will be of interest to scholars working on 'indigenous' perspectives and 'alternative' types of education more broadly. It is relevant to anyone working on policy, educational decisionmaking and youth experiences of schooling in African countries with Muslim populations. * Compare *Islamic Education in Africa is a thoughtful reection that challenges Eurocentric knowledge on Islamic educational systems, harnessing a debate on alternative future landscapes for education and schooling in Africa. -- Marta Scaglioni * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW * Islamic Education in Africa makes a significant contribution not only to our understandings of Islam in Africa but also to the broader study of how Islam is learned and woven into the fabric of society. By showing in meticulous detail the enduring and unwavering commitments of African Muslims to Islamic education while providing persuasive explanations about how and why knowledge transmission has continued to be the central bone of contention that divides them, it is a landmark in the anthropology of education. * American Ethnologist *As the debate on the decolonization of education in Africa gains increasing importance in academia, Islamic Education in Africa is a thoughtful reflection that challenges Eurocentric knowledge on Islamic educational systems, harnessing a debate on alternative future landscapes for education and schooling in Africa. -- Marta Scaglioni * African Studies Review *This is a very rich collection of articles that covers diverse perspectives on Islamic Education in Africa, written by some of the top-of-the-range experts in their respective fields. * Muslim World Book Review *Launay's edited volume is an excellent and timely contribution to the literature, likely to become a major reference on Islamic education on the African continent. Everyone with an interest in the topic should read it! * Journal of Religion in Africa *Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface 1. IntroductionRobert Launay The Classical Paradigm2. Styles of Islamic Education: Perspectives from Mali, Guinea, and The GambiaTal Tamari 3 Orality and the Transmission of Qur'anic knowledge in MauritaniaCorinne Fortier 4. Islamic Education and the Intellectual Pedigree of Al-Hajj Umar FalkeMuhammad Sani Umar Institutional Transformations5. Divergent Patterns of Islamic Education in Northern Mozambique: Qur'anic Schools in AngocheLiazzate Bonate 6. Colonial Control, Nigerian Agency, Arab Outreach, and Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1966Alex Thurston 7. Muslim scholars, Organic Intellectuals and the Development of Islamic Education in Zanzibar in the 20th Century Roman Loimeier8. The New Muslim Public School in the Democratic Republic of CongoAshley Leinweber Innovations and Experiments 9. The al-Azhar School Network: A Murid Experiment in Islamic ModernismCheikh Anta Babou 10. Mwalim Bi Swafiya Muhashamy-Said: A Pioneer of the Integrated (Madrasa) Curriculum in Kenya and BeyondOusseina D. Alidou 11. Changes in Islamic Knowledge Practices in 20th-Century KenyaRüdiger Seesemann 12. Walking to the Makaranta: Production, Circulation, and Transmission of Islamic Learning in Urban NigerAbdoulaye Sounaye Plural Possibilities? 13. How (Not) to Read the Quran? Logics of Islamic Education in Senegal and Côte d'IvoireRobert Launay and Rudolph T. Ware III 14. New Muslim Public Figures in West AfricaBenjamin F. Soares 15. Collapsed Pluralities: Islamic Education, Learning, and Creativity in NigerNoah Butler

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistorian Brodsky has written a much-needed monograph on the role of Sephardic Jews in Argentina, and her work is an important contribution to the study of Jews in Latin America overall. * Choice *In short, the author has made a significant contribution not only to the study of the Sephardim and Jews in Argentina, but also to the study of the minority migrations in the country as a whole and the ethnic histories of the inland provinces of Argentina. This is an important work that hopefully will be the catalyst for further lines of research on the Sephardim, which, as Brodsky says, are no longer invisible in Argentina. * AJS Review *Overall, Brodsky's analysis of the tensions between assimilation and the maintenance of Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Argentina is a significant contribution to the study of identity. It will be a valuable contribution to all Jewish studies collections. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Adriana M. Brodsky's work is a much-needed addition to the growing field of Latin American Jewish studies. * The Americas *Brodsky has introduced a critical contribution to the study of Jewish Latin America, that highlights Sephardi history and that will continue to be valuable to the sub-discipline and to all scholars attempting to understand the complexity of competing migrant identities. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Brodsky's book is as rich in its sources as it is illuminating in its narrative. It is an excellent contribution to the field of Latin American Jewish studies but is also a necessary read for anyone engaged in diasporic, national, and ethnic studies. Brodsky's narrative is accessible, textured, and vivid, a work of solid scholarship vehemently rooted in both Argentine and Sephardi cultures. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Bodsky's fascinating study . . . focus[es] on how the Sephardic Jews in Argentina became Argentines, but also, perhaps more significantly, how they 'became Jewish' and came to play their own influential role in the history of Argentine Jewry. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsNote about Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Burying the Dead: Cemeteries, Walls and Jewish Identity in Early-Twentieth-Century Argentina2. Helping the Living: Philanthropy and the Boundaries of Sephardi Communities in Argentina3. The Limits of Community: Unsuccessful Attempts at Creating Single Sephardi Organizations4. Working for the Homeland: Zionism and the Creation of an "Argentine" Sephardi Community after 19205. Becoming Argentine, Becoming Jewish, Becoming and Remaining Sephardi: Jewish Women and Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina6. Marriages and Schools: Living within Multiple BordersPostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewYildirim's work represents an important advancement in developing the strand of literature that considers how economic conditions affect Islamist movements * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Muslim Democratic Parties1. A Social Theory of Muslim Democratic Parties2. Modeling Economic Liberalization in a Comparative Perspective3. From the Periphery to the Center: Competitive Liberalization in Turkey4. Stuck in the Periphery: Crony Liberalization in Egypt5. Pathways from the Periphery: Competitive Liberalization in MoroccoConclusionAppendix: List of InterviewsNotesBibliographyIndex

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