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Book SynopsisOne night, two men waving guns and knives break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Now Russell is left to ponder the meaning of the attack, what to do with the poet's unfinished, problematic memoir and, perhaps most importantly, how to reconstruct and move forward with his own life.Hearing of the disturbing circumstances of Cannon's death, an Italian writer, Marina Vezzoli, invites Russell to recuperate at her villa in Tuscany. But what at first seems like a generous invitation slowly reveals itself to be a calculated offer. As Russell's stay in Italy lengthens, he begins to realize that the people in his life are using or manipulating him, most of all the poet's New York publishers who, against the dying poet's wishes, are trying to acquire his unfinished manuscript. Looming over everything is the long and fascinating legacy of Villa Guidi, where during Word War II a Jewish family hid in the subterranean floors, later undergoing a conversion to Catholicism. In an echo of this dramatic history, Russell is forced to undergo a conversion of his own in order to find redemption and meaning in his life.Trade Review'I read the book a long time ago, but one thing has stayed with me: the way a trauma in childhood - though the memory is so blurred and disjointed - can affect us deeply without our even realizing it' - KATE WINSLET, O, The Oprah Magazine on The Waterline'The novel has much to enchant, not only how wonderful it must be to swim like a god, but also an ability to address real intimacy in honest and vigorous ways. Sex, in particular, is written about with rare beauty in this novel, and Joseph Olshan enters some tender and uncharted territory to powerful effect.' - The Independent on Sunday on Nightswimmer'Joseph Olshan writes so vivaciously that his seventh novel ticks faster than a stopwatch. He loves his characters to bits, which is why they are so memorable. Humor. Feeling. Perfect Pitch. Olshan has it all.' - Financial Times on In Clara's Hands

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Book SynopsisToday, conversion is a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon, and that was also the case in the ancient world. Using several primary sources (Jewish and Christian) and case studies, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups of people in the ancient world and argues that conversion can best be understood through an intersectional perspective, an approach that includes gender, class, ethnicity, and age, as well as political and economic elements in its analysis of conversion. The volume also acknowledges that a discussion of conversion benefits from taking into account conversion's history of reception. Case studies from the reception history as well as contemporary examples of contested conversions (for example, from Christianity to Islam or vice versa) are also brought to the table. In sum, the book addresses the complexity of conversion, using a range of cases, texts and theories, and initiates a dialogue between ancient sources and present concepts or practices. Close readings of ancient texts play a central role in the project. Yet, the book also considers how sacred texts and their receptions have influenced the way we generally think about conversation as religious change.Table of Contents1. What Is So Complex About Conversion? Marianne Bjelland Kartzow and Valérie Nicolet 2. Shedding Religious Skin: An Intersectional Analysis of the Claim that Male Circumcision Limits Religious Freedom Karin B. Neutel, University of Oslo 3. Complex Interactions: Conversion and Interreligious Dialogue in the Norwegian Context Anne Hege Grung, University of Oslo 4. Conversion in Mystery Religions? Theory Meets Mysteries and Conversion Gerhard van den Heever, University of South Africa 5. “Leap, Ye, Lame for Joy”: The Dynamics of Disability in Conversion Anna Rebecca Solevåg, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway 6. Reading a Complex Identity in Conversion: Interpretations of the Ethiopian Eunuch Minna Heimola, Independent Scholar 7. Creating a New Sex: Women Bodies in Conversion Valérie Nicolet 8. Conversion in/to the Wilderness: The Case of the Egyptian Slave Girl Hagar in Early Christian and Jewish Texts Marianne Bjelland Kartzow 9. The Complexity of Aseneth’s Transformation Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, University of Oslo 10. Leaving the Traditions of the Fathers: Perspectives on Conversion from a Christianity That Did Not Survive Kristine Toft Rosland, University of South-Eastern Norway / University of Oslo 11. Spatial Conversion and Christian Identity in Late Antiquity Anna Lampadaridi, Institut Protestant de Théologie (Paris) 12. Concluding Remarks Valérie Nicolet

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKatsikas's impressive archival research sheds light on a neglected topic...In this original study, the author demonstrates how conversion to Christianity in the age of nationalism was a survival tactic and a means to acquire the attendant privileges of being a member of the victorious side in post-Ottoman Europe. * Marc David Baer, author of The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs *This book represents considerable scholarship on the important question of conversion from Islam to Orthodox Christianity during and in the aftermath of the very violent period associated with the War of Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wealth of archival and other primary sources, Katsikas presents a clear and engaging analysis of the conditions under which Muslims became Orthodox Christians in this period of dramatic political and demographic change. * Benjamin Fortna, Director & Professor, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, University of Arizona *Lost in the literature of nationalisms and 'ethnic awakenings', the fate of those individuals and communities converting to a new nation (and religion) has received little attention so far. Stephanos Katsikas successfully unpacks this aspect of modern Greek history and the fate of its first Muslim citizens providing an impressive array of legal, political and historical data to inform one of the most problematic aspects of nation-building in Europe * Neophytos Loizides, Director of Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent *This book is, without any doubt, a major contribution to the field of Balkan history and broadly, to modern European history. It is based on an unexplored cache of unique source material that is meticulously analyzed and convincingly laid out. * Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Katsikas' work lays an important foundation in the English language scholarship of post-independence Greece. * Alexander Billinis, The Hydramerican *

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Book Synopsis The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. In eight well researched ethnographic accounts the authors analyze a range of missionary encounters as well as aspects of conversion and "anti-conversion" in different parts of the region, thus challenging the problematic idea that religious life after socialism involved a simple "revival" of repressed religious traditions. Instead, they unravel the unexpected twists and turns of religious dynamics, and the processes that have challenged popular ideas about religion and culture. The contributions show how conversion is rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new "capitalist experience" and document its unsettling effects on the individual and social level.Trade Review “Material deprivation and social dislocation remain defining features of post-Soviet societies. This volume adds much-needed depth to previous analyses of coping strategies and networks of support by exploring the moral dimension of individual subjective experience…[and] makes an original and important contribution to our understanding of post-socialist and postcolonial societies and speaks to the renewed interest in religion within the discipline.” · JRAI "... an unusually strong edited collection that will have an important impact on Post-Soviet studies but that will also find a high profile place for itself in the developing field of the anthropological study of Christianity … the first collection to focus on the spread of Protestantism, and particularly its Pentecostal and charismatic forms, in the Post-Soviet world." · Joel Robbins, University of California, San Diego “This book is an excellent, well written contribution to the study of religious change and spiritual encounters in post-communist Eurasia. It offers a persuasive analysis of conversion rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new post-Soviet era. It also attempts to relate the phenomena to broader theoretical debates on the quest for modernity…[It] should be essential for students of conversion and religious change in post-communist settings. Although it is targeted at informed academic audiences, the book could also prove to be interesting reading for curious wider audiences with an intellectual interest in various facets of the transformation processes across the former Soviet Union and the wider post-communist space.” · Europe-Asia StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 2. Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai Ludek Broz Chapter 3. Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism Virginie Vaté Chapter 4. Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion Laur Vallikivi Chapter 5. Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt Chapter 6. The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania Gediminas Lankauskas Chapter 7. Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan William Clark Chapter 8. Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 9. Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as ‘Travelling Culture’ Catherine Wanner Chapter 10. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism J.D.Y. Peel Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisChristianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.Trade Review"From the time when each petty State had its peculiar set of local deities down to the final triumph of the Catholic Church, [Nock] traces the history, and to some extent the psychology, of the processes by which religions were gradually syncretized and their minor differences canceled out. -- Odell Shepard New York Times There has been so much loose writing and talking in recent times about the relation of the so-called mystery religions to Christianity that Professor Nock's erudite and sympathetic presentation of the points of likeness and unlikeness between them... is a very valuable contribution to the history of religion. Times Literary Supplement The reader will find much to fascinate him in the author's development of this theme. With a sure hand he traces the ways by which Eastern religious ideas penetrated the West, following paths of trade, carried by soldiers from one end of the empire to the other, communicated by Oriental slaves to Roman masters. -- Campbell Bonner The Saturday Review of Literature

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Book SynopsisFive centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.Trade Review"Dalia Kandiyoti lucidly traces the history and memory of crypto-Jewishness across historical periods, languages, and nations. Theoretically sophisticated, historically rigorous, and superbly written, The Converso's Return is a stimulating read for anyone interested in how literature makes it possible to reimagine a past fraught with contradictions, absences, and silences." -- Tabea Alexa Linhard * author of Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean History *"Embedded in a sophisticated theoretical framework and a wide range of historical reference, The Converso's Return brilliantly explores and confronts questions of memory's use and representation. In creating a new literary map based on seemingly disparate texts that actually belong together, Dalia Kandiyoti is ever vigilant to the political implications of all forms of return." -- Ammiel Alcalay * author of After Jews and Arabs *

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Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265

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Book SynopsisFive centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.Trade Review"Dalia Kandiyoti lucidly traces the history and memory of crypto-Jewishness across historical periods, languages, and nations. Theoretically sophisticated, historically rigorous, and superbly written, The Converso's Return is a stimulating read for anyone interested in how literature makes it possible to reimagine a past fraught with contradictions, absences, and silences." -- Tabea Alexa Linhard * author of Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean History *"Embedded in a sophisticated theoretical framework and a wide range of historical reference, The Converso's Return brilliantly explores and confronts questions of memory's use and representation. In creating a new literary map based on seemingly disparate texts that actually belong together, Dalia Kandiyoti is ever vigilant to the political implications of all forms of return." -- Ammiel Alcalay * author of After Jews and Arabs *

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.Table of ContentsPreface | xi List of Abbreviations and Terms | xv Introduction: East of Appalachia: The New Russian Turn in American Christianity | 1 1 Foreign Faith in a Foreign Land: A Discursive History of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States | 23 2 Church of God: Traditionalism, Authenticity, and Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in Appalachia | 37 3 America the Beautiful: Of Guns, God, and Vodka | 64 4 Port of the Tsar: Material Monarchism and the End of Days | 82 5 Palace of Putin: Political Ideologies in Orthodox Appalachia | 107 6 A People Set Apart: Intra-Community Politics and Regionalism | 135 7 The “Holler Feast”: Spiritual Geographies and Temporalities | 161 Conclusion: In Soviet America, Russia Converts You! | 179 Epilogue | 185 Acknowledgments | 195 Notes | 199 Works Cited | 249 Index | 275

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Book SynopsisMaguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.Trade ReviewA fascinating, dense, mind-stretching, admirably thoughtful book that makes an original argument and is full of arresting and illuminating insights. One comes away from the book with a new sense of the coherence of Rousseau's thought and with new insight into many of the other writers considered­-Pascal and Tocqueville to be sure, but also Montesquieu, Constant, Stendhal, and others. It is a book that is at once illuminating and highly personal, a book that allows us to see familiar works in new ways and casts a bright light on the complex role that the idea of imagination has played in the work of some of the most important French thinkers and writers since the seventeenth century. -- Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa CruzIn this bold book on the expansion of the imagination, Maguire shows how a single faculty of the soul takes over virtually the whole of the soul's functions, transforming them all. He traces how Rousseau and some of his heirs struggle with the consequences of an exalted imagination, which both constitutes and threatens to destroy the self. This impressive work opens up fresh and provocative perspectives on every thinker it treats. -- Christopher J. Kelly, Boston CollegeMaguire's book is a superb exercise in the study of an idea. Historically the imagination was deemed not much more than one of the senses and always subordinate to the dominion of reason...Like many studies in this genre Maguire's ranges widely, is thickly referenced, and abounds in rich insights. In a final chapter on Tocqueville he has some provocative (although not entirely flattering) things to say about the relationship between imagination and democracy that are very germane at a time when many Americans are worried about the integrity of their political institutions. -- B. G. Murchland * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pascal: Imagining Memory 2. The Imagination of Reason 3. Rousseau and the Revolution of Enlightenment 4. Illusion's Reflection: Rousseau's Julie 5. The Consuming Infinite 6. Rousseau, and Restoration: Imagination and Memory 7. The Gravity of Illusion: Alexis de Tocqueville Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.Table of ContentsIntroductionClaire NortonPart 1: Trans-Imperial Subjects: Geo-Political Spatialities, Political Advancement and Conversion1. Trans-Imperial Nobility: The Case of Carlo Cigala (1556–1631) Tobias P. Graf2. Conversion Under the Threat of Arms: Converts and Renegades during the War for Crete (1645–1669)Domagoj Madunić 3. Conversion to Islam (and Sometimes a Return to Christianity) in Safavid Persia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesGiorgio Rota4. Danube-Hopping: Conversion, Jurisdiction and Spatiality Between the Ottoman Empire and the Danubian Principalities in the Seventeenth CenturyMichał WasiucionekPart 2: Fashioning Identities: Conversion and the Threat to Self 5. The Early Modern Convert as "Public Property": A Typology of TurningPalmira Brummett6. The Moment of Choice: The Moriscos on the Border of Christianity and IslamHoussam Eddine Chachia7. "Saving a Slave, Saving a Soul": The Rhetoric of Losing the True Faith in Seventeenth-Century Italian Textual and Visual SourcesRosita D’AmoraPart 3: Translating the Self: Devotion, Hybridity and Religious Conversion8. Antitrinitarians and Conversion to Islam: Adam Neuser Reads Murad b. Abdullah in Ottoman IstanbulMartin Mulsow9. The Many Languages of the Self in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Anselm Turmeda/'Abdallāh al-Tarjumān (1355–1423) – Friar, Muslim Convert and TranslatorElisabetta Benigni

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Book SynopsisA re-examination of the social processes behind religious conversions in the Ancient and Early Middle Ages. This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated. Though conversion was commonly represented by ancient and early medieval writersas singular and personally momentous mental events, contributors to this volume find gradual and incomplete social processes lurking behind their words. A mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge and spark new thinking across a variety of sub-fields. The historical settings treated here stretch from the Roman Hellenism of Justin Martyr in the second century to the ninth-century programs of religious and moral correction by resourceful Carolingian reformers. Baptismal orations, funerary inscriptions, Christian narratives about the conversion of stage-performers, a bronze statue of Constantine, early Byzantine ethnographic writings, and re-located relics are among the book's imaginative points of entry. This focused collection of essays by leading scholars, and the afterword by Neil McLynn, should ignite conversations among students of religious conversion andrelated processes of cultural interaction, diffusion, and change both in the historical sub-fields of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and well beyond. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion: Old Worlds and New, is also published by the Universityof Rochester Press. Contributors: Susan Elm, Anthony Grafton, Richard Lim, Rebecca Lyman, Michael Maas, Neil McLynn, Kenneth Mills, Eric Rebillard, Julia M. H. Smith, Raymond Van Dam.Trade ReviewOffer[s] key insights into the study of religious conversion across various 'subfields of history'. . . impressive contributions to the reassessment of the role of religion in history. * COMITATUS *Table of ContentsInscriptions and Conversions: Gregory of Nazianzus on Baptism - Susanna Elm The Politics of Passing: Justin Martyr's Conversion as a Problem of "Hellenization" - Rebecca Lyman Conversion and Burial in the Late Roman Empire - Eric Rebillard Converting the Un-Christianizable: The Baptism of Stage Performers in Late Antiquity - Richard Lim The Many Conversions of the Emperor Constantine - Raymond Van Dam "Delivered from Their Ancient Customs": Christianity and the Question of Cultural Change in Early Byzantine Ethnography - Michael Maas "Emending Evil Ways and Praising God's Omnipotence": Einhard and the Uses of Roman Martyrs - Julia M. H. Smith Seeing and Believing: Aspects of Conversion from Antoninus Pius to Louis the Pious - Neil McLynn

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Book SynopsisConflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the Middle East and the West. Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and this volume, using long-neglected sources, uniquely advances this effort. It surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of Christianity to the present, paying particular attention to the role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in shaping the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon delinTrade ReviewThis work fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. It is encyclopedic in its range, keeping in view the missionary struggles between eastern and western Christianity-the Coptic, Roman, and Orthodox churches-as well as the divisions between the Protestant denominations. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon's history is conceived on a grand scale and draws together much of the recent enormous literature on the subject. -- Andrew Porter, King's College London This book is a handy historical survey of the history of the Christian mission in the Middle East. It is well written and has a clear and thoughtful flow. -- Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas The authors succeed in showing how Christian missions have inextricably connected the religious, cultural, and political history of this region over the past two millennia. -- Heather J. Sharkey Middle East Journal ... Simon and Tejirian have done an admirable job focusing on the past 2,000 years of Christian presence and witness in the Middle East. -- Scott Bridger The Gospel Coalition ... A fascinating and useful book... -- Rene Wadlow Transnational Perspectives The end result of Tejirian and Simon's massive undertaking is a clear, succinct volume thatcovers an impressive breadth of material. It should be required reading... Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations A valuable introduction to the fascinating and conflicted history of the Christian missions in the Middle East. -- Heleen Murre-van den Berg The Catholic HIstorical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spread of Christianity: The First Thousand Years 2. The Latin West in the Middle East: Pilgrimage 3. Disintegration 4. The Great Awakening of the Protestants and the Anglicans 5. Missionaries and European Diplomatic Competition 6. The Imperialist Moment: From the Congress of Berlin to World War I 7. Achievements and Consequences: Intended and Unintended 8. World War I: Nationalism 9. Setting the Agenda: From Conversion to Witness-and Back Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.Trade Review"Tijana Krstic has written a wonderful book. . . [T]he book also marks a major contribution. Several scholars have considered conversion in specific Islamic contexts, but few manage, as Krstic does, to use the phenomenon as the window onto a bigger social and cultural picture." -- K. E. Fleming * Slavic Review *"Tijana Krstić has uncovered a treasure of manuscripts—from personal accounts and instructional manuals to martyrologies and polemics—and has drawn from them a superb new picture of conversions to Islam and their consequences in the Ottoman Empire. Religious boundaries turn out to be a hot issue among different groups of Muslims and Orthodox Christians both, as the Ottoman state strengthens its links with Islam. Contested Conversions brings splendid insights into the religious and political history of the Ottoman Empire and also suggests new ways to think about the confessional history of early modern Europe." -- Natalie Zemon Davis * University of Toronto *"This book raises valuable and important questions about the role of syncretism and tolerance in Ottoman (and indeed, other) religious experiences. . . Kristic's conclusions will force historians to question whether the history of the Ottoman Empires should, or even can be, decoupled from that of the West. . . I hope that not only scholars of the Islamic world but also Europeanists and historians of religion will seriously engage with the ideas and issues raised here." -- John J. Curry * American Historical Review *"Missiologists wrestlying with the 'Jesus-mosque' and C-6 forms of contextualization—in which converts to Christianity remain outwardly indistinguishable from Muslims—will find Krstić 's work of particular interest. . . Krstić's work is a good springboard for discussion. . ." -- Larry Poston * Missiology *"Tijana Krstic's study offers a fascinating perspective. . . Krstic accomplishes her task of contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of conversion to Islam in a broader Mediterranean context in a most impressive manner. Her extraordinary langauge skills enable her to crisscross European and Ottoman sources, and thus to have a broad perspective on conversion narratives." -- Laura Binz * Renaissance Quarterly *"Rejecting both nationalist preoccupations and a purely Islamic framework, Krstic' looks at Ottoman conversion narratives within their early modern context. Drawing on a breathtakingly wide range of sources, the author gives us a sense of what it meant to be a Muslim in the early modern Ottoman Empire. She also engages issues of reading, texts, and knowledge that are almost entirely unexplored in the Ottoman context." -- Molly Greene * Princeton University *"[T]his makes Contested Conversions to Islam a tour de force. Krstic offers us a wealth of illuminating insights into early modern Ottoman history and a unique historical exploration of Ottoman Islam. . . [H]er achievements should be of value not only to Ottomanists or early modernists but indeed to all of us interested in multiconfessional and multicultural societies, whether in the early modern world or in that of today." -- Dina L Gall * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East *

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.Trade Review"Tijana Krstic has written a wonderful book. . . [T]he book also marks a major contribution. Several scholars have considered conversion in specific Islamic contexts, but few manage, as Krstic does, to use the phenomenon as the window onto a bigger social and cultural picture." -- K. E. Fleming * Slavic Review *"Tijana Krstić has uncovered a treasure of manuscripts—from personal accounts and instructional manuals to martyrologies and polemics—and has drawn from them a superb new picture of conversions to Islam and their consequences in the Ottoman Empire. Religious boundaries turn out to be a hot issue among different groups of Muslims and Orthodox Christians both, as the Ottoman state strengthens its links with Islam. Contested Conversions brings splendid insights into the religious and political history of the Ottoman Empire and also suggests new ways to think about the confessional history of early modern Europe." -- Natalie Zemon Davis * University of Toronto *"This book raises valuable and important questions about the role of syncretism and tolerance in Ottoman (and indeed, other) religious experiences. . . Kristic's conclusions will force historians to question whether the history of the Ottoman Empires should, or even can be, decoupled from that of the West. . . I hope that not only scholars of the Islamic world but also Europeanists and historians of religion will seriously engage with the ideas and issues raised here." -- John J. Curry * American Historical Review *"Missiologists wrestlying with the 'Jesus-mosque' and C-6 forms of contextualization—in which converts to Christianity remain outwardly indistinguishable from Muslims—will find Krstić 's work of particular interest. . . Krstić's work is a good springboard for discussion. . ." -- Larry Poston * Missiology *"Tijana Krstic's study offers a fascinating perspective. . . Krstic accomplishes her task of contextualizing and historicizing the phenomenon of conversion to Islam in a broader Mediterranean context in a most impressive manner. Her extraordinary langauge skills enable her to crisscross European and Ottoman sources, and thus to have a broad perspective on conversion narratives." -- Laura Binz * Renaissance Quarterly *"Rejecting both nationalist preoccupations and a purely Islamic framework, Krstic' looks at Ottoman conversion narratives within their early modern context. Drawing on a breathtakingly wide range of sources, the author gives us a sense of what it meant to be a Muslim in the early modern Ottoman Empire. She also engages issues of reading, texts, and knowledge that are almost entirely unexplored in the Ottoman context." -- Molly Greene * Princeton University *"[T]his makes Contested Conversions to Islam a tour de force. Krstic offers us a wealth of illuminating insights into early modern Ottoman history and a unique historical exploration of Ottoman Islam. . . [H]er achievements should be of value not only to Ottomanists or early modernists but indeed to all of us interested in multiconfessional and multicultural societies, whether in the early modern world or in that of today." -- Dina L Gall * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis work fills a substantial gap in the existing literature. It is encyclopedic in its range, keeping in view the missionary struggles between eastern and western Christianity-the Coptic, Roman, and Orthodox churches-as well as the divisions between the Protestant denominations. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon's history is conceived on a grand scale and draws together much of the recent enormous literature on the subject. -- Andrew Porter, King's College London This book is a handy historical survey of the history of the Christian mission in the Middle East. It is well written and has a clear and thoughtful flow. -- Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas The authors succeed in showing how Christian missions have inextricably connected the religious, cultural, and political history of this region over the past two millennia. -- Heather J. Sharkey Middle East Journal ... Simon and Tejirian have done an admirable job focusing on the past 2,000 years of Christian presence and witness in the Middle East. -- Scott Bridger The Gospel Coalition ... A fascinating and useful book... -- Rene Wadlow Transnational Perspectives The end result of Tejirian and Simon's massive undertaking is a clear, succinct volume thatcovers an impressive breadth of material. It should be required reading... Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations A valuable introduction to the fascinating and conflicted history of the Christian missions in the Middle East. -- Heleen Murre-van den Berg The Catholic HIstorical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spread of Christianity: The First Thousand Years 2. The Latin West in the Middle East: Pilgrimage 3. Disintegration 4. The Great Awakening of the Protestants and the Anglicans 5. Missionaries and European Diplomatic Competition 6. The Imperialist Moment: From the Congress of Berlin to World War I 7. Achievements and Consequences: Intended and Unintended 8. World War I: Nationalism 9. Setting the Agenda: From Conversion to Witness-and Back Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThere has not been conducted much research in religious studies and (linguistic) anthropology analysing Protestant missionary linguistic translations. Contemporary Protestant missionary linguists employ grammars, dictionaries, literacy campaigns, and translations of the Bible (in particular the New Testament) in order to convert local cultures. The North American institutions SIL and Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) are one of the greatest scientific-evangelical missionary enterprises in the world. The ultimate objective is to translate the Bible to every language. The author has undertaken systematic research, employing comparative linguistic methodology and field interviews, for a history-of-ideas/religions and epistemologies explication of translated SIL missionary linguistic New Testaments and its premeditated impact upon religions, languages, sociopolitical institutions, and cultures. In addition to taking into account the history of missionary linguistics in America and theological principles of SIL/WBT, the author has examined the intended cultural transformative effects of Bible translations upon cognitive and linguistic systems. A theoretical analytic model of conversion and translation has been put forward for comparative research of religion, ideology, and knowledge systems.

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Book SynopsisRené Girard (1923-) was Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, USA, from 1981 to his retirement in 1995. A historian, literary critic and philosopher, he is the author of over 30 books including Violence and the Sacred.Trade ReviewFor those who want a lively, general introduction to the thought of this seminal religious thinker [Rene Girard], Evolution and Conversion is a book not to be missed. * Theology *Girard is now well known for his multidisciplinary writings on religion and violence ... This book develops and reassesses ideas set out thirty years ago. * Theological Book Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: 'One long argument from the beginning to the end' Pierpaolo Antonello and Joao Cezar Castro Rocha 1 The Life of the Mind 2 'A Theory by Which to Work': The Mimetic Mechanism 3 The Symbolic Species 4 Dialogues and Criticism: From Frazer to Levi-Strauss 5 Method, Evidence and Truth 6 The Scandal of Christianity 7 Modernity, Postmodernity and Beyond Chronology of Girard's Life List of Girard's Publications Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Christian and Jew pivots around the inquisitorial trial of three Jews who were accused in 1341 of persuading Jewish apostates to return to Judaism and die as martyrs. This cultural history explores the worlds of Jews, Jewish converts, and medieval inquisitors as they intersected in northern Iberia in the Crown of Aragon.Trade Review"Tartakoff's facility with the diverse and abundant source base makes her book an important new contribution to scholarship on medieval conversion." * American Historical Review *"A shining example of microhistory. . . . Between Christian and Jew is a careful and well-written study which through its clear focus raises important questions about medieval Jewish apostasy-for Jews and Christians of the time and for the apostates themselves." * Jewish Book World *"Between Christian and Jew represents a rare combination of a highly original study that makes major historiographical contributions and engages in sophisticated source analysis and in a moving story that resurrects historical subjects in a way that promotes the reader's curiosity and empathy. It not only offers a constructive new way of viewing the role Jewish converts played in Jewish-Christian coexistence that will inspire innovative future research but also stands as a model of readable history writing that other scholars should aspire to emulate." * Comitatus *"An outstanding book and a compelling read, this is the first thorough account of a trial of Jews by the papal inquisition, under whose jurisdiction Jews did not normally fall. This is also the first work to attempt an overview of the phenomenon of Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval Spain prior to the watershed of 1391, and Tartakoff's conclusions regarding the motives for conversion are very important." * Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsNote on Names, Money, Terminology, and Transliterations Map 1 Map 2 Map 3 Introduction PART I. BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL Four Arrests Chapter 1. Defending the Faith: Medieval Inquisitors and the Prosecution of Jews and Converts Chapter 2. From Resistance to Surrender: Jewish Responses to Inquisitorial Prosecution Four Condemnations PART II. AT THE FONT OF NEW LIFE Alatzar and Abadia, Baptized Chapter 3. Between Doubt and Desire: Jewish Conversion, Converts, and Christian Society Chapter 4. Homeward Bound: The Fates of Jewish Converts Two Converts, Repentant PART III. BY THE FIRE The Intervention Chapter 5. Apostasy as Scourge: Jews and the Repudiation of Apostates Chapter 6. Recruiting Repentance: The Re-Judaization of Apostates The Road to the Stake Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book Synopsis37 studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process. In Europe, the cross went north and east as the centuries unrolled: from the Dingle Peninsula to Estonia, and from the Alps to Lapland, ranging in time from Roman Britain and Gaul in the third and fourth centuries to the conversion of peoples in the Baltic area a thousand years later. These episodes of conversion form the basic narrative here. History encourages the belief that the adoption of Christianity was somehow irresistible, but specialists show theunderside of the process by turning the spotlight from the missionaries, who recorded their triumphs, to the converted, exploring their local situations and motives. What were the reactions of the northern peoples to the Christian message? Why would they wish to adopt it for the sake of its alliances? In what way did they adapt the Christian ethos and infrastructure to suit their own community? How did conversion affect the status of farmers, of smiths, of princes and of women? Was society wholly changed, or only in marginal matters of devotion and superstition? These are the issues discussed here by thirty-eight experts from across northern Europe; some answers come from astute re-readings of the texts alone, but most are owed to a combination of history, art history and archaeology working together. MARTIN CARVER is Professor of Archaeology, University of York.Trade ReviewFor anyone interested in conversion and the multi-faceted outcomes born from cultures in contact, this interesting volume provides a useful insight, allowing scholars to both focus on their particular area of interest and to gain access to some valuable comparative material. * JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION *A galaxy of learned papers. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY An important contribution...that will still be cited for years to come. SCOTTISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL A valuable compilation. * EHR *

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Book SynopsisMichael Questier's meticulous study examines both the individual and political implications of conversion. By discovering how people were exhorted to change religion, how they experienced conversion, and how they faced demands for Protestant conformity, this book develops a fresh view of the English Reformation.Trade Review"Questier's book is full of insights and careful explanations that begin to make sense of a complex period in English History." Erick Kelemen, The Sixteenth Century Journal"...this work valiantly tackles questions largely ignored by Reformation historians....this book is an important contribution to English religious history." Ben Lowe, History"Dr. Questier has written an interesting and provocative book which should be read by anyone working in the era of Elizabethan and Jacobean religious history." Catholic Historical Review"Questier's challenging study might be seen as an extended meditation on the meaning of that surprising episode." Albion"Questier advances a subsidiary argument concerning the efficacy of the anti-Catholic legislation and the machinery of state repression in bringing about conformity to the established religion." Paul Seaver, Albion"His highly original and thought-provoking book deserves careful reading." Rachel Weil, Jrnl of Church & State"An excellent contribution to the growing literature on religious conversion in early modern Europe. [Questier] demonstrates convincingly that when both political and religious motives were involved in the decision to convert, neither can easily be subordinated to the other." Susan Rosa, Religious Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: the politics of conversion 1580–1625; 2. Conversion and polemical theology; 3. The experience of change of religion; 4. Change of religion and the end of polemic; 5. The Church under the law: the regime and the enforcement of conformity; 6. 'Heresy is dead and policy is the life of religion': State, church, conversion and conformity; 7. 'The common people still retain a scent of the Roman perfume': conversion and the proselytiser; 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisExamines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worldsTrade Review"Conversion Machines is a brave new world of innovative, interdisciplinary and adventurous thinking about the culture of early modern conversions: its history as well as its transformative impact on body and soul, mind and matter, politics and poetics. This inclusive collaboration will appeal not only to scholars of early modern culture across media and disciplines, but to anyone who wants to take from the past to imagine a collective future." -Subha Mukherji, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisFew art critics in Western art history have ever had the broad-ranging impact over several decades of Donald Kuspit, a philosopher and psychoanalyst who from 1970 until the present has been a commanding figure on the international stage. A student of German thinker Theodor Adorno under whom he earned the first of his three doctorates, Kuspit introduced a new type of philosophical art criticism into the art world. He drew on both phenomenology and Critical Theory before he then increasingly adopted psychoanalysis. Since Kuspit himself has always measured his own place in the history of art criticism by how rigorously he engages with competing approaches, this book is a searching survey of Kuspit’s role in triggering several historic shifts within art criticism, beginning with his now legendary 1974 article in Artforum, “A Phenomenological Approach to Artistic Intention.” Dense and demanding, yet deft and incisive, Kuspit’s multi-faceted art criticism has become world famous for reasons that artists, critics, art historians, and philosophers from at least ten different nations explain from various points of view. Divided into three parts and introduced by a lengthy introduction, the book features comments by recognized artists like Rudolf Baranik, Anselm Kiefer, and April Gornik, as well as critical commentaries by many scholars and critics from around the world on the richness of Kuspit’s insights into art.Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introductory Essay by David Craven, “Donald Kuspit’s Achievement,” Donald Kuspit, “My Journey: From New York to Frankfurt & Back,” Lawrence Alloway & Donald Kuspit, “An Editorial about Art Criticism” (1979), The 1983 Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism to Donald Kuspit by Jeanne Siegel, Brian O’Doherty, and Diane Vanderlip, I. Essays about Kuspit by Artists and Interviews with Artists: 1. Rudolf Baranik, “The Innovative Art Criticism of Kuspit,” 2. Anselm Kiefer “A Dialogue with Kuspit at Documenta,” 3. Georg Baselitz “A Conversation with Kuspit at the Guggenheim,” 4. April Gornik “The Significance of Kuspit’s Criticism for Artists,” 5. Rosalyn Schwartz “The Impact of Kuspit’s Criticism on Artists,” II. Essays about Kuspit by Art Critics and Art Historians: A. The USA 6. Ray Kass & Howard Risatti, “Donald Kuspit & Clement Greenberg in Dialogue,” 7. Matthew Biro, “Modern & Postmodern Art Criticism: The Unique Place of Kuspit,” 8. Matthew Baigell, “Donald Kuspit’s Jewish Consciousness,” 9. Joseph Masheck, “On Kuspit, Kant, and Greenberg,” 10. Patricia Mathews, “The Engagé Art of May Stevens,” 11. Diane Waldman, “Kuspit and the New Subjectivism in the 1980s,” 12. Brian Winkenweder, “Kuspit’s Humanness, Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis,” B. Asia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America 13. Ananda Chakrabarty, “Soulages’s Paintings and Kuspit’s Criticism,” 14. Richard Leslie, “Dialogues in Difference: Alloway & Kuspit,” 15. Anna María Guash, “Talking With Kuspit in Barcelona,” 16. Raúl Quintanilla, “Reagan’s Anti-Aesthetic and Kuspit’s Criticisms,” 17. Tijen Tunali, “Abstract Art as Ideological Critique: Kuspit on Kandinsky,” III. Selected Papers about Kuspit’s Accomplishment at the International Association of Philosophy in Leeds (2003): “A Close Encounter with Donald Kuspit” 18. Mark Van Proyen, “Criticism and the ‘Metaphysics’ of Art: Donald Kuspit,” 19. Lucy Bowditch, “Kuspit on Gerhard Richter and the Teutonic Chill,” 20. Randall K. Van Schepen, “Dialectic & Selfhood in Kuspit’s Art Criticism,” 21. Lynn M. Somers-Davis, “A Taste for Sham: Examples of Perversion & Suffering,” A Selected Bibliography of Donald Kuspit’s Writings

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Book SynopsisThe debate between the old and the new perspectives on Paul has been a focal point of Pauline studies in recent years. The exchange has, in turn, given rise to new research projects focussing on potential affinities and differences between the new perspective on Paul and Eastern Orthodox interpretation. This volume therefore takes up the discussion between Eastern Orthodox, new, and old perspectives on Paul and seeks to develop it further. The aim is to foster dialogue between the varying receptions of Paul on an exegetical basis. To this end, the contributions are focused on texts playing a crucial role in the debate regarding participation, justification and conversion in Paul. Three papers at the end provide alternative readings of Paul that go beyond the arguments of the old and new perspectives.

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Book SynopsisScience Officer Orrin Kutela finds himself stranded on a distant planet, starving and haunted by the ghosts of his dead crew. On the verge of death, he makes an astonishing discovery that will forever change his life. Veteran writer JOHN ARCUDI (RUMBLE, B.P.R.D.) and illustrator SAVANNAH FINLEY bring you a sci-fi/fantasy comic like no other. Collects issues #1-4.

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