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In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century, Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American interest in the Middle East.
Brand: Indiana University Press
Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719) -- mystic, chronicler, andco-founder of an Augustinian convent -- inscribed her life story within the model ofspiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the sametime included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowningclasses in New Spain.
Brand: 101 Productions
Spanning 450 years of conflict between religion and modernization, Religion in the Modern World offers an engaging look at the evolution of western religion from the early 16th century through the contemporary New Age cult. Lively and accessible, this book provides a comprehensive description of the changes in Western religion over the centuries and offers an intriguing view of the direction it is heading in the future. Tables.
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Stuever searches out the most outlandish cultural excesses as well as the secret beauties of modern Americas half-trillion-dollar Christmas holiday. Stuevers portraits are at once humane, heartfelt, revealingand very funny.
Brand: Brill
The Third Edition of Brilla (TM)s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It will appear in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.
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Stuever searches out the most outlandish cultural excesses as well as the secret beauties of modern Americas half-trillion-dollar Christmas holiday. Stuevers portraits are at once humane, heartfelt, revealingand very funny.
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''Years from now, this work will likely be seen as a primary text that formed part of the internal Jewish debate.'' ~ N. R.
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The search to understand our mind and heart, to be at peace withing ourselves, is the most valuable path one can follow.
Brand: New World Library
A collection that celebrates the reflections on childhood and adolescence experienced by 40 prominent women of this century.
Brand: Prometheus Books
This controversial book exposes the origins and history of Islam's repression of women. Anwar Hekmat, a scholar who was brought up in Muslim Europe, explains how Arab tribal society degenerated from a polytheistic, pre-Islamic culture in which women enjoyed positions of relative prestige, honor, and equality, to one in which men dominate and women are little more than chattel.
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The Jains of India are a flourishing and prosperous community, but their religion is focused on the teaching and example of ascetic renouncers, whose austere regime is actually dedicated to ending worldly life and often culminates in a fast to death.
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This volume examines the connections between religion and political discourse in the arena of American politics. By looking at the writings of American thinkers from colonial times to the present, the work argues for the consistency and permanence of the American religious vision as it relates to political life.
Brand: Penguin Books
A modern retelling of the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the Olympians, and the stories of Theseus, Oedipus, Heracles, the Argonauts, and the Trojan War.
Brand: Creighton University Press
In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, the essays address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion?
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Tinsel is a compelling tale of our half-trillion-dollar holiday, measuring what weve become against the ancient rituals of what weve always been. Washington Post reporter Hank Stuever searches for both the most outlandish cultural excesses and the secret beauties of the Christmas holiday in Texas