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Christianity

Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition

Layton Bentley, Brakke David

ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...

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Christianity

How the Gospels Became History Jesus and Mediterranean Myths

Litwa M. David

ISBN: HB: 9780300242638, Yale University Press, September 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient – and modern – people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In this eye-opening work, M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became...

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Christianity

Five Points of Calvinism

Lewis Dabney Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781861187918, Bookport, Third Millennium Press, March 2019
72 pp., 23x15.4 cm

This Doctrine, while it lays man's pride low, gives him an anchor of hope sure and steadfast, drawing him to Heaven; for his hope is founded not in the weakness, folly, and fickleness of his human will, but in the eternal love, wisdom, power of almig...

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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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Anthropology

Apples and Oranges Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226564074, ISBN: HB: 9780226563916, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 tables

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to tak...

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Buddhism

Hyecho's Journey The World of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226517902, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 1 halftone

In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam,...

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Buddhism

Prisoners of Shangri-La Tibetan Buddhism and the West

Lopez Jr. Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226485485, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, "Prisoners of Shangri-La" pr...

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Philosophy

Other

Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity

Levene Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...

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Philosophy

On Faith and Science

Larson Edward J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300216172, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 21x14 cm

Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...

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Christianity

Consuming Religion

Lofton Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226482095, ISBN: HB: 9780226481937, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays ex...

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