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Religious Conflict in Brazil Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century

Helgen Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300243352, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity and nuance, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and vio...

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Christianity

Voting About God in Early Church Councils

MacMullen Ramsay

ISBN: PB: 9780300255416, Yale University Press, August 2020
182 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical coun...

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Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times

Waters Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps

<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Jewish Christianity The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide

Jackson-McCabe Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780300180138, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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America

American Catholics A History

Woodcock Tentler Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Stroup Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...

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Criminology

Other

Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad

Crosson J. Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...

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Christianity

Law

Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...

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Christianity

Lives of Objects Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

Kotrosits Maia

ISBN: PB: 9780226707587, ISBN: HB: 9780226707440, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Our lives are filled with objects – ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When these are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they change. An object out...

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