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Christianity

Priests A Calling in Crisis

Greeley Andrew M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306452, ISBN: HB: 9780226306445, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
156 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 10 tables

For several years now, the Roman Catholic Church and the institution of the priesthood itself have been at the center of a firestorm of controversy. While many of the criticisms lodged against the recent actions of the Church – and a small number of...

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Buddhism

Reference

Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493152, ISBN: HB: 9780226493145, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past century, Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical, devoted to nonviolence, and...

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Christianity

Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion

Stevens-Arroyo Antonio M.

ISBN: PB: 9781589660052, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
211 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book present a multi-disciplinary study of Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba in 1998. The essays represent several disciplines: sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies and theology. Authors agree on several major points: on...

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Judaism

House Divided Orthodoxy and Schism in Nineteenth-Century Central European Jewry

Katz Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9781584652953, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2005
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eminent social historian Jacob Katz examines the rise and transformation of Jewish communal leadership in Central Europe. It is a story of fragmentation and polarization that sheds light on the tensions within the 19th-century Jewish community in Cen...

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Judaism

Song of Songs Love Lyrics from the Bible

Falk Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9781584654230, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2004
113 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Striking in its appeal to the senses, the Song of Songs – the Bible's only book of love poems – is remarkable for its lack of sexual stereotyping and its expression of mutuality in relationships between men and women. Marcia Falk's rich and lyrical t...

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Islam

Globalised Islam The Search for a New Ummah

Roy Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9781850655985, Hurst Publishers, September 2004
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world's Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the heart of this development are t...

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Islam

Languages of Belonging Islam and Political Culture in Kashmir

Zutshi Chitralekha

ISBN: PB: 9781850657002, Hurst Publishers, April 2004
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural identity. This text question...

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Islam

Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects Islam, Community and the History of Kashmir

Rai Mridu

ISBN: PB: 9781850657019, Hurst Publishers, April 2004
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! If there is a hotbed of religious politics in the world today, it is the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Disputed between India and Pakistan, it contains a large majority of Muslims who are subject to the laws of a predominantly Hi...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Haggai, Zechariah 1-8

Meyers Carol L., Meyers Eric M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139754, Yale University Press, January 2004
552 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, Volume 25B in the acclaimed Anchor Bible part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel's history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. Following the con...

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Islam

Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in the Sudan Since the Mahdiyya

Warburg Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781850655909, Hurst Publishers, May 2003
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why another study of Islam and politics in Sudan? The unique history of Sudan's Islamic politics suggests the answer. The revolt in 1881 was led by a Mahdi who came to renew and purify Islam. It was in effect an uprising agains...

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