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Christianity

Evolution of the Gospel A New Translation of the First Gospel with Commentary and Introductory Essay

Powell J. Enoch

ISBN: PB: 9780300184143, Yale University Press, November 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Many biblical scholars believe that the Gospel of Matthew was written after those of Mark and Luke. In this controversial book, an eminent politician who is also a distinguished classical scholar refutes this idea, using textual and literary criticis...

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Christianity

Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons

Newman John, Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177862, Yale University Press, November 2011
524 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This newly edited version of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua sheds new light on Newman's celebrated account of his passage from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and repositions his narrative within the context of transform...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Philosophy

Saints Faith without Borders

Meltzer Francoise, Elsner Jas

ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 01 The Arabs Are Alive

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849041904, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the inaugural issue of "Critical Muslim": Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the...

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Christianity

Ten Popes Who Shook the World

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: HB: 9780300176889, Yale University Press, October 2011
176 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Catholic popes have been powerful spiritual leaders for nearly two millennia, but their influence is not confined exclusively to Church matters. Many popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, not only shouldering...

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Christianity

Miracles at the Jesus Oak Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167023, Yale University Press, October 2011
336 pp., 21x14 cm

In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...

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Christianity

Sunday A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167030, Yale University Press, October 2011
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

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Philosophy

Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...

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Judaism

Forsaken The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

Faye Koren Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9781584659822, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren...

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