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God Without Being Hors-Texte (Second Edition)

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: PB: 9780226505657, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God Without Being", Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphys...

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Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Religion of Falun Gong

Penny Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226655017, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights a...

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Islam

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proof of Prophecy A Parallel Arabic-English Text

Khalidi Tarif

ISBN: HB: 9780842527873, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2012
400 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known to medieval Europe as "Rha...

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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Islam

Muslims in Indian Cities Trajectories of Marginalisation

Gayer Laurent, Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781849041768, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! At more than 150 million people, Muslims are the largest Indian minority but are facing a significant decline in socio-economic as well as political terms – while waves of communal violence have affected them over the last twen...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 02 The Idea of Islam

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849042215, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the second issue of "Critical Muslim": Ziauddin Sardar argues why Islamic reform is necessary, Bruce Lawrence sees Muslim cosmopolitanism as the future, Parvez Manzoor declares jihad on the idea of 'the political', Samia Ra...

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Islam

Apocalyptic Realm Jihad in South Asia

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9780300173789, Yale University Press, March 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

This hard hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. Dilip Hiro tracks the growth of the jihadist movement from its first violent activities in Afghanis...

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Islam

Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

Dallal Ahmad

ISBN: PB: 9780300177718, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 line illus.

In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways in which the realms of scientific...

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Jewish Studies

Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown

Skinner Andrew C., Davis D. Morgan, Griffin Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.

Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...

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