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Judaism

Founding God's Nation Reading Exodus

Kass Leon R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300253030, Yale University Press, February 2021
752 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, biblical scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some th...

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Christianity

What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues

Collins John

ISBN: PB: 9780300255218, ISBN: HB: 9780300231939, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 21x14 cm

Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course of several hundred years and contains contradictory po...

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Biography & Memoires

Life of Christina of Hane

Kirakosian Racha

ISBN: HB: 9780300250992, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life, but her recently unearthed case remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. Her disturbing account of vaginal mutilation, her competition with the Virgin Mary, and...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Migrants in the Profane Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization

Gordon Peter E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250763, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Migrants in the Profane" takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theolog...

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Christianity

Anthropology

Daemons are Forever Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226714905, ISBN: HB: 9780226692401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...

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Islam

Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels

Prickett Pamela J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...

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