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Islam

Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

Peterson Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...

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Spirit of Zoroastrianism

Skjaervo Prods Oktor

ISBN: PB: 9780300170351, Yale University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm

Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires un...

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Christianity

Christian Imagination Theology and the Origins of Race

Jennings Willie James

ISBN: PB: 9780300171365, Yale University Press, May 2011
366 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighbourly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian ima...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Judaism A Way of Being

Gelernter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.

Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 A Survey

Idel Moshe

ISBN: HB: 9780300126266, Yale University Press, April 2011
512 pp., 23.6x16 cm

This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific centre of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic th...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Solomon The Lure of Wisdom

Weitzman Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300137187, Yale University Press, April 2011
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know – the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself – but what do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman reintroduces readers to Solomon's story and its surprising...

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Europe

Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300170856, Yale University Press, March 2011
492 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 32 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Christianity

Marking the Hours English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300170580, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 23.9x18.8 cm, 120 colour illus.

In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the "Book of Hours", unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were...

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Christianity

New History of Early Christianity

Freeman Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300170832, Yale University Press, February 2011
400 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. "A New History of Early Christianity" shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to...

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