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America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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Christianity

God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony

Hart Ray L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226359625, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine".God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question": How can th...

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Political Science

Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Islam

Middle East

Al-Shabaab in Somalia The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012

Hansen Stig Jarle

ISBN: PB: 9781849045100, ISBN: HB: 9781849042505, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...

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Christianity

Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Islam

System of Life Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam

Hartung Jan-Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781849042482, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little understood. "A System of Life" is a pioneering examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic ou...

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Christianity

Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Hempton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...

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Anthropology

Buddhism

Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Humphrey Caroline, Ujeed Hurelbaatar

ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones

"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...

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Christianity

Calvinism A History

Hart D. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148794, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...

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