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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Kleber Monod Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...

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Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Christianity

Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Buddhism

Taming of the Demons Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

Dalton Jacob P.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187960, Yale University Press, January 2013
384 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibet's dark age that...

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Christianity

Introduction to the Bible

Hayes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300181791, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Jacob Unexpected Patriarch

Zakovitch Yair

ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...

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Buddhism

Scientific Buddha His Short and Happy Life

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300159127, Yale University Press, October 2012
160 pp., 21x14 cm

This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming acr...

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Christianity

Holy Bones, Holy Dust How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

Freeman Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300184303, Yale University Press, September 2012
306 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Relics affected everyone in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint who might intercede with...

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Christianity

Book of Numbers, a Critique of Genesis

Carmichael Calum

ISBN: HB: 9780300179187, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this work Calum Carmichael – a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible – shows how each law and each narrative in "Numbers", the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative inc...

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Christianity

Unity of Christ Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition

Beeley Christopher A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178623, Yale University Press, July 2012
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathers – among them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandria – and reexamines their...

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