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Christianity

Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition

Anderson Gary A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198836, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we expla...

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Buddhism

Rescued from the Nation Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World

Kemper Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226199078, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero who saved the Sinhala people from cultural collapse and whose "protestant" reformation of Buddhism drov...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Bentley Hart David

ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm

Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...

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Christianity

Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)

Brown Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...

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Christianity

Politics of Religion in Early Modern France

Bergin Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300207699, Yale University Press, October 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to...

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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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Middle East

Islam

Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...

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Islam

Critical Muslim, Volume 12 Dangerous Freethinkers

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849044523, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ziauddin Sardar argues that free thinkers are essential for any culture to survive and thrive; Aziz al-Azmeh outlines how Abbasid Culture established freethinking humanism; Oliver Leaman highlights the significance of the twelf...

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Military

Christianity

Crusader States

Barber Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...

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Buddhism

Spirit of Buddhist Meditation

Shaw Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300198768, Yale University Press, September 2014
256 pp., 21x13.8 cm

Is it possible to capture the spirit of Buddhist meditation, which depends so much upon silence and unspoken wisdom? Can this spirit be found after two millennia? This wise and reassuring book reminds us that the Buddhist meditative tradition, geared...

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