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Judges 1-12 A New Translation

Sasson Jack M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300190335, Yale University Press, May 2014
592 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this bountiful new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture's most stirring narratives and verses...

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Anthropology

Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...

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Loyal Enemies British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950

Gilham Jamie

ISBN: HB: 9781849042758, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Loyal Enemies" uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people...

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Islam

Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...

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Asia

Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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Critical Muslim, Volume 10 Sects

Sardar Ziauddin, Yassin-Kassab Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849043953, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Merryl Wyn Davies is appalled by the sectarian divisions in Muslim societies; Yasmin Saikia is angry at the Sectarian violence unleashed in the name of Islam; Ebrahim Moosa suggest the Sunnis, the majority Muslim sect, need a l...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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Empire of Religion Imperialism and Comparative Religion

Chidester David

ISBN: PB: 9780226117430, ISBN: HB: 9780226117263, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in "Empire of Religion", documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparati...

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Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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