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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials

Vaughan Lock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781649590008, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, April 2021
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 6 halftones

Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained friend...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Architecture

Buddhism

Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began

Asher Frederick M.

ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...

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Islam

Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice

al-Baghdadi Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna, Langermann Y. Tzvi

ISBN: HB: 9780300203691, Yale University Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21x14 cm

Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide?ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of Go...

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Other

Philosophy

Secret Body Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679082, ISBN: HB: 9780226126821, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus.

Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...

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Buddhism

Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Jaffe Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226391151, ISBN: HB: 9780226391144, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 1 table

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated "Seeking Sakyamuni", Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the...

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Islam

Spear to the West Thought and Recruitment in Violent Jihadism

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781787381308, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
152 pp., 19x12.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological foundations that allow ISIS and other jihadi groups to survive, as they propagate...

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Buddhism

Spirit of Zen

Van Schaik Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780300221459, Yale University Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled "The Masters and Students of the Lanka", wer...

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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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