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Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Islam

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

Calvert John

ISBN: PB: 9781849049498, ISBN: HB: 9781849040068, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and...

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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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Buddhism

Secular Buddhism Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300234251, Yale University Press, March 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism. As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation....

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Philosophy

Other

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion The Major Narratives

Schewel Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218473, Yale University Press, September 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clea...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...

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Islam

Syrian Jihad The Evolution of an Insurgency

Lister Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781849048729, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
520 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing ci...

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Christianity

Sensational Religion Sensory Cultures in Material Practice

Promey Sally M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227086, Yale University Press, May 2017
832 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 81 black&white illus., 103 colour images

The result of a collaborative, multi year project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense", the studies assembled here ask, How hav...

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Anthropology

Christianity

Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

Blanton Thomas R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220407, Yale University Press, March 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul's letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion. The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Ro...

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Buddhism

Storied Sage Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha

Auerback Micah L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226286389, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has...

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