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A Culture of Conspiracy - Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America by Michael Barkun
Category: Politics | Series: Comparative Studies in Religion and Society Ser.
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obam ...Show more
ANATHEISM RETURNING TO GOD AFTER GOD by Richard Kearney
Category: Politics | Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics and Culture (COUP) Ser.
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split b ...Show more
An Introduction to Judaism by Nicholas de Lange
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Introduction to Religion Ser.
In this book contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity, including both traditional and modern theologies as well as secular forms of Jewish identity. While the focus of the book is on developments that have taken place in the past two hundred years, they are set against a historical ba ...Show more
Chinese Religions by Julia Ching
Category: Reference | Series: Themes in Comparative Religion Ser.
This is a comprehensive work on the religions of China. As such, it includes an introduction giving an overview of the subject, and the special themes treated in the book, as well as detailed chapters on ancient religions, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Chinese Islam, Christianity in China as well as p ...Show more
Emil L. Fackenheim - A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust by David Patterson
Category: Education | Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust Ser.
In this revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Fackenheim's writing sheds light on the tensions between Jewish thinking and German philosophy, illustrating how elements of the latter were used by the Nazis to ju ...Show more
Jerusalem: A Brief History by Michael Zank; J. Freedman
Category: World History | Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Ser.
Provides a short, accessible, and lively introduction to Jerusalem Jerusalem - A Brief History shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city and how modern Jerusalem is haunted by waves of biblical fantasy aiming at mutually exclusive status-quo ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
Category: History | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Muslim Minorities And Social Cohesion Cultural Fragmentation In The West by Ata Abe W.
Category: History | Series: Routledge Studies in Religion Ser.
This book examines various attempts in the 'West' to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity - focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies. An international panel of contributors chart evolving national identities and social values, assessing the way that both conte ...Show more
Ordinarily Sacred by Lynda Sexson
Category: New Age | Series: Studies in Religion and Culture Ser.
Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how the religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and commonplaces of ordinary life.
Pantheism by Andrei A. Buckareff
Category: Philosophy | Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Religion Ser.
This Element focuses on some core conceptual and ontological issues related to pantheistic conceptions of God by engaging with recent work in analytic philosophy of religion on this topic. The conceptual and ontological commitments of pantheism are contrasted with those of other conceptions of God. The ...Show more
Plants as Persons - A Philosophical Botany by Matthew Hall (Editor)
Category: Gardening | Series: SUNY Series on Religion and the Environment Ser.
Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons. Plants constitute the bulk of our visible biomass, underpin all natural ecosystems, and make life on Earth possi ...Show more
Prison Notebooks - Volumes 1, 2 And 3 by Antonio Gramsci; Joseph A. Buttigieg (Edited and Translated by); Antonio Callari (As told to)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Contemporary American Religion Ser.
Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition of Gramsci's work, Quaderni del Carcere, this comprehensive translation presents the intellectual as he ought to be ...Show more