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This book examines Syria's religious, intellectual, and political history during the period of transformation before World War I. Focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century, Commins shows how the reformers used debates over the religious law of Islam to… Meer
This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. Meer
This book examines how American Jews from colonial times to the present have contended with living in a fundamentally Christian state. Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community, and the focus of the work is the way in which Jewish actions have… Meer
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? Are decisions based on religious convictions compatible with liberal democratic premises? Kent Greenawalt dissects such issues as abortion and animal rights to illustrate secular and… Meer
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern 'Greek' provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults… Meer
McCracken argues that the gospels are in an important sense `occasions for offence', and that the Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon in the original Greek) and never more scandalous than when he speaks in parables… Meer
This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on `denominationalism' - the `free market' mode of organizing religious life which, it has been argued, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way… Meer
Many contemporary feminists believe that early humans worshipped a nurturing Mother Goddess, who was subsequently displaced by autocratic male deities. In this book Motz examines the maternal deities of various cultures and religions and finds no signs of a common origin, and thus no evidence for a… Meer
Bernard Lewis brings together in this volume eleven essays that open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction--in war and peace, in commerce and culture--between Europe and its Islamic… Meer
For centuries, poets have drawn inspiration from the life of Jesus Christ as recorded in the gospels of the New Testament. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's… Meer
The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Weber's thought, particularly in his works on religion and politics. Cpmprehensively examining and extending Weber's work on the subject, Sadri provides a new perspective on the intellegentsia and its role in society, and creates a synthetic… Meer
Although he is primarily known as a historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has long been a student of European Romanticism. The Emergence of Romanticism examines the origins of the Romantic movement in England and Germany and offers a new interpretation of the Romantics' goals and influence… Meer
Physicians' financial conflicts of interest are likely to become a health policy issue. This book explains what these conflicts of interest are, how they have changed over the past century, what the organized medical profession has done about them in the past and how these problems are dealt with… Meer
The book is a definitive history of American Catholic higher education with special emphasis on the intellectual and institutional dimensions of the subject. Meer
This work makes available for the first time in English a seminal text of Arab modernism. Originally published in 1928, Jawzi's book The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam offered the first Marxist interpretation of the development of Islamic thought, arguing that Muslim society in the… Meer
This collection of autobiographical essays by a distinguished group of traditionally religious philosophers is designed to prove the falsity of the view that philosophy and faith are incompatible. In essays written especially for this volume, these scholars show that philosophy and faith can not… Meer
From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Wendell Berry's poignant evocations of the divine presence in nature, this book presents a selection of the best Christian poetry being written in English today… Meer
Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. John H. Wigger seeks to explain the puzzle of this remarkable growth, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American… Meer
This is a collection of essays drawn from Schwartz's previously published work in which he explores how each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. Arguing that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the biblical era to our own… Meer
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