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Hanukkah in America: A History
Dianne Ashton · NYU Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural... |
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Ian Johnson · Pantheon
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today - its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world's great... |
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How We Fight: Ethics in War
Helen Frowe · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations... |
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A History of Judaism
MARTIN GOODMAN · Princeton University Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism... |
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The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel
Steven Fine · Harvard University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used... |
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From Whom No Secrets Are Hid: Introducing the Psalms
Walter Brueggeman · Westminster John Knox Press
Format: Book
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The Psalms express the most elemental human emotions, representing situations in which people are most vulnerable, ecstatic, or driven to the extremities of life and faith. Many people may be familiar with a few Psalms, or sing them as part of worship. Here highly respected author Walter... |
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Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
JOHN FEA · Eerdmans
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A historian's acute take on current American politics "Believe me" may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting the Christian heritage, the refrain is constant. And to the surprise of many, about eighty percent of white... |
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The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text
Michael David Coogan · Yale University Press, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Commandments become the Ten Commandments? When did that happen?... |
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Ellen Wayland-Smith · Picador
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In... |
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American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution
Stephen Cox · University of Texas Press
Format: Book
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Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches—congregations ministering to believers... |
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Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
Leigh Eric Schmidt · Princeton University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists--as these godless freethinkers came to be known... |
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The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death
Janis Heaphy Durham · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of cancer at age 56. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she practiced her faith... |
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A Concise History of the Arabs
John McHugo · New Press, The
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From Algeria and Libya to Egypt and Syria, the Arab world commands Western headlines, even as its complex politics and cultures elude the grasp of most Western readers and commentators. Perhaps no other region is so closely linked to contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and nowhere else does... |
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On Living
Kerry Egan · Riverhead Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered... |
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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands
Raymond William Baker · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented... |
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