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  • Between Life and Thought

    Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion

    Edited by Don Seeman, Devaka Premawardhana ...
    Existential anthropology is an approach inspired by existential and phenomenological thought to further our understanding of the human condition. Its ethnographic methodology emphasizes embodied experience and focuses on what is at stake for people amid the contingencies, struggles, and uncertainties of everyday life. While anthropological research on religion abounds, there has been little ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal

    The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

    Edited by Don Seeman, Daniel Reiser, Ariel Evan Mayse ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
    Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943) was a remarkable Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator. He confronted the secularization and dislocation of Polish Jews ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

    by Robert T. Anderson, Diane Austin-Broos, Thomas K. Brown, Simon Coleman, Maria Pia Di Bella, Charles Farhadian, Roger Ivar Lohmann, Marcela Mendoza, Kalyani Devaki Menon, Rebecca Sachs Norris, Robert J. Priest, Lewis R.Rambo, Mary Ann Reidhead, Van A Reidhead, Don Seeman ...
    The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • A Letter in the Scroll

    Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion

    by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ...
    For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed his Final Solution. Astoundingly, the Jewish people have survived catastrophe after catastrophe and ... Read more

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  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

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  • Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition

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  • Christ Actually

    The Son of God for the Secular Age

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    A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern timesCritically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Way

    Living the Holidays

    by Rabbi Irving Greenberg ...
    Called “enriching” and “profoundly moving” by Elie Wiesel, The Jewish Way is a comprehensive and inspiring presentation of Judaism as revealed through its holy days.In thoughtful and engaging prose, Rabbi Irving Greenberg explains and interprets the origin, background, interconnections, ceremonial rituals, and religious significance of all the Jewish holidays, including Passover, Yom Kippur, Purim ... Read more

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

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    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

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  • Back To The Sources

    by Barry W. Holtz ...
    Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical, and religious points of view. ... Read more

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  • Judaism Beyond God

    by Rabbi Sherwin T Wine ...
    Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also describes a radical and creative way to be Jewish - new ways to celebrate Jewish holidays and life ... Read more

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