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  • Just War in Religion and Politics

    Edited by Rabbi Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton, R. E. Tully ...
    Series series Jacob Neusner Series: Religion/Social Order
    The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives. Half of the book is devoted to the comparative study of religions and the courses are offered by religion professors. The other half is shaped by social science approaches and the seminars are given mainly by social science professors. We aim to compare and contrast not only positions, but also ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Rebbe

    The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman ...
    The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Becoming Un-Orthodox

    Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

    by Lynn Davidman ...
    Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    by Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, Frank L. Pasquale ...
    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

    Edited by Becky R. Lee, Terry Tak-ling Woo ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Women and Religion
    This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada.Each essay explores the ways in which the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Why the Jews Rejected Jesus

    The Turning Point in Western History

    by David Klinghoffer ...
    Why did the Jews reject Jesus? Was he really the son of God? Were the Jews culpable in his death? These ancient questions have been debated for almost two thousand years, most recently with the release of Mel Gibson’s explosive The Passion of the Christ. The controversy was never merely academic. The legal status and security of Jews—often their very lives—depended on the answer.In WHY THE JEWS ... Read more

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  • The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Joshua Ezra Burns ...
    How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe

    A Shared Story?

    Edited by James Renton, Ben Gidley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised polemics about whether or not Muslims are the new Jews. Much previous scholarship and public ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Re-Constructing the Man of Steel

    Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection

    by Martin Lund ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical ... Read more

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  • Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?

    The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World

    by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, Tsvi Blanchard, Michael Chernick, Yaakov Elman, Pinchas Zuriel Hayman, Richard Kalmin, Jane Kanarek, Ephraim Kanarfogel, David Novak, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Devora Steinmetz, Barry Wimpfheimer, Azzan Yadin, Devorah Zlochower, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Judith R. Baskin ...
    The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's world. In this edited volume, sixteen eminent North American and Israeli scholars from several ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Religion and Post-Conflict Statebuilding

    Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic Perspectives

    by Denis Dragovic ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book draws upon theory and theology to consider how religious institutions engage with post-conflict statebuilding and why they would choose to lend their resources to the endeavour. Drawing from the theologies of Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam, Dragovic explores their possible motivations to engage alongside the international community. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy

    Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols

    by Flora Cassen ...
    It is a little known fact that as early as the thirteenth century, Europe's political and religious powers tried to physically mark and distinguish the Jews from the rest of society. During the Renaissance, Italian Jews first had to wear a yellow round badge on their chest, and then later, a yellow beret. The discriminatory marks were a widespread phenomenon with serious consequences for Jewish ... Read more

    $36.99 USD