California Press: 1495 books
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing...
A Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work,...
North American Amphibians
Distribution and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Some 300 species of amphibians inhabit North America. The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in interest about amphibians and an increased intensity of scientific research into their fascinating biology and continent-wide distribution.
This atlas presents the spectacular diversity...
To Overcome Oneself
The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through...
Christmas
A Candid History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells...
by Andrew Greeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Catholics live in an enchanted world: a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures. But these Catholic paraphernalia are merely hints of a deeper and more pervasive religious sensibility that inclines Catholics to...
Who Will Lead Us?
The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing...
Forced Baptisms
Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church’s policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity. Marina Caffiero, one of the first historians permitted access to important archives, sets...
Fighting Words
Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting Words makes solid text-based scholarship accessible to the general public, beginning with the premise...
Judaisms
A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? Exploring the multifaceted and intensely complicated characteristics of this age-old, ever-changing community, Judaisms examines how Jews are a culture, ethnicity, nation, nationality, race, religion, and more. With each chapter revolving...
Adventures of Ibn Battuta
A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
Straight to Jesus
Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries in an attempt to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay movement, Tanya Erzen focuses on the everyday lives of men and women at New Hope Ministry, a residential ex-gay program,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the field—that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore,...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III
Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...