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The Mystery of the Rosary
Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Ever since its appearance in Europe five centuries ago, the rosary has been a widespread, highly visible devotion among Roman Catholics. Its popularity has persisted despite centuries of often seismic social upheaval, cultural change, and institutional reform. In form, the rosary consists of a ritually...
Bloody Lowndes
Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabamas Black Belt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association
Early in 1966, African Americans in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), established an all-black,...
Pagan Theology
Paganism as a World Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
In Pagan Theology, Michael York situates Paganism—one of the fastest-growing spiritual orientations in the West—as a world religion. He provides an introduction to, and expansion of, the concept of Paganism and provides an overview of Paganism's theological perspective and practice. He demonstrates...
The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America
From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the...
The Color of Fascism
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his...
Jewish Radicals
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical opinion, from anarchism to social democracy, Communism to socialist-Zionism. Rank-and-file...
The Expeditions
An Early Biography of Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the...
The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
In Pursuit of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author. In The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Buccola provides an important and...
Hanukkah in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
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 references,...
An Unusual Relationship
Evangelical Christians and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
It
is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in
common. Yet special alliances developed
between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals
viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to
recognize their true savior....
The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó
America’s Miraculous Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Winner, 2018 Paul J. Foik Award for Best Book on Catholic History in the American Southwest, presented by the Texas Catholic Historical Society
The remarkable history of the Santuario de Chimayó, the church whose world-renowned healing powers have drawn visitors to its steps for centuries.
Nestled...
God in Chinatown
Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China’s southeastern coast, to New York’s Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous...
by Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro,...
This Muslim American Life
Dispatches from the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Read Moustafa's Op-ed on Trump's Executive Order Against Muslims in The Guardian
Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award
Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at...