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Mississippi River Tragedies
A Century of Unnatural Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river...
Faithful Bodies
Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
In
the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices
played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism
provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between
insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano
Kopelson...
After the Cure
The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design
Chemo brain. Fatigue. Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have...
The American Jesuits
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
With infectious energy and a genuine gift for storytelling, Raymond A. Schroth recounts the history of Jesuits in the United States. The American Jesuits isn’t simply a book for Catholics; it’s for anyone who loves a well-told historical tale. For more...
The Rabbi’s Wife
The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought
Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American Jewish...
Suffer the Little Children
Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This
compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American
children’s literature. Through close readings of selected titles published
since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious
history for young people, particularly when the histories...
Celluloid Sermons
The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Christian filmmaking, done outside of the corporate Hollywood industry and produced for Christian churches, affected a significant audience of church people. Protestant denominations and individuals believed that they could preach and teach more effectively through the mass medium of film. Although...
Jews, God, and Videotape
Religion and Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Engaging media has been an ongoing issue for American Jews, as it has been for other religious communities in the United States, for several generations. Jews, God, and Videotape is a pioneering examination of the impact of new communications technologies and media practices on the religious life...
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Hanbal was famous for living according to his own strict interpretation of the Prophetic model and for denying himself...
The Divided Mind of the Black Church
Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight...
Afro-Pentecostalism
Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In 2006, the contemporary American Pentecostal movement celebrated its 100th birthday. Over that time, its African American sector has been markedly influential, not only vis-à-vis other branches of Pentecostalism but also throughout the Christian church. Black Christians have been integrally involved...
Killing McVeigh
The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On June 11, 2001, an unprecedented 242 witnesses watched him die by lethal injection.
In the aftermath of the bombings, American public commentary...
Freud's Paranoid Quest
Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Freud's Paranoid Quest is an exceptionally broad-ranging and well-written book....Whether or not one agrees with certain of his arguments and assessments, one must acknowledge the remarkable intelligence that is displayed on nearly every page.
--Louis Sassauthor of Madness and Modernism and The Paradoxes...
by Finbarr Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable...