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Far from Land
The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The lives and activities of seabirds as you’ve never seen them before
Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on beautiful and remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to the development...
Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread...
Living Together, Living Apart
Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the...
by Erich S. Gruen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature....
Furta Sacra
Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.
Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature...
American Prophets
Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.
In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar...
Greek Buddha
Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian...
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these...
Proving Woman
Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female...
As If God Existed
Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political...
by Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible of penitential religious...
by Averil Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"—obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical...