Yale University Press: 2009 books
Anna and Tranquillo
Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the...
by Edward K. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America,...
Knowing the Enemy
Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2006
“In considerable detail and with admirable clarity, [Habeck] contributes one of the most valuable books on the ongoing Middle East—and world—crisis” (Booklist, starred review).
After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three...
by Robert Louis Wilken
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Written by a preeminent religious historian, this book provides an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual...
by Gary A. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates...
On the Purity of the Art of Logic
The Shorter and the Longer Treatises
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first complete English translation of On the Purity of the Art of Logic, a handbook of logic written in Latin by English philosopher Walter Burley (c.12751344/5). The work circulated in the Middle Ages in two versions, a shorter and a longer one, both translated here by Paul Vincent Spade....
Orthokostá
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos...
Solovki
The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful...
by Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Martin Luther
Visionary Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as...
Against Dharma
Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance
Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma*,artha,* and kama*.* Translated, these might be called religion, politics,...
by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the “superstitious”...
Earthly Mission
The Catholic Church and World Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
One State, Two States
Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
“What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own,” David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment...