UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: God, Harlem U.S.A.: the Father Divine story Author: Watts, Jill Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Christianity \| American Studies \| African American Studies \| African Studies Publisher's Description: How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious lea . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendents Author: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| China \| Taoism \| Buddhism Publisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity Author: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Women's Studies \| Christianity \| Classical Religions \| History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the West Author: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Encountering Kal¾ explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kal¾. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crack in America: demon drugs and social justice Author: Reinarman, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The triumph of Venus: the erotics of the market Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Social and Political Thought \| Economics and Business \| Gender Studies \| Law Publisher's Description: The theory of law and economics that dominates American jurisprudence today views the market as rational and individuals as driven by the desire to increase their wealth. It is a view riddled with misconceptions, as Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder demonstrates in this challenging work, which looks at cont . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fountain of fortune: money and monetary policy in China, 1000-1700 Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this study, the first of its kind in the English language, Richard von Glahn offers a definitive analysis of the economic, political, and social history of money and monetary policy during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and early Qing dynasties. Von Glahn presents a revisionist interpretation of previousl . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucer's Dante: allegory and epic theater in The Canterbury tales Author: Neuse, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| European Literature \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human.Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Devī: goddesses of India Author: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Women's Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Gr . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early Daoist scriptures Author: Bokenkamp, Stephen R 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| China \| Classical Literature and Language \| Taoism Publisher's Description: For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, p . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sister of wisdom: St. Hildegard's theology of the feminine Author: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Intellectual History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral Author: Scott, Robert A 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Architecture \| European Studies \| Christianity \| European History \| Architectural History \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical i . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Ronald Reagan," the movie: and other episodes in political demonology Author: Rogin, Michael Paul Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Popular Culture \| United States History Publisher's Description: The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan. Political monsters - the Indian cannibal, the black rapist, the demon rum, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the many-tentacled Communist conspiracy . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tales of the neighborhood: Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity Author: Hasan-Rokem, Galit Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Folklore and Mythology \| Women's Studies \| Literature \| Judaism Publisher's Description: In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Hinduism \| South Asia Publisher's Description: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friends?What are they but rays from the crescentsleft by the nails of her loverpressing her in his passion,rays now luminous as the moonlightof a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dram . . . [more] Similar Items