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21. | | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic cultureAuthor: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: The challenge of fundamentalism: political Islam and the new world disorderAuthor: Tibi, Bassam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | IslamPublisher's Description: Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religi . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil societyAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | ChristianityPublisher's Description: After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implicati . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really wantAuthor: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identityAuthor: Dawson, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Judaism | Classical ReligionsPublisher's Description: This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New. John David Dawson analyzes the practice and theory of "figural" reading in the Chr . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacyAuthor: Branham, Robert Bracht Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Religion | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: This collection of essays - the first of its kind in English - brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophi . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: ReligionPublisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Dao de jing: the book of the wayAuthor: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | China | Asian History | Asian Literature | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our o . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan BahuAuthor: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Poetry | Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Islam | South AsiaPublisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and cultureAuthor: Burt, Robert 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Health Care | History of Medicine | Ethics | ReligionPublisher's Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die" - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. T . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passageAuthor: Grimes, Ronald L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Social SciencePublisher's Description: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opport . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Devī: goddesses of IndiaAuthor: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Women's Studies | South AsiaPublisher'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 | 35. | | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditationAuthor: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | JapanPublisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish StudiesPublisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Early Daoist scripturesAuthor: Bokenkamp, Stephen R 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | China | Classical Literature and Language | TaoismPublisher'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 | 38. | | Title: Earthly bodies, magical selves: contemporary pagans and the search for communityAuthor: Pike, Sarah M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking par . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Encountering Kali ; in the margins, at the center, in the WestAuthor: McDermott, Rachel Fell Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Women's StudiesPublisher'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 | 40. | | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and IslamAuthor: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more]Similar Items |
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