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| 41. |  | Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Middle Eastern History | Popular Culture | Middle Eastern Studies | Ethnic Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: European Jewry and the First Crusade Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: The faces of Buddhism in America Author: Prebish, Charles S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-called "imported" . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life  Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Religion | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern times Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French Studies Publisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: The frontiers of Catholicism: the politics of ideology in a liberal world Author: Burns, Gene 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Religion | Social Theory | Gender Studies | Christianity | Politics Publisher's Description: Gene Burns examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church, illuminating as well the processes of ideological change. Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: God's daughters: evangelical women and the power of submission Author: Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In recent decades, religious conservatives and secular liberals have battled over the "appropriate" role of women in society. In this absorbing exploration of Women's Aglow Fellowship, the largest women's evangelical organization in the world, R. Marie Griffith challenges the simple generalizations . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Hidden heritage: the legacy of the Crypto-Jews Author: Jacobs, Janet Liebman Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Latin American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: History and human existence: from Marx to Merleau-Ponty Author: Miller, Jim 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Philosophy | Religion | Intellectual History Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Holy women of the Syrian Orient Author: Brock, Sebastian P Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion | Classical Religions | Religion Publisher's Description: The fifteen hagiographies about holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the fourth to seventh centuries A.D., they are translated from Syriac into accessible and vivid prose. Annotat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: The human difference: animals, computers, and the necessity of social science Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Religion | Christianity Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Buddhism | Classics | Indigenous Religions | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: In quest of spirit: thoughts on music Author: Harvey, Jonathan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | Religion Publisher's Description: The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics, science, and mysticism. All affect his musical thinking and are a part of this unusual and personal book, which is accompanied by a compact disc fe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele Author: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesis Author: Levy, Jerrold E 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | California and the West | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | American Literature Publisher's Description: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items |