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121. | | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian CybeleAuthor: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative ReligionsPublisher'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 | 122. | | Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular stateAuthor: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Religion | Social Problems | Middle Eastern Studies | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more]Similar Items | 123. | | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and IranAuthor: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more]Similar Items | 124. | | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more]Similar Items | 125. | | Title: The bridge betrayed: religion and genocide in BosniaAuthor: Sells, Michael Anthony Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Politics | European History | Islam | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies | ChristianityPublisher's Description: The recent atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, a question haunts us: how is this savagery possible? Michael A. Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old . . . [more]Similar Items | 126. | | 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 | 127. | | 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 | 128. | | 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 | 129. | | Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000Author: 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 | ReligionPublisher'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 | 130. | | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophyAuthor: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 131. | | Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | Language and Linguistics | Classics | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more]Similar Items | 132. | | Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesisAuthor: 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 LiteraturePublisher'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 | 133. | | Title: The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Indigenous Religions | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics | Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scie . . . [more]Similar Items |
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