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Featured here are books and papers about religion published or presented by affiliates of the Center for the Study of Religion.
"Irrational Man: Gershom Scholem's Decisive Years"
by Paul Reitter, Department of Germanic Languages and Cultures.
Harper's Magazine (May 2008).
by Paul Reitter, Department of Germanic Languages and Cultures.
Harper's Magazine (May 2008).
The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
by Paul Reitter, Department of Germanic Languages and Cultures.
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of Chicago Press, 2008.
by Paul Reitter, Department of Germanic Languages and Cultures.
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Konversion zur Philosophie in der Spaetantike: Kaiser Julian und Synesios von Kyrene
by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Religion
For information and reviews, the publisher is Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2008
by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Religion
For information and reviews, the publisher is Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2008
The Secrets of the Kingdom: Religion and Secrecy in the Bush Administration by Hugh Urban, the Department of Comparative Studies.
For information and reviews, the publisher is Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc
For information and reviews, the publisher is Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism by Hugh Urban, the Department of Comparative Studies.
For information and reviews, the publisher is University of California Press
University of California Press
For information and reviews, the publisher is University of California Press
University of California Press
"Martyrs and Idols: Performing Ritual Warfare on Early Missionary Frontiers in Northwest New Spain,"
By Maureen Ahern, Department of Spanish and Portugese, in Religion in New Spain. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of New Mexico Press
By Maureen Ahern, Department of Spanish and Portugese, in Religion in New Spain. Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of New Mexico Press
Daniel Avorgbedor presented a paper "Sacred Spaces in Secular Places: Popular Culture, Commodification and dialectics of the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African-American Christian Music and Dance" at a conference -- Black Religion & Spirituality in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities (November 7-9, 2007. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI)
Avorgbedor also presented a paper "Belief, Memory, and Cultural Autonomy: Performance Traditions in the Contemporary Ghanaian Church" at the National Symposium on Music and Missions in Africa (Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, Sept. 21-23, 2007)
"Prayer and the Politics of Place: Molokan church Building, Tsarist Law, and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial Russia,"
By Nick Breyfogle, Department of History, in Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russian Culture, Heather Coleman and Mark Steinberg, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is Indiana University Press
ISBN 0-253-21850-0
By Nick Breyfogle, Department of History, in Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russian Culture, Heather Coleman and Mark Steinberg, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is Indiana University Press
ISBN 0-253-21850-0
"Caught in the Crossfire? Russian Sectarians in the Caucasian Theater of War, 1853-56 and 1877-78,"
By Nick Breyfogle, Department of History, in Orientalism and Empire in Russia, eds. Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander Martin, Kritika Historical Studies 3.
For information, the publisher is Slavica Publishers: Bloomington, IN.
By Nick Breyfogle, Department of History, in Orientalism and Empire in Russia, eds. Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander Martin, Kritika Historical Studies 3.
For information, the publisher is Slavica Publishers: Bloomington, IN.
"The Oracle and the Image: Returning to Some Oracles from Clarus,"
by Fritz Graf, Department of Greek and Latin, in Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 160 (2007) 113-119.
Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik
"Religoese Kathartik im Lichte der Inschriften,"
By Fritz Graf, Department of Greek and Latin, in Katharsiskonzeptionen vor Aristoteles, Martin Boehler and Bernd Seidensticker eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is De Gryuter, 2007, 101-116.
De Gryuter [PDF]
Ancient Religions
By Sarah Iles Johnston, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
By Sarah Iles Johnston, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets
By Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston
For information and reviews, the publisher is Routledge
Routledge
By Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston
For information and reviews, the publisher is Routledge
Routledge
Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative
By Norman W. Jones, Department of English, Mansfield Campus
For information and reviews, the publisher is Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
By Norman W. Jones, Department of English, Mansfield Campus
For information and reviews, the publisher is Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German Jewish Political Life, 1843-1933
By Robin Judd, Department of History
For information and reviews, the publisher is Cornell Press
Cornell Press
By Robin Judd, Department of History
For information and reviews, the publisher is Cornell Press
Cornell Press
"Conveying Heresy: 'a certayne student' and the Lollard-Hussite Fellowship."
By Michael Van Dussen, Department of English, in Viator 38.2 (2007) 217-234.
By Michael Van Dussen, Department of English, in Viator 38.2 (2007) 217-234.
"Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality."
By Heather Webb, Department of French and Italian, in Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage/Fascinations/Frames Stephen Nichols, Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is Johns Hopkins University Press
By Heather Webb, Department of French and Italian, in Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage/Fascinations/Frames Stephen Nichols, Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun, eds.
For information and reviews, the publisher is Johns Hopkins University Press
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
By Tanya Erzen, Department of Comparative Studies
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of California Press
University of California Press
By Tanya Erzen, Department of Comparative Studies
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of California Press
University of California Press
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture
By John N. King, Department of English
For information and reviews, the publisher is Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
By John N. King, Department of English
For information and reviews, the publisher is Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity
By Anthony Kaldellis, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
By Anthony Kaldellis, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is the University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
The Interrelatedness of Music, Religion, and Ritual in African Performance Practice
By Daniel Avorgbedor, Departments of Music and African American and African Studies
For information and reviews, the publisher is Mellon Press
Mellon Press
By Daniel Avorgbedor, Departments of Music and African American and African Studies
For information and reviews, the publisher is Mellon Press
Mellon Press
Avodah: An Anthology of Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur
By Michael Swartz, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Joseph Yahalom
For information and reviews, the publisher is Pennsylvania State University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
By Michael Swartz, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Joseph Yahalom
For information and reviews, the publisher is Pennsylvania State University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide
By Sarah Iles Johnston, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
By Sarah Iles Johnston, Department of Greek and Latin
For information and reviews, the publisher is Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
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