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Jonathan Merritt :-
A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars
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[ Time Warner Trade Publishing / Hardback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
From deep inside the Religious Right and places of privilege--including a meeting with Billy Graham in the evangelist's home--emerges a young theologian who is surprisingly willing to confront today's difficult intersections of faith and society with...
R. T. Kendall :-
The Scandal of Christianity
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[ Hodder & Stoughton General Division / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Too often these days Christianity is seen as just part of our cultural background, rather than a living, breathing faith that sets out to challenge the norms we live by. Here R. T. Kendall brings the scandalous nature of Christianity back to the...
Paula Fredriksen :-
Sin: The Early History of an Idea
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[ The University Press Group Ltd / Hardback - due 3/Jun/2012 ]
Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising...
Daniel Boyarin :-
Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
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[ The University of Chicago Press / Paperback - due 1/Jun/2012 ]
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their...
Miriam Leonard :-
Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
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[ The University of Chicago Press / Hardback - due 1/Jun/2012 ]
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged...
Osho, Osho International Foundation :-
Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Learning to Trust in Life
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[ / Paperback / softback - due 1/Jun/2012 ]
Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock celebrity who died before his time and a vague new age version of Eastern religion. An altered state to be hoped for, but likely unattainable, reinforcing that all...
Patricia Crone :-
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
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[ Cambridge University Press / Hardback - due 31/May/2012 ]
Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of...
John Lilly :-
Simulations of God: The Science of Belief
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[ Ronin Publishing / Paperback - due 31/May/2012 ]
Back in print after years of unavailability, Simulations of God provides a guide for spiritual seekers searching to find and understand their inner reality in order to unfold new areas of growth and self-realization. Simulations of God is a...
Armin W. Geertz :-
Native North American Religions
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[ Penguin Books Ltd / Paperback - due 31/May/2012 ]
Joas Wagemakers :-
A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi
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[ Cambridge University Press / Hardback - due 31/May/2012 ]
Since 9/11, the Jordanian Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (b. West Bank, 1959) has emerged as one of the most important radical Muslim thinkers alive today. While al-Maqdisi may not be a household name in the West, his influence amongst like-minded Muslims...
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