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A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I

By Celia Schultz
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Religion
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

A welcome investigation into Cicero’s unusual work on ancient Roman religion

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

The One and Only Law

Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

By James Martel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Law, Religion

A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”

Securing the Sacred

Religion, National Security, and the Western State

By Robert M. Bosco
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Religion
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

By treating religion as a key security concern, Western democracies may be undermining their safety

For the Civic Good

The Liberal Case for Teaching Religion in the Public Schools

By Walter Feinberg & Richard A. Layton
Subjects: American Studies, Education, Religion
Series: The New Public Scholarship

A case for teaching classes on world religion and the Bible in public schools

Preaching to Convert

Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age

By John Fletcher
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Religion

Discovering the common performance strategies of an unlikely pairing: evangelical Christians and left-progressive activists

Sensational Devotion

Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Religion, American Studies, Cultural Studies

How evangelical theme parks, museums, and other performance sites both reflect and create religious belief

Teaching about Religions

A Democratic Approach for Public Schools

By Emile Lester
Subjects: Political Science, Religion, Philosophy, Education

Public schools can play a role in promoting respect for religious differences

The Justice of Mercy

By Linda Ross Meyer
Subjects: Philosophy, Law, Criminology, Political Science, Political Theory, Religion, International Law
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Is there room for mercy in a system of justice?

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

Faith in the City

Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit

By Angela Denise Dillard
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, American Studies, Religion, Michigan and the Great Lakes

A milestone study of religion's place in Detroit's protest communities, from the 1930s to the 1960s

The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830

Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society

By Todd M. Endelman
Subjects: History, Religion, Cultural Studies, German Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A landmark study of the rise of Anglo-Jewish society in eighteenth century England

Cross Purposes

Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

By Paula Abrams
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, American Religious History, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Religion, Education

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

American Jewish Identity Politics

By Deborah Dash Moore
Subjects: American Studies, Jewish Studies, Religion, Political Science, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Explores changes among American Jews in their self-understanding during the last half of the twentieth century

Shugendo

Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion

By Hitoshi Miyake
Edited by H. Earhart
Subjects: Religion, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion

State of Virginity

Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

By Ulrike Strasser
Subjects: German Studies, History, Gender Studies, Religion
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An important contribution to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state

Cage of Freedom

Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia

By Andrew C. Willford
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Political Science, Religion

An ethnographic look at rituals across class and status among Malyasian Tamils

Missionary Tropics

The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries)

By Ines G. Zupanov
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Religion
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

A provocative contribution to the history of early modern Euro-Asian interactions that provides new perspectives on the encounter between Catholicism and Hinduism in India

Jews and Gentiles in Early America

1654-1800

By William Pencak
Subjects: American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, History, American History

The fascinating story of the Jewish contribution to and participation in early American life

Islam and the Prayer Economy

History and Authority in a Malian Town

By Benjamin F. Soares
Subjects: African Studies, Anthropology, Religion, Islamic Studies

A close look at the changing terms of exchange between gifts and blessings

From Monastery to Hospital

Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity

By Andrew T. Crislip
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Brings to light for the first time the innovative healing practices of monasteries and their role in the development of Western medical tradition

Nimble Believing

Dickinson and the Unknown

By James McIntosh
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Religion

A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily Dickinson's poetry

Jewish in America

Edited by Sara B. Blair & Jonathan E. Freedman
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Religion, Literary Studies, American Literature

Conflict and Coexistence

Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain

By Lucy K Pick
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Illuminates the career and method of one of thirteenth-century Spain's most important religious, military, and political figures

The Footsteps of Israel

Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England

By Andrew Scheil
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Illuminates the previously unrecognized role of Jews and Judaism in early English writing and society

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