Books and Culture reviews W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet
12/16/2008
Edward J. Blum's W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet was chosen to be the latest Books & Culture Book of the Week. Reviewer Kathryn Lofton writes: Students of U.S…. READ MORE
Category: Religion
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity– Now Available
11/25/2008
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam Thomas Sizgorich 408 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4113-6 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Righteous Persecution– Now Available
Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages Christine Caldwell Ames 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4133-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
Blum Sees Little “Sublime Mystery” in Obama Victory
11/06/2008
In "Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama," an essay for www.religiondispatches.com, historian Edward J. Blum warns against assigning too much sublime mystery to the… READ MORE
No Place of Rest–Now Available
10/08/2008
No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France Susan L. Einbinder 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4115-0… READ MORE
The Economist Reviews Pargeter’s The New Frontiers of Jihad
09/24/2008
A September 18th article in the Books & Arts section of The Economist compares Alison Pargeter's The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe to Bruce Riedel's The Search for… READ MORE
