Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam
Tehseen Thaver
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825947
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
In this groundbreaking book, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. Beyond Sectarianism...
In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical...
Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States
Gene Zubovich
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826104
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
408 Pages
When we think about religion and politics in the United States today, we think of conservative evangelicals. But for much of the twentieth century it was liberal Protestants who most profoundly shaped...
How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special...
Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512824407
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha’aramah,...
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this...
This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals—bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female?...
Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
Paola Tartakoff
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512825459
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his...
The Hebrew word zimzum originally means “contraction,” “withdrawal,” “retreat,” “limitation,” and “concentration.” In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for God’s self-limitation, done...
