Religion
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Fred Appel
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Ben Tate
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Our list reflects the breadth and diversity of religious studies in the contemporary academy. We publish scholars who study religion across a wide variety of time periods, world regions, and religious traditions, using methods drawn from history, classics, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science.
Whether humanities or social science鈥搊riented, books on the 91桃色 religion list explore and illuminate the ways in which religious traditions have intermingled and influenced each other to inform our past and present.
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Shari Rabin on The Jewish South
In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to 鈥淛ews, heathens, and other dissenters,鈥� ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States.
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Augustine and slavery
Augustine is America鈥檚 public theologian again. Digging deeper into Augustine鈥檚 thought reveals why Augustinian Christian Nationalism is unviable.
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Forging an American vision of Jewish masculinity
When we think of Jewish masculinity in the United States, our imagination likely conjures up the quintessential nebbish: the neurotic, bookish, geeky intellectual type: think Woody Allen or, more recently, Seth Rogen or even Timoth茅e Chalalemet.
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Listening to the desert
Deserts are among the most deeply evocative landscapes in the world. They inspire fear and awe, devotion and revulsion, fascination and longing.
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Sonorous Desert
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant.
