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Christian Fundamentalism and the Culture of Disenchantment
Maltby, PaulWithin the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian fundamentalism and the postmodern...
Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Gunn, GilesOver the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to...
Religion and Violence in a Secular World
Toward a New Political Theology
Crockett, ClaytonHow are we to think about religion and violence in the contemporary world, especially in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001? In this collection of essays, nearly a...
Bewildered Travel
The Sacred Quest for Confusion
Ruf, Frederick J.Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods...
Encountering the Secular
Philosophical Endeavors in Religion and Culture
Atchley, J. HeathIn Encountering the Secular, J. Heath Atchley proposes an alternative to the understanding of the secular as that which opposes the religious, and he turns to American...
The Way of the 88 Temples
Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage
Sibley, Robert C.Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancient setting for help in recovering what has been lost. The Henro Michi is...
Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares
Horses in Indian Myth and History
Doniger, WendyHorses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers—who could not afford horses and often had...
Word, Like Fire
Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans
Cooper, Valerie C.Maria Stewart is believed by many to have been the first American woman of any race to give public political speeches. In Word, Like Fire, Valerie C. Cooper argues that...
Hope without Optimism
Eagleton, TerryIn his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins...
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Toward a Semiotics of the Event
Raschke, CarlWhile the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book...
Between Faith and Thought
An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition
Robbins, Jeffrey W.The ontotheological problem is perhaps the defining issue of contemporary philosophical theology, as it reveals that dimension of thought where reason and faith are indivisible...
Vigilant Faith
Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World
Boscaljon, DanielIn Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism. He proposes a...
Sacred Claims
Repatriation and Living Tradition
Johnson, GregThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains...
Nietzsche on Gender
Beyond Man and Woman
Oppel, Frances NesbittAlthough Nietzsche has been considered by some critics to be a misogynist for his treatment of woman, women, and the feminine, Frances Nesbitt Oppel offers a radical...
Mourning Religion
Parsons, William B., Jonte-Pace, Diane, Henking, Susan E.Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists such as Freud, Durkheim, Weber, and Marx built their intellectual edifices on what they thought would be the remains or...
Fatalism in American Film Noir
Some Cinematic Philosophy
Pippin, Robert B.The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales...
The Making of Modern Cynicism
Mazella, DavidOnce describing a life of exile, self-denial, physical rigor, and mastery of one’s desires, cynicism now describes a life of political quietism, passivity, and moral...
The Mystery of Continuity
Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Pelikan, Jaroslav[Book description not available]
Versions of Deconversion
Autobiography and the Loss of Faith
Barbour, John D.In Versions of Deconversion John Barbour examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyze the ways in...
The Value of Solitude
The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
Barbour, John D.Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In The Value of...
The Book of Common Prayer, 1559
The Elizabethan Prayer Book
Booty, John E.John E. Booty’s edition of The Book of Common Prayer, 1559, first published by the University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1976 and long out...
Philosophy as Poetry
Rorty, RichardUndeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was...
Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics
Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters
Clooney, Francis X.We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never before has there been so great an availability of and access to information in both print and online. Yet as...
God on the Grounds
A History of Religion at Thomas Jefferson’s University
Gamble, Harry Y.Free-thinking Thomas Jefferson established the University of Virginia as a secular institution and stipulated that the University should not provide any instruction in religion...
Creationism on Trial
Evolution and God at Little Rock
Gilkey, Langdon Creationism on Trial is Gilkey's blow-by-blow account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, AR.