Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age
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Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first...
Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule
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Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of...
The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church
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The sexual abuse scandals that exploded in 2002 shook a church already under stress in the U.S....
The Divine Madness of Romantic Ideals: A Reader's Companion for Kierkegaard's 'Stages on Life's Way'
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Kierkegaard's writings are severely complicated and readers often do not know what to make of them...
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic
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It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that...
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right
Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum
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Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines...
Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture
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Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of...
Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period
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Following the religious turn in other disciplines, literary critics have emphasized how modernists...
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
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Anthony C. Yu's celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese...
The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Anti-Semitism and the Conspiracy of Silence
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From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane. But as Neil...