Desiring Divinity: Self-Deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine....
From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace
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From Enemy to Friend blends ancient Jewish sacred texts on peacebuilding, real-life descriptions of...
In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera
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Meera, they said, was mad. She is also the symbol Mahatma Gandhi chose to inspire his modern Indian...
Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church
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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and...
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
Simone Weil, Eric O. Springsted and Lawrence E. Schmidt
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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects,...
Sufi Lyrics
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The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi...
The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies...
The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship
Ahmed Moustafa and Stefan Sperl
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This landmark study is the first comprehensive exploration of the Proportioned Script, an Arabic...
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
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Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early...
Thomas Merton, Peacemaker: Meditations on Merton, Peacemaking and the Spiritual Life
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A noted peacemaker reflects on Thomas Merton's lessons for peacemaking today. In this centenary year...