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Bodily Citations
Columbia University Press 2006; US$ 31.99In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories... more...
Christian Perspective on September 11, 2001
Lantern Books 2012; US$ 3.99Father Thomas Keating explores the tragedy of September 11 from the perspective of Christ-consciousness and its continuing emergence in the world. Even as he describes the attacks of that day as the culmination of all of the last centurys growing violence and disregard for innocent life, Father Keating shows us how to recognize the resultant... more...
Dying in the Law of Moses
Indiana University Press 2007; US$ 28.00Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century -- a defiant, educated judaizing martyr who engaged in disputes with inquisitors. By examining closely the Inquisition dossiers of four men who were tried in the Iberian... more...
Fundamentalism
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 21.99Fundamentalist movements are seen as the major threat to world peace today, yet 'fundamentalism' is a term that eludes easy definitions. Malise Ruthven, writing with engaging clarity and directness, offers the first book to expose the nature of both religious and secular fundamentalism worldwide and to explore its many forms. - ;Since the end... more...
Hospitality A Paradigm of Interreligious and Intercultural Encounter
Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 65.00The global community is currently being confronted with an increasing urgent demand for dialogue among cultures and religions. The question arises with regards to efficient concepts or tools which will help to shape the encounter of the different religions and cultures of the world with one another. Indicative here is the cognition that hospitality... more...
Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well as examining the relation between selfhood and otherness in interfaith dialogue. The author explores how the notion of conscience has been dealt with by modern Egyptian authors... more...
In Defense of Religious Moderation
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 23.99In his latest book, William Egginton laments the current debate over religion in America, in which religious fundamentalists have set the tone of political discourse and prominent atheists treat religious belief as the root of all evil. Neither of these positions, he argues, adequately represents the attitudes of a majority of Americans, who, while... more...
Learned Ignorance : Intellectual Humility among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 38.99Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. Until the nineteenth century, most dialogue among believers was carried on as a debate aimed either to disprove the claims of the other, or to convert the other to one's own tradition. At the end of the nineteenth century, Protestant Christian missionaries of different denominations... more...
A New Religious America
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today The 1990s saw the U.S. Navy commission its first Muslim chaplain and open its first mosque. There are presently more than three hundred temples in Los Angeles, home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world. There are more American Muslims than... more...
No, We Can't
Baker Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99Three worldviews are competing for world dominance on the world's stage: militant secularism, radicalized Islam, and Judeo-Christianity . Which will prevail, and what should believers do? more...









