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Those Who Forget the Past
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95Something has changed. After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide terror in Israel, the relentless comparison of the Israelis to Nazis, the paranoid post?September... more...
Development and Faith
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 19.99The faith and development nexus is both a promising new focus for secular development agencies and a historic reality: for centuries, world faiths and individuals inspired by their faith have played many roles in social change and social welfare. Secular development agencies have largely operated in parallel to the world of faith-motivated development.... more...
Tales of and about Jewish Youth during the Fin-de-siècle Era
University Press of America 2009; US$ 20.99This book tells the story of Jewish youth in upstate New York during the fin-de-siZcle decade of the nineteenth century. Ginsburg details periods of transition for these youths by exploring life at various Jewish orphanages, examining a weekly Jewish journal, and profiling individuals as well as Jewish associations. more...
Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi
BRILL 2010; US$ 186.00This book offers a thorough and critical analysis of the work of one of the major figures in a oeIslamic feminism, a Fatima Mernissi. This work traces Mernissia (TM)s intellectual trajectory from a oeseculara to a oeIslamic feminisma in order to engage in the theorization of this emerging feminism. more...
Religion and Youth
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 34.95Written by leading scholars in the field, Religion and Youth presents an accessible, yet cutting edge, guide to the key issues in the study of youth and religion, including methodological perspectives. It provides a key teaching text in these areas for undergraduates, and a book of rigorous scholarship for postgraduates, academics and practitioners.... more...
Rag and Bone
Henry Holt and Co. 2009; US$ 7.99A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the world?s major religions By examining relics?the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions?Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author?s... more...
Headscarf Politics in Turkey
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance. more...
Unchosen
Beacon Press 2006; US$ 17.00Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was excited to be meeting members of the highly insular Satmar sect. While several Jewish journalists and scholars have produced largely admiring books describing the Lubavitch way... more...
The Lore of Scotland
Random House 2012; US$ 13.33Scotland's rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs, and in The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill bring together many of the finest and most intriguing: stories of heroes and bloody feuds, tales of giants, fairies, and witches, and accounts of local customs and traditions. Their... more...
What's Wrong With Being Black?
Destiny Image, Inc. 2011; US$ 15.99Thoroughly researched and extensively referenced, this highly credible work uses evidence from biblical, anthropological, historical, and ancient literature sources dating as far back as 3,000 years ago to support the facts that: People of color have a positive history. People of color were the first to give structure and order in society.... more...









