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Naftali Rothenberg, “Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Naftali Rothenberg
Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessNew Books Network July 19, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life? Naftali Rothenberg says it is, based on the works and life of the first century Jewish scholar and sage, Rabbi Akiva. In Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy of Love (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) Rothenberg explores the philosophy... Read More
Betsy Perabo, “Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Betsy Perabo
Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies July 18, 2019 Diana Dukhanova

As Russian militarism becomes increasingly intertwined with Russian Orthodoxy theology in the 21st century, the history of the Church’s relationship to war and its justification becomes particularly relevant. Betsy Perabo’s book Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) is a unique and important contribution to this area of... Read More
Marko Geslani, “Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Marko Geslani
Rites of the God-King
Śānti & Ritual Change in Early Hinduism
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian Studies July 16, 2019 Raj Balkaran

Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship? Through a careful study of ritual (śanti) texts geared towards appeasement of inauspicious forces (primarily the Atharva Veda and in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā, an Indian astrological work), Marko Geslani demonstrates the persistent significance and centrality of the work of Brahmanical priesthood... Read More
Chika Watanabe, “Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Chika Watanabe
Becoming One
Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
University of Hawaii Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Southeast Asian Studies July 15, 2019 Nathan Hopson

Chika Watanabe’s Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (University of Hawaii Press, 2019) is a rich ethnographic study of the work of a Japanese NGO called the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement. Watanabe’s deep dive into the daily workings of OISCA explores... Read More
Robert Louis Wilken, “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom” (Yale UP, 2019)
Robert Louis Wilken
Liberty in the Things of God
The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion July 10, 2019 Ian J. Drake

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist... Read More
Diana Pasulka, “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Diana Pasulka
American Cosmic
UFOs, Religion, Technology
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SecularismNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network July 8, 2019 Carrie Lynn Evans

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. In American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (Oxford University Press, 2019), professor Diana Pasulka examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving... Read More
Melvin C. Johnson, “Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West” (Greg Kofford Books, 2019)
Melvin C. Johnson
Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley
A Mormon Ulysses of the American West
Greg Kofford Books, 2019

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 8, 2019 Daniel P. Stone

Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West (Greg Kofford Books, 2019) narrates the wide-ranging life of John Hawley’s search for an authentic Mormon faith. Melvin C. Johnson has been researching Hawley’s adventurous life along the American borderlands and frontier for three decades. Hawley was... Read More