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Sojourner in Islamic Lands takes us on a journey from Kazakhstan in the far north of Central Asia, across the mountains to the former Soviet Union, then south to Iran just below the Caspian Se…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615862/The-Augustinian-Theology-of-W-H-Auden
When W. H. Auden returned to Christianity in the early 1940s, he identified himself with what he called an "existential" method of spiritual and literary inquiry, which the writings of St. Aug…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615868/Qoheleth
Rarely does a biblical book evoke admiration from a Nobel laureate in literature, a newspaper columnist, a prize-winning poet, and a popular songwriter. Ecclesiastes has done that, and for goo…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615871/The-Origins-of-Southern-Evangelicalism
During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representi…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615872/Challenges-on-the-Emmaus-Road
While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Challenges on the Emmau…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615875/Jeremiah-and-Gods-Plans-of-Well-being
In Jeremiah and God's Plans of Well-being, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on t…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615902/Ezra-and-the-Law-in-History-and-Tradition
An in-depth examination that separates the historical Ezra from the biblical legend

The historical Ezra was sent to Jerusalem as an emissary of the Persian monarch. What was his task? A…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615931/Partners-of-Zaynab
How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles an…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615914/Fundamentalism
Essays considering how global fundamentalism influences our understanding of modern Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Thirty years after the Iranian Revolution and more than a decade sin…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615829/Rethinking-Islamic-Studies
A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era

Rethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Ori…]]> Thu, 09 May 2024 07:53:44 -0700