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In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's mission and how he became a significant historica…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891119/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891122/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891123/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891126/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891136/Sojourner-in-Islamic-Lands
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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891163/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891187/Hindu-Ritual-at-the-Margins
Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethn…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891180/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891113/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…]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:43:47 -0800