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Toni Huber
The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India
"In this engaging metageography of southern Asian Buddhism, Toni Huber rediscovers another world—India as a Tibetan place—demonstrating the deep, if sometimes confused and contested, connections that Tibetans have reinvented over ten centuries, whether through travel visions, pilgrimages, or exile."—Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University

Mustapha Chérif
Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
"Islam and the West presents Derrida’s interpretation of the interdependence of politics, religion, and faith in a new light, shows that his ideal of ‘democracy to come’ has a strong universalist component, and, finally, adds to his fascinating understanding not only of Islam but of the Arab as the ultimate figure of exclusion and dissidence in the post-9/11 era."—Giovanna Borradori, from the Foreword

Reinhold Niebuhr
The Irony of American History
"Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq."—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society

Jeffrey J. Kripal
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
"This is it: the definitive history of the original American human potential center and the people who first envisioned it and made it work. A truly astonishing story of spiritual inspiration, global vision, political adventure, and delightful humor, and just at the right time."—Deepak Chopra

Andrew M. Greeleyand Michael Hout
The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe
"Many of us make facile talk about conservative Christians while having vague ideas of who they are. Now we have no excuse. Greeley and Hout tell us exactly who they are, upsetting stereotypes along the way."—Garry Wills
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Slavoj Žižek, Eric L. Santner, and Kenneth Reinhard
The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology
"Žižek, Santner, and Reinhard constitute a powerful trio of advocates for reconceptualizing and redeploying neighbor-love to critique friend-enemy relations in national and global politics. This is a truly remarkable book."—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine

Mark C. Taylor
Mystic Bones
"An amazing piece of work—delicate but strong, quirky but scholarly. There is nothing remotely like Mystic Bones in existence."—Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago

Paul Ricoeur
Memory, History, Forgetting
"Ricoeur labors as an incomparable mediator of often estranged philosophical approaches, always in a manner that compromises neither rigor nor creativity."—Christian Century

Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen, editors
The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang
This long-awaited work, a milestone in Chinese studies, catalogs and describes all existing texts within the Taoist canon.

Bruce Lincoln
Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion after September 11
"Lincoln brings to light nuances and shades of meaning that have eluded most other analysts. For this reason alone all teachers and students of religion should read this book and use its method as a guide for interpreting contemporary events and texts."—Stephen Healey, Christian Century
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Mark D. Jordan
Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage
"A powerful, at times brilliant, brief for Christian churches blessing same-sex unions.…Jordan traces the history of Christian thought about marriage…and insists that there is no fixed, transhistorical Christian ideal.…Since the early church only grudgingly allowed Christians to marry, same-sex unions may be no more a departure from previous Christian understandings of marriage than today's enthusiastic endorsement of heterosexual marriage."—Publishers Weekly

Vladimir Jankélévitch
Forgiveness
"In the past decade, interest in the question of forgiveness has come to occupy a commanding position at the crossroads of interdisciplinary concerns.…In an already voluminous literature, Jankélévitch's contribution stands out as a classic. It mines the depths of forgiveness: the elements that compose it, the situations that exemplify it, and the language that discriminates it. What emerges from this excavation is a profound and original work carried out in a style at once lyrical and lucid."—Alan Udoff, editor of Leo Strauss's Thought

Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion
"In The Serpent's Gift, Kripal provocatively advances a practice he names 'academic gnosticism.' Through such a method, he seeks to move beyond some of the obstinate binaries that have preoccupied, and sometimes thwarted, scholars of religion. This lively, accessible, and delightfully transgressive book also explores how the academic study of religion itself is implicated in, indeed emerges out of, some of the heretical subject matters it tries objectively to understand. In making conscious a culturally repressed, religious unconscious by means of his 'mystical humanism,' Kripal has once again succeeded in getting students of religion to think about (and with) old things in new and daring ways."—Jeremy Zwelling, Wesleyan University

Alessandro Scafi
Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth
"Mapping Paradise aspires to be nothing less than a history of earthly paradise, starting with the early Christian era and continuing to the present day. Extensively illustrated, it is an atlas of the imagination, a guide to a landscape that remains just the slightest bit out of reach. … Juxtaposing medieval illuminated manuscripts with satellite imagery and cartographic treasures—one map of the world, drawn in 1086, uses portraits of the Apostles to signify the territories they evangelized—Mapping Paradise is, in the end, a record not of place but of desire."—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

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Categories: Books of general interest • The Jewish tradition • The Christian tradition • The Islamic tradition • Comparative religion • Mythology • Religion, culture, and society • Theology and philosophy • American religions • South Asian religions • African religions • Middle eastern religions • See also

Books of general interest

The Jewish tradition

The Christian tradition

The Islamic tradition

Comparative religion

Mythology

Religion, culture, and society

Theology and philosophy

American religions

South Asian religions

African religions

Middle Eastern religions

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• The Chicago History of American Religion series
• The Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism series
• The Fundamentalism Project series
• The Religion and Postmodernism series
• The Textual Sources for the Study of Religion series
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