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The theology of mercy amba oduyoye
This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye’s constructive initiative to include African women’s experiences and voices within Christian theological discourse.Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a renowned Ghanaian Methodist theologian, has worked for decades to address issues of pover...
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Drug lords, cowboys, and desperadoes
Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence.The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as sc...
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The anticipatory corpse
Bishop argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death.
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What happened to civility
What is civility, and why has it disappeared? Ann Hartle analyzes the origins of the modern project and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne to discuss why civility is failing in our own time.In this bold book, Ann Hartle, one of the most important interpreters of sixteenth-century French philosophe...
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Paleolithic politics
Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art and artifacts in Paleolithic Politics. This book is inspired by Eric Voegelin, one of the major p...
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Gregory the great
Demacopoulos situates Gregory within the broader movements of Christianity and the Roman world that characterize the shift from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages.
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One body
This book considers the nature of marriage and romantic love and the controversial questions in sexual ethics that arise within a Christian framework.
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Vico, genealogist of modernity
In this lucid and probing study, Robert C. Miner argues that Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was the architect of a subversive, genealogical approach to modernity. Miner documents the genesis of Vico's stance toward modernity in the first phase of his thought. Through close examination of his early...
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The history of the congregation of holy cross
In 1837, Basile Moreau, C.S.C., founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (C.S.C.), a community of Catholic priests and brothers, to minister to and educate the people of France devastated by the French Revolution. During the centuries that followed, the Congregation expanded its mission around the ...
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Character and the christian life
Some fourteen years after its initial publication, this important and influential book, with a new, substantial, and candid introduction by the author, is available in a reasonably priced paperback edition. In this volume Hauerwas assesses recent interest in the “ethics of character” and suggests...
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Aquinas's eschatological ethics and the virtue of temperance
Matthew Levering offers a biblical and Thomistic portrait of the cardinal virtue of temperance and its allied virtues, in dialogue with an ecumenical range of theologians and scholars.In Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Levering argues that Catholic ethics make sense ...
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Religion and broken solidarities
The contributors to this original volume provide a new and nuanced approach to studying how discourses of religion shape public domains in sites of political contestation and “broken solidarities.”Our public discourse is saturated with intractable debates about religion, race, gender, and nationa...
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A french slave in nazi germany
Elie Poulard's memoir tells of his experience as a young Frenchman deported to work sites in Nazi Germany under France's Required Work Service Law on 1943.
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The rivers are inside our homes
The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes handles themes of loss and exile, aging generations, fable and fairy tale, marriage and hurt, with the island of Cuba at its heart.These incandescent poems by Cuban American poet Victoria María Castells explore how we can salvage our notion of paradise in an oversp...
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Ars vitae
Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life.The ancient Rom...
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Democratic responsibility
American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white...
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Cattle lords and clansmen
In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods, Patterson produces a unique approach to the s...
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Twilight of the american century
Bacevich examines the U.S. response to September 11th and how it has radically affected the way Americans see themselves and their nation’s place in the world.
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Augustine and the limits of politics
Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and applies Augustinian thought to modern problems and misguided politics.
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Apocalypse deferred
Scholars use Rene Girard's ideas on violence and mimetic theory to address apocalyptic events that have marked Japan's recent history, literature, and culture.
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The choice of the jews under vichy
In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s...
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Bioethics after god
Bioethics after God explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God.Medicine and bioethics are going through profound changes in the Western world. Practices that prior generations would have recognized as morally impermissible, such as ab...
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Miserere mei
King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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Buland al-ḥaidari and modern iraqi poetry
In this brilliant book, ʻAbdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a translates and introduces eighty poems from one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry, Buland Al-Ḥaidari.Buland Al-Ḥaidari might fairly be considered the fourth pillar holding up the dome of modern Arabic poetry. Alongside his famous contemporaries Nā...
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Catholicism and american borders in the gothic literary imagination
O'Gorman presents a study of the role of Catholicism in American Gothic literature, exploring its influence as a religion without a country and its ability to permeate borders and American traditions.
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The university of notre dame
Thomas Blantz’s monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university’s growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in the wilds of northern Indiana to the acclaimed undergr...
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From the underground church to freedom
International best-selling author and theologian Tomáš Halík shares for the first time the dramatic story of his life as a secretly ordained priest in Communist Czechoslovakia.Born in Prague in 1948, Tomáš Halík spent his childhood under Stalinism. He describes his conversion to Christianity duri...
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Homoerotic poets of the italian trecento
Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian poets, bringing their verse and expression to English readers.Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy produced a wide range of literature, from the courtly love of the Sicilian School,...
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Religion, tradition, and restorative justice in sierra leone
In this groundbreaking study of post-conflict Sierra Leone, Lyn Graybill examines the ways in which both religion and local tradition supported restorative justice initiatives.
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Protestants and patriots
D. G. Hart chronicles the transatlantic history of Presbyterianism as a political movement from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, tracing its evolution into a modern, liberal religion.Historians have often described Presbyterianism as a political orientation that leads to rebellion and r...
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John berryman and robert giroux
This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914–2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and John Berrym...
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The portrait of beatrice
The Portrait of Beatrice examines how Dante Alighieri and D. G. Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating imaginary portraits.
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The golden cord
Taliaferro's book explores the ways we can link daily experiences and desires with deep spiritual realities of the Christian tradition.
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Mary on the eve of the second vatican council
The essays unanimously stress that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not merely a peripheral figure in Christian faith and in the panorama of theology.
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The epiclesis debate at the council of florence
The Epiclesis Debate at the Council of Florence is the first in-depth investigation into both the Greek and the Latin sides of the debate about the moment of Eucharistic transubstantiation at the Council of Florence. Christiaan Kappes examines the life and times of the central figures of the deba...
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Engaging the madrasa
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these qu...
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Santa tarantula
The poems in Santa Tarantula grant an urgent and haunting voice to the voiceless, explore ancient narratives, delve into Cuban history and identity, and confront trauma and violence.Jordan Pérez explores the tension between fear and reprieve, between hopelessness and light, in her debut collectio...
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Henri de lubac and the drama of human existence
The French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. The publication of his Surnaturel in 1946, addressing the issue of the interrelation of nature and the supernatural, precipitated one of the most far-reaching theological debates of ...
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Love and virtue in a secular age
In a comprehensive meditation on freedom and reason, Ralph Hancock reveals the pressing need for renewed confidence in virtue and agency.With an emphasis on reclaiming the moral preconditions of Christian love, Love and Virtue in a Secular Age offers a thought-provoking study on the effects of se...
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Confucianism and catholicism
Confucianism and Catholicism, among the most influential religious traditions, share an intricate relationship. Beginning with the work of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the nature of this relationship has generated great debate. These ten essays synthesize in a single volume this historic conversatio...
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The soul as virgin wife
The Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and i...
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Rope and faggot
In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light compl...
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Orthodox christian perspectives on war
This work examines the Orthodox Christian tradition's relationship with war, keeping in mind contemporary relevance, and approaching the meaning and causes of war through an interdisciplinary reflection.
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Seeing ireland
Prompted by the centennial commemoration of the 1922 Paris Exposition d’Art Irlandais, Seeing Ireland explores the intersection of art and politics in the century that followed.While the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century is often associated with literary figures...
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