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Seeks to determine how one can draw historical conclusions from the documentary sources identified. Focusing on religious practices and on the distinctive viewpoints of the authors and editors, this book develops contrasting pictures of preexilic and postexilic Israel.

Utilizing denominational records of the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Presbyterian Church in the USA, and the United Methodist Church, as well as several private funding agencies, this book offers a description of how forces at work in American society, universities, churches, and in campus ministry itself interacted.

Originally published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressThis volume focuses theoretically and practically on thematic approaches for teaching comparative courses in religion. It seeks to address the impact that the comparative study of religion has had on the humanities, how it has fared in the various pedagogic shifts discerned in the liberal arts over the last decade, and how the study of religion can serve to globalize humanities education in our increasingly culturally and religiously plural world.Contributors. Linda Barnes, Karen McCarthy Brown, John B. Carman, Richard M. Carp, John E. Cort, William R. Darrow, Kendall W. Folkert, William A. Graham, Steven P. Hopkins, John Stratton Hawley, Mark Juergensmeyer, Miriam Levering, Robin W. Lovin, Richard R. Niebuhr, Thomas V. Peterson, Frank E. Reynolds, Frederick J. Streng, Michael D. Swartz, Lee H. Yearly, Carol Zaleski

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University Press

Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press

Originally published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressDesigned primarily for the prospective author, The Directory of Publishers in Religion lists and describes 177 publishers serving the full range of religious publishing: secular and denominational, academic and popular. Numerous indexes guide the reader to publishers with a particular faith/denominational/cultural emphasis, subject area focus, or genre preference. The Dictionary of Publishers in Religion is an indispensable tool for the prospective author and publishing professional, an up-to-date resource for the best and most complete information about religious publishing worldwide.

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressThis work responds to a renewed emphasis on teaching in the academy. Written from the perspective of a classroom teacher, it is a practical application of the principles behind the critical thinking movement to the study of religion. Emphasizing that the acquisition of critical thinking depends less on what is taught than on how it is taught, the author presents concrete examples from his own experience to illustrate a student-centered approach to teaching. By demonstrating how the study of religion contributes to the development of critical thinking—through the acquistion of problem-solving, decision-making, and metacognitive skills—Penaskovic suggests its value to a broader liberal arts curriculum as well. Both a theoretical view of critical thinking and a nuts-and-bolts manual on how it can be used and assessed in the classroom, this work will challenge new and veteran teachers alike to reexamine and renew what the do in the classroom.

HJ Polotsky's volume is a reference work on the syntax of ancient Coptic.

Since its initial publication in 1979, Sources for the Study of Greek Religion has become an essential classroom resource in the field of classical studies. The Society of Biblical Literature is pleased to present a corrected edition in a new, attractive, and electronic-friendly format with hopes that it will inspire a new generation of classicists and religious historians. This volume includes primary texts and documents in translation, illustrating the range of Greek religious beliefs and practices from Homer to Alexander the Great with the addition of relevant post-classical material. The sources are arranged in chapters devoted to the Olympian gods, heroes, public religion (including rural cults), private religion, mystery cults, and death and afterlife. Introductory notes place the selections in their context in Greek history and provide basic bibliography. The volume includes a glossary of technical terms, a general index, and an index of ancient sources cited. Beyond the correction of minor errors and use of footnotes rather than endnotes, the reader will find that the present volume remains true to the original.

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Genesis Rabbah is the commentary on the book of Genesis produced by the Rabbinic sages of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. It provides theJudaic reading of the book of Genesis in light of historical events of that critical period, when the Roman Emperor, Constantine, legalizedChristianity.

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This work provides new insights into England's many prejudices during a period of supposed enlightenment, and raises questions about the very nature of prejudice in a multiethnic and multicultural society.