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  • RELIGION IN 50 MORE WORDS
    AARON W. HUGHES / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Religion in 50 More Words: A Redescriptive Vocabulary provides a succinct historical, social, and political examination of some of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Differing from the first volume’s more theoretical focus, this volume analyzes more common first order descriptive terms that are used throughout the field, inviting readers to theorize their tradi...

    $640.00

  • RELIGION IN 50 WORDS
    AARON W. HUGHES / RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion. Arranged alphabetically, the book explores the historic roots, varied uses, and current signifi...

    $680.00

  • MUSLIM AND JEW
    AARON W HUGHES
    Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about the other and, in so doing, about itself. It confines itself to those points at wh...

    $660.00

  • DEFINING JUDAISM
    AARON W. HUGHES
    Judaism is a monotheistic religion with a history of over 3,500 years. 'Defining Judaism' illustrates the range of theoretical and practical issues required for comparative and historical study of the faith. The texts range from historical attempts to define individual 'Jews' to imagining Judaism as a religion like other religions, to modern and post-modern attempts to decentre...

    $1,120.00

  • JACOB NEUSNER ON RELIGION
    AARON W HUGHES
    Jacob Neusner was a prolific and innovative contributor to the study of religion for over fifty years. A scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner regarded Jewish texts as data to address larger questions in the academic study of religion that he helped to formulate. Jacob Neusner on Religion offers the first full critical assessment of his thought on the subject of religion. Aaron ...

    $1,120.00

  • THEORIZING ISLAM
    AARON W. HUGHES
    The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, authenticity, experience and meaning and has effectively avoided discussion of larger social, cultural and ideological issues. Many scholars of Islam have presented themselves to their colleagues, the media and the public as the interpreters...

    $1,160.00

  • MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LITERARY FORMS
    EDITED BY AARON W. HUGHES AND JAMES T. ROBINSON
    "This well-written, accessible [essay] collection demonstrates a maturation in Jewish studies and medieval philosophy" ( Choice). Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected...

    $229.00