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Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)
Book Title Author(s) : Janet Liebman Jacobs
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This study of contemporary crypto-Jews--descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition--traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines his...Read More

Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Experience Music Project)
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Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequenc...Read More

Understanding Religious Conversion
Book Title Author(s) : Professor Lewis R. Rambo
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Discusses the dynamics of religious conversion, presenting it as a process of change with personal, cultural, social and religious implications. The text draws on insights from psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and interviews with converts from disparate backgrounds....Read More

Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place
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Sites of violence often provoke conflicts over memorialization. These conflicts provide insight into the construction and use of memory as a means of achieving public recognition of past wrongs. In this groundbreaking collection, scholars of religious studies, sociology, history, and political scien...Read More

Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
Book Title Author(s) : Jon L. Berquist
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"Jon Berquist's thesis is strikingly original and a significant contribution to the field. He sifts carefully through an impressive range of materials so that the ubiquity of the social system emerges with clarity and force. Hence, the reader is provided with an inner logic to ancient social meaning...Read More

Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
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The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to th...Read More

 

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