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Works from 2015

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Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry, Gil P. Klein

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The Relevance of Karl Rahner’s View of Human Dignity for the Catholic Social Thought Tradition, Matthew R. Petrusek

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Faith, Hope, and Charity: Benedict XVI on the Theological Virtues, Thomas P. Rausch

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Theology’s New Turn: A Survey of Contemporary Movements, Thomas P. Rausch

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Micah: A Commentary, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Thinking on Islands, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Toddlers and Teas: Parenting in a Multireligious World, Tracy Tiemeier

Works from 2014

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About Religion, Roy C. Amore and Amir Hussain

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Antonio T. De Nicolás: Poet of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple

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Antonio T. deNicolás: Poet of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple

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Bioethics in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

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American Innocence: Niebuhr and the Ironies of History, An Exchange, James L. Fredericks

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Confucianism, Catholic Social Teachings, and Human Rights, James L. Fredericks

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Francis's Interreligious Friendships: Soccer and Lunch, Followed by Dialogue, James L. Fredericks

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Best Practices for Multicultural Communities: Great Parishes Shared by Several Ethnicities Discover Ways to Give Each Group What It Needs While Also Forging Unity, Brett C. Hoover

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Best Practices for Shared Parishes, Brett C. Hoover

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Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America, Brett C. Hoover

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Faith from Nowhere: Feminist Ecclesiological Reflections on the ‘Liquid Catholicism’ of New Media, Brett C. Hoover

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Lost and Found: Immigrant Conversion Stories, the New Evangelization, and Parish Life, Brett C. Hoover

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Review of Memory and Honor: Cultural and Generational Ministry with Korean American Communities, Brett C. Hoover

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Review of The Faith of Girls: Children’s Spirituality and Transition to Adulthood, Brett C. Hoover

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The Shared Parish: Latinos, Anglos, and the Future of U.S. Catholicism, Brett C. Hoover

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Editor’s Note: "God bless Elijah / With the feather in his hand", Amir Hussain

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Toward a Muslim Theology of Migration, Amir Hussain

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Current Issues, Amir Hussain and Roy C. Amore

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In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013), Matthew R. Petrusek

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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, Thomas P. Rausch

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This is our Faith: An Introduction to Catholicism, Thomas P. Rausch

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A Postcolonial Reading of Apocalyptic Literature: On Mixing Monsters, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Reading the Christian Old Testament in the Contemporary World, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Singing Lamentations and Reading the Blues, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Works from 2013

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Asian Religions in the United States, Christopher Key Chapple

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Book Review: Hindu Perspectives on Evolution: Darwin, Dharma, and Design, Christopher Key Chapple

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Elephants in Religious Consciousness, Christopher Key Chapple

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Ethics of Synthetic Life: A Jaina Perspective, Christopher Key Chapple

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The Eternal Present: Slow Knowledge and the Renewal of Time, Douglas E. Christie

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The Joy of Feeling Close to God: The Practice of Prayer and the Work of Accompaniment, Douglas E. Christie

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Betrayal of Mission: Union Busting on Catholic Campuses, Anna Harrison

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‘Jesus Wept’: Mourning as Imitation of Christ in Bernard’s Sermon Twenty-Six on the Song of Songs, Anna Harrison

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The Nuns of Helfta, Anna Harrison

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Christian Hospitality and Muslims, Amir Hussain

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Naming God, Amir Hussain

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Religious Diversity and Public Education: The Example of American Muslims, Amir Hussain

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Book Review of Franklin I. Gamwell, Existence and the Good: Metaphysical Necessity in Morals and Politics, Matthew R. Petrusek

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A Humble, Bold Scholar, Thomas P. Rausch

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Termi di Benedetto XVI per Il Prossimo Futuro, Thomas P. Rausch

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A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theology and Trinitarian Theology and Hainsworth and Public Theology for a Global Society: Essays in Honor of Max L. Stackhouse, Jonathan Rothchild

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Childhood without Life, Life without Childhood: Theological and Legal Critiques of Current Juvenile Justice Policies, Jonathan Rothchild

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Daniel and Diaspora, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Immigrants and Foreigners in the Bible, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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The River Jordan in Early African American Spirituals, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Asian Participation in Interreligious Dialogue, Tracy Tiemeier

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Interreligious Reading in the Context of Dialogue: When Interreligious Reading ‘Fails', Tracy Tiemeier

Works from 2012

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Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavasistha, Christopher Key Chapple

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Sidhis in the Yogasūtra, Christopher Key Chapple

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Early Monasticism, Douglas E. Christie

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Practicing Paradise: Contemplative Awareness and Ecological Renewal, Douglas E. Christie

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"Things that used to be familiar...become strange": de Certeau and the Possession at Loudun, Douglas E. Christie

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The Art of Dying: Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well - Images of Death in the Middle Ages, James L. Fredericks

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Confronting Misoislamia: Teaching Religion and Violence in Courses on Islam, Amir Hussain

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Editor’s Note: Robert Davidson, Haida Artist, Amir Hussain

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Editor's Note: Something Observed, Amir Hussain

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Editor’s Note: Something Observed, Amir Hussain

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Foreword, Amir Hussain

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Muslim Traditions, Amir Hussain

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The Atheistic Imagination, Amir Hussain

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Muslims, Amir Hussain and Jamie S. Scott

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Torah in triclinia: the Rabbinic Banquet and the Significance of Architecture, Gil P. Klein

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Putting on the Mind of Ælred: Reflections of a Translator, Marie Anne Mayeski

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Catholic Anthropology, Thomas P. Rausch

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Cattolici e Pentecostali: Riflessioni su una storia travagliata, Thomas P. Rausch

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Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Towards Recovering the Eschatological Imagination, Thomas P. Rausch

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Who Speaks for the Church?, Thomas P. Rausch

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Reading Exile Then: Reconsidering the Methodological Debates for Biblical Analysis in Dialogue with Sociological And Literary Analysis, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Review of Michael S. Moore, Wealth Watch: A Study of Socioeconomic Conflict in the Bible, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

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Between Childhood and Adulthood, Tracy Tiemeier

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Teaching World Religions without Teaching ‘World Religions’, Tracy Tiemeier

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Varied Visions of God and the Good, Tracy Tiemeier

Works from 2011

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Asian Religions, Ecology, and the Integrity of Nature, Christopher Key Chapple

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Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, by Bron Taylor, Christopher Key Chapple

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Indic Traditions and Animals: Imitation, Reincarnation, and Compassion, Christopher Key Chapple

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In Praise of Mother Earth : the Pṛthivī Sūkta of the Atharva Veda, Christopher Key Chapple

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Invoking Lakshmi: The Goddess of Wealth in Song and Ceremony, Christopher Key Chapple

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Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism, Christopher Key Chapple

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Religion and Environment, Christopher Key Chapple

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Religious Environmentalism: Thomas Berry, the Bishnoi, and Satish Kumar, Christopher Key Chapple

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Roots, Shoots, and Ahimsa: The Jain Yoga of Vegetarianism, Christopher Key Chapple

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Saivism in the Diaspora: Contemporary Forms of Skanda Worship, by Ron Geaves, Christopher Key Chapple

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The Dialectic of Violence in Jainism, Christopher Key Chapple

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The Practice of Modern Yoga: Sri Ramakrishna's Four Contributions, Christopher Key Chapple

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Ecology in Hinduism, Christopher Key Chapple and Pankaj Jain

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The blue sapphire of the mind: Christian contemplative practice and the healing of the whole, Douglas E. Christie

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The Gift of Tears: Loss, Mourning and the Work of Ecological Restoration, Douglas E. Christie

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View Finders: The Getty's 'In Search of Biblical Lands', James L. Fredericks

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Gertrude of Helfta, Anna Harrison

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Mechtild of Magdeburg, Anna Harrison

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Comfort: An Atlas for the Body and Soul, Brett C. Hoover

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Generations and Cultures: The Future of Parish Life in the United States, Brett C. Hoover

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Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac: The Bonds of Family, Amir Hussain

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Editor's Note, Amir Hussain