Restoring the manes, or deified dead of Rome, to their dominant place in the Roman afterlife, this book offers a comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society.
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love
by Joshua Louis Moss
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477312834
Pub Date: July 18th, 2017
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Explicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
by Mark Z. Christensen
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477310816
Pub Date: December 13th, 2016
Format: Hardcover
339 Pages
Presenting the first English translation and analysis of a recently discovered late colonial Maya Christian manuscript, this volume opens important new insights into how the Maya made sense of Christianity within their own worldview.
A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
by Sheila H. Katz
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477310625
Pub Date: November 8th, 2016
Format: Paperback
307 Pages
Surveying the initiatives of more than five hundred groups across the past century, this timely book reveals how thousands of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians have worked together to end violence and forge connections between their peoples.
Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present
by Allen J. Christenson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477310267
Pub Date: October 11th, 2016
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Drawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.
Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television
by Yaron Peleg
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309513
Pub Date: September 13th, 2016
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
The first study of its kind, Directed by God analyzes several representations of Jewish religiosity in Israeli film and television that challenge secular Zionism in contemporary Israeli society.
