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	<title>Columbia University Press &#187; Religion</title>
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		<title>Summer Reading from The Immanent Frame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere hosted on the Social Science Research Council&#8217;s site, recently asked some of its contributors what they had read and liked over the summer. It is a great list and we were glad to see that a couple of contributors identified Kip Kosek&#8217;s award-winning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eliot Wolfson&#8217;s Open Secret reviewed in Tablet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article in Tablet about Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the former Lubavichter leader of the Chabad movement, Adam Kirsch discusses Eliot Wolfson&#8217;s new book Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson. 
Kirsch, who calls Wolfson&#8217;s book &#8220;a brilliant new study of the Rebbe&#8217;s mystical thought,&#8221; looks at Schneerson&#8217;s continuing presence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Kip Kosek Wins Best First Book in the History of Religion for Acts of Conscience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that the American Academy of Religion named Joseph Kip Kosek&#8217;s Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy was named the Best First Book in the History of Religions prize.
For more on the book you can watch a video of Kosek discussing the book at the Library of Congress, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Believing in Tiger Woods &#8212; Mark Hulsether in Religion Dispatches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With seemingly everyone in the world weighing in on Tiger Woods, we thought we would add a new perspective via Mark Hulsether, professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Tennessee and author of Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States.
In a piece recently written for Religion Dispatches, Hulsether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam in America &#8212; an interview with Jane Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Jane Smith, the author of the second edition of Islam in America sat down with Paul Harvey of Religion in American History to discuss the book. 
The second edition explores some of the changes that have occurred since 9/11, including shifting views of Islam in America and &#8220;the many ways in which Muslims have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Elliot R. Wolfson on his new book &#8220;Open Secret&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed Multitudes, a blog on MyJewishLearning, has posted an interview with Elliot Wolfson, most recently the author of Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson.
In the interview Wolfson answers questions about Jewish mysticism and philosophy and the relationship between the two. Here are some excerpts from the interview: 
How do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beliefnet reviews Mark Taylor&#8217;s &#8220;Field Notes from Elsewhere&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his Beliefnet blog, Dr. Norris Chumley gives a glowing review to Mark C. Taylor&#8217;s new book Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living, calling it a &#8220;must read,&#8221; and Taylor &#8220;a mix of philosopher, metaphysician, and medical theologian.&#8221;
He praises Taylor for his original and moving perspectives on what it is like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Ethics and Social Change &#8212; An Interview with Anna Peterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Religion Dispatches  interviewed Anna Peterson about her new book, Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire. 
Here is the beginning of that interview:
Q: What inspired you to write Everyday Ethics and Social Change? What sparked your interest?
I was inspired, or motivated, by a desire to bring utopianism—a theme that I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Taylor on melancholy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Paul Auster calls Mark Taylor&#8217;s Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections and Living Dying &#8220;an intoxicating whirl of a book, an engine of thought and feeling that touches on everything that counts most to us: living and dying, families, faith, friendship, and the quest to ground oneself in the real.&#8221; Auster continues, &#8220;To the best of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mark C. Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an interview with Mark Taylor, author of Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Living and Dying and  professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University.

Question:&#160; The book begins with an incredibly traumatic series of events unfolding in your life. Tell us a little about what happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Thomas Berry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Thomas Berry&#8217;s The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century is now available. The excitement and interest about a new work from Berry is of course tempered by the sadness of his death earlier this summer. Mary Evelyn Tucker, who edited The Sacred Universe, wrote a very moving tribute to Berry upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tablet reviews Contemporary American Judaism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest in Dana Evan Kaplan&#8217;s Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal evidenced most recently by Adam Kirsch&#8217;s review in Tablet. 
In the review Kirsch cites Kaplan&#8217;s discussion of the persistence and in some cases growth of Orthodox Judaism, seen in such examples as a local 7-Eleven offering kosher Slurpees, alongside the many creative ways in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dana Kaplan discusses contemporary American Judaism with Religion in American History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a wide ranging interview with Paul Harvey on the blog Religion in American History Dana Eric Kaplan, author of Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal, considers a range of issues from the impact of intermarriage to the meaning of Jack Abramoff&#8217;s black hat (was he trying to elicit the support of Orthodox Jews?)
One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acts of Conscience and the history of radical pacifism in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of titles (see below), the excellent blog Religion in American History has been looking at two books with the same title: Acts of Conscience. More precisely, there has been essays about Columbia&#8217;s Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy, by Kip Kosek and Steven Taylor&#8217;s Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q &amp; A with Seth Kunin, author of Juggling Identities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an interview with Seth Kunin, author of Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity among the Crypto-Jews. 
Seth Kunin will be discussing the book tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in Albuquerque. 
Q: What is crypto-Judaism?
Seth Kunin: Crypto-Jews are individuals who claim to be descended from Jews who were forcibly (and [...]]]></description>
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