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SOCIAL SCIENCE:

Sociology of Religion

Superstitious Regimes
Rebecca Nedostup
We live in a world shaped by secularism—the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities.
Hardcover November 2009
Seven Deadly Sins
Aviad Kleinberg
Translated by Susan Emanuel
With intellectual insight and deadpan humor, Kleinberg deftly guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Each chapter weaves the past into the present and examines unchanging human passions and the deep cultural shifts in the way we make sense of them.
Hardcover November 2008