Department of Religion News

New Publication from Bruce Rosenstock

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:00:00 CST

Moses Mendelssohn: Last Works

Dr. Bruce Rosenstock (University of Illinois Press, 2012)

"An expertly produced volume that will contribute to a vibrant conversation on the fate of the Enlightenment, the beginning of modern liberal Judaism, and the origins of German idealism. Students of eighteenth-century German thought will henceforth refer to this work."--Peter Fenves, author of The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

International Exibition

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:00:00 CDT

The Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main, is showing “Ein Wunder in einem Wunder: Johannes Reuchlin und der Streit um die jüdischen Bücher,” an international exhibition curated by U of I professors David Price and Valerie Hotchkiss. The exhibition deals with the attempt to confiscate and destroy all Jewish books in the Holy Roman Empire at the beginning of the Renaissance. The exhibit opened in April 2011 at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois. In Frankfurt, the exhibition is on display in the ruins of the Jewish Ghetto, the most important venue in the conflict over Jewish writings. Through 28 October. A bilingual website of the exhibition is available at:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/exhibitions/Reuchlin/index.html

New publication from Jonathan Ebel

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:00:00 CDT

Jonathan Ebel has co-edited From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (California), with Professor John Carlson of Arizona State University. This book brings together fifteen essays on intersections of religion and violence in America's distant and recent past arguing that religion and violence have been central to the formation of American identity.

For more information see:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271661

New publication from Valerie Hoffman

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:00:00 CDT

Professor Hoffman's The Essentials of Ibadi Islam (Syracuse) is the first book-length study of the little known but historically very important sect of Islam.

For more information see:

http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2011/essentials.html

New Publication from Robert McKim

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:00 CDT

On Religious Diversity
Robert McKim (Oxford University Press, 2012)
"On Religious Diversity is an outstanding treatment of the morass of terms surrounding the philosophical discussion of religious diversity and its epistemological implications. It does excellent work in applying these distinctions to the philosophical issues, and is a natural sequel to McKim's previous book with Oxford."
--Jerome Gellman