religion & theology
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Nir Shafir. The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.
This book traces why early modern Ottomans prioritized manuscripts as the desired form of social communication and explores their multifaceted and complex effects on the public sphere.
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James W. Watts and Yohan Yoo (eds.). Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings.
The volume, edited by James W. Watts and Yohan Hoo, is a thought-provoking addition to our discipline as it expands the study on sacred texts by looking at them attaining…
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Christopher N. Phillips, The Hymnal: A Reading History
Phillips divides the book into three sites of social reading: the church, the school, and the home, primarily in English society of the 18th and 19th Century. The church was…
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Pier Mattia Tommasino, The Venetian Qur’an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam
Published in the Material Texts series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, Pier Mattia Tommasino’s The Venetial Qur’an is an exemplary work of textual scholarship and a fascinating exploration of…
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Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation
Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (25 September–20 December 2017).
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Brooke Conti. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England
Brooke Conti. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. viii, 240p. ISBN 9780812245752. US$ 55.00 (hardback). Literary criticism continues to be taken with the…
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Femke Molekamp. Women and the Bible in Early Modern England: Religious Reading and Writing
Femke Molekamp. Women and the Bible in Early Modern England: Religious Reading and Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii, 266 p. ISBN 9780199665402. US$ 100.00 (cloth). This work analyzes…
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Lee Palmer Wandel. Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion
Lee Palmer Wandel. Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion. Boston: Brill MyBook, 2016. xxiv, 390 p. ill. E-ISBN 9789004305205. US $189.00 (ebook). David McKitterick writes in Print, Manuscript and the Search for…