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Concise History of the Catholic Church Selected at Providence College
Providence College’s Development of Western Civilization Program will be using Thomas Bokenkotter’s essential one-volume history of the Catholic Church.
Covering the life of Christ, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, and everything in between, A Concise History of the Catholic Church has been one of the bestselling religious histories of the past two decades and a mainstay for scholars, students, and others looking for a definitive, accessible history of Catholicism.
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Add comment September 15, 2009
Boston College’s Sociology Dept is Using The Translator as a Primer for its course named “African World Perspective” this fall
Boston College’s Sociology Dept is using The Translator: A Memoir for its course named “African World Perspective” this fall. In 2003, Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman in northern Darfur, fled his village, which was under attack by Sudanese militiamen. Here is Daoud’s harrowing and life-changing, eyewitness account of the brutal genocide in the Sudan.
Zine Magubane, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College says “I chose this book because The Translator offers American students a superb opportunity to hear about the realities of the Darfur situation through the voice of an African person. The book is both an excellent primer on the political situation in Darfur and a deeply moving personal story that gives students a sophisticated, yet accessible, view into the Darfur conflict.”
We are pleased to say The Translator is also a book pick by Colorado Mountain College and Mars Hill College for First-Year Experience.
Website: www.SaveDarfur.org
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http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979176&view=excerpt
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Add comment September 9, 2009
Author and Yale Professor Akhil Reed Amar’s America’s Constitution: A Biography Book Used at Yale University
“…[T]he best biography ever written about the U.S. Constitution….”
So said Harvard University professor Laurence H. Tribe of Akhil Reed Amar’s America’s Constitution: A Biography.
We have just learned that Professor Amar will be teaching his book this Fall in his large Constitutional Law course at Yale University. Lucky students!
“I was about to describe America’s Constitution as the best biography ever written about the U.S. Constitution — until it occurred to me that it’s the only real biography of that remarkable document. As with the gaggle of myopic elephant attendants each of whom sees and strokes only one small part of the whole, many have written about some part of the Constitution or its history, or about the Constitution as seen from the perspective of one branch (usually, the judiciary), but only Yale Law School’s justly legendary Akhil Amar has undertaken to tell the story of the Constitution as a whole. And what a story he tells! What David McCullough is to John Adams, what Walter Isaacson is to Benjamin Franklin, Akhil Amar is to the Constitution of the United States. Marvelously readable and breathtakingly informative, Amar’s biography of our nation’s founding document fills a huge void — and fills it brilliantly.”
–Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Harvard University
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Add comment August 24, 2009
Reza Aslan’s No God But God Used at the Univ. of Georgia
This fall, the University of Georgia will be using Reza Aslan’s No God But God: Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. No god but God, has been translated into thirteen languages and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. Aslan is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror.
“An eloquent, erudite paean to Islam in all of its complicated glory.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review
Official Website: www.rezaaslan.com/
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Add comment August 24, 2009
University of Minnesota -Twin Cities Selects Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion
Alan Segal’s Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion has been chosen at University of Minnesota -Twin Cities’s Classical and Near Eastern Studies Dept. Course will be on the Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World.
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Add comment August 21, 2009
Scott Hahn’s Catholic Bible Dictionary Chosen at St John Vianney Seminary
St. John Vianney Seminary’s Catholic Bible School has selected Scott Hahn’s Catholic Bible Dictionary for its fall 2009 and spring 2010 Bible Studies course.
“Catholic Bible Dictionary answers the urgent need for a generally accessible resource deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition. It will be of great help to Catholics in broadening and deepening the familiarity with the Bible they already possess through the regular readings in the liturgy. Particularly helpful are the clear overviews of each book of the Bible that will allow readers to place the selections they hear at mass in their proper context.”
—Dr. Michael Waldstein, Max Seckler Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University and translator of Pope John Paul II’s Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body
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Add comment July 29, 2009
The Life You Can Save is Selected by Florida State University
Florida State University’s Religion Dept. has adopted Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save for its Summer 2009 Religious Ethics and Moral Problems course.
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Add comment June 10, 2009
