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  • Narrating Rape

    Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture

    Edited by Claassens ...
    Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts. The fourteen essays represent global contributors and bring together respected senior scholars along with fresh emerging voices. Contributors take on sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as the ancient Near Eastern and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

    A Guide to Aztec and Catholic Beliefs and Practices

    by Cheryl Claassen, Laura Ammon ...
    Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico explores the development of religion as transferred from Spain to Tenochtitlan. The religious world of both Aztecs and Spanish Catholics at time of encounter was organized through large and small scale community, family, and personal devotions. Devotion expressed through cults was the single most salient aspect in the transfer of Catholicism to New World people ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Wealth and Power

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, Rutger Claassen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it.Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich attempt to convert their wealth into political power, implicitly assuming that politics is isolated from ... Read more

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  • Restorative Readings

    The Old Testament, Ethics, and Human Dignity

    Edited by L. Juliana Claassens, Bruce C. Birch ...
    The Bible has the unfortunate legacy of being associated with gross human rights violations as evident in the scriptural justification of apartheid in South Africa as well as slavery in the American South. What is more, the Hebrew Bible also contains numerous instances in which the worth or dignity of the female characters are threatened, violated or potentially violated, creating a situation of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queering the Prophet

    On Jonah, and Other Activists

    Edited by Claassens, Davidson, Walt, Thyssen ...
    What does it mean to be a prophet in queer times? Considering first the queerness of the prophet Jonah, this volume then broadens its scope to the queer prophetic in our own time, reflecting on what makes a prophet ‘queer’, and considering how public theology is itself, an example of the queer prophetic. With a broad range of international contributors, this book offers a bold and essential new ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Considering Compassion

    Global Ethics, Human Dignity, and the Compassionate God

    Edited by Frits de Lange, L. Juliana Claassens ...
    In light of the numerous challenges posed by globalization, living together as humanity on one planet needs to be reinvented in the twenty-first century. To create a new, peaceful, just, and sustainable world order is vital to the survival of us all. In this regard, humankind will have to expand the limited scope of its moral imagination beyond the borders of family, tribe, class, religion, nation ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley

    Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals

    by Cheryl Claassen ...
    In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions about hunter-gatherer life in the southern Ohio Valley as it unfolded some 8,000 to 3,500 years ago. Focusing on freshwater shell mounds scattered along the Tennessee, Ohio, Green, and Harpeth rivers, Claassen draws on the latest archaeological research to offer penetrating new insights into the sacred world of Archaic ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One-Carbon Feedstocks for Sustainable Bioproduction

    Edited by An-Ping Zeng, Nico J. Claassens ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive review of the latest developments, challenges and trends in C1-based (one-carbon based) bioproduction, and it presents an authoritative account of one-carbon compounds as promising alternative microbial feedstocks.The book starts with a perspective on the future of C1 compounds as alternative feedstocks for microbial growth, and their vital role in the ... Read more

    $448.99 CAD

  • Germanicus

    by Jo-Marie Claassen ...
    This is the first translation into English of the verse drama Germanicus by the Afrikaans poet N.P. Van Wyk Louw. The work was based on the first three chapters of the Annales of the Roman historiographer Tacitus. After the death of Emperor Augustus, his successor Tiberius' adopted son Germanicus recoils from the cruelty inherent in imperial rule. In the end he helplessly acquiesces, finally ... Read more

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  • Women, Fertility, and North American Archaeology

    by Cheryl Claassen ...
    Women, Fertility, and North American Archaeology brings together more than three decades of Cheryl Claassen’s groundbreaking work on gender and archaeology. Featuring articles originally published between 1989 and 2023, the volume makes available the full scope of Claassen’s work related to Archaic and Woodland–era women in the Southeastern United States, women working as archaeologists, and the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America

    Edited by Cheryl Claassen ...
    Series Book 8 - American Landscapes
    In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transgression and Transformation

    Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Interpretation as Creative Interventions

    Edited by Prof L. Juliana Claassens, Professor Christl M. Maier, Dr. Funlola O. Olojede ...
    Series series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
    This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers; in offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the Hebrew Bible, both established and emerging biblical scholars consider the question of how commonplace interpretative practices may be considered to be transgressive in nature. Utilizing innovative strategies, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD