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Seeks to determine how one can draw historical conclusions from the documentary sources identified. Focusing on religious practices and on the distinctive viewpoints of the authors and editors, this book develops contrasting pictures of preexilic and postexilic Israel.

Originally published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressThis volume focuses theoretically and practically on thematic approaches for teaching comparative courses in religion. It seeks to address the impact that the comparative study of religion has had on the humanities, how it has fared in the various pedagogic shifts discerned in the liberal arts over the last decade, and how the study of religion can serve to globalize humanities education in our increasingly culturally and religiously plural world.Contributors. Linda Barnes, Karen McCarthy Brown, John B. Carman, Richard M. Carp, John E. Cort, William R. Darrow, Kendall W. Folkert, William A. Graham, Steven P. Hopkins, John Stratton Hawley, Mark Juergensmeyer, Miriam Levering, Robin W. Lovin, Richard R. Niebuhr, Thomas V. Peterson, Frank E. Reynolds, Frederick J. Streng, Michael D. Swartz, Lee H. Yearly, Carol Zaleski

Utilizing denominational records of the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Presbyterian Church in the USA, and the United Methodist Church, as well as several private funding agencies, this book offers a description of how forces at work in American society, universities, churches, and in campus ministry itself interacted.

Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University Press

Originally published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressDesigned primarily for the prospective author, The Directory of Publishers in Religion lists and describes 177 publishers serving the full range of religious publishing: secular and denominational, academic and popular. Numerous indexes guide the reader to publishers with a particular faith/denominational/cultural emphasis, subject area focus, or genre preference. The Dictionary of Publishers in Religion is an indispensable tool for the prospective author and publishing professional, an up-to-date resource for the best and most complete information about religious publishing worldwide.

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressThis work responds to a renewed emphasis on teaching in the academy. Written from the perspective of a classroom teacher, it is a practical application of the principles behind the critical thinking movement to the study of religion. Emphasizing that the acquisition of critical thinking depends less on what is taught than on how it is taught, the author presents concrete examples from his own experience to illustrate a student-centered approach to teaching. By demonstrating how the study of religion contributes to the development of critical thinking—through the acquistion of problem-solving, decision-making, and metacognitive skills—Penaskovic suggests its value to a broader liberal arts curriculum as well. Both a theoretical view of critical thinking and a nuts-and-bolts manual on how it can be used and assessed in the classroom, this work will challenge new and veteran teachers alike to reexamine and renew what the do in the classroom.

"Thoroughly revised version of my 1988 dissertation, Royal ideology and the technology of faith: a comparative Midrash study of 1 Kgs 3:2-15"--Pref.