Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
By: Marc H. Ellis
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and chal…
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1. No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays
By: Jon Sobrino
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The provocative title of these essays plays on a traditional Catholic slogan: 'no salvation outside… read more
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"Afrička Velika jezera jesu Auschwitz današnjega vremena, no i na njima su se također pojavljivali primjeri nevjerojatne čovječnosti."-Jon Sobrino, No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays
2. The Trumpet of Conscience
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.53
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowne… read more
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"There is nothing wrong with a traffic law which says you have to stop for a red light. But when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes right through that red light, and normal traffic had better get o…"-Martin Luther King Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience
3. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
4. Justice, and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation
By: Naim Stifan Ateek
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
This captivating bestseller by a clergyman and leader of the Palestine Christian community examines… read more
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5. Marxism and Christianity
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This volume explores the common ground between Marxism and Christianity. It argues that Marxism sha… read more
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6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
8. The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
3.48
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him … read more
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"It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division."-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of rest…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"At last he said, "Did you come out of the big mountains?" Gitano shook his head slowly. "No, I walked down the Salinas Valley." The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. "Did you ever go into the …"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
"The grandfather was dresses in a black broadcloth suit and he wore kid congress gaiters and a black tie on a short, hard collar. He carried his black slouch hat in his hand. His white beard was cropp…"-John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
9. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Ilya Schor
4.16
Format: 354 pages,
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabba… read more
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10. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- politics
11. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finke… read more
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12. The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
By: None
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In 1989 three Muslim schoolgirls from a Paris suburb refused to remove their Islamic headscarves in… read more
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13. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
14. The Interpretation of Cultures
By: Clifford Geertz
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far bey… read more
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15. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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16. Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
By: Rosemary Radford Ruether
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback--the most significant work of an internationally acclaimed author and teacher. Sif… read more
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17. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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18. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
By: E. Randolph Richards , Brandon J. O'Brien
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultu… read more
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19. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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20. The Trinity and the Kingdom
By: Jürgen Moltmann , None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
An excellent introduction to the prophets and the prophetic literature . . . The goal of the book i… read more
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21. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
By: None
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in th… read more
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22. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- politics
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
23. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- religion
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
24. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
25. God Matters
By: Herbert McCabe
4.34
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Seldom have God matters been treated with such verve, sense, rigour and humour as in this collectio… read more
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- religion
- theology
"[I]t seems to me that what we often call atheism is not a denial of the God of which I speak. Very frequently the man who sees himself as an atheist is not denying the existence of some answer to the…"-Herbert McCabe, God Matters
26. Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
By: Marc H. Ellis
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and chal… read more
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27. Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
By: Ekemini Uwan
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD - A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theol… read more
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- theology
28. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
By: Judith Plaskow
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A feminist critique of Judaism as a patriarchal tradition and an exploration of the increasing invo… read more
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- judaism
- religion
- theology
"If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply."-Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
"When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than…"-Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective
29. Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
By: Kathryn Tanner
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his clas… read more
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- religion
- theology
30. The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
By: Joy Ladin
4.28
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin … read more
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- religion
- theology
31. Liberation theology: human hope confronts Christian history and American power
By: Rosemary Radford Ruether
4.08
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Liberation Theology brings together a provocative American theologian and a battery of pressing que… read more
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- theology
