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Catholicism by Gerald O'Collins; Mario Farrugia
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2015-02-18
The bestselling Catholicism has now been revised and updated for an eagerly-anticipated second edition. This lucid and accessible account explains how Roman Catholicism and its beliefs and practices came to be what they are.
Islam by John Kaltner
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
Islam, the often misunderstood faith of one billion people. Westerners are showing a new curiosity about Islam and other religions, in part, perhaps, because religion is arguably the single most important and volatile factor in geopolitics today.
A Survey of Hinduism by Klaus K. Klostermaier
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) BL1202 .K56 2007
Publication Date: 2007-07-05
The third edition of this well-regarded introduction to Hinduism adds new material on the religion's origins, on its relations with rival traditions, and on Hindu science.
Red State Christians: a Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage It Leaves Behind by Angela Denker
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2022
Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics by Graeme Kirkpatrick, Peter McMylor, Simin Fadaee, editors
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2022
Medieval Christianity by Kevin J. Madigan
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) BR162.3 .M33 2015
Publication Date: 2015
An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more.
Religion and national identity : governing Scottish Presbyterianism in the eighteenth century by Alistair Mutch
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2015

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