Ninian Smart

Richard Hecht

A well-annotated, impartial anthology of key texts from world religions--including the primitive, ancient, and esoteric alongside the living faiths of both Western and Eastern cultures... The excerpts are grouped by faiths and subclassified by type: sacred narratives, doctrines, rituals, institutional expressions, experience,and ethics...There are good bibliographies at the end of each.A.L.A. Booklist

A Universal Anthology

Sacred Texts of the World

Roger Friedland

"To Rule Jerusalem is a study of religion and politics, Judaism and Zionism as well as Palestinian nationalism and Islam, and it brings a most remarkable perspective to a topic--conflict over Jerusalem--with which we all are, unfortunately, far more familiar than we might like to be."—Gregory Mahler, Shofar

To Rule Jerusalem

Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Jeffrey C Alexander

This is an ethnographic account of the 20th century struggle for Jerusalem. It examines the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and the divisions within each nation, evoking the ways in which these conflicts are experienced and managed.

Richard Hecht

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