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1.1.0 Bijbelwetenschappen Algemeen

Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth

Changing Horizons: Explorations of the Feminist Interpretation

Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenzas work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the theological and ecclesial setting of today.

Schussler Fiorenza attempts to free both biblical studies and theology from disciplinary constraints and assumptions that have allowed them to acquiesce and even perpetuate forms of oppressionfrom racism and poverty to colonialism and gender equality.

Fortress Press, 2013, geb, 307 pp, € 43.95, 9780800698072

1.2.0 Bijbelwetenschappen Tenach / OT algemeen

Stiebert, Johanna

Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible

The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of this relationship, the tendency has been to focus on discrete stories - notable among them, Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah's human sacrifice of his daughter) and Genesis 19 (the dark tale of Lot's daughters' seduction of their father). By taking the full spectrum into account, however, the daughter emerges prominently as (not only) expendable and exploitable (as an emphasis on daughter sacrifice or incest has suggested) but as cherished and protected by her father. Depictions of daughters are multifarious and there is a balance of very positive and very negative images. While not uncritical of earlier feminist investigations, this book makes a contribution to feminist biblical criticism and utilizes methods drawn from the social sciences and psychoanalysis. Alongside careful textual analysis, Johanna Stiebert offers a critical evaluation of the heuristic usefulness of the ethnographic honour-shame model, of parallels with Roman family studies, and of the application and meaning of 'patriarchy'. Following semantic analysis of the primary Hebrew terms for 'father' ( ) and 'daughter' ( ), as well as careful examination of inter-family dynamics and the daughter's role vis-a-vis the son's, alongside thorough investigation of both Judges 11 and Genesis 19, and also of the metaphor of God-the-father of daughters Eve, Wisdom and Zion, Stiebert provides the fullest exploration of daughters in the Hebrew Bible to date.

Oxford UP, 2013, geb, 265 pp, € 84.00, 9780199673827

1.2.2.4 Samuel

Leuchter, Mark

Samuel and the Shaping of Tradition

Samuel stands out in many important biblical texts as the figure who facilitated ancient Israel's transition from a tribal league to a monarchic state. On the surface of the text, this transition appears clear and linear, as does Samuel's role in bringing Israel together as a nation and selecting its first kings. Beneath this surface, however, is a far more complicated network of memories, sources and agendas, each presenting a very different picture of Samuel and his social, religious and ideological function. In some sources, Samuel serves as a symbol of Israel's developing priesthood and its system of social ethics, demonstrating the tensions within the priestly ranks. In others, Samuel's prophetic status is utilized to periodize Israel's history into distinct categories, positioning prophets over monarchs as national authorities. Elsewhere, Samuel is recruited to qualify - and disqualify - different forms of political organization in pre-monarchic Israel and systems of social hierarchy. Finally, the Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions return to the figure of Samuel and mine the texts in which he appears to re-structure Israel's national identity and the later communities that claimed descent from it. Mark Leuchter explores how the Samuel of these sources differs from the Samuel of the final form of the text, how the different writers used him to shape their ideas and transmit their messages, and how Samuel functions as a vehicle for the creation of a more elaborate literary superstructure drawn from discreet sources.

Biblical Refigurations, Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 159 pp, € 24.00, 9780199659333

1.4.0 Bijbelwetenschappen NT

Reinhartz, Adele

Caiaphas, The High Priest

Adele Reinhartz offers a thorough reconsideration of Caiaphas in the Gospels and other ancient texts as well as in subsequent visual arts, literature, film, and drama. The portrait that emerges challenges long-held beliefs about this New Testament figure by examining the background of the high priesthood and exploring the relationships among the high priest, the Roman leadership, and the Jewish population.

Reinhartz does not seek to exonerate Caiaphas from culpability in the crucifixion, but she does expand our understanding of Caiaphass complex religious and political roles in biblical literature and his culturally loaded depiction in ongoing Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Studies on Personalities of the New Testament Series, Fortress Press, 2011/2013, pap, 254 pp, € 34.90, 9780800699406

1.4.2 Handelingen

Heer, Jos de

Jezus' geestkracht wereldwijd. Commentaar op handelingen

Dit commentaar op Handelingen verschaft op inspirerende wijze toegang tot een van de belangrijkste historische bronteksten van het christelijke geloof. De essentie van dat wat later uitgegroeid is tot 'kerk' wordt hier in het prille begin van de 'Jezus-beweging' beschreven. Wie zoekt naar verfrissende vitaliteit voor het geliefde en verguisde instituut kan in dit back-to-basics-Bijbelboek zijn hart ophalen.

Wereldwijde geestkracht! Jezus' werk gaat door! Na zijn wrede executie door de Romeinen blijkt Jezus wereldwijd inspirerend aanwezig. Dat vertelt de evangelist Lucas in zijn nieuwe tekst 'Handelingen'. Een levendig en opwindend geschiedverhaal vol ontroering, spanning en conflicten. Over mensen die geinspireerd door Jezus alles met elkaar gaan delen, over wonderen van Petrus, de beroemde reizen van Paulus, rechtszaken en indrukwekkende toespraken. Lucas spreekt over de kracht van een nieuw leven die mensen overrompelt en die zich over de hele wereld aan het verspreiden is.

Skandalon, 2013, pap, 816 pp, € 54.40, 9789490708641

1.4.3.00 Paulus algemeen

	Luckritz Marquis, Timothy Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus' age, when Rome's wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and people they brought about. In so doing, Luckritz Marquis provides an explanation for how Paul created, maintained, and expanded his local communities in the larger, international Jesus movement and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day. Synkrisis, Yale UP, 2013, geb, 196 pp, € 39.95, 9780300187144	winkelwagen
	Waddell, James A. The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios This volume discusses conceptual elements of messianic traditions that are identified in the Parables of Enoch and the Letters of Paul by examining the nature and functions of the divine figure and of the messiah figure. Comparative analysis presented here demonstrates that the Parables of Enoch and the Letters of Paul share specific conceptual elements of messianic traditions. The combination of shared elements is so striking as to preclude the possibility that the Parables of Enoch and the Letters of Paul constituted independent, parallel developments. It cannot be claimed, however, that Paul was familiar with the text of the Parables of Enoch; there are no direct quotes of the Parables anywhere in Paul's Letters. Waddell does however show that Paul was familiar with the conceptual elements of the Enochic messiah, and that Paul developed his concept of the Kyrios out of the Son of Man traditions in the Book of the Parables of Enoch. Waddell specifically argues Pauline christology was at the very least heavily influenced by Enochic Son of Man traditions. Jewish and Christian Text Series, T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2013, pap, 240 pp, € 31.50, 9780567561152	winkelwagen

1.4.3.08 Timoteus

Wall, Robert W., Richard B. Steele

1 and 2 Timothy and Titus

This theological commentary on 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus by Robert Wall powerfully demonstrates the ongoing relevance and authority of the Pastoral Epistles for the church today. Wall uniquely employs an apostolic "Rule of Faith" methodology for interpreting these texts as sacred Scripture. Three successive historical case studies by Richard Steele vividly instantiate key themes of the Pastorals. This innovative yet reverent volume will help revive the interest of students, pastors, and other Christian leaders in the Pastoral Epistles.

Two Horizons New Testament Commentaries, Eerdmans, 2013, pap, 416 pp, € 23.50, 9780802825629

1.4.4 Openbaring van Johannes

Boxall, Ian

Patmos in the Reception History of the Apocalypse

This monograph explores the significance accorded to John's island of Patmos (Rev. 1:9) within the wider reception history of the Apocalypse. In contrast to the relatively scant attention paid to John's island in modern commentaries, this reception-historical survey reveals both the greater prominence accorded to Patmos by earlier interpreters, and the richer diversity of readings the text has provoked. These include interest in the physical character of Patmos and its significance as an island; the date and reason for John's sojourn there; attempts to locate Patmos in a geography which is sometimes more mythical than literal; the meaning of the name 'Patmos' in the context of a biblical book which treats other place-names symbolically. This diversity is supported by a close reading of Rev. 1:9, which highlights the extent to which even its literal sense is highly ambiguous. Ian Boxall brings together for the first time in a coherent narrative a wide range of interpretations of Patmos, reflecting different chronological periods, cultural contexts, and Christian traditions. Boxall understands biblical interpretation broadly, to include interpretations in biographical traditions about John, sermons, liturgy, and visual art as well as biblical commentaries.He also considers popular and marginal readings alongside magisterial and centrist ones, and draws analogies between similar hermeneutical strategies across the centuries. In the final chapter Boxall explores the wider implications of his study for biblical scholarship, advocating an approach which encourages use of the imagination and reader participation, and which works with a broader concept of 'meaning' than traditional historical criticism.

Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs, Oxford UP, 2013, geb, 273 pp, € 84.95, 9780199674206

2.1.1.0 Geschiedenis Tweede Tempel Periode / Vroeg Christendom Jezus historisch

	Athans, B.V.M., Mary Christine In Quest of the Jewish Mary: The Mother of Jesus in History, Theology and Spirituality Jesus, as is well known, was born and raised as a Jew in first-century Palestine. A great deal of theological study has focused on the Jewish cultural and religious context of his life and ministry. It is only natural that this attention should lead us to a new approach to his mother, Mary of Nazareth. To some extent, this quest for the Jewish Mary involves excavating beneath centuries of devotional reflection and artistic depictions that have presented a mythologized Mary, detached from history and from her specific Jewish identity. In this book, Mary Christine Athans draws on the latest historical research, the fruits of post-Vatican II Jewish-Christian dialogue, the insights of feminist theology, and contemporary spiritual reflection to rediscover the Jewish Mary - a woman of enormous courage, strength, and prayer. In restoring Mary to her own time and place, she helps us rediscover Mary's message for our own time. Orbis Books, 2013, pap, 210 pp, € 18.50, 9781626980044	winkelwagen
	Keith, Chris Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee Despite many scholars' assumptions that Jesus was an illiterate peasant or, conversely, even a Pharisee none have critically engaged the evidence to ask 'Could Jesus read or write?' Some studies have attempted to provide a direct answer to the question using the limited primary evidence that exists. However, these previous attempts have not been sufficiently sensitive to the literary environment of Second Temple Judaism, an area that has seen significant scholarly progression in the last ten to fifteen years. They have provided un-nuanced classifications of Jesus as either "literate" or "illiterate" rather than observing that literacy at this time did not fall into such monolithic categories. An additional contribution of this work is in the area of criteria of authenticity in Historical Jesus studies. Emphasizing plausibility and the later effects of the Historical Jesus Chris L. Keith argues that the most plausible explanation for why the early Church remembered Jesus simultaneously as a literate Jewish teacher and an illiterate Jewish teacher was that he was able to convince his contemporaries of both realities. The Library of New Testament Studies 413 / Library of Historical Jesus Studies 8, T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2013, pap, 224 pp, € 27.50, 9780567533975	winkelwagen

2.1.1.1 Geschiedenis Tweede Tempel Periode / Vroeg Christendom

	Collins, John J. , Daniel C. Harlow (eds) Early Judaism. A Comprehensive Overview Culled from "The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism," a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, "Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview" contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. Contributors: John M. G. Barclay, Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev, Katell Berthelot, John J. Collins, Erich S. Gruen, Daniel C. Harlow, James L. Kugel, Adam Kolman Marshak, Steve Mason, James S. McLaren, Maren R. Niehoff, David T. Runia, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Chris Seeman, Gregory E. Sterling, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Eibert Tigchelaar, Eugene Ulrich, Annewies van den Hoek, James C. VanderKam, Jurgen K. Zangenberg . Eerdmans, 2013, pap, 467 pp, € 32.50, 9780802869227	winkelwagen
	Frevel, Christian(ed) Mixed Marriages: Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period This volume investigates intermarriage and group identity in the Second Temple Period from different points of view with regard to methodology and analyzed texts. With an introduction to the history of research and a summarizing final section, the individual contributions are associated with the larger context of the recent debate. Thus not only the diversity of texts on mixed marriage within the Hebrew Bible and related scripture is shown and emphasized but the question of continuity and discontinuity as well as the socio-historical background of marriage restrictions is dealt with, too. Covering a wide range of texts from almost every part of the Hebrew Bible as well as from Elephantine, Qumran and several pseudepigrapha, like Jubilees, its focus is on possible counter texts with a more positive notion of foreign wives, in addition to restrictive and prohibitive texts. These different approaches illuminate the dynamics of the construction of group identity, culminating in conflicts concerning separation and integration which can be found in the debate on the topic of the "correct" marriage. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 547, T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2013, pap, 337 pp, € 44.00, 9780567187482	winkelwagen
	Lewis, Nicola Denzey Introduction to "Gnosticism": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds Discovered in Egypt in 1945, the fascinating and challenging Nag Hammadi writings forever changed our understanding of early Christianity. State-of-the-art and the only volume of its kind, Introduction to "Gnosticism": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds guides students through the most significant of the Nag Hammadi texts. Employing an exceptionally lucid and accessible writing style, Nicola Denzey Lewis groups the texts by theme and genre, places them in the broader context of the ancient world, and reveals their most inscrutable mysteries. Ideal for use in courses in Early Christianity/Origins of Christianity, Christianity to 1500, Gnostic Gospels, Gnosticism, Early Christian Writings, Orthodoxy and Heresy, and New Testament Studies, Introduction to "Gnosticism" is enhanced by numerous pedagogical features, including images of the manuscripts, study and discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, tables, diagrams, and a glossary. Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 305 pp, € 36.95, 9780199755318	winkelwagen
	Lucass, Shirley The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity For 2000 years Judaism and Christianity have been at odds with one another. The problem at the heart of the division is the concept of messiah. Shirley Lucass looks directly at the concept of messiah from an historical perspective and examines its roots in ancient Jewish literature, and its development within the Christian tradition, aiming not only to trace the biblical and extra-biblical developments of the concept, but to outline a platform for religious dialogue. Lucass begins with a survey of methodological approaches, and then moves on to consider the origins of the messiah concept in ancient near eastern kingship, the 'anointed' in the Second Temple period and the messiah as outlined in the New Testament and in post 70 CE Messianism. Lucass contends that the New Testament concept of messiah is not inconsistent with, nor incompatible with the Jewish antecedent traditions, and it is this conclusion which enables her to present a valuable chapter on the implications of this study for inter-religious dialogue. The Library of Second Temple Studies 78, T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2013, pap, 236 pp, € 31.50, 9780567153975	winkelwagen
	O'Grady, Selina En de mens schiep God. Koningen, cultussen en veroveringen in de tijd van Jezus. Waarom werd uit al die duizenden godsdiensten die bloeiden in de begindagen van het Romeinse rijk, uitgerekend de jaloerse God van een kleine, roerige provincie drie eeuwen later gekozen als de enige ware godsdienst? Waarom koos men niet voor de veel populairdere cultus van Isis? Waarom werden de lessen van de Stoicijnen of Zarathustra niet gevolgd, waar geen martelaren nodig waren? Waarom niet Apollonius, Boeddha, Confucius? Waarom was het christendom bij uitstek geschikt? Selina O'Grady geeft op boeiende, heldere wijze antwoord op deze vraag. Kok, 2013, pap, 392 pp, € 22.50, 9789059778436	winkelwagen

2.1.2.0 Geschiedenis Patristiek

	Alwis , Anne P. Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography: The Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography explores the puzzling phenomenon of celibate marriage as depicted in the lives of three couples who achieved sainthood. Marriage without intercourse appears to have no purpose, especially in Christian antiquity, yet these three tales were copied for centuries. What messages were they promoting? What did it mean to be a virgin husband and a virgin wife? Including full translations, this volume sets each life in its historical context, and by examining their individual and shared themes, the book shows that the tension raised by pitting marriage against celibacy is constantly debated. It also highlights the ingenuity of Byzantine hagiographers as they attempted to reconcile this curious paradox. This book addresses a gap in late Antique and Byzantine hagiographic studies where primary sources and interpretative material are very rarely presented in the same volume. By providing a variety of contexts to the material a much more comprehensive, revealing and holistic picture of celibate marriage emerges. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pap, 340 pp, € 41.00, 9781472508294	winkelwagen
	Jerome, St. ( Richard J. Goodrich, David J. D. Miller - eds) St. Jerome: Commentary on Ecclesiastes This first-ever translation into English of this early work by St. Jerome includes a commentary by the translators that not only elucidates the difficulties but also presents an original view of Jerome's approach to the theological issues raised by this challenging book of the Bible. Ancient Christian Writers 66, Paulist Press, 2013, geb, 258 pp, € 42.00, 9780809106011	winkelwagen
	Schwartz, Daniel L. Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and worship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization. It analyzes the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia as a curriculum designed to train those seeking initiation into the Christian mysteries. Although Theodore gave considerable attention to teaching creedal theology, he sought to go beyond simply communicating information. His catechetical preaching set the teaching of Christian ideas within the context of religious community and ritual participation. In doing so he sought to produce a Christianized view of the world and of the convert's place in a community of worship. Theodore's attention to the communal, cognitive, and ritual components of initiation suggest a substantive understanding of religious conversion, yet one that avoids an overemphasis on intellectual and psychological transformation. Throughout this study catechesis emerges as invaluable for comprehending the ability of clergy to initiate new members as Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman world. Hellenic Studies Series 57, Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2013, pap, 170 pp, € 26.00, 9780674067035	winkelwagen
	Waal, Esther De Seeking God, The Way of St. Benedict A new edition of this contemporary spirtitual classic in which the ancient and gentle wisdom of the Rule of St Benedict is explored in realtion to the demands of modern living and the importance of balance between prayer, work and study. Canterbury Press, 1999, pap, 160 pp, € 13.95, 9781853113468	winkelwagen

2.2 Geschiedenis ME / Renaissance

	Bird, Jessalynn Lea, Edward Peters, James M. Powells (eds) Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom-the "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth"-and announcing a General Council of the Latin Church as redress. The Fourth Lateran Council, which convened in 1215, was unprecedented in its scope and impact, and it called for the Fifth Crusade as what its participants hoped would be the final defense of Christendom. For the first time, a collection of extensively annotated and translated documents illustrates the transformation of the crusade movement. Crusade and Christendom explores the way in which the crusade was used to define and extend the intellectual, religious, and political boundaries of Latin Christendom. It also illustrates how the very concept of the crusade was shaped by the urge to define and reform communities of practice and belief within Latin Christendom and by Latin Christendom's relationship with other communities, including dissenting political powers and heretical groups, the Moors in Spain, the Mongols, and eastern Christians. The relationship of the crusade to reform and missionary movements is also explored, as is its impact on individual lives and devotion. The selection of documents and bibliography incorporates and brings to life recent developments in crusade scholarship concerning military logistics and travel in the medieval period, popular and elite participation, the role of women, liturgy and preaching, and the impact of the crusade on western society and its relationship with other cultures and religions. Intended for the undergraduate yet also invaluable for teachers and scholars, this book illustrates how the crusades became crucial for defining and promoting the very concept and boundaries of Latin Christendom. It provides translations of and commentaries on key original sources and up-to-date bibliographic materials. The Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, geb, 509 pp, € 64.00, 9780812244786	winkelwagen
	Kessler, Herbert L., David Nirenberg (eds) Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world. The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces. From its beginnings, Christianity confronted a host of questions about visual representation. Should Christians make art, or does attention to the beautiful works of human hands constitute a misplaced emphasis on the things of this world or, worse, a form of idolatry ("Thou shalt make no graven image")? And if art is allowed, upon what styles, motifs, and symbols should it draw? Christian artists, theologians, and philosophers answered these questions and many others by thinking about and representing the relationship of Christianity to Judaism. This volume is the first dedicated to the long history, from the catacombs to colonialism but with special emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of "Jews"-more figurative than real-in order to conquer, defend, and explore its own territory. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011/2013, pap, 443 pp, € 31.00, 9780812222531	winkelwagen
	Latowsky, Anne A. Emperor of the World: Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800-1229 Charlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appearing frequently in chronicles, histories, imperial decrees, and hagiographies - even in stained -glass windows and vernacular verse and prose. In Emperor of the World, Anne A. Latowsky traces the curious history of this myth, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Instead of relinquishing his imperial dignity and handing the rule of a united Christendom over to God as predicted, this Charlemagne returns to the West to commence his reign. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. New versions of the myth would resurface at times of transition and during periods marked by strong assertions of Roman-style imperial authority and conflict with the papacy, most notably during the reigns of Henry IV and Frederick Barbarossa. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism. Cornell University Press, 2013, geb, 290 pp, € 41.50, 9780801451485	winkelwagen
	Malegam , Jehangir Yezdi The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared only grudgingly with powers and principalities. To kingdoms and communities they had allowed attenuated versions of this peace, modes of accommodation and domination that had tranquility as the goal. After 1000, reformers in the papal curia and monks and canons in the intellectual circles of northern France began to reimagine the Church as an engine of true peace, whose task it was eventually to absorb all peoples through progressive acts of revolutionary peacemaking. Peace as they envisioned it became a mandate for reform through conflict, coercion, and insurrection. And the pursuit of mere tranquility appeared dangerous, and even diabolical Cornell University Press, 2013, geb, 335 pp, € 45.00, 9780801451324	winkelwagen
	Merback , Mitchell B. Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Jews that would explode into violence across Germany and Austria. And pilgrimage shrines were built on the sites where supposed desecrations had led to miracles or to anti-Semitic persecutions. Exploring the legends, cult forms, imagery, and architecture of these host-miracle shrines, "Pilgrimage and Pogrom" reveals how they not only reflected but also actively shaped Christian anti-Judaism in the two centuries before the Reformation. Mitchell B. Merback studies surviving relics and eucharistic cult statues, painted miracle cycles and altarpieces, propaganda broadsheets, and more in an effort to explore how accusation and legend were transformed into propaganda and memory. Merback shows how persecution and violence became interdependent with normative aspects of Christian piety, from pilgrimage to prayers for the dead, infusing them with the ideals of crusade. Valiantly reconstructing the cult environments created for these sacred places, "Pilgrimage and Pogrom" is an illuminating look at Christian-Jewish relations in premodern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2013, geb, 416 pp, € 59.95, 9780226520193	winkelwagen
	Mitchell, Stephen A. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sami and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blakulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control. The Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, pap, 368 pp, € 22.90, 9780812222555	winkelwagen
	Noble, Thomas F.X. Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council of Nicaea. In 815, a second great wave of iconoclasm was set off, only to end in 842 when the icons were restored to the churches of the East and the iconoclasts excommunicated. The iconoclast controversies have long been understood as marking major fissures between the Western and Eastern churches. Thomas F. X. Noble reveals that the lines of division were not so clear. It is traditionally maintained that the Carolingians in the 790s did not understand the basic issues involved in the Byzantine dispute. Noble contends that there was, in fact, a significant Carolingian controversy about visual art and, if its ties to Byzantine iconoclasm were tenuous, they were also complex and deeply rooted in central concerns of the Carolingian court. Furthermore, he asserts that the Carolingians made distinctive and original contributions to the whole debate over religious art. Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm. By comparing art-texts with laws, letters, poems, and other sources, Noble reveals the power and magnitude of the key discourses of the Carolingian world during its most dynamic and creative decades. The Middle Ages Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, pap, 488 pp, € 26.50, 9780812222562	winkelwagen
	Quinlan-McGrath, Mary Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated people of the Renaissance commissioned artworks centered on astrological themes and practices. "Influences" is the first book to reveal how important Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but also - perhaps even primarily - functional. From the fresco cycles at Caprarola, to the Vatican's Sala dei Pontefici, to the Villa Farnesina, these great works were commissioned to selectively capture and then transmit celestial radiation, influencing the bodies and minds of their audiences. Quinlan-McGrath examines the sophisticated logic behind these theories and practices and, along the way, sheds light on early creation theory; the relationship between astrology and natural theology; and the protochemistry, physics, and mathematics of rays. An original and intellectually stimulating study, "Influences" adds a new dimension to the understanding of aesthetics among Renaissance patrons and a new meaning to the seductive powers of art. University of Chicago Press, 2013, geb, 304 pp, € 33.00, 9780226922843	winkelwagen
	Roiz, Javier A Vigilant Society. Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain A Vigilant Society presents a provocative hypothesis that argues that Western society as we know it emerged from the soil of Jewish intellectual advances in the thirteenth century, especially those formulated on the Iberian Peninsula. A paradigmatic shift began to occur, one that abandoned the pre-Gothic Sephardic wisdom found in, for example, the writings of Maimonides in favor of what author Javier Roiz calls the 'vigilant society'. This model embraces a conception of politics that includes a radical privatization of an individual's interior life and-especially as adopted and adapted in later centuries by Roman Catholic and Calvinist thinkers-is marked by a style of politics that accepts the dominance of power and control as given. Vigilant society laid the foundation for the Western understanding of politics and its institutions and remains pervasive in today's world. SUNY / State University of New York Press, 2013, geb, 362 pp, € 84.00, 9781438445632	winkelwagen

2.3 Geschiedenis Vroegmodern / Reformatie / Contrareformatie

	Mayer, Thomas F. The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it followed medieval antecedents but went beyond them by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the pope. By the late sixteenth century the Roman Inquisition had developed its own distinctive procedures, legal process, and personnel, the congregation of cardinals and a professional staff. Its legal process grew out of the technique of inquisitio formulated by Innocent III in the early thirteenth century, it became the most precocious papal bureaucracy on the road to the first "absolutist" state. As Thomas F. Mayer demonstrates, the Inquisition underwent constant modification as it expanded. The new institution modeled its case management and other procedures on those of another medieval ancestor, the Roman supreme court, the Rota. With unparalleled attention to archival sources and detail, Mayer portrays a highly articulated corporate bureaucracy with the pope at its head. He profiles the Cardinal Inquisitors, including those who would play a major role in Galileo's trials, and details their social and geographical origins, their education, economic status, earlier careers in the Church, and networks of patronage. At the point this study ends, circa 1640, Pope Urban VIII had made the Roman Inquisition his personal instrument and dominated it to a degree none of his predecessors had approached. Haney Foundation Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, geb, 385 pp, € 67.50, 9780812244731	winkelwagen
	Michelson, Emily The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war--the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects--was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous religious convolution, fluidity, and danger, preachers of all kinds spoke from the pulpit daily, weekly, or seasonally to confront the hottest controversies of their time. Preachers also turned to the printing press in unprecedented numbers to spread their messages. Emily Michelson challenges the stereotype that Protestants succeeded in converting Catholics through superior preaching and printing. Catholic preachers were not simply reactionary and uncreative mouthpieces of a monolithic church. Rather, they deftly and imaginatively grappled with the question of how to preserve the orthodoxy of their flock and maintain the authority of the Roman church while also confronting new, undeniable lay demands for inclusion and participation. These sermons--almost unknown in English until now--tell a new story of the Reformation that credits preachers with keeping Italy Catholic when the region's religious future seemed uncertain, and with fashioning the post-Reformation Catholicism that thrived into the modern era. By deploying the pulpit, pen, and printing press, preachers in Italy created a new religious culture that would survive in an unprecedented atmosphere of competition and religious choice. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History, Harvard University Press, 2013, geb, 262 pp, € 39.95, 9780674072978	winkelwagen
	Parry , Glyn The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527 - 1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book - the first full-length biography of Dee based on primary historical sources - Glyn Parry explores Dee's vast array of political, magical, and scientific writings and finds that they cast significant new light on policy struggles in the Elizabethan court, conservative attacks on magic, and Europe's religious wars. John Dee was more than just a fringe magus, Parry shows: he was a major figure of the Reformation and Renaissance. Yale University Press, 2013, pap, 335 pp, € 19.00, 9780300194098	winkelwagen
	Shoulson, Jeffrey S. Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half-sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross-currents, the English discovered that conversion was by no means a finite, discrete process. In Fictions of Conversion, Jeffrey S. Shoulson argues that the vagaries of religious conversion were more readily negotiated when they were projected onto an alien identity-one of which the potential for transformation offered both promise and peril but which could be kept distinct from the emerging identity of Englishness: the Jew. Early modern Englishmen and -women would have recognized an uncannily familiar religious chameleon in the figure of the Jewish converso, whose economic, social, and political circumstances required religious conversion, conformity, or counterfeiting. Shoulson explores this distinctly English interest in the Jews who had been exiled from their midst nearly three hundred years earlier, contending that while Jews held out the tantalizing possibility of redemption through conversion, the trajectory of falling in and out of divine favor could be seen to anticipate the more recent trajectory of England's uncertain path of reformation. In translations such as the King James Bible and Chapman's Homer, dramas by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, and poetry by Donne, Vaughan, and Milton, conversion appears as a cypher for and catalyst of other transformations-translation, alchemy, and the suspect religious enthusiasm of the convert-that preoccupy early modern English cultures of change. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, geb, 263 pp, € 56.00, 9780812244823	winkelwagen

2.4 Geschiedenis Modern

	Aalders, Maarten Heeft de slang gesproken? Het strijdbare leven van dr. J.G. Geelkerken (1879-1960) In 1926 werd dr. J.G. Geelkerken door de synode van de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland geschorst, en korte tijd later afgezet. Deze procedure trok volop aandacht in binnen- en buitenland. 'Heeft de slang gesproken?' Zo werd de kwestie-Geelkerken vaak neergezet. Maar tijdgenoten en latere historici beseften dat er iets heel anders aan de hand was. Ten diepste ging het om de vraag hoe de erfenis van A. Kuyper voor een nieuwe generatie moest worden vormgegeven. Nadat Geelkerken was afgezet ontstond een nieuw kerkgenootschap, de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (in Hersteld Verband). In deze kring werd Geelkerken een voortrekker van de oecumene. Dit streven werd in 1946 bekroond toen het Hersteld Verband zich herenigde met de Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk. Allerlei aspecten van deze kerkgeschiedenis zijn eerder beschreven. Maar wie was Jan Geelkerken? Steunend op eerder onderzoek en aan de hand van het uitgebreide persoonlijke archief van Geelkerken schetst Aalders een nieuw beeld van deze markante en soms lastige man. Bert Bakker, 2013, pap, 448 pp, € 49.90, 9789035139565	winkelwagen
	Andrews, Edward E. Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles offers one of the most significant untold stories in the history of early modern religious encounters, marshalling wide-ranging research to shed light on the crucial role of Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves in Protestant missionary work. The result is a pioneering view of religion's spread through the colonial world. From New England to the Caribbean, the Carolinas to Africa, Iroquoia to India, Protestant missions relied on long-forgotten native evangelists, who often outnumbered their white counterparts. Their ability to tap into existing networks of kinship and translate between white missionaries and potential converts made them invaluable assets and potent middlemen. Though often poor and ostracized by both whites and their own people, these diverse evangelists worked to redefine Christianity and address the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement. Far from being advocates for empire, their position as cultural intermediaries gave native apostles unique opportunities to challenge colonialism, situate indigenous peoples within a longer history of Christian brotherhood, and harness scripture to secure a place for themselves and their followers. Native Apostles shows that John Eliot, Eleazar Wheelock, and other well-known Anglo-American missionaries must now share the historical stage with the black and Indian evangelists named Hiacoomes, Good Peter, Philip Quaque, John Quamine, and many more. Harvard University Press, 2013, geb, 326 pp, € 33.95, 9780674072466	winkelwagen
	Heijer, Henk den Geschiedenis van de WIC, opkomst, bloei en ondergang, 4-e druk De verovering van de zilvervloot door Piet Heyn is bij de meeste Nederlanders wel bekend. Maar veel verder gaat de kennis van de West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) meestal niet. Onterecht, zoals dit boek laat zien. Want de opkomst, bloei en ondergang van de WIC vormen een fascinerende episode in de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Vanaf de oprichting in 1621 bouwde de WIC voortvarend een imperium op, dat zich uitstrekte over Brazilie, de Caribische eilanden en delen van West-Afrika. Via een uitgebreid netwerk van forten en factorijen bedreef deze Compagnie intensieve goederen- en slavenhandel. De Nederlanders gingen oorlogen tegen de Spanjaarden en Portugezen niet uit de weg. In Geschiedenis van de WIC kijkt historicus Henk den Heijer verder dan de wapenfeiten. Hij belicht uitvoerig de organisatie van de WIC in Nederland, evenals het beheer van de kolonien in Amerika en de handelsactiviteiten in Afrika. Uiteraard komen ook de tegenslagen aan bod, die uiteindelijk leidden tot de roemloze opheffing van de Compagnie in 1791. Geschiedenis van de WIC is een standaardwerk over het roerige bestaan van deze belangrijke handelsorganisatie. Samen met De geschiedenis van de VOC schetst dit boek een compleet beeld over het ontstaan van de Nederlandse koloniale geschiedenis. Walburg Pers, 2013, geb, 208 pp, € 34.50, 9789057308918	winkelwagen
	Monod, Paul Kleber Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new anti-establishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favour of "reason" but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today. Yale University Press, 2013, geb, 430 pp, € 36.50, 9780300123586	winkelwagen
	Shantz, Douglas H. An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe "An Introduction to German Pietism" provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with inspiring both Evangelicalism and modern individualism. Taking into account new discoveries in the field, Douglas H. Shantz focuses on features of Pietism that made it religiously and culturally significant. He discusses the social and religious roots of Pietism in earlier German Radicalism and situates Pietist beginnings in three cities: Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Halle. Shantz also examines the cultural worlds of the Pietists, including Pietism and gender, Pietists as readers and translators of the Bible, and Pietists as missionaries to the far reaches of the world. He not only considers Pietism's role in shaping modern western religion and culture but also reflects on the relevance of the Pietist religious paradigm of today. The first survey of German Pietism in English in forty years, "An Introduction to German Pietism" provides a narrative interpretation of the movement as a whole. The book's accessible tone and concise portrayal of an extensive and complex subject make it ideal for courses on early modern Christianity and German history. The book includes appendices with translations of German primary sources and discussion questions. Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, pap, 490 pp, € 24.90, 9781421408316	winkelwagen
	Wood, Jr. , John Halsey Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Netherlands Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian of the 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures, the Lectures on Calvinism. In fact, the church was the point from which Kuyper's concerns for society and public theology radiated. In his own words, "The problem of the church is none other than the problem of Christianity itself." The loss of state support for the church, religious pluralism, rising nationalism, and the populist religious revivals sweeping Europe in the nineteenth century all eroded the church's traditional supports. Dutch Protestantism faced the unprecedented prospect of "going Dutch"; from now on it would have to pay its own way. John Wood examines how Abraham Kuyper adapted the Dutch church to its modern social context through a new account of the nature of the church and its social position. The central concern of Kuyper's ecclesiology was to re-conceive the relationship between the inner aspects of the church-the faith and commitment of the members-and the external forms of the church, such as doctrinal confessions, sacraments, and the relationship of the church to the Dutch people and state. Kuyper's solution was to make the church less dependent on public entities such as nation and state and more dependent on private support, especially the good will of its members. This ecclesiology de-legitimated the national church and helped Kuyper justify his break with the church, but it had wider effects as well. It precipitated a change in his theology of baptism from a view of the instrumental efficacy of the sacrament to his later doctrine of presumptive regeneration wherein the external sacrament followed, rather than preceded and prepared for, the intenral work grace. This new ecclesiology also gave rise to his well-known public theology; once he achieved the private church he wanted, as the Netherlands' foremost public figure, he had to figure out how to make Christianity public again. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford UP, 2013, geb, 235 pp, € 59.50, 9780199920389	winkelwagen

4.2 Kerkgenootschappen Katholieke Kerk

	Catechismus van de Katholieke Kerk Deze catechismus brengt dat wat voor ons geloven van belang is bijeen in een samenhangend en compact geheel. Geworteld in het verleden, is dit werk een gave voor vandaag en de toekomst' (Nederlandse bisschoppen). Inhoudelijk behandelt de catechismus: * het geloof, vanuit de twaalf artikelen van het geloof; * het christelijke mysterie, met nadruk op de sacramenten; * het 'leven in Christus', met nadruk op de christelijke moraal; * de tien geboden; * het gebed. Deze geactualiseerde Nederlandstalige uitgave telt diverse registers. Het zeer uitgebreide trefwoordenregister maakt het mogelijk snel inzicht te verkrijgen in de leer van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk op allerlei religieuze en maatschappelijke terreinen. Gooi & Sticht, 1995/2008, geb, 784 pp, € 41.50, 9789030407188	winkelwagen
	Bastiaanse, Rene Onkuisheid, de Nederlandse biechtpraktijk 1900-1965 In het tijdvak 1900-1965 zijn er in Nederland meer dan 18.500 mannen tot priester gewijd. Tijdens hun studie op een van de vele grootseminaries werden de studenten onder andere geoefend in de moraaltheologische beoordeling van de zonden; het boetesacrament vormde immers een belangrijk onderdeel van de latere beroepspraktijk. Veelal in het laatste jaar van de opleiding werd bovendien speciaal onderricht gegeven in wat werd genoemd het sextum: het 6e (en 9e) gebod. In die lessen werd uitvoerig aandacht besteed aan alle mogelijke aspecten van de menselijke seksualiteit, opdat de priester in de biechtstoel adequaat kon reageren op de bekentenissen van de gelovigen. Maar ook meer praktische zaken kwamen aan de orde, zoals de wijze van verhoor, de aard van de vermaning, de zwaarte van de penitentie, de adviezen ter preventie van ongeoorloofde wellust e.d. Gebruikmakend van omvangrijk bronnenmateriaal schetst de historicus Rene Bastiaanse een genuanceerd beeld van de ontwikkeling van de katholieke seksuele moraal in Nederland tijdens het rijke roomse leven. W Books, 2013, pap, 303 pp, € 22.95, 9789066301504	winkelwagen
	Fens, Stijn De nieuwe paus 'Habemus papam!' schalde er op 13 maart over het majestueuze Sint-Pieterplein in Rome. Paus Franciscus is zijn naam, maar wat weten we nu eigenlijk over de nieuwe opvolger van Petrus? Hoe gaat dat precies in zijn werking, zo'n pausverkiezing? En welk werk liet de vorige paus voor Franciscus achter? Stijn Fens, al sinds jaar en dag kind aan huis in het Vaticaan, vertelt over alle ins en outs van het nieuwe pontificaat. Van de pauselijke brillenmaker tot Vatileaks, van zwarte rook tot witte rook, van lobby's tot pijnlijke dossiers: alles wat een conclaaf zo spannend maakt komt aan bod in De nieuwe paus. Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2013, pap, € 8.95, 9789025300951	winkelwagen
	Gregg, Samuel The Modern Papacy Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, modernity and the Papacy have experienced a difficult though never severed relationship. Modern Papacy goes beyond the caricatures to demonstrate how the popes - specifically John Paul II and Benedict XVI - have articulated a sophisticated critique of the post-Enlightenment world, one that acknowledges the real progress made in modernity while simultaneously highlighting its political and philosophical shortcomings. Far from falling on deaf ears, the nature of their engagement with the modern world has sparked criticism and praise from Catholics and non-Catholics alike - sometimes in surprising ways. Whether the subject is faith and reason, religion and the modern sciences, the roots and future of Europe, or the origin and ends of human freedom, John Paul II and Benedict XVI pose questions that simply cannot be ignored, regardless of whether one likes their answers. Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers , 5, Continuum-Bloomsbury, 2009/2013, pap, 162 pp, € 27.50, 9781441136848	winkelwagen
	Stufkens, Hein Franciscus, de weg van eenvoud 'Habemus papam!' zo klonk het na een historisch kort conclaaf op dertien maart 2013 op het Sint Pietersplein in Rome. En zijn naam is Franciscus de Eerste. Waar staat de naam Franciscus voor? Wat mogen we op basis van zijn naamgever van de nieuwe paus verwachten? Die naam is een programma, zeggen Vaticaankenners. Wat houdt dat programma in? Enerzijds was Franciscus van Assisi een man van grote liefde voor alle schepselen. Een man die het evangelie in woord en daad gestalte gaf, zelfs in die mate dat hij wel 'een tweede Christus' is genoemd. Door zijn eenvoud was hij bovendien een luis in de pels van de kerkelijke machthebbers. Anderzijds was hij trouw aan de leer, gehoorzaam aan de paus, en zag hij de wereld niet alleen als een prachtig geschenk van God maar ook als een slagveld waarop zich de strijd afspeelt tussen goed en kwaad, tussen God en de duivel. In dit boek laat de auteur zien dat de naam Franciscus als programma multi-interpretabel is, en bruikbaar voor zowel conservatieven als progressieven. De essentie van zijn spiritualiteit, broeder- en zusterschap van alle schepselen, is echter actueler dan ooit. AnkhHermes, 2013, pap, 175 pp, € 14.95, 9789020209792	winkelwagen

4.4.0 Kerkgenootschappen Protestantse Kerken

	Dekker, Ries den Architect van kerkenwerk. Ds Hans van der Werf 1926-1979, een biografie Biografie van Hans van der Werf (1926-1979), een markant predikant en de eerste citypastor van de Domkerk in Utrecht. Met zijn geintegreerde manier van werken rond de begrippen vieren-leren-dienen heeft hij veel theologen geraakt en beinvloed. Skandalon, 2013, geb, 592 pp, € 44.50, 9789490708597	winkelwagen
	Heuvel, P. van den, F.T. Bos, L. J. Koffeman, B. Wallet, T.M. Willemze,A. Rigters (red) Toelichting op de kerkorde van de protestantse kerk in Nederland Boekencentrum, 2013, geb, 408 pp, € 29.50, 9789023926801	winkelwagen
	Verboom, W., P.J. Vergunst (red) Catechismus.nu, de Heidelberger voor vandaag Het is 450 jaar geleden dat de kerk van de Reformatie in de Heidelbergse Catechismus de kern van het christelijk geloof onder woorden gebracht heeft. Ze deed dat niet in een dogmatisch debat, maar gericht op het hart en leven van de kinderen van de gemeente. In Catechismus.nu confronteren diverse auteurs de verwoording van de reformatorische geloofsleer in 52 zondagen met vragen die christenen in onze tijd en cultuur stellen. Ze doen dit aan de hand van tien geloofskernen. Met hun zoektocht naar de relevantie van de catechismus voor vandaag willen zij de vraag beantwoorden hoe dit belijdenisgeschrift in de kerk van de 21e eeuw een betrouwbare gids kan zijn. Boekencentrum, 2013, pap, 167 pp, € 15.90, 9789023926795	winkelwagen

5.1.0 Praktische Theologie Pastoraat

Thans, Marianne, Annet Lampe

Balans tussen werk en thuis. Werkboek voor contextuele loopbaanbegeleiding

Overal om ons heen ontmoeten we mensen die vastlopen in hun werk. Sommigen raken zo het spoor in hun eigen leven kwijt. Dit werkboek is de neerslag van jarenlange ervaringen in het begeleiden van mensen die de moed vonden om de balans tussen werk en thuis op te maken. Het boek wil als gids dienen voor wie naar nieuwe mogelijkheden in werk en prive-leven zoekt. De schrijvers loodsen de gebruiker stap voor stap naar de bronnen van hulp en inspiratie die klaarliggen in het eigen levensverhaal. Het resultaat is beweging in de vastgelopen balans van geven en ontvangen. Maar ook: vrijheid in het maken van een nieuwe keuze.

Narratio, 2013, pap, 60 pp, € 9.00, 9789052638843

5.2 Praktische Theologie Ecclesiologie/ Gemeenteopbouw

	Hazel, Doreen Kettingdragers Narratio, 2013, pap, 86 pp, € 10.00, 9789052638584	winkelwagen
	Hendriks, Jan Goede wijn. Waarderende gemeenteopbouw Waarderende gemeenteopbouw. Hoopvol. Stimulerend. Gewoon doen! De kern van kerk-zijn is vertrouwen. De kerken staan voor de vraag: hoe verder? Dit boek geeft hierop een concreet antwoord. Het belangrijkste is: zet een andere bril op en krijg zo oog voor het goede en waardevolle. En: ga in vertrouwen! Er gaat iemand met je mee - een beschrijving van de weg waarop deze waarden op een vanzelfsprekende manier realiteit worden. De weg van het vertrouwen. Dit boek loopt uit in een schets van de vertrouwensvolle gemeente. Zo'n geloofsgemeenschap is voor de wereld van levensbelang. Kok, 2013, pap, 144 pp, € 14.50, 9789043521925	winkelwagen
	Perk, Nico van der Creatief diaconaat, voorbeelden uit de praktijk Nederland telt veel jonge mensen in creatieve beroepen: kunstenaars in de brede zin van het woord. Ook al hebben ze vaak geen enkel contact met de kerk, toch blijken zij in de praktijk graag bereid zich in te zetten voor diaconale projecten. Hun inspiratie en inzet werken stimulerend, want creativiteit en diaconaat hebben dezelfde spirituele kracht. Dit boek geeft praktijkvoorbeelden van samenwerking tussen diaconaat en jonge creatieve mensen. Uit enkele interviews wordt duidelijk wat we van hen kunnen leren. Daarnaast is er een verhelderend verslag van drie voorbeeldprojecten die Nico van der Perk uitvoerde in opdracht van de Vereniging Beraad Grote Steden in de Protestantse Kerk van Nederland. Het boek besluit met voorwaarden voor het slagen van een diaconaal project. Dit boek kan locale diaconieen enthousiast maken en tegelijk een nuchtere leidraad bieden om zelf projecten op te starten ten dienste van de samenleving. Nico van der Perk studeerde wijsgerige biologie, ethiek en milieukunde aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Hij deed diaconaal werk in Amsterdam. Sinds 2008 had hij als projectmaker en fondsenwerver zijn eigen "Bureau Mooizo." Hij overleed in mei 2012, 51 jaar oud. Prof. dr. Herman Noordegraaf en drs. Dick van Kampen hebben het door hem nagelaten materiaal geredigeerd. De Prof. Dr. G. van der Leeuw Stichting maakte de publicatie mede mogelijk. Skandalon, 2013, pap, 125 pp, € 14.00, 9789490708696	winkelwagen

5.3.0 Praktische Theologie Liturgie/ Liturgiek/ Homilitiek

Jong, Klaas-Willem de (red.)

Verbindend vieren. Spelen met vormen en stijlen in de eredienst

Liederen uit verschillende tradities, filmpjes van YouTube, drama - het komt in menige protestantse kerkdienst voor samen met traditionele vormen als preek en gebed. De klassieke orde van dienst dreigt te bezwijken onder deze veelvormigheid, de auteurs van dit boek gaan daarom terug naar de bron. In de liturgie vertelt de christelijke gemeente het verhaal van Gods bevrijdend handelen in Jezus Christus, waarvan zij zelf onderdeel is. Dat alles verbindende verhaal heeft een eigen spanningsboog. De uitwerking ervan kan gevarieerd zijn, met een filmpje, een seculier lied, een interactieve aanpak of een ingetogen aanbiddingslied.

Verbindend vieren is geen afgeronde theologische verhandeling, maar een eerste theologische verkenning van deze benadering van de liturgie. Het biedt tal van praktische voorbeelden en daagt u uit de kerkdienst met andere ogen te bekijken en zelf aan de slag te gaan.

Boekencentrum, 2013, pap, 156 pp, € 14.90, 9789023926900

5.3.2 Praktische Theologie Liedbundels/ Missalen/ Kerkmuziek

	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, Zingen en bidden in huis en kerk. Koorbundels Ten behoeve van de begeleiding van de gemeentezang. Losbladig, geperforeerd, multoponsing, met multoband Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, losbladig, 2400 pp, € 150.00, 9789491575068	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk -standaard, rood/geel Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden Extra: 2 leeslinten Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 25.00, 9789491575006	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk- standaard, blauw/groen Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden Extra: 2 leeslinten Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 25.00, 9789491575013	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk- standaard, veelkleurig Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden Extra: 2 leeslinten Twee kleurkaternen voor kinderen in samenwerking met Kwintessens Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 25.00, 9789491575044	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk- standaard Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden Extra: 2 leeslinten Twee kleurkaternen voor kinderen in samenwerking met Kwintessens Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 25.00, 9789491575082	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk- luxe rood Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden, kunstleer Extra: 2 leeslinten en goudsnede Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 39.90, 9789491575075	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, zingen en bidden in huis en kerk- luxe blauw Formaat: 11 x 18 cm Binnenwerk: dundruk, zwart met steunkleur Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden, kunstleer Extra: 2 leeslinten en goudsnede Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1600 pp, € 39.90, 9789491575037	winkelwagen
	Interkerkelijke Stichting voor het Kerklied Nieuw Liedboek voor jou, Zingen en bidden in huis en kerk. Koorbundels set van 3 koorbundels. Ten behoeve van de cantorij en zanggroep. Meerstemmige zettingen; in deel 1 zijn de Psalmen opgenomen, de overige liederen in de andere twee banden. Formaat: 19 x 26 cm Uitvoering: genaaid gebonden, drie banden, uitsluitend als set verkrijgbaar Verschijnt 25 mei BV Liedboek, 2013, geb, 1632 pp, € 99.00, 9789491575051	winkelwagen
	Smelik, Jan Het nieuwe liedboek in woord en beeld In mei 2013 verschijnt het nieuwe Liedboek - zingen en bidden in huis en kerk. Deze liedbundel bevat een bonte verscheidenheid aan liedgenres uit verleden en heden. In dit boek worden deze genres gepresenteerd en toegelicht. Dit gebeurt onder meer door de liederen in historisch perspectief te plaatsen, waarbij de auteur ook aandacht besteedt aan de religieuze en culturele context waarin ze zijn ontstaan. Dit boek richt zich op de gebruikers van het nieuwe liedboek die graag meer willen weten van het kerklied, zijn geschiedenis en achtergronden. Door de fraaie illustraties is het boek niet alleen boeiend om te lezen, maar ook om te bekijken. Boekencentrum, 2013, geb, 155 pp, € 17.50, 9789023926818	winkelwagen

5.5 Spiritualiteit / Geloofsverdieping

	Bosch, Roel Er zijn, Keltisch-christelijk geloven Keltisch christendom fascineert velen. Aandacht voor de natuur, sfeervolle landschappen, de pure wortels van een geloofslijn. Dat is wat veel mensen zien. Maar wat brengt Keltisch-christelijk geloven ons werkelijk? Dit boek biedt een bijzondere kennismaking met teksten en beelden, ervaringen en verhalen uit Keltisch-christelijke kringen. Bijbel en muziek klinken er volop in door. We herhalen de reis van de Keltische monniken die het christelijk geloof naar Nederland brachten om te zien of we hun spiritualiteit kunnen laten herleven. En we kijken naar hedendaagse bewegingen zoals die van de Iona-community. Tegelijk stelt dit boek ook kritische vragen: bestaat het eigenlijk wel echt, die Keltische spiritualiteit? Of is het een etiket dat op allerlei verschijnselen geplakt wordt die we allang in huis hebben? Misschien zijn we wel rijker dan we dachten! Roel Bosch is als predikant verbonden aan de NoorderLichtgemeente te Zeist. Hij vertaalde vele keltische teksten en is actief betrokken bij de Ionagroep Nederland. Meinema, 2013, pap, 144 pp, € 15.00, 9789021143408	winkelwagen
	Nouwen, Henri , Michael O'Laughlin (ed) Jesus: A Gospel Beloved spiritual writer Henri Nouwen is our guide in this unique retelling of the gospel story. Seamlessly woven from his many writings, Jesus juxtaposes gospel texts with Nouwen's own reflections on the life of Jesus. As Michael O'Laughlin notes in his introduction, "What the early church called 'the good news' was often communicated by one person reaching out to another. . . This is what Henri Nouwen did. He was a teacher, a man sent from God, and his ministry was to show people what God is doing in the world and how we might respond." In this book, in the company of a modern spiritual master, we are invited to rediscover the gospel story with new eyes. Orbis, 2013, pap, 150 pp, € 19.95, 9781626980143	winkelwagen
	Perry, Tim, Daniel Kendall, s.j. The Blessed Virgin Mary This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church's thinking about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth century. The second part contains an annotated bibliography of the most important and accessible English-language works on Mary.Tim Perry, an evangelical Anglican priest, and Daniel Kendall, a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, have joined across the Reformation divide to provide an irenic, balanced volume for students and general readers interested in this most remarkable woman and the ways in which she has shaped Christian thought. Guides tot theology, Eerdmans, 2013, pap, 118 pp, € 17.00, 9780802827333	winkelwagen

6.1.1 Kerst- en advent-boeken - verhalen/ vieren/ kinderen

Bonnefooi jaargang 18 nr. 3 2013 Zomer herfst 2013 (C-jaar): In de voetstappen van Jezus en de profeten

Zomer- en herfstnummer 2013 omvat de periode van 23 juni tot en met 24 november. Het bestrijkt de hele zomerperiode en de periode tot Advent. De verhalen volgen Jezus, zijn leerlingen en zijn volgelingen. Een nummer vol verhalen en suggesties, waarbij we het oecumenisch Leesrooster 'In Orde' van de Raad van Kerken volgen. Deze keer het Lucasevangelie en we vertellen veel verhalen van het alternatieve aanbod uit 1 en 2 koningen in de periode 22 september tot 24 november. Vaak loopt het evangelie parallel met het RK Lectionarium. Wanneer dit niet het geval is, maken we apart materiaal of we verwijzen naar een eerdere of latere zondag in het blad.

Sleutelverhalen sluiten aan bij het thema van zondag. Ze sleutelen de inhoud van het Bijbelgedeelte en kunnen gezien worden als 'toepassing' op de lezingen. De bijbel bestaat uit meer dan verhalen. Als er een brief of tekst centraal staat is er een sleutelverhaal waarin de betekenis zo dicht mogelijk benaderd wordt.

Narratio, 2013, pap, 224 pp, € 15.00, 9789052638010

6.4 Catechese / Geloofsopvoeding

Remery, Michel

Twitteren met God 2 # bidden, seks, carriere, doodzonde

100 vragen over bidden, seks, carriere en doodzonde. Priester Michel Remery gaat de uitdaging aan om alle tweets die hij kreeg te beantwoorden. Naast de korte tweets, geeft hij ook uitgebreid uitleg. Alles wat je wilt vragen aan God en je krijgt nog antwoord ook! Een breed overzicht van wat de Kerk door de eeuwen heen heeft geleerd.

Adveniat, 2013, geb, 224 pp, € 12.50, 9789491042560

7.0 Islam

Hughes, Aaron W.

Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam

Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich diversity of Muslim identities across the centuries and counters the unflattering, superficial portrayals of Islam that are shaping public discourse today. Aaron W. Hughes uniquely traces the development of Islam in relation to historical, intellectual, and cultural influences, enriching his narrative with the findings, debates, and methodologies of related disciplines, such as archaeology, history, and Near Eastern studies. Hughes's work challenges the dominance of traditional terms and concepts in religious studies, recasting religion as a set of social and cultural facts imagined, manipulated, and contested by various actors and groups over time. Making extensive use of contemporary identity theory, Hughes rethinks the teaching of Islam and religions in general and helps facilitate a more critical approach to Muslim sources. For readers seeking a non-theological, unbiased, and richly human portrait of Islam, as well as a strong grasp of Islamic study's major issues and debates, this textbook is a productive, progressive alternative to more classic surveys.

Columbia University Press, 2013, pap, 310 pp, € 27.95, 9780231161473

8 Judaica Geschiedenis en Cultuur ME

	Brody, Robert The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture The Geonic period from about the late sixth to mid-eleventh centuries is of crucial importance in the history of Judaism. The Geonim, for whom this era is named, were the heads of the ancient talmudic academies of Babylonia. They gained ascendancy over the older Palestinian centre of Judaism and were recognized as the leading religious and spiritual authorities by most of the world's Jewish population. The Geonim and their circles enshrined the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature and the leading guide to religious practice, and it was a predominantly Babylonian version of Judaism that was transplanted to newer centres of Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Robert Brody's book - the first survey in English of the Geonic period in almost a century - focuses on the cultural milieu of the Geonim and on their intellectual and literary creativity. Brody describes the cultural spheres in which the Geonim were active and the historical and cultural settings within which they functioned. He emphasizes the challenges presented by other Jewish institutions and individuals, ranging from those within the Babylonian Jewish setting - especially the political leadership represented by the Exilarch - to the competing Palestinian Jewish centre and to sectarian movements and freethinkers who rejected rabbinic authority altogether. He also describes the variety of ways in which the development of Geonic tradition was affected by the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, both Muslim and Christian. Winner of the Annual National Jewish Book Awards in the Sephardic Studies category. Yale University Press, 2013, pap, 408 pp, € 34.95, 9780300189322	winkelwagen
	Grunhaus, Naomi The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak's Biblical Commentaries One of the most vexing problems facing medieval Jewish interpreters of the Hebrew Bible was how to implement the new interpretive strategy of extracting the straightforward, contextual meaning of biblical verses (peshat), without neglecting revered ancient rabbinic modes of interpretation (derash), which tended to be more fanciful and homiletical. This book investigates the interpretive style of Radak (R. David Kimhi, c. 1160-1232), one of the most preeminent Jewish exegetes, who masterfully utilized both approaches simultaneously. Analyzing his idiosyncratic consistent juxtaposition of peshat and derash-type rabbinic comments, and thoroughly parsing his methodological statements, the book demonstrates how at times he finds rabbinic traditions essential to resolving textual questions that arise in exegesis, while at other times, he affords them only ancillary functions in his commentaries. Naomi Grunhaus also considers in depth Radak's criteria when challenging rabbinic teachings, whether in narrative or legal contexts, which leads to the conclusion that most often he rejects rabbinic traditions when they appear to contradict textual biblical evidence, but occasionally also on the grounds of implausibility. Particularly noteworthy is the author's discussion of Radak's apparent challenges to rabbinic legal interpretations of Scriptures, an approach which most other exegetes hesitated to take. The book considers the anomaly that Radak regularly quotes rabbinic traditions and relies on traditional authority, while simultaneously challenging this same authority when rejecting certain rabbinic interpretations. Oxford UP, 2013, geb, 258 pp, € 59.00, 9780199858408	winkelwagen

9.0.0 Godsdienstwetenschappen

	Adogame, Afe The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes. This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Africa) and the "host" societies are assuming increasing importance for African immigrants. The links and networks that are established and maintained between these contexts are of immense religious, cultural, economic, political and social importance. This suggests how African Christianities can be understood within processes of religious transnationalism and African modernity. Based on extensive religious ethnography undertaken by the author among African Christian communities in Europe, the USA and Africa in the last 17 years, this book maps and describes the incipience and consolidation of new brands of African Christianities in diaspora. The book demonstrates how African Christianities are negotiating and assimilating notions of the global while maintaining their local identities. Continuum-Bloomsbury, 2013, pap, 259 pp, € 31.00, 9781441136671	winkelwagen
	Hertzke, Allen D.(ed) The Future of Religious Freedom: Global Challenges What is the status of religious freedom in the world today? What barriers does it face? What are the realistic prospects for improvement, and why does this matter? The Future of Religious Freedom addresses these critical questions by assembling in one volume some of the best forward-thinking and empirical research on religious liberty, international legal trends, and societal dynamics. Top scholars from law, political science, diplomacy, sociology, and religion explore the status, value, and challenges of religious liberty around the world - with illustrations from a wide range of historical situations, contemporary contexts, and constitutional regimes. With a thematic focus on the nature of religious markets and statecraft, the book surveys conditions in different regions, from the Muslim arc to Asia to Eastern Europe. It probes dynamics in both established and emerging democracies. It features up-to-date treatments of such pivotal nations as China, Russia, and Turkey, as well as illuminating new threats to conscience and religious autonomy in the United States and in kin countries of the English speaking world. Finally, it demonstrates the vital contribution of religious freedom to inter-religious harmony, thriving societies, and global security, and applies these findings to the momentous issue of advancing freedom and democracy in Islamic cultures. Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 364 pp, € 26.00, 9780199930913	winkelwagen
	Kirby, Danielle Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives, and Digital Cultures Religion and spirituality are being transformed in our late modern and secularising times. New forms of belief proliferate, often notable for not being limited to traditional systems of reference or expression. Increasingly, these new religions present worldviews which draw directly upon popular culture - or occulture - in fiction, film, art and the internet. Fantasy and Belief explores the context and implications of these types of beliefs through the example of the Otherkin community. The Otherkin are a loosely-affiliated group who believe themselves to be in some way more than just human, their non-humanity often rooted in the characters and narratives of popular fantasy and science fiction. Challenging much current sociological thinking about spirituality and consumption, Fantasy and Belief reveals how popular occulture operates to recycle, develop, and disseminate metaphysical ideas, and how the popular and the sacred are combining in new ways in today's world. Approaches to New Religions, Equinox, 2013, geb, 224 pp, € 78.50, 9781908049230	winkelwagen
	Meer, Annine van der The Language of MA the primal mother. The evolution of the female image in 40.000 years of global Venus Art Klik hier voor een inhoudsopgave, samenvatting en voorbeeldpagina's Venus Art reflects the consciousness of egalitarian societies of peace in which women and feminine values play or have played a central role, and where MA or the MATER or MOTHER and the primal mothers of the clan are central. It reveals the symbolic and spiritual character of Venus Art with its basic themes of life, death, life after death and reincarnation. It gives a historical framework in which the female image evolves, but also crumbles within the Near East from 10,000 BC to the year 0. This shows that while at first the well-rounded seated lady enjoys a respected position in society, during the Bronze and Iron Ages. She is considerably slimmed down and loses her nudity by being swathed in layers of clothing. This reveals how the position of woman and the image of the feminine deteriorate against the backdrop of an increasingly complex, hierarchical and militarised society. eigen beheer, 2013, pap, 601 pp, € 29.95, 9789082031300	winkelwagen
	Norman, Alex Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society. Continuum Advances in Religious Studies, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pap, 239 pp, € 29.95, 9781472514615	winkelwagen
	Price, Daniel E. Sacred Terror: How Faith Becomes Lethal Religion-based terrorism is perceived as one of the most significant threats to U.S. homeland security in the 21st century. Sacred Terror: How Faith Becomes Lethal makes the central argument that religion-based violence and terrorism is primarily a result of political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces, thereby demystifying religion-based terrorism and revealing its inherent similarity to other forms of terrorism and war. Daniel Price examines religious texts and traditions in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; looks at the history of religion-based terrorism; and explores why religion facilitates violence. He builds upon this foundation to explain how religion as an ideological force that motivates violence is not as powerful as commonly believed, and that religious fervor is not unlike other non-religious ideologies such as Marxism, nationalism, and anarchism. The work also presents in-depth analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces that are behind religion-based violence, and discusses case studies from multiple religions that illustrate the author's argument. Praeger, 2013, geb, 268 pp, € 49.95, 9780313386381	winkelwagen
	Utley, Ebony A. Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God Why is the battle between good and evil a recurring theme in rap lyrics? What role does the devil play in hip hop? What exactly does it mean when rappers wear a diamond-encrusted "Jesus" around their necks? Why do rappers acknowledge God during award shows and frequently include prayers in their albums? "Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God" tackles a sensitive and controversial topic: the juxtaposition - and seeming hypocrisy - of references to God within hip hop culture and rap music. This book provides a focused examination of the intersection of God and religion with hip hop and rap music. Author Ebony A. Utley, PhD, references selected rap lyrics and videos that span three decades of mainstream hip hop culture in America, representing the East Coast, the West Coast, and the South in order to account for how and why rappers talk about God. Utley also describes the complex urban environments that birthed rap music and sources interviews, award acceptance speeches, magazine and website content, and liner notes to further explain how God became entrenched in hip hop. Praeger, 2013, geb, 190 pp, € 32.00, 9780313376689	winkelwagen

9.0.1 (Godsdienst) Sociologie en Antropologie

Turner, Bryan S.

The Religious and the Political: A Comparative Sociology of Religion

While the relationships between ethics and religion, and violence and politics, are of enduring interest, the interface between religion and violence is one of the most problematic features of the contemporary world. Following in the tradition of Max Weber's historical and comparative study of religions, this book explores the many ways in which religion and politics are both combined and separated across different world religions and societies. Through a variety of case studies including the monarchy, marriage, law and conversion, Bryan S. Turner explores different manifestations of secularization, and how the separation of church and state is either compromised or abandoned. He considers how different states manage religion in culturally and religiously diverse societies and concludes with a discussion of the contemporary problems facing the liberal theory of freedom of religion. The underlying theoretical issue is the conditions for legitimacy of rule in modern societies experiencing global changes.

Cambridge University Press, 2013, pap, 284 pp, € 27.95, 9780521675314

9.1.1 Interreligieuze Dialoog

Siddiqui, Mona

Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian-Muslim relations. Christain and Muslim scholars have used Jesus and Christological themes for polemical and dialogical conversations from the earliest days to modern times. The author concludes with her own reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in her Muslim faith. Through a careful analysis of selected works by major Christian and Muslim theologians during the formative, medieval, and modern periods of both religions, Siddiqui focuses on themes including revelation, prophecy, salvation, redemption, sin, eschatology, law, and love. How did some doctrines become the defining characteristics of one faith and not the other? What is the nature of the theological chasm between Christianity and Islam? With a nuanced and carefully considered analysis of critical doctrines the author provides a refreshingly honest counterpoint to contemporary polemical arguments and makes a compelling contribution to reasoned interfaith conversation.

Yale University Press, 2013, geb, 285 pp, € 27.00, 9780300169706

9.3 Hermetica

	Hinks, Peter P., Stephen Kantrowitz (eds) All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry In early March 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a dozen or more black Bostonian men into a lodge of Freemasons, making them probably the first people of African descent formally admitted into Freemasonry in the Atlantic world. Prince Hall, a freedman, would emerge as the leader of this group as they worked together to establish a tradition of African American Freemasonry that has persisted ever since, a tradition that still carries his name. All Men Free and Brethren is the first in-depth historical consideration of Prince Hall freemasonry from the Revolutionary era to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a growing network of lodges, African American Masons together promoted fellowship, Christianity, and social respectability, while standing against slavery and white supremacy. The contributors to this book examine key aspects in the history of the Prince Hall Masons, from accounts of specific lodges and leaders to broader themes in African American history: abolitionist activism, the limits of freedom during Reconstruction, political oration, the role of women in the black community, and relationships between Masonry and African American churches. Cornell University Press, 2013, geb, 262 pp, € 29.50, 9780801450303	winkelwagen
	Mai, Klaus-Rudiger Verborgen religies. Universele rituelen en symbolen Onder de oppervlakte van hedendaagse gebruiken en religies gaan oude esoterische rituelen schuil. Ondanks de pogingen van het christendom om deze oude vormen de das om te doen, spelen zij al eeuwenlang een geheime rol in onze denkwereld. In onze na-christelijke tijd is de zoektocht naar deze 'eeuwige wijsheid' volop aan de gang. Op fascinerende wijze - het boek leest als een roman - weet Klaus-Rudiger Mai de universele rode draad in de religies van de mensheid naar boven te halen. AnkhHermes, 2013, pap, 512 pp, € 34.95, 9789020208894	winkelwagen

9.4 Hekserij / Witchcraft

	Bado, Nikki Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The Guardians of the four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the Circle as a newly made Witch. Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs. Bado's analysis of this coven's initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event, initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a Witch in practice and in community with others. Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation while giving us insight into one coven's practice of Wicca. An important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca, Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft. American Academy of Religion Series, Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 181 pp, € 21.95, 9780199812257	winkelwagen
	Levack, Brian P. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research. Oxford Handbooks in History, Oxford UP, 2013, geb, 630 pp, € 121.50, 9780199578160	winkelwagen

95.0 Filosofie algemeen A-M

	Dahlstrom, Daniel O. The Heidegger Dictionary The Heidegger Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Martin Heidegger, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Heidegger's thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Heidegger's writings and detailed synopses of his key works. The Dictionary also includes entries on Heidegger's major philosophical influences, including Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, Schelling and Nietzsche, and Scheler and Husserl. It covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Heidegger's philosophy, offering clear explanations of often complex terminology. The Heidegger Dictionary is the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying Heidegger or Modern European Philosophy more generally. Bloomsbury Philosophy Dictionaries, Bloomsbury, 2013, pap, 312 pp, € 27.00, 9781847065148	winkelwagen
	Derrida, Jacques, Jay Williams (ed) Signature Derrida Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that "Critical Inquiry" encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida's work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, "Signature Derrida" provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define three significant "periods" in Derrida's writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays like "The Law of Genre," in which Derrida produces a kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, "The Linguistic Circle of Geneva," embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The final period of Derrida's writing includes the essays "Of Spirit" and "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)" and eulogies for Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Emmanuel Levinas, in which Derrida uses the ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their theories. Gathering a small but crucial portion of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher, "Signature Derrida" is the most wide-ranging, and thus most representative, anthology of Derrida's work to date. Critical Inquiry Book, University of Chicago Press, 2013, pap, 435 pp, € 26.95, 9780226924540	winkelwagen
	Gadamer, Hans-Georg Truth and Method Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others. Bloomsbury Revelations, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pap, 623 pp, € 24.50, 9781780936246	winkelwagen
	Gray, John Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of letters. He has been called the century's most inspired reader. Yet Berlin's contributions to thought--in particular to moral and political philosophy, and to liberal theory--are little understood, and surprisingly neglected by the academic world. In this book, they are shown to be animated by a single, powerful, subversive idea: value-pluralism which affirms the reality of a deep conflict between ultimate human values that reason cannot resolve. Though bracingly clear-headed, humane and realist, Berlin's value-pluralism runs against the dominant Western traditions, secular and religious, which avow an ultimate harmony of values. It supports a highly distinctive restatement of liberalism in Berlin's work--an agnostic liberalism, which is founded not on rational choice but on the radical choices we make when faced with intractable dilemmas. It is this new statement of liberalism, the central subject of John Gray's lively and lucid book, which gives the liberal intellectual tradition a new lease on life, a new source of life, and which comprises Berlin's central and enduring legacy. In a new introduction, Gray argues that, in a world in which human freedom has spread more slowly than democracy, Berlin's account of liberty and basic decency is more instructive and useful than ever. Princeton University Press, 2013, pap, 232 pp, € 22.50, 9780691157429	winkelwagen
	Holden, Terence Levinas, Messianism and Parody There is no greater testament to Emmanuel Levinas' reputation as an enigmatic thinker than in his meditations on eschatology and its relevance for contemporary thought. Levinas has come to be seen as a principal representative in Continental philosophy - alongside the likes of Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno and Zizek - of a certain philosophical messianism, differing from its religious counterpart in being formulated apparently without appeal to any dogmatic content. To date, however, Levinas' messianism has not received the same detailed attention as other aspects of his wide ranging ethical vision. Terence Holden attempts to redress this imbalance, tracing the evolution of the messianic idea across Levinas' career, emphasising the transformations or indeed displacements which this idea undergoes in taking on philosophical intelligibility. He suggests that, in order to crack the enigma which this idea represents, we must consider not only the Jewish tradition from which Levinas draws inspiration, but also Nietzsche, who ostensibly would represent the greatest rival to the messianic idea in the history of philosophy, with his notion of the 'parody' of messianism. Continuum Advances in Religious Studies, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pap, 229 pp, € 29.95, 9781472505644	winkelwagen
	Ietswaart, Willem Wat is dan de mens? Aforismen, ideeen, zinspreuken Eem psychoanalyticus maakt de balans op van een leven lang nadenken over de mens. Sjibbolet Filosofie, Sjibbolet, 2013, pap, 218 pp, € 23.50, 9789491110146	winkelwagen
	Joas, Hans The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand -- and realize -- these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or, alternately, to the secular French Enlightenment. While drawing on sociologists such as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Ernst Troeltsch, Joas sets out a new path, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of the "sacralization" of every human being. According to Joas, every single human being has increasingly been viewed as sacred. He discusses the abolition of torture and slavery, once common practice in the pre-18th century west, as two milestones in modern human history. The author concludes by portraying the emergence of the UN Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 as a successful process of value generalization. Joas demonstrates that the history of human rights cannot adequately be described as a history of ideas or as legal history, but a complex transformation in which diverse cultural traditions had to be articulated, legally codified, and assimilated into practices of everyday life. The sacralization of the person and universal human rights will only be secure in the future, warns Joas, through continued support by institutions and society, vigorous discourse in their defense, and their incarnation in everyday life and practice. Georgetown University Press, 2013, pap, 219 pp, € 32.50, 9781589019690	winkelwagen
	Lenoir, Frederic God? Als God bestaat, waarom is hij dan onzichtbaar? Wanneer duiken de eerste goden op in de geschiedenis? Hebben joden, christenen en moslims het over dezelfde God? Is God een persoon, een energie of een scheppingsprincipe? En als het een persoon is, waarom dan bijna altijd een man? Kan de wetenschap het bestaan van God bewijzen? Is het boeddhisme een religie zonder goden? Meeslepend gaat Frederic Lenoir op zoek naar antwoorden op deze en andere vragen, waarbij hij de objectiviteit niet uit het oog verliest. Als toegift geeft hij zijn persoonlijke overtuigingen prijs. Frederic Lenoir (1962) is filosoof en godsdiensthistoricus. Hij is directeur van Le Monde des Religions en werkt als onderzoeker aan de Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales te Parijs. Ten Have, 2013, pap, 224 pp, € 19.95, 9789079001316	winkelwagen
	Munnik, Rene Tijdmachines. Over de technische onderwerping van vergankelijkheid en duur De moderne wetenschap houdt ons voor dat spoken niet bestaan, en als een ware Ghost- en Mythbuster trekt ze ten strijde tegen wat ze als 'fantomen' en 'mythen' aanmerkt: God, de ziel, de vrije wil...Maar intussen produceert ze zelf fantoom na fantoom. Dit boek bestaat in een even weidse als fascinerende uitwerking van een enkele stelling: naarmate wij onze wereld alsmaar rationeler proberen in te richten, neemt diezelfde wereld een steeds mythischer gestalte aan. Munnik weet deze op het eerste gezicht absurde these gaandeweg het boek op verbluffende wijze plausibel te maken. Een rijk en veelzijdig boek waarin de auteur zijn hypothese in een compositie van zeer uiteenlopende thema's ontvouwt. Zo laat hij zien hoe vruchtbaar een kruisbestuiving tussen heterogene discoursen (theologische, biologische, filologische, natuurwetenschappelijke en technische) kan zijn. Klement, 2013, pap, 399 pp, € 26.95, 9789086871162	winkelwagen
	Rek, Wilma de Stand-up filosoof; De antwoorden van Rene Gude Stel Rene Gude een vraag en hij geeft origineel antwoord vol humor en filosofische wijsheid. Het maakt Gude tot misschien wel de meest spraakmakende Nederlandse filosoof van dit moment. Hij maakt deel uit van filosofisch elftal van Trouw, geeft lezingen op Lowlands, spreekt in filosofische cafes, treedt op bij TEDx en schrijft vaak in Filosofie Magazine, het tijdschrift waarvan hij hoofdredacteur was voordat hij als directeur bij Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte aantrad. En hij heeft nog maar een been. Het andere werd een jaar geleden geamputeerd, toen de kanker terugkeerde. Toch zal hij ook dit jaar tijdens de Filosofienacht weer aan stand-up philosophy doen: losjes improviserend de (levens)vragen van het publiek beantwoorden door te putten uit de opgedane wijsheid en de schatkamer van de filosofie. Voor dit boek vuurde Wilma de Rek, journalist van de Volkskrant, honderden vragen af op Rene Gude. Ze gaan over leven, liefde, cynisme, kennis, aardigheid, de ander, de naderende dood, de (on)tembare ziel, diep-menselijke emoties en veel meer. ISVW Uitgevers, 2013, pap, 159 pp, € 14.95, 9789491693014	winkelwagen

95.0 Filosofie algemeen N-Z

	Nadler, Steven The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals - or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where, then, is the authentic version located, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting - and in its original - really Descartes? A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history, "The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter" investigates the remarkable individuals and circumstances behind a small portrait. Through this image - and the intersecting lives of a brilliant philosopher, a Catholic priest, and a gifted painter - Steven Nadler opens up a fascinating portal into Descartes' life and times, skillfully presenting an accessible introduction to Descartes' philosophical and scientific ideas, and an illuminating tour of the volatile political and religious environment of the Dutch Golden Age. As Nadler shows, Descartes' innovative ideas about the world, about human nature and knowledge, and about philosophy itself, stirred great controversy. Philosophical and theological critics vigorously opposed his views, and civil and ecclesiastic authorities condemned his writings. Nevertheless, Descartes' thought came to dominate the philosophical world of the period, and can rightly be called the philosophy of the seventeenth century. Shedding light on a well-known image, "The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter" offers an engaging exploration of a celebrated philosopher's world and work. Princeton University Press, 2013, geb, 230 pp, € 27.50, 9780691157306	winkelwagen
	Nussbaum , Martha C. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world's billions of individuals are really managing? In this powerful critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect. For the past twenty-five years, Nussbaum has been working on an alternate model to assess human development: the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of questions: What is each person actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them? The Capabilities Approach to human progress has until now been expounded only in specialized works. Creating Capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in issues of human development a wonderfully lucid account of the structure and practical implications of an alternate model. It demonstrates a path to justice for both humans and nonhumans, weighs its relevance against other philosophical stances, and reveals the value of its universal guidelines even as it acknowledges cultural difference. In our era of unjustifiable inequity, Nussbaum shows how--by attending to the narratives of individuals and grasping the daily impact of policy--we can enable people everywhere to live full and creative lives. Belknap Press, 2013, pap, 237 pp, € 17.00, 9780674072350	winkelwagen
	Ruda, Frank Hegel's Rabble: An Investigation into Hegel's Philosophy of Right In Hegel's Rabble, Frank Ruda identifies and explores a crucial problem in the Hegelian philosophy of right that strikes at the heart of Hegel's conception of the state. This singular problem, which Ruda argues is the problem of Hegelian political thought, appears in Hegel's text only in a seemingly marginal form under the name of the "rabble": a particular side-effect of the dialectical deduction of the necessity of the existence of state from the contradictory constitution of civil society. Working out from a thorough analysis of this problem and drawing on contemporary discussions in the work of such thinkers as Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Slavoj Zizek, the book proceeds to re-examine and reconstruct Hegel's entire political project. Ruda goes on to argue that only by re-thinking this problem of 'the rabble' in Hegel's thought - the only problem Hegel is able neither to resolve nor to sublate - can the early Marxian conception of 'the proletariat' be properly understood. The book closes with an Afterword from Slavoj Zizek. Continuum Studies in Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pap, 218 pp, € 29.95, 9781472510167	winkelwagen
	Russell, Paul, Oisin Deery (eds) The Philosophy of Free Will: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates The problem of free will is one of the great perennial issues of philosophy and has been discussed and debated over many centuries. The issues that arise in this sphere cover both metaphysics and morals and concern matters of central importance not only for philosophy but also for law, theology, psychology and the social sciences. What is at stake here is nothing less than our self-image as responsible moral agents who are in control of our own destiny and fate. The investigations and findings of modern science are judged by many to put skeptical pressure on this self-image and may challenge its credibility. During the past few decades the free will controversy has developed and evolved in exciting and significant ways. All the major parties involved in this debate have had to revise and amend their core positions with a view to responding to the sophisticated and searching arguments put forward by their critics and opponents. The papers collected in this volume represent the most essential and indispensible contributions to the contemporary debate. The specific topics covered include: moral luck, skepticism and naturalism, the consequence argument, alternate possibilities, libertarian metaphysics, compatibilism and reason-responsive theories, illusionism and revisionism, optimism and pessimism, and the phenomenology of agency, as well as contributions relating to neuroscience and experimental philosophy. The collection is arranged in a way that presents the topics covered in a structured and organized manner. The general aim is to provide an effective guide for students and readers who are new to the field, as well as a useful collection for those who are already familiar with the topics and contributions. The contributors include many of the leading and most distinguished figures in the field, along with a number of younger scholars who have already had an impact and produced significant work. Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 542 pp, € 37.00, 9780199733392	winkelwagen
	Schmaltz , Tad M. Descartes on Causation This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a dualistic ontology that differs radically from what we find in scholasticism, his views on causation were profoundly influenced by scholastic thought on this issue. This influence is evident not only in his affirmation in the Meditations of the abstract scholastic axioms that a cause must contain the reality of its effects and that conservation does not differ in reality from creation, but also in the details of the accounts of body-body interaction in his physics, of mind-body interaction in his psychology, and of the causation that he took to be involved in free human action. In contrast to those who have read Descartes as endorsing the "occasionalist" conclusion that God is the only real cause, a central thesis of this study is that he accepted what in the context of scholastic debates regarding causation is the antipode of occasionalism, namely, the view that creatures rather than God are the causal source of natural change. What emerges from the defense of this interpretation of Descartes is a new understanding of his contribution to modern thought on causation. Oxford UP, 2013, pap, 237 pp, € 25.75, 9780199958504	winkelwagen
	Strauss, Leo, Kenneth Hart Green (ed) Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings Leo Strauss is widely recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that the tension between reason and revelation was central to modern political thought. His writings throughout the twentieth century were chiefly responsible for restoring Maimonides as a philosophical thinker of the first rank. Yet, to appreciate the extent of Strauss' contribution to the scholarship on Maimonides, one has traditionally had to seek out essays he published separately spanning almost fifty years. With "Leo Strauss on Maimonides", Kenneth Hart Green presents for the first time a comprehensive, annotated collection of Strauss' writings on Maimonides, comprising sixteen essays, three of which appear in English for the first time. Green has also provided careful translations of materials originally quoted in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German, and French; written an informative introduction highlighting the contributions found in each essay; and brought references to out-of-print editions fully up to date. The result will become the standard edition of Strauss' writings on Maimonides. University of Chicago Press, 2013, geb, 654 pp, € 42.00, 9780226776774	winkelwagen

99.0 Kunst

	Fila, Jack, Jeroen. H. Dekker De kunst van het opvoeden Hebben opvoeden en kunst met elkaar te maken? Is opvoeden op zichzelf al een kunst? Dit rijk geillustreerde boek De Kunst van het Opvoeden beschrijft de historische relatie tussen markante opvoedkundige thema's en de Nederlandse schilder- en schrijfkunst. Vanaf de Gouden Eeuw verbeelden schilders als Jan Steen, Rembrandt van Rijn en Nicolaes Maes de dan geldende opvoedingsidealen. En samen met de vele moraliserende geschriften, zoals die van Jacob Cats en Hieronymus van Alphen, zien we hoe beiden een eigen rol vervullen in de opvoeding vanaf de Gouden Eeuw. Ze schetsen een beeld van een ongekende betrokkenheid van de Nederlandse ouder bij de opvoeding. Door de strengheid en soberheid van het voornamelijk protestantse geloofsdenken in de eeuwen voor ons zou men verwachten dat de schilderijen en geschriften een streng en sober karakter dragen. Niets is minder waar, ze zijn vrolijk, speels, soms zelfs schalks. De moralistische, opvoedkundige boodschap is met een glimlach het huis binnen gebracht en lijkt te zeggen: 'Kijk hier! Dit ben ik! Dit is mijn familie en zo voeden we op'. En dat is uniek, een bron van herkenning en daarmee tijdloos tegelijk. Walburg Pers, 2013, geb, 128 pp, € 24.95, 9789057309205	winkelwagen
	Huisman, Jaap Het nieuwe Rijksmuseum, Cruz y Ortiz architects nai010 uitgevers/publishers, 2013, geb, 128 pp, € 39.50, 9789462080577	winkelwagen
	Jong, Cees W.de, Patrick Spijkerman Het nieuwe Rijksmuseum, Pierre Cuypers en Georg Sturm in ere hersteld Het Rijksmuseum is nooit geworden zoals Pierre Cuypers het in gedachten had. Sinds de opening in 1885 is de buitenkant vrijwel ongewijzigd gebleven, maar dat geldt niet voor het interieur. Zodra het gebouw werd opgeleverd en museumdirecteuren het voor het zeggen kregen, werd de witkwast ter hand genomen. Het interieur is gaandeweg verstikt geraakt, waarbij vooral door het dichtbouwen van de beide binnenhoven lucht en licht uit het museum zijn geperst. Onder leiding van architecten Cruz y Ortiz is het originele interieur van het Rijksmuseum gerehabiliteerd. Er is veel aandacht besteed aan Cuypers architectuur en de binnendecoraties, die nu weer een geheel vormen. Maar ook de zeventig herontdekte doeken van Georg Sturm werden gerestaureerd en krijgen nieuwe aandacht. Daglicht valt weer naar binnen en herstelt de oorspronkelijke helderheid. Het resultaat is dat een bezoek aan het Rijksmuseum nog nooit zo'n complete ervaring is geweest. Deze uitgave laat het Rijksmuseum voor en na de verbouwing zien. Het masterplan van de architect en de rehabilitatie komen ruimschoots aan bod. Het boek geeft een visueel en kleurrijk overzicht, met veel foto's en beeldmateriaal van het werk van Pierre Cuypers en Georg Sturm. Pallas Publications, 2013, geb, 96 pp, € 19.95, 9789085550747	winkelwagen

99.2 Poezie

Claes, Paul

Zwarte zon. Code van de hermetische poezie

Dit boek is een pendant van Echo's echo's. Na de raadsels van de duistere allusie behandelt Paul Claes in Zwarte zon de geheimen van de duistere poezie. De modernisten van vandaag zijn de erfgenamen van de manieristen. Alle moeilijke dichters hanteren een code die hun verzen tegelijk ontoegankelijker en aantrekkelijker maakt. Zwarte zon leert de lezer de geheimtaal van de hermetische poezie lezen. Claes past zijn nieuwe ontcijferingsmethode toe op twaalf duistere dichters: Horatius, Gongora, Van Swaanenburg, Nerval, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Van de Woestijne, Rilke, Breton, Stevens, Cummings en Claus. Een semiotiek van het hermetisme vat zijn theorie samen. Het is een misverstand te denken dat de poezie verdwijnt als we haar mysterie doorgronden. Integendeel, pas zo verschijnt ze in haar volle luister: als de zon na een verduistering.

Vantilt, 2013, pap, 264 pp, € 17.50, 9789460041105

99.3 Amsterdam

	Lange, Quinten Amsterdam Grachtengordel - Werelderfgoed De ANWB reisgids Amsterdam Grachtengordel Werelderfgoed besteedt uitgebreid aandacht aan de bijzondere mix van historie, cultuur en ontspanning en heeft alles in huis voor een mooie wandeling over de grachtengordel. De gids geeft veel achtergrondinformatie en wetenswaardigheden en toont een verrassende kant van de grachtengordel. De reisgids beschrijft vier themawandelingen die de architectuur en historische schoonheid laten zien van de grachtengordel. Met de technische en waterbouwkundige kennis van Nederlanders door de eeuwen heen komen ook Werelderfgoed De Beemster en Stelling van Amsterdam aan bod. ANWB, 2013, pap, 128 pp, € 9.95, 9789018036942	winkelwagen
	Lange, Quinten Amsterdam Canal District - World Heritage The ANWB travel guide Amsterdam's Historical Canals, World Heritage Site offers extensive information on the unique mix of history, culture and relaxation and has a wealth of details for a delightful walk through the area surrounding the canals. The guide provides both background information and innumberable facts and it offers a glimpse into a surprising side of the historical canal area. The travel guide describes four thematic walks that highlight the architectural and historical beauty of this area. The World Heritage sites of The Beemster and the Amsterdam Defence Line are also included as examples of Dutch technical and hydraulic expertise throughout the centuries. ANWB, 2013, pap, 128 pp, € 9.95, 9789018036997	winkelwagen
	Voller, Susanne ANWB Extra Amsterdam (English edition) In this travel guide Amsterdam you will find up to date information about museums, theaters, sightseeings, bars, hotels, restaurants and shopping. The big detachable map will lead you through Amsterdam. ANWB Extra, ANWB, 2013, pap, 128 pp, € 9.95, 9789018037093	winkelwagen

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