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Shaking Wolves Out of Cherry Trees by Terry Cain (Paperback - Css Pub Co)
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The Curse of Cain by Regina M. Schwartz (Hardcover - Univ of Chicago Pr)
A murderer, an outcast, a man cursed by God and exiled from his people - Cain, the biblical killer of Abel, is a figure of utter disdain. But that disdain is curiously in evidence well before his brother's death, as God inexplicably refuses Cain's sacrifice while accepting Abel's. Cain kills in a rage of exclusion, yet it is God himself who has set the brothers apart. For Regina Schwartz, we ignore the dark side of the Bible to our peril. The perplexing story of Cain and Abel is emblematic of the tenacious influence of the Bible on secular notions of identity - notions that are all too often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, gender, and nationalistic terms. In this compelling work of cultural and biblical criticism, Schwartz contends that it is the very concept of monotheism and its jealous demand for exclusive allegiance - to one God, one Land, one Nation or one People - that informs the model of collective identity forged in violence, against the other. The Hebrew Bible is filled with narratives of division and exclusion, scarcity and competition, that erupt in violence. Once these narratives were appropriated and disseminated by western religious traditions, they came to pervade deep cultural assumptions about how collectives are imagined - with collective hatred, with collective degradation, and with collective abuse. Recovering the Bible's often misguided role as a handbook for politics and social thought, Schwartz demonstrates just how dangerous it can be.
Stony the Road We Trod by Cain Hope Felder (Paperback - Fortress Pr)
A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change.
Jesus the Man by Marvin F. Cain (Paperback - Polebridge Pr Westar Inst)
The Curse of Cain by Regina M. Schwartz (Paperback - Univ of Chicago Pr)
Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives by Cain Hope Felder (Paperback - Fortress Pr)
John Wesley on Christian Practice by Kenneth Cain Kinghorn (Paperback - Abingdon Pr)
The Letters of Jerome by Andrew Cain (Hardcover - Oxford Univ Pr)
John Wesley on Christian Beliefs the Standard Sermons by Kenneth Cain Kinghorn (Paperback - Abingdon
Lions And Cows Dining Together by Terry Cain (Hardcover - Css Pub Co)
The Heritage of American Methodism by Kenneth Cain Kinghorn (Paperback - Emeth Pub)
The Reality of His Love by April Cain-ross (Paperback - Publishamerica Inc)
Down to Earth by Clifford Cain (Paperback - Univ Pr of Amer)
Gabriel Marcel's Theory of Religious Experience by Seymour Cain (Hardcover - Peter Lang Pub Inc)
Restore My Soul by Martha B. Cain (Paperback - Xulon Pr)
Abel Y Cain/ Cain And Abel by Sabio Y Prudente Ministries (Paperback - Editorial Portavoz)
Troubling Biblical Waters
A comprehensive and challenging look at the significance of the Bible for blacks, and the importance of blacks in the Bible. "Timely . . . serious and creative".--The Catholic Journal.
John Wesley on Christian Beliefs by John Wesley (Paperback - Abingdon Pr)
The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity by Andrew Cain (Hardcover - Ashgate Pub Co)
Abel Y Cain by Sabio Y Prudente Ministries (Audio Cassette - Editorial Portavoz)
Fresh Wind of the Spirit by Kenneth Cain Kinghorn (Paperback - Clements Pub)
The Mark of Cain by Andrew Lang (Paperback - Dodo Pr)
The Death of Cain by Mary Collyer (Paperback - Kessinger Pub)
The Mark of Cain by Andrew Lang (Paperback - Kessinger Pub)
Cain by Fabre D'Olivet (Paperback - Kessinger Pub)
Lord Byron's Cain, a Mystery by Harding Grant (Paperback - Kessinger Pub)
Who Told You You Were Naked? by Jeanette Cain (Paperback - Booksurge Llc)
Fresh Wind of the Spirit by Kenneth Cain Kinghorn (Paperback - Zondervan)