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...Benoît Fliche; Manoël Pénicaud Twice a year, the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. George on the island of Büyükada, off the coast of Istanbul, attracts tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims who come to make heterogenous and inventive votive offerings. Since these visitors are not Christians...

...Katia Boissevain Christianity has a long presence in the Maghreb, dating back to Roman imperial times. Eventually it became a mostly Muslim region, but in the late nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church embarked on a vast mission of church building, in part to assist the French colonial...

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...Anne Marie Wolf Examining, for a symposium on xenophilia, the views of some of the period’s most open-minded and tolerant thinkers, as well as the historical development of Christian writers’ treatment of Muslims, this article considers whether the term Islamophilia can be applied to any...

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...Jean-Claude Schmitt Bynum Caroline Walker , Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe ( New York : Zone Books , 2011 ), 440 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

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...—deconstructive and Oxonian. Like the original Old Critics, the Christian humanists, Fisch attends to the compatibil- ity of the classical legacy and the biblical; but like Hartman, he shows how “chasms and contradictions . . . are deeply buried in the texture” of the sacred...

...Philip Gossett Page Christopher , The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 ), 692 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Francis X. Clooney, SJ Barnes Michael SJ , Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality, and the Christian Imagination . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 ), 292 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

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... Samir Khalaf, Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon 344 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 224 pp. Despite Khalaf’s wish to find the socioeconomic sources of violence in a country at war with itself since the first clash of Christians...

...Robert E. Lerner Zachary Karabell, Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence (New York: Knopf, 2007), 343 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New...

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... Christian Middle Ages. Bynum's claim has been that medieval asceticism is best understood not as an upshot of dualism — of the soul and body understood as in opposition — but as “an effort to plumb and realize all the possibilities of the flesh.” Drawing on underused religious sources, analyzing...