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Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that
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Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challen
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Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual
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Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners per
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To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is
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Visions of Purgatory offers a surprisingly sober and clear account of purgatory that offers more consolation than fear b
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