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Saints and Sinners in Milltown:
Evangelicals who became Christian Nationalists 

Christian nationalism has been identified with Evangelical churches, and this is a study of how this movement started in one community, a working class neighborhood of Atlanta. This book explores the elements feeding into Christian nationalism in this community from Christian superiority to racism and antisemitism.

Crypto-Jews:
The Long Journey
Institute for Tolerance Studies

Ron Duncan Hart
The crypto-Jewish experience has been shrouded in mystery for a past that might have been and the imagined future that could be. In the American Southwest and in parts of Latin America there is a movement to reclaim Jewish identity, and thousands of people are describing remnants of Jewish practices in the families.

 

Garden of Eden:
Plants of the Hebrew Bible

 

Gloria Abella Ballen
In the Bible, paradise is associated with “the Garden of Eden,” the place of beauty and perfection before the transgression by Adam and Eve. It was the perfect state that will be brought back in the world to come (heaven). She explores the moral, ethical, and metaphorical meanings of the plants of the Bible.

 

Three Paths, One god
Institute for Tolerance Studies

Rabbi Min Kantrowitz, Dr. Aamna Nayyar, Victoria Reder

The three authors are Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, and each one shares scripture readings and prayers from their traditions.