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Crook provides a theoretically sophisticated and pedagogically useful introduction to monotheistic religions. These are but two of the many features that will distinguish this book from the competition. Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester It's a challenge to integrate theoretical advances in any field with introductory-level teaching, with some concluding that it just can't be done. Religions of a Single God nicely proves them wrong; for it takes the common descriptive information of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and rethinks it in light of work now being done by scholars at some of the field's most interesting cutting edges. From the distinction between insiders and outsiders and the importance of avoiding anachronism when writing history to the need to see the people that we study as anything but uniform or locked in amber--such that there are differences and disagreements, with new groups always forming from the old--Zeba Crook offers readers a survey that satisfies their interest in the descriptive details while getting them thinking far more critically about how scholars go about their work. Russell T. McCutcheon, University Research Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama

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Zeba A. Crook is Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.

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