Breaking Monotheism

Jeremiah Cataldo is Assistant Professor of History in the Frederik Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, USA.

Cataldo’s interdisciplinary effort is stimulating and potentially opens up new avenues of approach for future work. This book will be most fruitfully enjoyed by those with extensive knowledge of the contours of the monotheism question, be they graduate or postgraduate students, as well as teachers and professors in Biblical Studies, history, or sociology departments of schools with or without statements of faith, Jewish, Christian or otherwise … Cataldo’s informed, nuanced reading of monotheism’s patterns of development leaves one with much to think about, or perhaps, rethink.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: What is meant bymonotheism?Chapter 2: How monotheismcreates a new normative order in support of its own authorityChapter 3: Socialization andconflict as forces productive of identityChapter 4: Divine law as adominant discourse of the monotheistic selfChapter 5: Clarifying land asthe arena for restorationChapter 6: The necessity of an"other" for monotheistic identityChapter 7: The monotheisticbody within view: understanding the parameters of the modelBibliography