Sociology of Religion

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While Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000) highlighted the notion of volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in generating social capitalaan ironic omission since religion constitutes the most common form of voluntary association...

Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the...

Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia-including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance...

Revelation and Renewal tells of churches that infused new life into urban communities. It is the story of brave men and women who refused to walk away from an apparently hopeless situation. Their inspiring example of faith-based social action presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595281978Author Charles H RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 152mm * 15mm

This book explores the increasing domination of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, which is the largest, richest, most powerful, and most conservative, diocese in Australia - and arguably the most conservative in worldwide Anglicanism. It is led by a...

Max Weber, recognized as one of the world's most important sociologists, saw his life's work as nothing less than the comparative analysis of world civilizations. Above all, he was fascinated by the differing historical paths traced by Western...

With eighty percent of the world's population professing religious faith, religious belief is a common human characteristic. This fascinating and highly unique Handbook brings together state-of-the-art research on incorporating religion into development...

"Looking at what he calls 'The Coming Generation' of Evangelical opinion leaders and elites . . . Hunter draws a nuanced and finely detailed portrait of young Evangelicals who, while certainly more conservative than the mainstream of American...

Maya Apolcalypse is the record of fieldwork that, as often happens, ended up quite differently from the way it was originally planned. In conducting a research project about speaking in tongues (glossolalia), Felicitas Goodman recorded this non-ordinary...

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original,...

In the early 1970s, accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often Western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595150885Author Robert S JungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Writer's Showcase PressPublisher Writer's Showcase PressWeight(grams) 372g

When John Kennedy ran for president, some Americans thought a Catholic couldn’t—or shouldn’t—win the White House. Credit Bing Crosby, among others, that he did.For much of American history, Catholics’ perceived allegiance to an international church...

Investigating the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, the authors of this work uncover a surprisingly diverse and vital religious scene on campus. Based on extensive fieldwork at four very different US institutions,...

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595185436Author Theodore Jr WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 272g

On Purpose is a sociological investigation on the meaning of life. While life's purpose is the theme of many self-help books, philosophical texts, and religious tracts, it is rarely addressed from a sociological perspective. Froese explores how people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034999Author Hanna RosinFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061152245Author Nicholas GuyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615586106Author Sikivu HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Infidel BooksPublisher Infidel BooksWeight(grams) 327g

Raise any number of public issues-health care, education, welfare-and religious beliefs inevitably shape Americans' viewpoints. On certain topics the introduction of religion can be explosive. This book discusses how we can and why we should hear...

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire...

In this groundbreaking study of post-conflict Sierra Leone, Lyn Graybill examines the ways in which both religion and local tradition supported restorative justice initiatives such as the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and...

This Fourth Edition of a pioneering book provides a critical analysis of the origins and evolution of political and policy debates regarding race and racism in British society. Drawing on a broad range of both theoretical and historical research, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789867383822Author Roland BoerFormat HardbackPage Count 735Imprint Chung Yuan Christian UniversityPublisher Chung Yuan Christian UniversityWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287984Author Jack BarbaletFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

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From the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society. He broke new ground in mapping the religious dimensions of human experience, from the great breakthroughs of the first millennium BCE...

From the 1960s until his death in 2013, Robert N. Bellah was the preeminent figure in the study of religion and society. He broke new ground in mapping the religious dimensions of human experience, from the great breakthroughs of the first millennium BCE...

This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the "four little girls" killed in the bombing became part of the...

Reflections on Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," these original essays examine various facets of violence and human efforts to create peace. Religion is deeply involved in both processes: ones that produce violence and ones that seek to create harmony. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783083237Author Derrick M. NaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem Press

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