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Religion and Community in the New Urban America by Paul David Numrich
$81.75Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations over the past several decades. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities, and what the role of... -
America's Spiritual Capital by Nicholas N Capaldi
RRP: $35.70$24.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310379Author Nicholas N CapaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 181g -
'Religion' and 'Secular' Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth by Mitsutoshi Horii
RRP: $209.98$188.73Informed by the 'critical religion' perspective in religious studies and postcolonial self-reflection in sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of 'religion' and 'the secular' in social theory and sociology. It argues that as long as social theory... -
Secular Conversions: Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000 by Damon Mayrl
RRP: $65.08$45.97Why does secularization proceed differently in otherwise similar countries? Secular Conversions demonstrates that the institutional structure of the state is a key factor shaping the course of secularization. Drawing upon detailed historical analysis of... -
Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood by Omar M. McRoberts
RRP: $50.40$48.36Long considered the lifeblood of black urban neighborhoods, churches are thought to be dedicated to serving their surrounding communities. But Omar McRoberts's work in Four Corners, a tough Boston neighborhood containing twenty-nine congregations,... -
Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel by Sean Durbin
RRP: $63.00$41.75In Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel, Sean Durbin offers a critical analysis of America's largest Pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel, along with its critics and collaborators... -
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life by Kathleen C. Oberlin
$47.23Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum In Creating the Creation Museum, Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG),... -
Digital Spirits in Religion and Media: Possession and Performance by Alvin Eng Hui Lim
RRP: $96.58$84.27In many contemporary and popular forms of religious practice, digital technology and the spiritual are inseparable. Ranging from streaming broadcasts of spiritual possessions to screenings of mass prayer conferences in stadiums, spirits and divinities... -
Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe by Giulia Evolvi
RRP: $83.98$73.63Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes need to be understood with regards to the proliferation of digital media discourses. This book explores... -
Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African Atlantic World by Eric James Montgomery
$66.32Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for hundreds of years, served as a repository of sacred knowledge while simultaneously evolving in response to human experience and... -
Consumer Culture and Personal Finance: Money Goes to Market by J. Botterill
RRP: $115.48$103.74This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that... -
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism by Gary J. Adler
$50.69Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes,... -
Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-secular Modernity by Sam Han
RRP: $96.58$84.27Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the sacred in a post-secular modernity investigates powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies taking... -
Theologies of American Exceptionalism by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
$38.58How does viewing the American project through a theological lens complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the... -
The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States by Joseph M. Palacios
RRP: $67.20$65.33The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries. But what is it about Catholicism that resonates so profoundly with followers who live under... -
Beyond Betrayal: The Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, the Voice of the Faithful, and the Process of Collective Identity by Patricia Ewick
RRP: $50.40$48.36In 2002, the national spotlight fell on Boston's archdiocese, where decades of rampant sexual misconduct from priests-and the church's systematic cover-ups-were exposed by reporters from the Boston Globe. The sordid and tragic stories of abuse and... -
Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South by Brandon Vaidyanathan
$59.24Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global... -
The Moral Project of Childhood: Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture by Daniel Thomas Cook
$47.23Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children's moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar... -
Is God Back?: Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion by Titus Hjelm
$79.11Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living... -
Mystics: Presence and Aporia by Michael Kessler
RRP: $63.00$61.43When we speak of mystics, we normally think of people who have confessed extraordinary experiences of divine presence. But mysticism can also refer to the ways that people have described and explained such phenomena-ways that challenge our normal modes... -
Emile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods: Clans, Incest, Totems, Phratries, Hordes, Mana, Taboos, Corroborees, Sodalities, Menstrual Blood, Apes, Churingas, Cairns, and Other Mysterious Things by Alexandra Maryanski
RRP: $77.68$68.31The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal... -
Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature by Jodi Eichler-Levine
$80.51This compelling work examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature. Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history... -
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States by R. Marie Griffith
$48.91This collection of essays from a special issue of American Quarterly explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States offers a... -
Cults, Religion, and Violence by David G. Bromley
RRP: $128.10$114.74This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent... -
Religion and Social Problems by Titus Hjelm
RRP: $199.48$172.94Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This volume fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the role of religion in... -
Religion and Families: An Introduction by Loren D. Marks
$115.29This is the first multidisciplinary text to address the growing scholarly connection between religion and family life. The latest literature from family studies, psychology, sociology, and religion is reviewed along with narratives drawn from interviews... -
David Martin and the Sociology of Religion by Hans Joas
RRP: $83.98$73.63David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis, and his... -
Christianity in East and Southeast Asia by Kenneth R Ross
RRP: $83.90$62.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683073345Author Kenneth R RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Hendrickson AcademicPublisher Hendrickson AcademicWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm)... -
The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch: Volume 6 by Peter J. Schuurman
RRP: $71.40$55.50Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as "religious Walmarts." In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman shows how a growing group of "reflexive evangelicals" use irony to... -
Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States by Hillary Kaell
$45.78An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorship emerged from nineteenth-century Protestant missions to become one of today's most profitable private... -
Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations by Isotta Nogarola
RRP: $67.20$65.33Renowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself... -
Back-Pocket God: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Emerging Adults by Melinda Lundquist Denton
RRP: $79.78$68.40More than a decade ago, a group of researchers began to study the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. They tracked these young people over the course of a decade, revisiting them periodically to check in on the state -and future- of... -
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism by K. Mohrman
$47.23How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state Are Mormons really so weird? Are they potentially queer? These questions occupy the heart of this powerful rethinking of... -
The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada by Lydia Bean
$45.78It is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. The Politics of Evangelical Identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor... -
Variations on the Messianic Theme: A Case Study of Interfaith Dialogue by Marion Wyse
RRP: $178.48$148.39Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have been... -
Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses by Naaz Rashid
RRP: $180.58$138.81Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of... -
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States by Johanna Bard Richlin
$36.46How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotionWhy do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands... -
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D Putnam
RRP: $48.28$35.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416566731Author Robert D PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction by Walter Wallace
RRP: $92.38$80.72Sociology of Religion represents a documented introduction to the history of sociological thought as applied to religious phenomena. It examines both the substantive and functional definitions of religion that are more open, pluralistic, and not... -
Virtual Immortality – God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post– and Transhumanism by Krüger, Oliver
RRP: $81.88$68.00In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient...