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Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate by John H. Evans 9780226222653
RRP: $113.40$108.30Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived - and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widespread... -
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses by Birgit Meyer 9780230622296
RRP: $94.48$94.44This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of... -
Exploring Religion and Diversity in Canada: People, Practice and Possibility by Catherine Holtmann 9783319782317
RRP: $209.98$72.37This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the many ways in which religious diversity is manifest in day-to-day life Canada. Each chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with... -
An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture by Randy Malamud 9781137009821
$100.61A fascinating exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' - contextualized, decontextualized - in contemporary visual culture. Written in a highly engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with some highly controversial aspects of... -
Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century by Alice Ramos 9780966922653
$49.75While some intellectuals at the end of the 19th century argued that scientific progress would eventually cause the demise of religion, it is evident that this has not been the case and that contemporary science is in fact not necessarily inimical to a... -
Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam by Dawn-Marie Gibson 9780814769959
$188.75With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in... -
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica by Charles Price 9780814767467
$188.75So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country,... -
Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants by Alyshia Galvez 9780814732151
RRP: $54.58$43.76Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing-and they also carry signs... -
Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants by Alyshia Galvez 9780814732144
RRP: $159.60$77.32Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe's feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop's blessing-and they also carry signs... -
Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature by Khoo Gaik Cheng 9780774811736
RRP: $71.40$55.65In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of... -
Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America by Christian Smith 9780691194967
RRP: $73.50$59.09How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their children How do American parents pass their religion on to their children? At a time of overall decline of traditional religion and an increased interest in personal... -
Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change by Melissa J. Wilde 9780691161723
RRP: $42.00$34.21On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries, they attended masses that were conducted mostly in their native tongues. This occasion marked only the... -
The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada by Lydia Bean 9780691161303
RRP: $73.50$59.09It 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... -
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion by Wade Clark Roof 9780691089966
RRP: $73.50$59.09In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary,... -
Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State by Jonathan Laurence 9780691220543
RRP: $193.20$152.90The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern state Coping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes... -
Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion by Melissa J. Wilde 9780520303201
RRP: $168.00$129.97Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J. Wilde shows how today's modern divisions began in the 1930s in the public battles over birth control and not for the... -
Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church by Patricia Miller 9780520287532
RRP: $52.50$41.14Good Catholics tells the story of the remarkable individuals who have engaged in a nearly fifty-year struggle to assert the moral legitimacy of a pro-choice position in the Catholic Church, as well as the concurrent efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to... -
The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable by Robert Wuthnow 9780520274280
RRP: $63.00$49.75The United States is one of the most highly educated societies on earth, and also one of the most religious. In "The God Problem", Robert Wuthnow examines how middle class Americans juggle the seemingly paradoxical relationship between faith... -
Theologies of American Exceptionalism by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 9780253061706
RRP: $151.20$119.55How 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 New Third Rome: Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth by Jardar Ostbo 9783838208701
RRP: $52.29$42.48This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism. Since its rediscovery 150 years ago, writers ranging from Western critics of Moscow's foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used the... -
The Sociology of Religion: A Historical Review by Leela D'Souza 9788170339281
$86.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170339281Author Leela D'SouzaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint RawatPublisher Rawat -
Sociology through Religion with Mindful Daily Living Stories by Yunus Kumek 9781951050085
$67.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951050085Author Yunus KumekFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Sage Chronicle Publishing HousePublisher Sage Chronicle Publishing HouseWeight(grams)... -
Does God Live in the Suburbs?: What Ordinary People Believe by Myer Bloom 9781920787165
RRP: $56.68$33.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920787165Author Myer BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Indra PublishingPublisher Indra Publishing -
Fabricating Difference by Steven W. Ramey 9781781794869
RRP: $126.00$118.36The fabrication of groups as different, as other, often has significant consequences, including violence and discrimination. This volume focuses on the discourses that construct Islam in the aftermath of traumatic events and thus illustrates how academic... -
Science, Belief and Society: International Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science by Stephen H Jones 9781529206944
RRP: $180.58$138.81The relationship between science and belief has been a prominent subject of public debate for many years, one that has relevance to everything from science communication, health and education to immigration and national values. Yet, sociological analysis... -
God on High: Religion, Cannabis, and the Quest for Legitimacy by Laurie Cozad 9781498504041
RRP: $178.50$156.47God on High examines cannabis-based religious groups in Canada and the United States. These religious groups are on the rise as cannabis use is further decriminalized or legalized. In examining these groups, Laurie Cozad explores the triangular... -
Religion Is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Religion is Raced Grace Yukich 9781479808748
RRP: $69.30$52.42Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first century When White people of faith act in a particular way, their motivations are almost always attributed to their religious orientation. Yet when religious people of... -
Religion Is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Religion is Raced Grace Yukich 9781479808670
RRP: $186.90$150.49Demonstrates how race and power help to explain American religion in the twenty-first century When white people of faith act in a particular way, their motivations are almost always attributed to their religious orientation. Yet when religious people of... -
"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con": Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration by Edward Orozco Flores 9781479884148
RRP: $168.00$135.35An examination of the efforts of faith-based organizations to expand the rights of the formerly incarcerated The use of religion to rehabilitate and redeem formerly incarcerated individuals has been a cultural touchstone of the modern era. Yet... -
The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City by Jessica M. Barron 9781479877669
$188.75Explores the role of race and consumer culture in attracting urban congregants to an evangelical church The Urban Church Imagined illuminates the dynamics surrounding white urban evangelical congregations' approaches to organizational vitality and... -
The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History by Benjamin Schreier 9781479868681
$189.59He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the... -
Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature by Jodi Eichler-Levine 9781479822294
RRP: $54.58$43.76This 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... -
New Religions & Globalization by Armin W. Geertz 9788779342941
$49.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779342941Author Armin W. GeertzFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Religion & Identity in Europe: The Makings of Religious Enemies in Antiquity & Today by Susanne William Rasmussen 9788776747633
RRP: $61.95$50.72Examining the clash between Roman religion and Christianity in Antiquity, and juxtaposing this with some of the cultural and religious conflicts currently unfolding in Europe, the author draws attention to interesting parallels linking religion,... -
Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting White Christian Nationalism and Racism by Atalia Omer 9780268205812
RRP: $235.20$187.19In this timely book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the recent resurfacing of White Christian nationalism and racism in populist movements across the globe. Religion, Populism, and Modernity examines the recent rise of White... -
Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life by Kathleen C. Oberlin 9781479881642
RRP: $168.00$135.35Investigates 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),... -
Chosen Faith, Chosen Land: The Untold Story of America's 21st Century Shakers by Jeannine Lauber 9780892728114
RRP: $52.50$48.59This book takes a look at the faith, philosophy, and way of life of the country's one remaining Shaker community. Lauber explores their spiritual and daily lives by weaving together proprietary Shaker quotations, interviews, and photographs. The result... -
Rituals and Ethics: Patterns of Repentance Judaism,Christianity,Islam by Adriano Destro 9789042914711
$150.86What patterns of repentance are presented by such different religious traditions as Judaism, Christianity and Islam? How are transgressions cancelled in the eyes of God, the individual and society? What individual and collective actions are necessary for... -
Religious Cultures - Communities of Belief by Jurgen Gebhardt 9783825356132
RRP: $113.40$98.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825356132Author Jurgen GebhardtFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 794g -
Global Hindu Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Kalpana Hiralal 9781032652665
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines Hinduism from both a historical and contemporary perspective. It provides some interesting insights into factors that shaped and defined Hinduism in the diaspora. It also examines the challenges facing Hinduism in the twenty-first...