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Reading While Black – African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau Mccaulley
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830854868Author Esau MccaulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 294gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *... -
Religion, Politics and Society: A Progressive Primer by Karim F Hirji
RRP: $56.75$40.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263125Author Karim F. HirjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 2090g -
The Place of Devotion: Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism by Sukanya Sarbadhikary 9780520287716
RRP: $38.70$29.44A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their... -
In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North by Kenn Harper
RRP: $18.05$12.46In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to... -
The Amish by Donald B. Kraybill 9781421425665
RRP: $30.96$28.06Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLThe Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy... -
To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life by Hayim H Donin 9781541674028
RRP: $25.79$25.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674028Author Hayim H DoninFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 33mm -
Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad
RRP: $29.67$29.06In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship,... -
Primitive Mythology: (The Masks of God, Volume 1) by Joseph Campbell 9781608689033
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608689033Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation by Christian Smith
RRP: $29.66$25.23The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and... -
The Shortest Day: A Little Book of the Winter Solstice by Karen Cater 9780955647574
RRP: $9.02$8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955647574Author Karen CaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hedingham FairPublisher Hedingham Fair -
Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures by Lawrence Rosen 9781009388986
RRP: $29.66$29.48Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an... -
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by Prof. James Davison Hunter
RRP: $43.85$40.66The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that... -
Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety by Harry Freedman
RRP: $25.80$19.32'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of... -
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt
RRP: $14.18$10.02Are the world's major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts widely blamed on faith differences fundamentally social and political? In this succinct but richly reflective book, Rupert Shortt offers even-handed... -
Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft & Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby
RRP: $54.83$50.63The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. Among historians, the confessions... -
Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness by David Nixon
RRP: $64.49$56.12Stories from the Street is a theological exploration of interviews with men and women who had experienced homelessness at some stage in their lives. Framed within a theology of story and a theology of liberation, Nixon suggests that story is not only a... -
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Christine Hayes
RRP: $32.25$25.26In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical... -
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society by Victor Turner 9780801491511
RRP: $36.11$30.52In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new... -
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton
RRP: $28.38$20.67In Strange Rites, Tara Isabella Burton takes a tour through contemporary American religiosity. As the once dominant totems of civic connection and civil discourse--traditional churches--continue to sink into obsolescence, people are looking elsewhere for... -
Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique by Anthony G. Reddie
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population... -
Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity by Fanar Haddad
RRP: $51.60$45.43Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and definition, ever be a useful... -
The Enneagram Goes to Church: Wisdom for Leadership, Worship, and Congregational Life by Todd Wilson
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846825Author Todd WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 214gDimensions(mm) 215mm... -
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer
RRP: $34.77$27.05Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been... -
The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand by Scott Stonington
RRP: $32.25$24.74The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to... -
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by S. Harris 9780393035155
RRP: $53.54$45.41This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... -
Becoming Un-Orthodox: Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews by Lynn Davidman 9780199380503
$39.80Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these... -
Practical Spirituality by Marshall B. Rosenberg
RRP: $8.97$6.23According to Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D., our most basic spiritual need is to contribute to the well being of others and ourselves. His brief, unscripted reflections on the spiritual basis of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will inspire you not only to... -
The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: $46.43$42.94Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction... -
Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life by Meredith B. McGuire 9780195368338
$47.39What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles... -
The Penguin Book of Exorcisms by Joseph P. Laycock
RRP: $16.76$11.73Perfect for Hallowe'en: haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth-century South AfricaLevitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A... -
Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes – Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World by E. Randolph Richards
RRP: $25.79$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852758Author E. Randolph RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age by Katherine Ozment
RRP: $20.63$15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062305138Author Katherine OzmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice by Christopher James 9780190673642
RRP: $49.01$45.23National headlines regularly herald the decline of Christianity in the United States, citing historically low levels of confidence in organized religion, drops in church attendance, church closures, and the dramatic rise of the "Nones." Scarcely heard... -
Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land by Erin C. MacLeod
RRP: $58.05$49.63In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. "Repatriation is a must!" they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They... -
The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland's Mother & Baby Homes and the Inside Story of How `Tuam 800' Became a Global Scandal by Paul Jude Redmond 9781785371776
$25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785371776Author Paul Jude RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Faith Versus Fact by Jerry A Coyne 9780143108269
RRP: $23.22$14.82"A superbly argued book." -Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In this provocative book,... -
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) by Kate Cohen 9781567927368
RRP: $37.35$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567927368Author Kate CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint David R. Godine PublisherPublisher David R. Godine PublisherWeight(grams)... -
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger
RRP: $18.05$14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385073059Author Peter L. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: $32.19$26.42A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological AssociationReligion in Human Evolution is a work of... -
A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity by Vince L. Bantu
RRP: $37.40$26.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851072Author Vince L. BantuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...