Sociology of Religion

Plymouth Brethren offers the first scholarly treatment of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC), one of the largest denominations within the Brethren movement that originated with John Nelson Darby and a 19th-century revival in the British Isles...

Offers an overarching definition and framework for the study of religion as it manifests itself in everyday life Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight, there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318867Author Hahrie HanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In the hysteria surrounding Political Islam, it is difficult to find analysis that doesn't justify the existence of Islamic leaders or react to the West's fear of 'extremists'. In Islamic Activists, Deina Ali Abdelkader shows us what Islamic leaders and...

This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The...

In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world? This Sacred Life gives a deep philosophical and...

Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and...

This important textbook provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion, focusing on more recent classical ethnographies. Comprehensive, free of scholastic jargon, engaging, and comparative in approach, it covers all the major...

The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091225Author Suraj Milind YengdeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India

A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich...

Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the '80s and '90s, Sarah McCammon was taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather or Muslim friend would go to hell, and that she...

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's...

Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik...

The 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...

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition...

Major cities have long been seen as centres of secularisation. However, the number of congregations in London grew by 50% between 1979 and the present. London's churches have been characterised more by growth than by decline in the decades since 1980...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975720059Author Paul DevereuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Daily Grail PublishingPublisher Daily Grail PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Book of the Year (Top 10) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780830841141Author C. Christopher SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738098309Author John G Stackhouse, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Thinkbetter MediaPublisher Thinkbetter MediaWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551069Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

This book brings together top scholars from various backgrounds to explore methodologies for studying ritual and Catholicism. The essays focus on particular aspects of ritual within Catholic practice, such as liturgy and performance and healing rituals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883686010Author Jerry RobesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Whitaker House,U.S.Publisher Whitaker House,U.S.Weight(grams) 501g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179024Author Mark LillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830844838Author Alan NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

What do animals-other than human animals-have to do with religion? How do our religious ideas about animals affect the lives of real animals in the world? How can we deepen our understanding of both animals and religion by considering them together?...

Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics is a powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. Drawing on examples such as the legacy of Barack Obama, the mainstream media's portrayal of Muslims, and the justifications given for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003947Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1504gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830831722Author W. Jay MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063226890Author Tim AlbertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310345Author Al RidenourFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 772g

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830844128Author Adam S. MchughFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

A landmark contribution to women's history that sheds new light on the Salem witch trials and one of its most crucial participants, Tituba of The Crucible In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive,...

For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183860Author Mary KennyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Columba BooksPublisher Columba Books

Anthropology's contributions explored for cross-cultural understanding of epistemology, globalism, urbanization, church planting, and spiritual warfare.About the AuthorThe late Paul G. Hiebert (1932-2007) was distinguished professor of mission and...

In this illuminating book, one of our foremost literary critics views the much-debated question of the literary canon from an entirely new angle. Robert Alter explores the ways in which a range of iconoclastic twentieth-century authors have put to use...