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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration Rubina Ramji 9781350258471
€47.71The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and... -
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago Jason A. Springs 9781479823772
RRP: €88.06€76.70Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice In the United States “restorative justice” typically refers to small-scale measures that divert alleged wrongdoers from a standard path through... -
New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives by David W. Kim 9781793634047
RRP: €41.65€36.83This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals. The contributors argue that when traditional religions were... -
Enjoying Religion: Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements by Frans Jespers 9781498555012
RRP: €107.10€93.78"Enjoying religion" seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new... -
The Geography of Faith: Underground Conversations on Religious Political & Social Change by Robert Coles 9781893361409
RRP: €15.46€13.53A classic of faith-based activism-updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two... -
Initiating the Millennium: The Avignon Society and Illuminism in Europe by Robert Collis 9780190903374
RRP: €114.24€85.88In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society-known variously as the Illumines d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union-that flourished across... -
QAnon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future by George Lundskow 9781666931884
RRP: €91.63€80.47Q-Anon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future examines the historical and theological origins and the social-psychological effects of American conspiracy fantasies... -
Religious Interaction Ritual: The Microsociology of the Spirit by Scott Draper 9781498576291
RRP: €101.15€88.67This book is a microsociological study of religious practice, based on fieldwork with Conservative Jews, Bible Belt Muslims, white Baptists, black Baptists, Buddhist meditators, and Latino Catholics. In each case, the author scrutinizes how a... -
Trance Mediums and New Media: Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction by Heike Behrend 9780823253807
€123.36Ongoing debates about the "return of religion" have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on... -
Christianity and Public Culture in Africa by Harri Englund 9780821419458
€92.47Christianity and Public Culture in Africa takes readers beyond familiar images of religious politicians and populations steeped in spirituality. It shows how critical reason and Christian convictions have combined in surprising ways as African Christians... -
A Revolutionary Conscience: Theodore Parker and Antebellum America by Paul E. Teed 9780761859635
RRP: €49.98€43.95Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. A vocal critic of traditional Christian thought and a militant opponent of American slavery, he led a huge congregation of religious dissenters... -
Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism by Donald E. Miller 9780199920570
€138.53Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement in the world, currently estimated to have at least 500 million adherents. In the movement's early years, most Pentecostal converts lived in relative poverty, leading many scholars to regard the new... -
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West by Max Weber 9780195332537
€86.83For more than 100 years, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. Now more timely and thought-provoking than ever, this esteemed classic of twentieth-century social... -
The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches by Korie L. Edwards 9780195314243
RRP: €47.59€39.14It is communion Sunday at a mixed-race church. A black pastor and white head elder stand before the sanctuary as lay leaders pass out the host. An African-American woman sings a gospel song as a woman of Asian descent plays the piano. Then a black woman... -
Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 by Andrew R. Murphy 9780195321289
RRP: €43.42€38.48America's supposed moral decline from an imagined golden age, and the threat of divine punishment for the sin of straying from the path of righteousness, have been consistent themes in its political and religious rhetoric. But why is this myth so... -
Getting to Church: Narratives of Gender and Joining by Sally K. Gallagher 9780190239671
RRP: €130.90€116.18Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new members? What is it that draws women and men differently into diverse types of congregations? Getting to Church assesses the deeply personal and gendered narratives around how women and... -
If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro by Andrew Johnson 9780190238988
RRP: €139.83€128.03Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living in a Brazilian prison as if he were an inmate: sleeping in the same... -
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism by Gary J. Adler 9780823284351
€122.14Parishes 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,... -
God's New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Evangelicals on Campus by Rebecca Y. Kim 9780814747902
RRP: €46.41€40.60In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard,... -
The Meaning of Sunday: The Practice of Belief in a Secular Age by Joel Thiessen 9780773546271
RRP: €35.69€31.54Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity? Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity... -
Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain by Clive D. Field 9780198799474
€125.43Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization. It moves beyond the now largely sterile and theoretical debates about the validity of the secularization thesis... -
A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: "Don't Tell Me You're One of Those!" by Daniel Swann 9781498592390
RRP: €101.15€92.94A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: "Don't Tell Me You're One of Those" is an interdisciplinary examination of a group that is rarely the study of inquiry, Black Atheists. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews, Daniel Swann builds a... -
In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity by David Brog 9781594033803
RRP: €22.60€21.79Religious faith is under assault. In books, movies, and on television, secular critics are attacking religion and the religious with ever-increasing intensity. These "new atheists" typically repeat a two-part mantra: They claim that only an idiot could... -
Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity by Lori G. Beaman 9780198803485
€120.74While religious conflict receives plenty of attention, the everyday negotiation of religious diversity does not. Questions of how to accommodate religious minorities and of the limits of tolerance resonate in a variety of contexts and have become central... -
Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion by Courtney Bender 9780199938629
€138.53The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and... -
Rethinking Secularism by Craig Calhoun 9780199796670
€141.07This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to... -
More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion by Manuel A. Vasquez 9780195188530
RRP: €95.20€66.40Over the past several decades, postmodernist and postcolonial challenges to traditional theories and methods have revolutionized the social sciences. The discipline of religious studies, however, has been relatively slow to confront these developments,... -
Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money by Christian Smith 9780195337112
RRP: €41.64€34.57Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes-a parsimony that seriously undermines the work of churches and ministries. Far from the 10 percent of one's income that tithing requires, American... -
Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement by Gary J. Adler, Jr 9781108474566
RRP: €107.10€96.90How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global... -
Networks and Religion: Ties that Bind, Loose, Build-up, and Tear Down by Sean F. Everton 9781108416702
RRP: €69.02€62.37Social scientists who study religion generally believe that social networks play a central role in religious life. However, most studies draw on measures that are relatively poor proxies for capturing the effects of social networks. This book illustrates... -
Max Weber's Economic Ethic of the World Religions: An Analysis by Thomas C. Ertman 9781107133877
RRP: €124.95€112.70This book brings together for the first time in English internationally-recognized specialists who seek to identify what is 'living' and what is 'dead' in the great German social scientist Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel found in... -
Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India by Anindita Chakrabarti 9781107166622
RRP: €94.00€84.81How do we understand the multitude of faith movements in our post-secular world? Faith and Social Movements explores this question by analyzing the theology and practice as well as the transformation of two discrepant religious movements in contemporary... -
Secular Conversions: Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000 by Damon Mayrl 9781107103719
RRP: €83.30€75.34Why 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... -
Perseverance in the Parish?: Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective by Darren W. Davis 9781107191761
RRP: €109.47€98.52African American Catholics, though small in number and historically the targets of racial intolerance, are now the backbone of the church. The vast majority of African American Catholics do not perceive racial marginalization and intolerance in the... -
The Gardeners' Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics by Noah J. Toly 9780190249427
RRP: €97.58€63.96The past three centuries have witnessed the accumulation of unprecedented levels of wealth and the production of unprecedented risks. These risks include the declining integrity and stability of many of the world's environments, which face dramatic and... -
Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 7) by Johann P. Arnason 9783899424911
RRP: €48.78€39.94The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while... -
Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream by Christopher A. Bail 9780691173634
RRP: €33.32€25.94In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public... -
Political Secularism, Religion, and the State: A Time Series Analysis of Worldwide Data by Jonathon Fox 9781107433915
RRP: €39.26€33.83This book examines 111 types of state religion policy in 177 countries between 1990 and 2008. Jonathan Fox argues that policy is largely a result of the competition between political secular actors and religious actors, both of which try to influence... -
Catolicos Sin Complejos by Jose Gonzalez
RRP: €24.93€18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416921645Author Jose GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 295g -
Bonding with the Lord by Jyotirmaya Tripathy
€111.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388414524Author Jyotirmaya TripathyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 502g