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In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment by Rachel Ellis
RRP: €95.20€73.65In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff,... -
Sociology of Religion: A Rodney Stark Reader by Rodney Stark
€101.58For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion. The theoretical depth, the scientific rigor, and the clarity of style manifested in Stark's oeuvreaover 30 books and 140 articlesahave... -
Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison by Laua Magnano
RRP: €15.46€14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800638320Author Laua MagnanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress -
A Short History of Medieval Philosophy by Julius R. Weinberg
RRP: €41.65€37.76In this brief book the author examines the central doctrine of important Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers and shows the contributions of medieval thought to present-day philosophy. Intended not only for philosophers, but for anyone seeking a... -
London Youth, Religion, and Politics: Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane by Daniel Nilsson DeHanas
€119.52For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence... -
Religion and Family in a Changing Society by Penny Edgell
RRP: €41.65€33.01The 1950s religious boom was organized around the male-breadwinner lifestyle in the burgeoning postwar suburbs. But since the 1950s, family life has been fundamentally reconfigured in the United States. How do religion and family fit together today? This... -
Bodies, Boundaries and Spirit Possession: Moroccan Women and the Revision of Tradition by Margaret Rausch
RRP: €38.08€31.46The social structures of Moroccan society have been changing in accordance with western models at an ever-growing rate. The role of Islam in sharing the burden of these changes and in narrowing the ever-expanding gap between modernity and tradition is... -
Debating Islam: Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self by Samuel M. Behloul
RRP: €44.02€36.16Conspicuously, Islam has become a key concern in most European societies with respect to issues of immigration, integration, identity, values and inland security. As the mere presence of Muslim minorities fails to explain these debates convincingly, new... -
The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination Courtney Bender (Columbia University) 9780226042800
RRP: €33.32€32.59American spirituality - meaning astrology, yoga, and the huge number of other alternative strains of religion pursued by individuals outside of traditional organizations - is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. Aromatherapy, crystals,... -
Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-Nineties by Georg Stauth
RRP: €41.64€34.28This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilising processes in Singapore and the... -
The Civic Life of American Religion by Paul Lichterman
RRP: €23.79€20.87Religious groups constitute a large part of America's voluntary sector, yet relatively few works have investigated them broadly. This collection of essays investigates the public roles of religious congregations and associations. With contributions by... -
Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions by Paul Lichterman
RRP: €41.65€33.01Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to... -
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity by Gladys Ganiel
€124.95Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland is the first major book to explore the dynamic religious landscape of contemporary Ireland, north and south, and to analyse the island's religious transition. It confirms that the Catholic Church's long-standing... -
Getting to Church: Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining by Sally K. Gallagher
RRP: €33.90€31.26Why 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... -
Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors by David Scott
RRP: €128.52€111.62For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledges-especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges-of the non-Western world. The essays... -
Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey by Chiara Maritato
RRP: €107.10€96.43Tracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional... -
Greek Gods and Monsters: The Instant Guide by Instant Guides
RRP: €2.98€2.45Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just... -
Religious Interaction Ritual: The Microsociology of the Spirit by Scott Draper 9781498576314
RRP: €41.65€36.83This 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... -
Religion in English Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach by Timothy Jenkins 9781571817693
RRP: €33.26€26.87Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a... -
The Sacred in the Modern World: A Cultural Sociological Approach by Gordon Lynch 9780198705215
€32.43It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms--whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise--continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group... -
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson
€23.73In recent years, the leaders of the American evangelical movement have brought their characteristic passion to the problem of race, notably in the Promise Keepers movement and in reconciliation theology. But the authors of this provocative new study... -
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West Laurens de Rooij (University of Chester, UK) 9781032462660
RRP: €148.75€128.35Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?News reports about... -
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery by Rodney Stark
RRP: €41.65€33.49Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian... -
Building a Marriage that Really Works by Kay Arthur
RRP: €9.51€6.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307457578Author Kay ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division of... -
The Robert Bellah Reader by Robert N. Bellah
RRP: €33.31€29.20Perhaps best known for his coauthored bestselling books Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Robert N. Bellah is a truly visionary leader in the social study of religion. For more than four decades, he has examined the role of religion in modern and... -
Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults by Christian Smith
RRP: €39.26€36.35How important is religion for young people in America today? What are the major influences on their developing spiritual lives? How do their religious beliefs and practices change as young people enter into adulthood? Christian Smith's Souls in... -
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780226616018
RRP: €27.37€26.33The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and... -
How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa by Ziya Meral 9781108452854
RRP: €27.36€23.28Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between... -
The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out by Jaime Kucinskas 9780190881818
€44.30Mindful meditation is now embraced in virtually all corners of society today, from K-12 schools to Fortune 100 companies, and its virtues extolled by national and international media almost daily. It is thought to benefit our health and overall... -
Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life by Nancy Tatom Ammerman 9780199917365
RRP: €50.56€32.50Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places... -
Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach by Tony Thwaites
€48.66This core textbook offers a concise, direct and easy-to-use introduction to how semiotics can be employed to understand culture. It adopts a practical and versatile approach to cultural analysis, beginning not with an abstract body of theory but with a... -
Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish David Martin (London School of Economic and Political Science) 9780631231219
RRP: €45.16€39.70This book deals with the largest global shift in religion over the last forty years, the astonishing rise of Pentecostalism and charismatic Christianity.About the AuthorProfessor David Martin is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of... -
Secular Beats Spiritual: The Westernization of the Easternization of the West by Steve Bruce 9780198805687
RRP: €45.21€45.08The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only... -
Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State by Jonathan Laurence
RRP: €38.08€29.94The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking... -
Fundamentalism by Steve Bruce 9780745640761
RRP: €19.03€17.15The new edition of Steve Bruce's Fundamentalism grapples with the combination of social strains and religious ideas that have produced an explosion of fundamentalist activity in the wake of 9/11. In a direct and punchy style, the new edition of his... -
Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors by David Scott 9780804752664
RRP: €29.74€25.79For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West's knowledges-especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges-of the non-Western world. The essays... -
The Cross-cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Reception of Faith by Andrew F. Wall 9781570753732
RRP: €19.03€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570753732Author Andrew F. WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)Weight(grams) 499g -
The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond by Bashir Bashir
RRP: €35.70€27.72Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the "Jewish Question," as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this "question" migrated to... -
Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future by S. Fuller 9780230233430
RRP: €53.54€53.51Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to... -
Culture and Identity by Warren Kidd 9780230281028
€47.71An understanding of culture and identity is essential for new sociologists. This student-focused text explains the themes and theories behind these core ideas. With up-to-date discussion of 'chavs', masculinity and social networking, skills-based...