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In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as "the body of Christ." Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of...

Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a result, immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa confront major challenges in the social context of the United States, even as their experiences and accomplishments...

Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of...

Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simao Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The...

In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a distinct substitute" for the church. He was not wrong. In the generation after the Civil War, few of the...

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every human being carries the image of God--within those ideals. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from the...

Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642895971Author R. C. SproulFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Ligonier MinistriesPublisher Ligonier Ministries

The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation-moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481682Author Carl RobsahmFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society

Ecumenism is generally done by theologians, but as Charles Morerod, OP makes clear in this groundbreaking book the divisions between Christians often have at their roots different philosophical pre-understandings. Furthermore, ecumenical dialogue itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438842Author Allan H AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 415g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866986298Author Anthony J GrubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)Publisher Arizona Center...

Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated...

Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical...

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398834187Author Benedict of NursiaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were...

In this short, practical guide, Camryn Zamora helps believers esteem the role of pastors as commanded in Scripture, recognize their role in supporting church leadership, and follow through with simple, intentional acts of service.Book InformationISBN...

In this addition to the Church Questions series, Andy Johnson presents a clear-cut, gospel-centered standard for current and aspiring missionaries.Book InformationISBN 9781433591532Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crossway...

Morning and evening prayer for those seeking to respond to Pope Francis’s call for greater care for our common home. “God saw everything that was made, and indeed, it was very good.” Yet human disregard for creation endangers that goodness. In Living...

In The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson, Jared Alcántara offers a definitive biography of one of the most controversial, complex--and, eventually, forgotten--luminaries of the twentieth century. Alcántara chronicles Jackson's rise to power as pastor of the...

A twelve-month wall calendar designed for marking feasts and fasts in the Episcopal ChurchThe 2025 Episcopal Church Year Kalendar includes feasts and fasts observed by the Episcopal Church, along with the liturgical color appointed for each day. The back...

Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as 'social Christianity', 'Christian socialism', or the 'social gospel', that spanned countries, continents, decades, and denominations. Building on the...