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At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews
Booksplease Price: $219.45The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the... -
Spirits of the Space Age: The Imagined World of Brazil's Valley of the Dawn by Kelly E. Hayes 9780197516409
Booksplease Price: $52.90Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism. Among the dozens of New Age, Spiritist,... -
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews 9781316633984
Booksplease Price: $64.16The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the... -
Aliens & Strangers?: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals by Anna Strhan 9780198724469
Booksplease Price: $246.58In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. 'St John's' is a vibrant church,... -
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond by L. Benjamin Rolsky
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by "culture wars" waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives... -
Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice by Rachel B. Gross
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $128.08Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a... -
Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust by Richard J. Callahan
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.01Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the... -
The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity by Darren E. Grem 9780199927975
RRP: $85.03Booksplease Price: $84.76"Ye cannot serve God and mammon," the Bible says. But conservative American Protestants have, for at least a century, been trying to prove that adage wrong. While preachers, activists, and... -
Spirits of the Space Age: The Imagined World of Brazil's Valley of the Dawn by Kelly E. Hayes 9780197516393
Booksplease Price: $235.94Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism. Among the dozens of New Age, Spiritist,... -
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $64.55Whose job is it to teach the public about sex? Parents? The churches? The schools? And what should they be taught? These questions have sparked some of the most heated political debates in recent... -
Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America by Brett Malcolm Grainger
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $73.96A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America, evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans with their spiritual roots in the natural world.We have long credited... -
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen 9780691220888
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.70How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores... -
Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions by Christopher G. White
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $60.90What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist seances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world's most talented physicists. The other... -
Faith and Foreign Affairs in the American Century by Mark Thomas Edwards 9781498570138
Booksplease Price: $79.40The United States has led the world in almost every way since World War I. In 1941, Life magazine publisher Henry Luce dubbed his country's preponderant power "the American Century." His editorial... -
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $34.25One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to... -
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation by Liz Bucar
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $44.63From sneaker ads and the "solidarity hijab" to yoga classes and secular hikes along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, the essential guide to the murky ethics of religious appropriation.We... -
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber Wendy Brown 9780674301603
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $36.31A Seminary Co-op Notable Book"What makes Brown's book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber's scholarship-including his emphasis on the defining... -
Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma) 9781108493314
Booksplease Price: $50.11Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught... -
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology by Lilian Calles Barger
RRP: $76.63Booksplease Price: $71.57On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement... -
Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion by Christopher M. Driscoll 9781498565646
Booksplease Price: $82.72Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion emphasizes the inexorable influence that social identities exert in shaping methodological choices within the academic... -
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology Lilian Calles Barger 9780197826768
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.53On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "Poverty is not an accident. It has causes that must be recognized and removed for the good of so many of our brothers and sisters." With this statement... -
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin 9781479835836
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council ... -
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $159.98Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council ... -
The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West by Jennifer Graber 9780197625446
Booksplease Price: $59.85During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and... -
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld 9781479865857
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader... -
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $135.28Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader... -
The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West by Jennifer Graber 9780190279615
Booksplease Price: $85.03During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and... -
Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature by Tracy Fessenden 9780691049649
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $52.94Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or...