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American Sacred Space by David Chidester
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.39In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation-and the conflict behind the creation-of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic,... -
Religion: Material Dynamics by David Chidester 9780520297661
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social... -
Christianity: A Global History by David Chidester 9780062517708
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $39.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062517708Author David ChidesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint HarperOnePublisher... -
Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals) by David Chidester
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $75.18First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the... -
Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion by David Chidester
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $188.56How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and... -
Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion by David Chidester 9780226117430
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $61.85How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and... -
Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography by David Chidester 9780313304736
Booksplease Price: $140.47In all its diversity, Christianity has been a powerful force in South African life. From the history of colonial missions, through the development of denominations, to the emergence of African... -
Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa by David Chidester 9780813916675
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of ""religion""and ""religions"" on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which European travelers,... -
Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown by David Chidester
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.11Praise for the first edition:"[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." -Journal of the... -
Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography by David Chidester 9780313304729
Booksplease Price: $140.47A comprehensive guide to three global religions that have established strong local communities in South Africa, this work is a valuable resource for scholars, students in religious studies, African... -
Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place by Oren Baruch Stier
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Sites of violence often provoke conflicts over memorialization. These conflicts provide insight into the construction and use of memory as a means of achieving public recognition of past wrongs. In... -
Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America Kati Curts 9781479831586
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $57.54Explores the ways in which Henry Ford and his motor company influenced American religion in the twentieth century Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church,... -
Punk Rock is My Religion: Straight Edge Punk and 'Religious' Identity Francis Stewart 9780367884437
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78As religion has retreated from its position and role of being the glue that holds society together, something must take its place. Utilising a focused and detailed study of Straight Edge punk (a... -
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses by Birgit Meyer 9780230622296
Booksplease Price: $98.15This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as... -
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity Thomas Karl Alberts 9781138548817
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $98.57Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples' struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft, and entrepreneurialism of the self... -
The Next Step in Studying Religion: A Graduate's Guide by Mathieu E. Courville 9780826498434
Booksplease Price: $96.08A collection of essays written specifically to help graduate students of Religious Studies and Theology in their quest to become professional scholars and professors: this candid and yet practical... -
Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State by Michael Walsh
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63China's constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as "sacred territory." Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and what does this suggest about the relations between... -
Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between by Jeremy Stolow 9780823249817
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action-religion and technology-are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an... -
Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality by Dick Houtman
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $62.50This volume addresses the relation between religion and things. That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning... -
Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World by S. Brent Plate
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and other production activities,... -
African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom by Sylvester A. Johnson 9780521157001
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $50.93This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the... -
Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue by Sarah McFarland Taylor 9781479810765
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $121.51Tackles a human problem we all share the fate of the earth and our role in its future Confident that your personal good deeds of environmental virtue will save the earth? The stories we encounter... -
Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue by Sarah McFarland Taylor
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Tackles a human problem we all share the fate of the earth and our role in its future Confident that your personal good deeds of environmental virtue will save the earth? The stories we encounter...