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Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton
Booksplease Price: $54.05What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at... -
Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton 9780226481937
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.96What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at... -
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon by Kathryn Lofton 9780520259270
Booksplease Price: $174.20"Today on "Oprah"," intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates "the Oprah" phenomenon and finds in... -
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon by Kathryn Lofton 9780520267527
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63"Today on "Oprah"," intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates "the Oprah" phenomenon and finds in... -
American Examples Volume 1: New Conversations about Religion by Michael J. Altman 9780817360290
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Fresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from a church-architecture mecca of Southeast Indiana to what an atheist parent believes.American Examples: New Conversations about Religion,... -
Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies by Anthony Elliott
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.81Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy... -
Going Native or Going Naive?: White Shamanism and the Neo-Noble Savage by Dagmar Wernitznig 9780761824954
Booksplease Price: $118.99Going Native or Going Naive? is a critical analysis of an esoteric-Indian movement, called white shamanism. This movement, originating from the 1980's New Age boom, redefines the phenomenon of... -
Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and The Global New Right by Serena Bassi
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.03An unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that... -
Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp 9780195331998
RRP: $64.03Booksplease Price: $47.59Women have always been historians. Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women functioned as teachers of history and historical interpreters, offering narrations of the... -
Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp 9780195331981
Booksplease Price: $247.17Women have always been historians. Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women functioned as teachers of history and historical interpreters, offering narrations of the... -
After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present Maia Kotrosits 9781478029328
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $141.83In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Recasting the monumental changes that occurred between the second... -
After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present Maia Kotrosits 9781478032762
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Recasting the monumental changes that occurred between the second... -
Helping the Good Shepherd: Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925–1975 by Susan E. Myers-Shirk 9780801890475
Booksplease Price: $109.39This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship... -
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together by Anthony B. Pinn
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.57In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in... -
All Religion Is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 9781350236851
Booksplease Price: $73.16All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of "religion" as a distinct... -
Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture Katharine Mershon 9780231206969
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $155.44Stories about people and dogs saving one another are everywhere in US culture-on TV, in Hollywood movies, on social media, and even on bumper stickers. Yet these seemingly heartwarming stories of... -
Christmas as Religion: Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred by Christopher Deacy
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $112.83In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing... -
Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together by Anthony B. Pinn 9781478013532
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $139.57In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in... -
Homesickness: An American History by Susan J. Matt 9780199314607
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $57.67Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard... -
Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture Katharine Mershon 9780231206976
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63Stories about people and dogs saving one another are everywhere in US culture-on TV, in Hollywood movies, on social media, and even on bumper stickers. Yet these seemingly heartwarming stories of... -
Going Low: How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy by Finbarr Curtis
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.41Liberalism puts its trust in civil discourse and rational argument. Today, its opponents enthusiastically flout these norms, making a show of defying so-called political correctness. In the Trump era... -
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive by Professor Elyse Ambrose 9780567707925
Booksplease Price: $56.11In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This... -
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Professor Elyse Ambrose 9780567707932
Booksplease Price: $148.87In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This... -
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism: Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change through Performance George González 9781479817733
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance group Since the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a... -
Homesickness: An American History by Susan J. Matt 9780195371857
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $80.39Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity, what children feel at summer camp, but in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard... -
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism: Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change through Performance George González 9781479817702
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $135.28Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance group Since the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a... -
Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry by Annie Blazer
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can... -
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince Daphne A. Brooks 9781478029854
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $187.74Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an... -
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince Daphne A. Brooks 9781478033301
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an... -
A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life under Lockdown Meghan O'Rourke 9780300257359
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $18.06Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas"If only our response to the pandemic on other fronts could have been as speedy and... -
Vocation and the Politics of Work: Popular Theology in a Consumer Culture by Jeffrey Scholes 9780739178904
Booksplease Price: $171.09Since Martin Luther, vocations or callings have had a close relationship with daily work. It is a give-and-take relationship in which the meaning of a vocation typically negotiates with the kinds of... -
Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation Liz Bucar 9780674297210
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.70"Bucar's sharp insights, shot through with humor and self-awareness, are exactly what we need the next time we reach over to borrow from someone else's religion for our own therapeutic, political, or... -
The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness by Catherine L. Albanese 9780226823546
Booksplease Price: $52.08An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries. The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight... -
Christianity, Race, and Sport Jeffrey Scholes (University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA) 9780367313302
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.99This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271090238
Booksplease Price: $64.58Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271082035
RRP: $216.28Booksplease Price: $192.40Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells... -
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic by Joseph P. Slaughter 9780231191111
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.69In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative... -
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic by Joseph P. Slaughter 9780231191104
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $223.52In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative... -
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews
RRP: $203.70Booksplease Price: $194.54The 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
RRP: $51.43Booksplease Price: $50.11Since 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,...