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Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton
Booksplease Price: £25.74What 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: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60What 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
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89"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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40"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: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Fresh 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: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Ours 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: £56.12Going 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11An 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
Booksplease Price: £33.39Women 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: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54In 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In 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: £52.61This 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.94In 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: £34.47All 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: £94.00Booksplease Price: £73.95Stories 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: £58.00Booksplease Price: £56.42In 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: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In 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
Booksplease Price: £42.59Homesickness 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Stories 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: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Liberalism 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... -
The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism: Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change through Performance George González 9781479817702
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.42Explores 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... -
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive by Professor Elyse Ambrose 9780567707925
Booksplease Price: £26.72In 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: £70.89In 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Explores 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
Booksplease Price: £51.93Homesickness 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... -
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince Daphne A. Brooks 9781478029854
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £89.40Blackstar 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... -
Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry by Annie Blazer
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82When 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 9781478033301
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.22Blackstar 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: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.60Selections 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: £81.47Since 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: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.36"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: £24.80An 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: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This 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: £30.75Temperance 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In 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... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271082035
RRP: £102.99Booksplease Price: £91.45Temperance 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... -
Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity by Gordon Lynch 9781472591128
Booksplease Price: £29.55Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the... -
Judaism Mediated: Learning About Jewishness Through the Cultural Arts Sharon Avni 9781479838561
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Explores how Jews and non-Jews come to learn about Jews and Judaism through leisure-time entertainmentJudaism Mediated explores how Jews and non-Jews learn about Judaism through participation in... -
Judaism Mediated: Learning About Jewishness Through the Cultural Arts Sharon Avni 9781479838547
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £63.53Explores how Jews and non-Jews come to learn about Jews and Judaism through leisure-time entertainmentJudaism Mediated explores how Jews and non-Jews learn about Judaism through participation in... -
Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic by Joseph P. Slaughter 9780231191104
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23In 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...