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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Conflicts over homosexuality and gay rights threaten to break apart denominations, if not North American society. These heated theological and political debates have, as well, obscured the fact that many gays and lesbians are religiously active individuals. Gay Religion is the first book to give a...
Religions in Asian America
Building Faith Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the study...
Ancient African Metallurgy
The Sociocultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2000
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1998
Money always has been a subject of deep concern for religious leaders. In recent decades, however, this perennial concern has taken on a new urgency as a crisis situation is perceived. Financing American Religion brings together short, readable essays representing the best, most up-to-date research...
by John A Saliba
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or alternative or emergent religions are so acute...
Reducing Youth Gang Violence
The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In this book, Irving Spergel details the efforts of his Chicago youth gang project, a comprehensive, community-based model designed to reduce gang problems, including violence and illegal drug activity. He offers an in-depth description of the Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project, revealing...
Talking About Cultural Diversity in Your Church
Gifts and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Congregational workshop leader Michael Angrosino gives down-to-earth examples and practical information to make discussion of these tough issues for congregations much easier. Clergy and laity of any church that wants to embrace rather than avoid issues of diversity will gain much from this book.
Ethnographic Archaeologies
Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative...
When Histories Collide
The Development and Impact of Individualistic Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
The late economic historian, Raymond Crotty, a specialist on economic development in Ireland, left a challenging work that addresses the processes of world history from the neolithic revoution up to the end of the 20th century. On the way, Crotty tried to explain phenomena as diverse as the role of...
Anthropology and Global History
From Tribes to the Modern World-System
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.
Carmack...
Measuring Prison Performance
Government Privatization and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system. The authors argue that prison performance must be measured in...
Ethnic Studies Research
Approaches and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Study of ethnic groups and race relations have always existed in the academy, primarily in the areas of sociology and anthropology. However, grassroots movements for ethnic studies programs and departments came about with very different agendas for the study of these groups. It is surprising, then,...
Rapid Assessment Process
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
A newer edition of this book is available at the following address: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759123212
Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) has gone under many names but invariably uses the techniques of fieldwork and ethnography in a telescoped manner to provide solid, field-based research findings...
Initiating Ethnographic Research
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
*Initiating Ethnographic Research:*A Mixed Methods Approach, is the first book of its kind. Unlike texts that describe and detail methods for doing ethnographic and qualitative research once in the field, Book 2 explores in...