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Occupy Religion
Theology of the Multitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and Occupy Religion shows this role is no less critical today.
New York Glory
Religions in the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social landscape in which religious life plays a dynamic role. Yet the magnitude of religion's impact on New York's social life has gone unacknowledged.
New York Glory gathers together for...
Shadow of the Third Century
A Revaluation of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2019
Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity, first published in 1949, begins with the assertions that a true history of Christianity has never before been written and that the roots of the Christian religion lie in earlier religions and philosophies of the ancient world.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States,...
by Joseph Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Reality or Religion invites you to take a deeper look into the subject of faith from a raw perspective. Think how exciting it would be to discover a book that bridged the gap between science and religion. Where reality is infused with purpose at the discovery of a higher calling, and learn facts that...
by Edward Caird
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Based on a set of lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews between 1890 and 1892, Caird’s aim is to appeal to those “alienated from the ordinary dogmatic system of belief, but who, at the same time, are conscious that they have owed a great part of their spiritual life to the teachings...
Conflict and Resolution
Progressive Educators and the Question of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Conflict and Resolution: Progressive Educators and the Question of Religion investigates the impact of religion in shaping the progressive education movement. Historians of progressivism have described the progressive movement as a secularized version of fundamentally religious impulses, a kind of ‘secularized...
Digital Religion
Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs and...
by Garrett Glass
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Who Cut God’s Hair is like no other book you have read about God, religion, atheism, or questions regarding the creation of the universe. Author Garrett Glass isn’t fundamentally interested in whether God exists. He is interested in where God comes from, and the basic premise of this book is simple:...
Religion and Space
Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and violence in the contemporary world. Lily Kong and Orlando Woods argue that because space is both a medium and an outcome of religious activity, it is integral to understanding processes of religious competition,...
Fire in the Canyon
Religion, Migration, and the Mexican Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months...
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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...
Excellent Beauty
The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Flipping convention on its head, Eric Dietrich argues that science uncovers awe-inspiring, enduring mysteries, while religion, regarded as the source for such mysteries, is a biological phenomenon. Just like spoken language, Dietrich shows that religion is an evolutionary adaptation. Science is the...
Religion, Authority, and the State
From Constantine to the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
In commemoration of Constantine’s grant of freedom of religion to Christians, this wide-ranging volume examines the ambiguous legacy of this emperor in relation to the present world, discussing the perennial challenges of relations between religions and governments. The authors examine the new global...