Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Three Black Generations at the Crossroads
Community, Culture, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The 20th century, marked by dramatic socioeconomic, cultural, and technological changes, greatly altered the value systems of many Americans. Three Black Generations at the Crossroads: Community, Culture, and Consciousness looks at how these values shifted within the black community and asks the question:...
No End of Conflict
Rethinking Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Yossi Alpher, a veteran of peace process research and dialogue, explains how Israel got into its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end...
Moral Wisdom
Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Moral Wisdom introduces readers to moral theory through a Catholic lens. In a warm, conversational style, Father Keenan shares a wealth of stories and examples to highlight the resources in the Catholic tradition for developing moral wisdom. Connecting formative influences of the Catholic heritage...
Claiming the Beatitudes
Nine Stories from a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
“In troubles times, hope often seems elusive, a vague promise of the future. But Anne Howard transforms hope into a tangible practice of faith by sharing the stories of young adults who take Jesus’ beatitudes both literally and seriously. Read Claiming the Beatitudes and glimpse a transformational...
The Book of Revelation and Its Interpreters
Short Studies and an Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Book of Revelation has fired the imaginations of theologians, preachers, artists, and ordinary Christians across the centuries. The resulting number of commentaries on the book is enormous, and most studies can only touch upon, at most, a representative sample of this vast literature. As a consequence,...
The Prenatal Bombshell
Help and Hope When Continuing or Ending a Precious Pregnancy After an Abnormal Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Finding out your unborn child has been diagnosed with a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis is devastating news sure to reverberate through your family’s life forever. The emotional aspects of such a pregnancy and the practical implications of an adverse diagnosis are difficult to navigate. The Prenatal...
by David E. Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience,...
Herod the Great
Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been born there....
850 Intriguing Questions about Judaism
True, False, or In Between
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Both Jews and non-Jews alike have many misconceptions of Jewish teachings and practices. Some seemingly unusual statements about Jewish teachings and practices are actually true, whereas some apparently reasonable and popularly believed statements are false. Many statements regarding Jewish teachings...
Mercy in Action
The Social Teachings of Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has tackled many issues of urgent reform within the church. Mercy in Action explores Pope Francis’s efforts to renewCatholic social teaching—the guidance the church offers on matters that pertain to social justice in the world. The book examines what Pope...
Emma Goldman
Political Thinking in the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Emma Goldman has often been read for her colorful life story, her lively if troubled sex life, and her wide-ranging political activism. Few have taken her seriously as a political thinker, even though in her lifetime she was a vigorous public intellectual within a global network of progressive politics....
Kissing in the Chapel, Praying in the Frat House
Wrestling with Faith and College
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
College is a time to learn, explore, and grow, but what does faith have to do with it? In this collection of essays, gifted writers in their twenties and early thirties reflect on their college years by telling stories—some hilarious, some heart-wrenching—on the intersection of faith and college.
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In God's Presence
Encountering, Experiencing, and Embracing the Holy in Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Vibrant worship services, argues creative and provocative author Graham Standish, are those in which the congregation obviously asks questions such as: Does our worship help people experience God? Does our worship open people to the presence of Christ? Does our worship encourage people to become available...
Romances with Schools
A Life of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
John I. Goodlad has been an unflagging voice for humanistic ideals in education for more than six decades and has helped reframe the modern discourse on the role and function of schools. For Goodlad the goal of public education is to help children become free and full participants in a democratic...