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  • Earthly Things

    Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

    by Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn, Carol Wayne White ...
    Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Unsettling Science and Religion

    Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies

    by Lisa Stenmark, Whitney Bauman, Timothy Morton, Julia Watts Belser, Fern Feldman, Carlos Fernández, Kirianna Florez, Teresa Hornsby, Alex Carr Johnson0, Laurel Schneider1, Carol Wayne White2, Zairong Xiang3, Philip Clayton4, Catherine Keller5, Emilie M. Townes6 ...
    Series series Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
    This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle—or “queer”—the discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Sedgwick, chapters in this volume converge on at least three common features of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Black Lives and Sacred Humanity

    Toward an African American Religious Naturalism

    by Carol Wayne White ...
    Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin. Supported by current theories in science ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • The Sacred Universe

    Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

    by Thomas Berry ...
    "Dedicated readers of ecology, theology, or religious philosophy will want to savor each one [of these essays]" from the renowned environmental thinker ( Library Journal).A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the ... Read more

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  • Transforming Worldviews

    An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change

    by Paul Hiebert ...
    In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third element: a change in worldview. Here he offers a comprehensive study of worldview--its philosophy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Beyond the Hoax

    Science, Philosophy and Culture

    by Alan Sokal ...
    In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion

    by Dr Bradley L. Herling ...
    How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call “religion”? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field. Now in ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Ritual

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Rebirth of the Goddess

    Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality

    by Carol P. Christ ...
    First published in 1999. One of the most unexpected developments of the late twentieth century is the rebirth of the religion of the Goddess in western cultures. Though we were taught that the Gods and Goddesses died with the triumph of Christianity, the re-emergence of the Goddess is not as surprising as it might seem. This book explores the meaning of the Goddess, and the questions we ask as ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • What Are the Humanities For?

    by Willem B. Drees ...
    What are the humanities for? The question has perhaps never seemed more urgent. While student numbers have grown in higher education, universities and colleges increasingly have encouraged students to opt for courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or take programs in applied subjects like business and management. When tertiary learning has taken such a notably ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Coming Home

    The Birth & Transformation of the Planetary Era

    by Sean Kelly ...
    "All descriptions of the past are in the present; therefore, history tells our descendants more about us than it does about the imaginary creatures we like to call our ancestors.... All of which is only another way of saying that the past and the future do not exist; nevertheless, we need these narrative fictions, for we gain knowledge by looking backward at patterns and forward in anticipation of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD