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  • Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters

    Changing Lives

    by Ines W. Jindra, Michael Jindra, Sarah DeGenero ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Funerals in Africa

    Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

    Edited by Michael Jindra, Joël Noret ...
    Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • White Thinking

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    by Lilian Thuram ...
    Translated by David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cristina Johnston ...
    'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

    by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ...
    A Literary Hub Most Anticipated BookBrilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters“One of the greatest writers of our time.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling authorNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child;... ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of the Yoruba

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Akintunde Akinyemi ...
    "The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource." — Yoruba Studies ReviewThe Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

    Edited by John Parker, Richard Reid ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Religions in South Africa, Vol. 2: The Bahá’í Faith

    by Independent Forum for Faith and Media ...
    This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it is limited to South Africans, or to media professionals! Indeed, anyone interested in the major ... Read more

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  • Remigration

    by Jean-Yves Le Gallou ...
    What if the issue of our century isn't managing migration, but reversing it altogether? What if we could replace the Great Replacement with a Great Remigration?As mass Third World immigration floods Europe and North America, threatening to forever dissolve thousands of years of European heritage, remigration has become one of the central ideas and urgent imperatives on the political agenda. In a ... Read more

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  • West Africa's Women of God

    Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition

    by Robert M. Baum ...
    West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges ... Read more

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  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions

    Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba ...
    Series Book 80 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa.Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continentContributors are from a variety of fields, ... Read more

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