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  • From Faith to Works

    How Religion Inspires Confidence, Community, and Sacrifice

    In From Faith to Works: How Religion Inspires Confidence, Community, and Sacrifice, Michael K. Abel builds on key principles from past theories of religion and group solidarity to determine the origins of religious confidence and explain the essential role doctrinal content plays in the establishment of cohesive religious communities. This book addresses an enduring question: Why do people ... Read more

    $97.89 USD

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  • Big Gods

    How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

    How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Morality

    Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

    A distinguished religious leader's “brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.With liberal democracy embattled, our public discourse growing increasingly toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In* Morality*, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Soul Searching

    The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers

    In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers are very involved in religion. Surveys reveal that 35% attend religious services weekly and another 15% ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • What God Has Joined Together

    A Christian Case for Gay Marriage

    Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith. Most Christians are pro-marriage and hold traditional family values, but should they endorse extending marriage rights to gays and lesbians? If Jesus enjoined us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and the homosexual is our neighbor, does that mean we should ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would

    A Fresh Christian Approach

    by Chad Thompson ...
    Chances are you know someone who is gay--a coworker, family member, or friend. And chances are, as a Christian, you're not exactly sure how to relate to this person. While the church has been pretty good at "hating the sin," it hasn't really known how to "love the sinner" without fear of condoning a homosexual lifestyle.Chad Thompson, a man who has struggled with homosexual feelings, argues that ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Families and Faith

    How Religion is Passed Down across Generations

    Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the faith. And it seems, from media portrayals, that this is happening more and more frequently. But is ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Series series The Macat Library
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • American Evangelicalism

    Embattled and Thriving

    "An excellent study of evangelicalism" from the award-winning sociologist and author of Souls in Transition and Soul Searching ( Library Journal).Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; twenty million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular?Based on a national ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Peaceable Psychology

    Christian Therapy in a World of Many Cultures

    In the past century psychology has been practiced in the manner of medical science, working from the assumption that therapy can transcend particular ethnic and religious traditions. Seeking to move the conversation forward, this book argues for a theologically, culturally, and politically sensitive psychotherapy whereby the Christian psychologist treats the patient according to the particulars of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World

    Edited by MaryElizabeth Moore ...
    Editors Mary Elizabeth Moore and Almeda M. Wright address the harsh, challenging, and delicate realities of children and youth—who live as spiritual beings within a beautiful yet destructive world. Providing a practical theological analysis of the spiritual yearnings, expressions, and challenges of children and youth in a world of rapid change, dislocation, violence, and competing loyalties, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

    $32.39 USD