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  • The Search for Meaning

    Americans Talk About What They Believe and Why

    by Phillip L. Berman ...
    “This thought-provoking oral history illuminates the vibrant panorama of values and beliefs that is shaping America.”—Coretta Scott KingWhat do Americans, as a people, believe in? What are the experiences that have transformed their lives? How does faith—in God, in human goodness, in politics, progress, money, or pleasure—illuminate our actions?These are the questions that Phillip L. Berman asked ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Faith Club

    A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding

    by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner ...
    "Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths—Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them to our children than our differences led to misunderstandings. Our project nearly fell apart."After ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Wandering Beyond the Darkness: One Mans Journey Through Religion and Spirituality

    by Ian Barrett ...
    Books of this importance and intelligence come along rarely. Wandering Beyond the Darkness is an absolute must-read for anyone who struggles with faith, love, and the continuum of life after death. Whether 19 or 90, we all search for understanding. For thousands of years, our religious and spiritual comprehension has been defined by a codified doctrine that was initially established by illiterate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Selling Yoga

    From Counterculture to Pop Culture

    by Andrea Jain ...
    Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Families and Faith

    How Religion is Passed Down across Generations

    by Vern L. Bengtson ...
    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

  • Working on God

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the unbelievable--incom-patible with intelligence and learning. To others, it's just another bureaucratic institution- ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • When God Took Sides

    Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History

    by Marianne Elliott ...
    The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    by Christian Smith ...
    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ...
    This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Martyrdom and Terrorism

    Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Dominic Janes, Alex Houen ...
    In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the form of Christ's Passion or saints faced with persecution and death, but in the duty to lead a good ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Race

    A Theological Account

    by J. Kameron Carter ...
    In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Nordic Neoshamanisms

    Edited by S. Kraft, T. Fonneland, J. Lewis ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributors' objective is to explore the myriad of ways late modern shamanism is becoming more vital and personally significant to people, communities, and economies in Nordic countries. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD