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“robert brenneman”

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  • Homies and Hermanos

    God and Gangs in Central America

    by Robert Brenneman ...
    Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it. ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Homies and Hermanos

    God and Gangs in Central America

    by Robert Brenneman ...
    Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it. ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Building Faith

    A Sociology of Religious Structures

    by Robert Brenneman, Brian J. Miller ...
    The social sciences have mostly ignored the role of physical buildings in shaping the social fabric of communities and groups. Although the emerging field of the sociology of architecture has started to pay attention to physical structures, Brenneman and Miller are the first to combine the light of sociological theory and the empirical method in order to understand the impact of physical ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    Beyond Belief addresses what happens when women of extreme religions decide to walk away.Editors Susan Tive (a former Orthodox Jew) and Cami Ostman (a de-converted fundamentalist born-again Christian) have compiled a collection of powerful personal stories written by women of varying ages, races, and religious backgrounds who share one commonality: they’ve all experienced and rejected extreme ... Read more

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  • A Name Unbroken

    by Michael Mason ...
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  • Nostalgia for the Absolute

    by George Steiner ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the ... Read more

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  • Pray for the World

    A New Prayer Resource from Operation World

    by Molly Wall ...
    Series series Operation World Resources
    For decades, Operation World has been the world's leading resource for people who want to impact the nations for Christ through prayer. Its twofold purpose has been to inform for prayer and to mobilize for mission. Now the research team of Operation World offers this abridged version of the 7th edition called Pray for the World as an accessible resource to facilitate prayer for the nations.The ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boundaries of Belonging

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    by Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States—immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country provoke heated disagreements with issues of legality and morality at the forefront. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Price of Freedom Denied

    Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    by Brian J. Grim, Roger Finke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Sage and the People

    The Confucian Revival in China

    by Sebastien Billioud, Joel Thoraval ...
    Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a ... Read more

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  • Horse-and-Buggy Genius

    Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World

    by Royden Loewen ...
    The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They became known as a “horse-and-buggy” people.Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada

    The Long Road to Apology

    by Eric Taylor Woods ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church’s role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychological, and physical abuse were common. From the end of the nineteenth century until the outset of twenty-first century, the meaning of the Indian ... Read more

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