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  • Wielding Words like Weapons

    Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005

    by Ward Churchill ...
    Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005. It includes a range of formats, from sharply framed book reviews and equally pointed polemics and op-eds to more formal essays designed to reach both scholarly and popular audiences. The selection ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can Our Church Live?

    by Alice Mann ...
    Nothing on earth lives forever-not even congregations. Alban Institute senior consultant Alice Mann explains how the natural life cycle of a congregation, as well as other internal and external factors, can produce a congregation that is in real trouble. She then offers hope for congregations that want to change. Practical options for congregations, leadership challenges for laity and clergy, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Woman Who Married the Bear

    The Spirituality of the Ancient Foremothers

    by Barbara Alice Mann, Kaarina Kailo ...
    Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Empires of Violence

    Massacre in a Revolutionary Age

    by Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan ...
    Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence perpetrated in these four corners of the world compare? Did the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples constitute a new form of violence? ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Indigenous Struggles in the United States

    The Divide-and-Conquer Strategy of "Federal Recognition"

    by Barbara Alice Mann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book sheds light on the intricate history of Indigenous America's struggle for identity and sovereignty. Examining the utilization of a divide-and-conquer strategy through "federal recognition" in the United States, the book offers a profound analysis of the tactics employed by the U.S. government to subdue Indigenous peoples.From the early days of American colonization, the U.S. sought to ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath

    The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America

    by Barbara Alice Mann ...
    Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Holy Conversations

    Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations

    by Gil Rendle, Alice Mann ...
    Planning can be challenging in the contemporary congregation, where people share a common faith and values but may have very different preferences and needs. Much of the literature on congregational planning presents it as a technical process: the leader serves as the chief problem solver, and the goal is finding “the solution to the problem.”Popular Alban consultants and authors Gil Rendle and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Wielding Words like Weapons

    Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995-2005

    by Ward Churchill ...
    Wielding Words Like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist and intellectual Ward Churchill's essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995-2005. It includes material illustrating the range of formats Churchill has adopted in stating his case, from sharply framed book reviews and review essays, to equally pointed polemics and op-eds, to ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Colonial Compromise

    The Threat of the Gospel to the Indigenous Worldview

    by Loring Abeyta, Ward Churchill, Edward P. Antonio, Roger K. Green, Mark D. Freeland, Barbara Alice Mann, Steven T. Newcomb, Natsu Taylor Saito, Tink Tinker ...
    This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be included in the colonizer’s religion and culture. The contributors in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made by Tink Tinker, an American Indian scholar who is known for his work on Native American liberation theology. The contributors engage ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The In-Between Church

    Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations

    by Alice Mann ...
    Alban Senior Consultant Mann draws on her lengthy experience in helping congregations deal with the hurdles and anxieties of expansion or contraction in size. Often, congregations experiencing size change do not recognize the need to change culture and form as part of the successful adaptation process. Mann details the adjustments in attitude—as well as practice—that are necessary to support ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Raising the Roof

    The Pastoral-to-Program Size Transition

    by Alice Mann ...
    Pastoral-to-program size change is frequently described as the most challenging of growth transitions for congregations. Now Alban senior consultant Alice Mann, author of The In-Between Church: Navigating Size Transitions in Congregations, addresses the difficulties of that transition in this resource designed specifically for a congregational learning team. Conceptualized and developed by Mann ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Tainted Gift

    The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion

    by Barbara Alice Mann ...
    Series series Native America: Yesterday and Today
    For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an ... Read more

    $64.79 USD