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  • Saving Sex

    Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism

    by Amy DeRogatis ...
    When it comes to evangelicals and sex, it seems, whatever the question, the answer is "no." In Saving Sex, Amy DeRogatis argues that this could not be further from the truth. Demolishing the myth of evangelicals as anti-sex, she shows that American evangelicals claim that fabulous sex--in the right context--is viewed as a divinely-sanctioned, spiritual act. For decades, evangelical sex education ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Moral Geography

    Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier

    by Amy DeRogatis ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Moral Geography traces the development of a moral basis for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, using biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made space sacred. While the political implications of the mapping of American expansion have been much studied, this is the first major study of the close and complex ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • 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

    $20.89 USD

  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    On Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he conceived as a prerequisite to the ... Read more

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  • Premarital Sex in America

    How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

    by Mark Regnerus, Jeremy Uecker ...
    The period of young adulthood, from ages 18 to 23, is popularly considered the most sexualized in life. But is it true? What do we really know about the sexual lives of young people today? Premarital Sex in America combines illuminating personal stories and comprehensive research surveys to provide the fullest portrait of heterosexuality among young adults ever produced. Mark Regnerus and Jeremy ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Iron Heel

    A Classic Dystopian Political Science Fiction Novel by Jack London

    by Jack London ...
    When power crushes freedom, resistance becomes destiny. In The Iron Heel, Jack London imagines a future where a ruthless oligarchy rises to dominate society, silencing democracy and tightening its grip over the working class. Through the passionate voice of Avis Everhard, the novel chronicles the struggle against tyranny and the cost of standing up to oppression. Written decades before modern ... Read more

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  • 'Til Faith Do Us Part

    How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths. Yet as Naomi Schaefer Riley demonstrates in 'Til Faith Do Us Part, what is good for society as ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Transplanted Christianity

    Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church History

    Edited by Allan K Davidson, Peter J Lineham ...
    Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make this a book of interest to the serious student of church history and the casual reader alike. This ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century

    by Walter Rauschenbusch ...
    The book that changed the American church, with new essays that "prove that one can be a dedicated Christian and a social reformer at the same time" ( The New York Times Book Review).Published at the beginning of the twentieth century, Christianity and the Social Crisis is the epoch-making book that dramatically expanded the church's vision of how it could transform the world. This 100th ... Read more

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  • Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging

    Keeping Culture

    by Rachel Hurdley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Strangers in a Strange Land

    Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World

    by Charles J. Chaput ...
    The clergyman critiques contemporary American life and offers Catholics—and Christians—guidance to living their faith vigorously, with confidence and hope.From the author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholic life and Christian community in the United States. America today is different in kind , not just ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hope in Troubled Times

    A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises

    by Bob Goudzwaard, Mark Vander Vennen, David Van Heemst ...
    Word Guild 2008 Writing Award (Culture)We want to have it all: financial strength, secure homes, clean air and water for our children. With the latest technological advances available, we deserve to have every dilemma resolved. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Hope in Troubled Times dares to say "no."Poverty, terrorism, and overtaxed land are planetary problems that make even believers ... Read more

    $17.29 USD