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  • Religion and Welfare in Europe

    Gendered and Minority Perspectives

    by Grace Davie, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Anne Birgitta Pessi, Effie Fokas, Annalisa Frisina, Pia Karlsson Minganti, Annette Leis-Peters, Lina Molokotos-Liederman, Margarita Markoviti, Zrinkscak Sinisa0, Marjukka Laiho1, Olav Helge Angell2, Pal Repstad3, Anders Backstrom4 ...
    Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe.Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectives as they relate to the varied provision of social welfare in selected European countries.Contributors ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe

    Volume 2: Gendered, Religious and Social Change

    Edited by Anders Bäckström, Grace Davie, Ninna Edgardh, Per Pettersson ...
    Historically, European churches have played a large part in the provision of welfare. Responsibility, however, has gradually shifted to the state - a shift that forms an integral part of the process of secularization and one that has been readily accepted by European populations. But what happens when the state itself begins to recede - a process that is occurring in most, if not all, European ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe

    Volume 2: Gendered, Religious and Social Change

    Edited by Anders Bäckström, Grace Davie, Ninna Edgardh, Per Pettersson ...
    Historically, European churches have played a large part in the provision of welfare. Responsibility, however, has gradually shifted to the state - a shift that forms an integral part of the process of secularization and one that has been readily accepted by European populations. But what happens when the state itself begins to recede - a process that is occurring in most, if not all, European ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Innovative Quality Improvements in Operations

    Introducing Emergent Quality Management

    Edited by Tomas Backström, Anders Fundin, Peter E. Johansson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been discussed in terms of continuous innovation. However, this ideal has proven to be difficult to ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe

    Volume 1: Configuring the Connections

    Edited by Anders Bäckström, Grace Davie, Ninna Edgardh, Per Pettersson ...
    Historically, European churches have played a large part in the provision of welfare. Responsibility, however, has gradually shifted to the state - a shift that forms an integral part of the process of secularization and one that has been readily accepted by European populations. But what happens when the state itself begins to recede - a process that is occurring in most, if not all, European ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Compassion and Solidarity

    by Gregory Baum ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South ... Read more

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  • The Economy of Desire

    Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World

    by Daniel Bell, Jr., James Smith ...
    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy.Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • On Toleration

    by Michael Walzer ...
    Series series Castle Lectures Series
    What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"-from multinational empires to immigrant societies-and describes the strengths and weaknesses of ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Introducing Christian Ethics

    by Samuel Wells, Ben Quash ...
    Introducing Christian Ethics 2e, now thoroughly revised and updated, offers an unparalleled introduction to the study of Christian Ethics, mapping and exploring all the major ethical approaches, and offering thoughtful insights into the complex moral challenges facing people today.This highly successful text has been thoughtfully updated, based on considerable feedback, to include increased ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Oil Has Not Run Dry

    The Story of My Theological Pathway

    by Gregory Baum ...
    Series Book 23 - Footprints Series
    Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic Church’s message.Baum reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians

    A Postmodern Critique

    by Gerald A. Arbuckle SM ...
    The split between the Gospel and culture is without doubt the drama of our time," wrote Paul VI in 1975. Since that time there has been an increasingly urgent awareness that inculturation is an indispensable task of the church. But inculturation, the dialogue between church and cultures, demands first of all that we who would enter into the dialogue understand what "culture" itself means and what ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is

    by Michael Novak, Paul Adams ...
    What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding government program. It endures because it venerates its champions and brands its ... Read more

    $20.19 USD