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  • The Culture of Care in Britain since the Second World War

    by Bernice Martin ...
    This book examines the evolving value of caregiving in Britain, from the welfare state's inception to the present day. It explores the shifts in discourse surrounding care, charting key social, demographic, economic, political and cultural changes which have led to the current 'care crisis'.The author examines five key themes: the tension within institutional Christianity between caring for the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • New Ways of Being Pentecostal in Latin America

    by Martin Lindhardt, Andrew Chesnut, Evguenia Fediakova, Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Henri Gooren, Toomas Gross, Stephen Hunt, Maria das Dores Campos Machado, Bernice Martin, David Martin0, George St Clair1, Jakob Egeris Thorsen2 ...
    The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed Latin America’s religious landscape within the last half century or so. In a region where Catholicism reigned hegemonic for centuries, the expansion of Pentecostalism has now resulted in a situation of religious pluralism and competition, bearing much more resemblance to the United States than to the Iberian motherlands. Furthermore, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century

    by Peter L. Berger, David A. Martin, Paul Freston, David J. Maxwell, Bernice Martin, Nanlai Cao, Artyom H. Tonoyan, Timothy Samuel Shah, Katharine Wiegele, Rebecca Samuel Shah ...
    This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality. Leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and history ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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    $7.99 USD

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  • The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity. In this new and substantially expanded second edition, Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expanion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--as well as the clash betwen Islam and Christianity since September 11. Among the major topics ... Read more

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  • Asian Christian Ethics

    Evangelical Perspectives

    Edited by Aldrin M. Peñamora, Bernard K. Wong ...
    Series series Foundations in Asian Christian Thought
    Asian Christian Ethics provides an introduction for students to a range of key topics related to Christian ethics in Asia. Fifteen Christian scholars from across Asia and from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds demonstrate how to think theologically and contextually about key ethical issues, as well as describe best practices in Christian moral formation. Ideal for use as a companion textbook ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Faces of Christianity

    Believing the Bible in the Global South

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Sociology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steve Bruce ...
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    Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world. In this new edition Steve Bruce discusses ... Read more

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  • Burying White Privilege

    Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

    by Miguel A. De La Torre ...
    Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read.Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La ... Read more

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  • Born to Rule

    The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

    by Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman ...
    The Economist, Best Books of 2024**The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.**Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers

    Women Who Changed American Religion

    Edited by Ann Braude ...
    Pundits on both the right and the left often portray religion and feminism as inherently incompatible, as opposing forces in American culture. Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers seeks to dispel that notion by asking sixteen well-known religious figures to tell the story of how they became involved in the women's movement. Their work-much of it ongoing-has helped transform the way religion is ... Read more

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