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  • Religion and Film

    Cinema and the Re-creation of the World

    by S. Brent Plate ...
    Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of Religion in 5½ Objects

    Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses

    by S. Brent Plate ...
    A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, stuff, tokens, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk, and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, and place them on shelves in our homes and offices. As commonplace as these objects are, they can also be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Religion and Film

    Cinema and the Re-creation of the World

    by S. Brent Plate ...
    Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics

    Rethinking Religion through the Arts

    by S. Brent Plate ...
    Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "allegorical aesthetics," Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings showing how his concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditionally stabilizing religious ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion

    Edited by Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Jennifer Scheper Hughes, S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Religion
    The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.Propelling forward the study of material religion, the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Religion in Museums

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, S. Brent Plate ...
    Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Key Terms in Material Religion

    Edited by S. Brent Plate ...
    Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom.Key topics covered include:- Icon, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies

    by Lucinda Mosher, Brian Pennington, Pim Valkenberg, Hans Gustafson, Kerry San Chirico, Julia Sheetz, Jeffrey D. Long, Devaka Premawardhana, Alan Brill, David Thomas0, Aaron Rosen1, Paul Hedges2, Yue Liu3, Hossein Kamaly4, William Dyrness5, Alexander E. Massad6, Anil Mundra7, Ruth Illman8, Tracy Tiemeier9, Kevin Minister0, Anne Hege Grung1, Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Axel Oaks Takacs4, Yohana Agra Junker5, Oddbjørn Leirvik6, David Grafton7, Rachelle Elizabeth8, Vrajvihari Sharan9, Brendan Randall0, Whittney Barth1, Francis X. Clooney2, Monica Sanford3, Bin Song4, Or N. Rose5, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh6, Young-chan Ro7, Daniel A. Madigan8, Marianne Moyaert9, Amy L. Allocco0, Esther Mombo1, Florence Iminza2, Brent Plate3, Hans A. Harmakaputra4, Celene Marie Ibrahim5, Elinor Pierce6, Pamela Couture7, Wakoh Shannon Hickey8, Hannah Murphy Buc9, Rachel S. Mikva0, Bilal Ansari1, Eboo Patel2, Jennifer Howe Peace3, Rita Sherma4, John Thatamanil5, Timur Yuskaev6 ...
    A comprehensive collection provides guidance and deep insight from a variety of experts in this emerging fieldThe rapidly developing field of interreligious studies fosters scholarship engaging two or more religious traditions at a time. Inherently multidisciplinary, the field brings the academic consideration of religions into conversation with the humanities and social sciences, employing ... Read more

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  • Understanding the Times

    A Survey of Competing Worldviews

    by Dr. Jeff Myers, Dr. David A. Noebel ...
    Your view of God determines your view of the world.You hold in your hands a landmark guide to understanding the ideas and forces shaping our times. Understanding the Times offers a fascinating, comprehensive look at the how the tenets of the Christian worldview compares with the five major competing worldviews of our day: Islam, Secular Humanism, Marxism, New Age, and Postmodernism.Understanding ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Study of Religion

    An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods

    by George D. Chryssides, Professor Ron Geaves ...
    This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the field, such as gender, phenomenology, and the insider/outsider discourse.Updated throughout, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Flourishing

    Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World

    by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair ...
    More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Is Reality Secular?

    Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews

    by Mary Poplin ...
    Series series Veritas Books
    What is the nature of reality?At the root of our society's deepest political and cultural divisions are the conflicting principles of four global worldviews. While each of us holds to some version of one of these worldviews, we are often unconscious of their differences as well as their underlying assumptions. Mary Poplin argues that the ultimate test of a worldview, philosophy or ideology is ... Read more

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