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  • Ritual Servitudes and Christian Social Practices in Ghana

    The Hidden Spaces of Otherness in Religion

    by David Stiles-Ocran ...
    Series series Religion, Resistance, Hospitalities
    This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa. Drawing on empirical research from Ghana, it examines the possibilities of freedom, equality, and dignity for liberated Trokosi and the manner in which these women’s experiences constitute a repudiation of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire

    Divinity and Empire

    Edited by Catherine Keller ...
    A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice. Focusing on the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and exciting theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and prophetically lucid. All essays are theologically ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalizing Theology

    Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity

    Edited by Craig Ott, Harold Netland ...
    One of the most powerful forces in the twenty-first century is the increasing phenomenon of globalization. In nearly every realm of human activity, traditional boundaries are disappearing and people worldwide are more interconnected than ever. Christianity has also become more aware of global realities and the important role of the church in non-Western countries. Church leaders must grapple with ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Religions/Globalizations

    Theories and Cases

    by Enrique Dussel ...
    For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cultural Anthropology

    A Christian Perspective

    by Stephen A. Grunlan, Marvin K. Mayers ...
    This volume on cultural anthropology presents a Christian perspective for Bible school students of conservative evangelical backgrounds. The hope is that a sympathetic approach to the problems of cultural diversity throughout the world will help young people overcome typical North American cultural biases and bring understanding and appreciation for the diversities of behavior and thought that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions

    Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba ...
    Series Book 80 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa.Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continentContributors are from a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $186.00 USD

  • Pastoral Bearings

    Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology

    by Barbara Hedges-Goettl, Jean Heriot, Jane Maynard, Siroj Sorajjakool, Lonnie Yoder, Esther E. Acolatse, Eileen R. Campbell-Reed, Susan J. Dunlap, Mary McClintock Fulkerson0, Janet E. Schaller1, Karen D. Scheib2, Mary Clark Moschella3, Sharon G. Thornton5 ...
    The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to elucidate how "ordinary" men and women in all times and places draw on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians-like other scholars of religion-have begun more closely to examine the particularity of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations

    Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis

    Edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, L. Daniel Hawk ...
    Colonialism involves more than just territorial domination. It also creates cultural space that silences and disenfranchises those who do not hold power. This process of subjugation continues today in various forms of neocolonialism, such as globalization. Postcolonialism arose in the latter half of the twentieth century to challenge the problem of coloniality at the level of our language and our ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reimagining the Human

    Theological Anthropology in Response to Systemic Evil

    by Eleazar Fernandez ...
    This book explores theological anthropology—the doctrine of what it means to be human and to be created in God’s image. Fernandez argues that our life in the image of God is damaged and frustrated by the systemic evil of society, particularly the four radical evils of classism, racism, sexism, and naturism (destructive practices against the ecosystem). At the heart of these four evils are matters ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poverty and Morality

    Religious and Secular Perspectives

    Edited by William A. Galston, Peter H. Hoffenberg ...
    This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD