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  • The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen

    The Last Active Anglican Generation

    by Dr Abby Day ...
    The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen draws on ethnographic fieldwork, cross-cultural comparisons, and relevant theories exploring the beliefs, identities, and practices of 'Generation A'--Anglican laywomen born in the 1920s and 1930s. Now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, they are often described as the 'backbone' of the Church and likely its final active generation. The prevalence of laywomen in ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • THE MAYOR of CASTERBRIDGE

    by THOMAS HARDY ...
    Set in a fictional town of Casterbridge, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' is a 1886 novel by one of the most read and crittically acclaimed novelists of nineteenth century Thomas Hardy. It is one of his Wessex novels, set in rural England. ... Read more

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  • Sociology: A Practical Understanding of Why We Do What We Do

    by Jonny Bell ...
    Sociology: A Practical Understanding of Why We Do What We DoYou may have always wondered what drives us human beings to do certain things and think of certain ideas. What exactly makes us tick? For many people, the question may have only popped up in their heads from time to time, though it’s not hard to imagine such a question has also led to many a sleepless night as some naturally curious ... Read more

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  • Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence

    Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts ...
    An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence—historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes

    Finding Religion in Everyday Life

    by Nancy Tatom Ammerman ...
    Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Price of Freedom Denied

    Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    by Brian J. Grim, Roger Finke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • London Youth, Religion, and Politics

    Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane

    by Daniel Nilsson DeHanas ...
    For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but also by other fervent new arrivals such as Pentecostal Christians. London Youth, Religion, and Politics focuses on young adults of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Binding Earth and Heaven

    Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism

    by Gary Shepherd, Gordon Shepherd ...
    In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition. Initial scorn and contempt for Mormonism—the fledgling creation of the young Joseph Smith—quickly elevated to mob violence ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Religion in Secular Society

    Fifty Years On

    by Bryan R. Wilson ...
    Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status of religion. For Wilson, secularization refers to the fact that religion has lost influence at the societal, the institutional, and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Theocratic Democracy

    The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism

    by Nachman Ben-Yehuda ...
    The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state. Ever since, the tension between the two has been a central political, social, and moral issue in Israel, resulting in a cultural conflict between secular Jews and the fundamentalist, ultra-orthodox Haredi community. What is the nature of this cultural conflict and how is it ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Uprising of the Fools

    Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India

    by Vikash Singh ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Culture of Mean

    Representing Bullies and Victims in Popular Culture

    by Emily D. Ryalls ...
    Series Book 30 - Mediated Youth
    The Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines the explosion of discourse about youth bullying that has occurred in the United States during the ... Read more

    $43.09 USD