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  • Postsecular Cities

    Space, Theory and Practice

    Edited by Justin Beaumont, Dr Christopher Baker ...
    Series series Continuum Resources in Religion and Political Culture
    This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual values have ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Born into the Children of God: Part 2 of 3

    My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside

    by Natacha Tormey ...
    Born into the Children of God can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3.Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual mix of evangelical Christianity, free love and rejection of the mainstream, from an early age Natacha was brainwashed to believe she had a special destiny – that she was part of an elite ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dying for Heaven

    Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers—Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also Its Most Dangerous

    by Ariel Glucklich ...
    In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion—its ability to make people feel good and bring them together—are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • If, By Miracle

    by Michael Kutz ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Nearly buried alive, ten-year-old Michael Kutz narrowly escaped the Nazi death squad that killed 4,000 Jews, including his own family, in his hometown of Nieśwież. Guided by his mother’s last words and determined to survive, he became the youngest member of a partisan resistance group in the dense Belorussian forest, and took part in daring operations against the Nazis and their collaborators. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Sociology of Religion

    A Critical Agenda

    by Grace Davie ...
    Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious?In this new edition, Davie follows up her discussion of the meaning of religion in modern society and considers how best to research and understand this relationship. Exploring the rapid movements within the sociology of religion today, this revised and updated book:• Describes the origins of the sociology of religion• ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Homies and Hermanos

    God and Gangs in Central America

    by Robert Brenneman ...
    Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Our Lady of the Exile

    Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Our Lady of the Exile is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady Charity in Miami. Drawing on a wide range of sources and using both historical and ethnographic methods, the book examines the religious life of the Cuban exiles who visit the shrine. Those pilgrims are diverse, and so are the motives that bring them. At the same time, author Thomas A. Tweed ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • So Many Christians, So Few Lions

    Is There Christianophobia in the United States?

    by David A. Williamson, George Yancey ...
    So Many Christians, So Few Lions is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research, authors George Yancey and David A. Williamson show that even though (or perhaps because) Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States, bias against Christians also exists—particularly against conservative Christians—and that this bias ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Joshua Ezra Burns ...
    How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Wash, Wear, and Care

    Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care

    by Pat Armstrong, Suzanne Day ...
    Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Making 'Postmodern' Mothers

    Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image

    by M. Nash ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sounds and the City

    Popular Music, Place and Globalization

    Edited by B. Lashua, K. Spracklen, S. Wagg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD