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  • Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age

    An Interreligious Dialogue

    by Mona Siddiqui, Nathanael Vette, James Spickard, Susan Abraham, Anantanand Rambachan, Edward Donalson, Jaisy Joseph, Kristi Lee, Vasudha Narayanan, Douglas Peduti ...
    Scholarly insight and reflection on finding meaning in the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic caused a horrific loss of life and had tremendous, long-lasting psychological effects. Diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness are now at much higher levels than they were in 2019. For believers, the pandemic raised questions about the nature of God, increasing the need for ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization

    Practical Tools for Improving Teaching, Research, and Scholarship

    by Ma. Rhea Gretchen A. Abuso, Paige Mann, Danny Braverman, Ali Meghji, Seetha Tan, Laura Wain, Denise Buiten, Ellen Finlay, Rosemary Hancock, Belinda Leach, Gwen Chapman, Samantha Brennan, Alexandra Rodney, Martin Stringer, Fabio Bolzonar, Federico Settler, Sara Ewing, Januschka Schmidt, Karen Schucan Bird, Lin Ma ...
    Despite progress, the Western higher education system is still largely dominated by scholars from the privileged classes of the Global North. This book presents examples of efforts to diversify points of view, include previously excluded people, and decolonize curricula.What has worked? What hasn’t? What further visions do we need? How can we bring about a more democratic and just academic life ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Land of Stark Contrasts

    Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness in the United States

    by Manuel Mejido Costoya, Margaret Breen, Jeremy Brown, Sathianathan Clarke, John A. Coleman, S.J., María Teresa Dávila, Lauren Lawson, Roberto Mata, James Spickard, Laura Stivers0 ...
    An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding.Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Amen

    What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief

    by Gretta Vosper ...
    For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. Others cannot imagine being so dependent upon a concept they can neither justify nor comprehend.In Amen, Gretta Vosper, United Church minister and author of the controversial bestseller With or Without God, offers us her deeply ... Read more

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  • After Whiteness

    An Education in Belonging

    by Willie James Jennings ...
    Series series Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)
    On forming people who form communionTheological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who ... Read more

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  • God Is Watching You

    How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

    by Dominic Johnson ...
    "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized concept of divine punishment. For millennia human civilizations have relied on such beliefs to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Decolonising the University

    Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu ...
    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this ... Read more

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  • Beyond God the Father

    Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

    by Mary Daly ...
    'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Social Movements and Protest

    by Gemma Edwards ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociology
    This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Feminist Mistake: The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture

    The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture

    by Mary A. Kassian ...
    Feminism remains one of the most urgent issues the church is facing today, as shown by the increasing confusion over gender roles in marriages, families, and churches. With a growing number of theologians and denominations advocating radical gender egalitarianism, we must answer many questions about women in the church-and in the wider culture. In order to do this, first we need to understand the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD