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  • The People’s Zion

    Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement

    by Joel Cabrita ...
    In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from across racial and class divides. It also sent missionaries abroad, particularly ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Written Out

    The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala

    by Joel Cabrita ...
    Systemic racism and sexism caused one of South Africa’s most important writers to disappear from public consciousness. Is it possible to justly restore her historical presence?Regina Gelana Twala, a Black South African woman who died in 1968 in Swaziland (now Eswatini), was an extraordinarily prolific writer of books, columns, articles, and letters. Yet today Twala’s name is largely unknown. Her ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Global Visions of Violence

    Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

    by John Corrigan, Omri Elisha, Hillary Kaell, Joel Cabrita, Kate Kingsbury, Candace Lukasik, Harvey Kwiyani, John Boopalan, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Professor Melani McAlister ...
    In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

    Edited by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet ...
    Series series Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series
    In recent years, anthropologists, historians, and others have been drawn to study the profuse and creative usages of digital media by religious movements. At the same time, scholars of Christian Africa have long been concerned with the history of textual culture, the politics of Bible translation, and the status of the vernacular in Christianity. Students of Islam in Africa have similarly examined ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

    by Joel Cabrita ...
    Series Book 46 - The International African Library
    Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival

    A History of Dissent, c.1935–1972

    by Derek R. Peterson ...
    Series Book 122 - African Studies
    Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Issues Facing Christians Today

    4th Edition

    by Dr. John R.W. Stott, Roy McCloughry, John Wyatt ...
    Terrorism. Same-sex marriage. Debt cancellation. The AIDS pandemic. These are just some of the critical contemporary issues addressed in this book.Issues Facing Christians Today helps thinking Christians sift through and respond to a sweeping array of complex and pressing topics. Thoroughly revised and updated by Roy McCloughry and fully endorsed by John Stott, this fourth edition continues a two ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity. In this new and substantially expanded second edition, Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expanion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--as well as the clash betwen Islam and Christianity since September 11. Among the major topics ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Evangelicals

    The Struggle to Shape America

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* National Book Award Finalist* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year* New York Times Notable Book“We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review).Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGeral... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A "brilliantly written, eye-opening" look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? ( The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Next Christendom

    The Coming of Global Christianity

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents. How ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Faith

    A Journey For All

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    In this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith. Now he shares the lessons he learned. He writes, “The issue of faith arises in almost every area of human existence, so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD