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  • Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity

    Methodology, Power Dynamics, and the History of Religions

    Edited by Thomas Seat, Sunder John Boopalan, Christie Chui-Shan Chow ...
    Tensions lie at the heart of World Christianity's development as an academic field. From its beginning, World Christianity scholars have recognized the simmering conflicts between Eurocentric constructions of Christianity and those Christianities in the world outside of Europe. Today, conversations acknowledge that diverse facets of Christian expression and identity are often neglected by academic ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Memory, Grief, and Agency

    A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites

    by Sunder John Boopalan ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency. Such agency generates rites of moral responsibility that serve as antidotes to violent identities and catalyze hospitable social practices. By comparing Indian and U.S. contexts of caste and race, Sunder John Boopalan proposes that wrongs today are better understood as rituals of humiliation which ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    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

  • Sociology of Religion

    Contemporary Developments

    by Kevin J. Christiano, Peter Kivisto, William H. Swatos, Jr. ...
    Sociology of Religion, Fourth Edition introduces students to the nature and function of religious institutions and practices while asking sociological questions about the changing role of religion in today's “post-traditional” world. Broken into three parts, the book opens with the basics of religious history and a review of key theories for its study. Part II, “Religion and Social Differentiation ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Politics and Theology

    Unraveling Empire for a Global World

    by Kwok Pui-lan ...
    Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology—uprooting it from the colonial soil—using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South. Kwok Pui-lan traces the history of the political impacts of Western theological development, especially developments in the U.S. context, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Ambivalence of the Sacred

    Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

    by Scott R. Appleby ...
    Series series Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
    Terrorists and peacemakers may grow up in the same community and adhere to the same religious tradition. The killing carried out by one and the reconciliation fostered by the other indicate the range of dramatic and contradictory responses to human suffering by religious actors. Yet religion's ability to inspire violence is intimately related to its equally impressive power as a force for peace, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Lee Marsden ...
    A comprehensive overview of the latest research in religion and conflict resolution, this collection of twenty three essays brings together leading scholars in the field examining the contribution religious actors have made and are making towards peace and resolving. The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution is primarily aimed at readerships with special interest in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Faith

    Why the World Is More Religious than Ever

    by Rodney Stark ...
    "God is not dead." —Wall Street JournalBelieve it or not, the world is more religious than ever before. Everyone seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular—that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists, secularists, and atheists applaud the change; religious believers lament it.But here's the thing: they're all wrong—and the bestselling author and influential scholar of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nationalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Grosby ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Religion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it - how they eat, dress, marry, and raise their children. It shapes their assumptions about who they are and who they want to be. Religion also identifies insiders and outsiders, who has power and who ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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