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  • Picturing Peace

    Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding

    Edited by Dr Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield, Professor Jolyon Mitchell ...
    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community collaboration, collective memory, and imagined futures for creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not ... Read more

    Was $105.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Peacebuilding and the Arts

    Edited by Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Theodora Hawksley, Hal Culbertson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    "Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of political imagination. Artistic communities are often uniquely placed to help promote new thinking by enabling people to see things differently. In place of conflict’s binary divisions, artists are often charged with exploring the ambiguities and possibilities of the excluded middle. Yet, their role in peacebuilding remains little ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

    by Jolyon Mitchell, Suzanna R. Millar, Francesca Po, Martyn Percy ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    Incisive contributions from leading and emerging scholars in the field of Peace StudiesIn the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, a team of renowned scholars delivers an authoritative and interdisciplinary sourcebook that addresses the key concepts, history, theories, models, resources, and practices in the complex and ambivalent relationship between religion and peace. The editors ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • War and Religion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Rey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have been caused and motivated by religion. Much of the violence that fills our screens today springs from the same source. Yet some of the bravest pacifists have also been deeply religious people, and many of the laws and institutions that work to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Religion and the News

    by Owen Gower ...
    In Religion and the News journalists and religious leaders reflect on their interactions with one another and their experiences of creating news. Through a series of original contributions, leading practitioners shed light on how religious stories emerge into the public domain. Experienced journalists and religious representatives from different faith traditions critically consider their role in a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence

    The Role of Religion and Media

    by Jolyon Mitchell ...
    Series series Media, Religion and Culture
    This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa.Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Martyrdom

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jolyon Mitchell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Martyrdom is not only a sharply contested term and act, but it has a long history of provoking controversy. One person's 'martyr' is another's 'terrorist', and one person's 'martyrdom operation' is another's 'suicide bombing'. Suicide attacks have made recurring questions about martyrdom more pertinent to current discussions. What is martyrdom? Why are some people drawn towards giving up their ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    Edited by Gordon Lynch, Jolyon Mitchell, Anna Strhan ...
    This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:Religion, spirituality and consumer cultureMedia and the transformation of religionThe sacred senses: visual, material and audio cultureReligion, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Religion, Culture & Society

    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Secularization

    In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory

    by Steve Bruce ...
    The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Contemporary Religiosities

    Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State

    Edited by Kari Telle, Annelin Eriksen, Bruce Kapferer ...
    The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Flourishing

    Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World

    by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair ...
    More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook