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  • Religion in Sociological Perspective

    by David A. Yamane, Keith A. Roberts, Jonas M. Hart ...
    Religion in Sociological Perspective, Eighth Edition introduces the systems of meaning, structure, and belonging that make up the complex social phenomena we know as religion. The author team uses an active learning approach to illustrate the central theories and methods of research in the sociology of religion and show students how to apply these analytical tools to new groups they encounter. ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

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  • It's Dangerous to Believe

    Religious Freedom and Its Enemies

    by Mary Eberstadt ...
    Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists.In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Religious Freedom in a Secular Age

    A Christian Case for Liberty, Equality, and Secular Government

    by Michael F. Bird ...
    Discover how to responsibly defend religious freedom for all without compromising your personal beliefs.Religious freedom is a bitterly contested issue that spills over into political, public, and online spheres. It's an issue that's becoming ever more heated, and neither of the global political polarities is interested in protecting it. While the political left is openly hostile toward ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Evangelicalism

    Embattled and Thriving

    by Christian Smith, Michael Emerson, Sally Gallagher, Paul Kennedy, David Sikkink ...
    "An excellent study of evangelicalism" from the award-winning sociologist and author of Souls in Transition and Soul Searching ( Library Journal).Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; twenty million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular?Based on a national ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of Sunday

    The Practice of Belief in a Secular Age

    by Joel Thiessen ...
    Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity? Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity have on a society’s social and civil fabric?In The Meaning of Sunday, Joel Thiessen addresses these questions by weaving together narratives from ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Choosing Our Religion

    The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones

    by Elizabeth Drescher ...
    To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2014, more than twenty percent of adults identified as unaffiliated--up more than seven percent just since 2007. Even more startling, more than thirty percent of those under the age of thirty now identify as "Nones"--answering "none" when ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • White Christian Privilege

    The Illusion of Religious Equality in America

    by Khyati Y Joshi ...
    A study of how Christian beliefs are built into the U.S. Constitution and beyond, and the ramifications this has for American religious minorities.A pervasive Christian privilege dominates the United States today. Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society, and lie embedded in our institutions, even dictating the structure of our week—from Sunday closings for the Christian Sabbath ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Religion for Realists

    Why We All Need the Scientific Study of Religion

    by Samuel L. Perry ...
    More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more generally--neglect the scientific study of religion, and we do so at our peril. In Religion for Realists, Perry argues that we need the scientific study ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Living in the Shadow of the Cross

    Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony

    by Paul Kivel ...
    How our dominant Christian worldview shapes everything from personal behavior to public policy (and what to do about it)Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise. Its institutions have fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless, and advocated for the poor. Christian faith has sustained people through crisis and inspired many to work for social justice.Yet ... Read more

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  • The Nonreligious

    Understanding Secular People and Societies

    by Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, Frank L. Pasquale ...
    The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Divine Institution

    White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family

    by Sophie Bjork-James ...
    The Divine Institution provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics. This tradition inherently enforces racial inequality in that it draws moral, religious, and political attention away from problems of racial and economic structural ... Read more

    $17.99 USD