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  • American Religious Liberalism

    by Leigh E. Schmidt, Sally M. Promey ...
    Series series Religion in North America
    An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States.Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements.The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practicing Protestants

    Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630–1965

    Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Leigh E. Schmidt, Mark Valeri ...
    Series series Lived Religions
    This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment.Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Sikhism

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    by Eleanor Nesbitt ...
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    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices, rituals ... Read more

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  • Understanding Islam and Christianity

    Beliefs That Separate Us and How to Talk About Them

    by Josh McDowell, Jim Walker ...
    For years, international apologist Josh McDowell has been alert to the challenge of Islam—and how Muslims’ objections to Christianity can raise deep doubts in believers’ minds. His recent on-the-ground research with Muslims in the Middle East has crystallized into this practical resource focusing on Jesus and the gospel. Aided by Islam expert Jim Walker, McDowell lays out the evidence on the ... Read more

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  • The Tent of Abraham

    Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims

    by Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister, Saadi Shakur Chishti ...
    In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and about the role of religion, both in the world and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The numerous books published on these questions speak to issues of politics, history, or global security. None speaks to the heart and the spirit, and yet millions of people experience these issues not as political, economic, or ... Read more

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  • Strange Gods

    A Secular History of Conversion

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century “religious marketplace” in which half of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Inheriting Abraham

    The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Greatest Story Never Told

    An Advanced Understanding of Christianity

    by Audrey Carr ...
    The story of Jesus is well-known worldwide. But have you ever wondered if it is the true and complete story of the Savior? Could there be more to the Son of God?Author Audrey Carr addresses those questions in The Greatest Story Never Told: An Advanced Understanding of Christianity. She not only presents thereal story of Jesus, in which he did not die on the cross, but also includeshis unitary ... Read more

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  • Interreligious Studies

    A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion

    by Professor Oddbjørn Leirvik ...
    The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach. Interreligious Studies defines the essential features of interreligious studies compared with alternative conceptions of religious studies and theology. The book discusses pressing and salient challenges in interreligious relations, including interreligious ... Read more

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  • Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora

    The New Chosen People

    by Thien-Huong T. Ninh ...
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    This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and ... Read more

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  • Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians

    by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Osman Bakar, Steve Brown, Karim Douglas Crow, Alvin C. Dueck, Rabia Terri Harris, Riffat Hassan, Jimmy Jones, S Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Josh P. Morgan, Abdul Rashied Omar, Muhammed Shafiq, Wilbert R. Shenk, J Dudley Woodberry, Evelyne A.Reisacher, Kevin Reimer, David L. Johnston, Glen Stassen, Asma Afsaruddin ...
    This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within ... Read more

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