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  • The Rastafarians

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    by Leonard Barrett, Leonard E. Barrett ...
    The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Saints and Sinners

    Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox

    by Lawrence Wright ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder. • "Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." —Chicago TribuneLawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Fundamentals of Extremism

    The Christian Right in America

    by Ed Buckner, Herb Silverman ...
    On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism. We saw religious fundamentalists will stop at nothing to reign terror on those they regard as their enemies. In our response, we began to focus on the oppressive treatment of women and children in other parts of the world where religious fundamentalism rules. But we failed to acknowledge the impact and ... Read more

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  • Born into the Children of God: Part 3 of 3

    My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside

    by Natacha Tormey ...
    Born into the Children of God can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual mix of evangelical Christianity, free love and rejection of the mainstream, from an early age Natacha was brainwashed to believe she had a special destiny – that she was part of an elite ... Read more

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  • The Paradox of Generosity

    Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose

    by Christian Smith, Hilary Davidson ...
    Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological perspectives on how American adults conceive of and demonstrate generosity. Focusing not only on financial giving but on the many diverse ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Religion and Modern Society

    Citizenship, Secularisation and the State

    by Bryan S. Turner ...
    Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society. Bryan S. Turner considers the problems of multicultural, multi-faith societies and legal pluralism in terms of citizenship and the state, with special ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Game Changers

    True Stories About Saving Mothers and Babies in East Africa

    by Patricia Paddey, Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese ...
    SUMMARYThe Game Changers is a passionate wake-up call to recognize and rectify a daily tragedy and a global injustice. Around the world some 300,000 women and girls die each year during childbirth—needlessly, and often agonizingly—from preventable causes. In developing countries, maternal mortality rates are hundreds of times higher than in the developed world. From on the ground in East Africa, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

    Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom

    by Celucien L. Joseph ...
    Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Religious Hostility

    A Global Assessment of Hatred and Terror

    by Rodney Stark, Katie Corcoran ...
    Stark and Corcoran have assembled remarkable facts and figures with which to assess religious hatred and terrorism around the world. Not content merely to document the extent of religious hatred and terrorism, they also to explain why it occurs and whether it can be overcome. The world is aflame with religious hostility. Thousands of people are dying for their religion, or because of it. Churches ... Read more

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  • The History of the Kiss!

    The Birth of Popular Culture

    by M. Danesi ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Religious Cognition in China

    “Homo Religiosus” and the Dragon

    Edited by Madeleine Kang, Justin L. Barrett, Ryan G. Hornbeck ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Are human tendencies toward religious and spiritual thoughts, feelings, and actions outcomes of “natural” cognition? This volume revisits the “naturalness theory of religious cognition” through discussion of new qualitative and quantitative studies examining the psychological foundations of religious and spiritual expression in historical and contemporary China. Naturalness theory has been ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Rural Isolation and Dual Cultural Existence

    The Japanese-American Kona Coffee Community

    by David K. Abe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of the Japanese community in Kona. The people there have survived much turmoil, including harsh treatment on the sugar plantations, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD