Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael stoltzfus”
Skip side bar filters

  • Disability and World Religions

    An Introduction

    Edited by Darla Y. Schumm, Michael Stoltzfus ...
    Series series Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability
    Religion plays a critical role in determining how disability is understood and how persons with disabilities are treated. Examining the world’s religions through the lens of disability studies not only peers deeply into the character of a particular religion, but also teaches something brand new about what it means to respond to people living with physical and mental differences.Disability and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

    by Darla Schumm, Michael J. Stoltzfus ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Rebbe

    The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    by Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman ...
    The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Becoming Un-Orthodox

    Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

    by Lynn Davidman ...
    Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of danger that come of leaving a highly bounded enclave community. Many of those ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • These are the Words (2nd Edition)

    A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life

    by Dr. Arthur Green ...
    The basic vocabulary of Jewish spiritual life, explained with humor, insight and relevance to guide you on a historical and spiritual journey through Judaism.Judaism itself is a language, a group's way of expressing beliefs, longings, aspirations and dreams. The vocabulary of Jewish life is the framework that Jews use to hand their past down to their children. It is also the vocabulary that people ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities

    Edited by Becky R. Lee, Terry Tak-ling Woo ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Women and Religion
    This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures—old and new—in modern Canada.Each essay explores the ways in which the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Why the Jews Rejected Jesus

    The Turning Point in Western History

    by David Klinghoffer ...
    Why did the Jews reject Jesus? Was he really the son of God? Were the Jews culpable in his death? These ancient questions have been debated for almost two thousand years, most recently with the release of Mel Gibson’s explosive The Passion of the Christ. The controversy was never merely academic. The legal status and security of Jews—often their very lives—depended on the answer.In WHY THE JEWS ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

    by Joshua Ezra Burns ...
    How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Re-Constructing the Man of Steel

    Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection

    by Martin Lund ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Where Islam and Judaism Join Together

    A Perspective on Reconciliation

    by Shai Har-El ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe

    A Shared Story?

    Edited by James Renton, Ben Gidley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised polemics about whether or not Muslims are the new Jews. Much previous scholarship and public ... Read more

    $28.49 USD