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  • Global Visions of Violence

    Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

    by John Corrigan, Omri Elisha, Hillary Kaell, Joel Cabrita, Kate Kingsbury, Candace Lukasik, Harvey Kwiyani, John Boopalan, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Professor Melani McAlister ...
    In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Moral Ambition

    Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches

    by Omri Elisha ...
    Series Book 12 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    The first edition of The Next Christendom has been hailed as a landmark in our understanding of modern Christianity. In this new and substantially expanded second edition, Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expanion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--as well as the clash betwen Islam and Christianity since September 11. Among the major topics ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Next Christendom

    The Coming of Global Christianity

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents. How ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Burying White Privilege

    Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

    by Miguel A. De La Torre ...
    Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read.Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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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  • Religions/Globalizations

    Theories and Cases

    by Enrique Dussel ...
    For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions

    Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba ...
    Series Book 80 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa.Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continentContributors are from a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $186.00 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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Uncomfortable Pew

    Christianity and the New Left in Toronto

    by Bruce Douville ...
    Series Book 88 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest Christian denominations, and the role that Christianity played in shaping Canada’s New Left.Based on extensive archival research and oral ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Sociology of Religion

    Contemporary Developments

    by Kevin J. Christiano, Peter Kivisto, William H. Swatos, Jr. ...
    Sociology of Religion, Fourth Edition introduces students to the nature and function of religious institutions and practices while asking sociological questions about the changing role of religion in today's “post-traditional” world. Broken into three parts, the book opens with the basics of religious history and a review of key theories for its study. Part II, “Religion and Social Differentiation ... Read more

    $63.19 USD