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  • Rhetorics of Race and Religion on the Christian Right

    Barack Obama and the War on Terror

    by Samuel P. Perry ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
    As the first African American president, Barack Obama faced unique challenges and obstacles when addressing issues of race. While rhetorical attacks on the basis of race directed at Obama were not unexpected, many of the most consistent racially-motivated criticisms of Obama were associated with his religious identity. The Jeremiah Wright controversy gave way to the birther and ‘secret Muslim’ ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings

    Was Blind but Now I See

    by Sean Patrick O'Rourke, Melody Lehn, Luke D. Christie, Patricia G. Davis, Margaret Franz, Daniel A. Grano, Donna Hunter, Camille K. Lewis, Craig Rood0, David A. Frank1, Samuel P. Perry2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
    Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See is a collection focusing on the Charleston shootings written by leading scholars in the field who consider the rhetoric surrounding the shootings. This book offers an appraisal of the discourses – speeches, editorials, social media posts, visual images, prayers, songs, silence, demonstrations, and protests – that ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • A Century of Queer Korean Fiction

    Edited by Samuel Perry ...
    Series series MLA Texts and Translations
    Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay, lesbian, transgender, and other queer Korean writers find themselves in the national and international spotlight. But the rich variety of queer representation also extends into the Korean past, as this volume illustrates.Beginning with contemporary works of ... Read more

    $42.00 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

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    Addicted to Lust

    Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants

    by Samuel L. Perry ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Once confident of their victory over pornography in society at large, conservative Protestants now fear that "porn addiction" is consuming even the most faithful. How are they adjusting to this new reality? And what are its consequences in their lives?Drawing on over 130 interviews as well as numerous national surveys, Addicted to Lust tells us that, compared to other Americans, pornography shapes ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Flag and the Cross

    White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

    by Samuel L. Perry, Philip S. Gorski ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; "Jesus saves" and "Don't Tread on Me;" Christian flags and Confederate Flags; even a prayer in Jesus's name after storming the Senate chamber. Where some saw a confusing jumble, Philip S ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Addicted to Lust

    Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants

    by Samuel L. Perry ...
    Few cultural issues alarm conservative Protestant families and communities like the seemingly ubiquitous threat of pornography. Thanks to widespread access to the internet, conservative Protestants now face a reality in which every Christian man, woman, and child with a smartphone can access limitless pornography in their bathroom, at work, or at a friend's sleepover. Once confident of their ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Growing God's Family

    The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism

    by Samuel L Perry ...
    Series Book 11 - Alternative Criminology
    Illustrates the hidden challenges embedded within the evangelical adoption movement.For over a decade, prominent leaders and organizations among American Evangelicals have spent a substantial amount of time and money in an effort to address what they believe to be the "Orphan Crisis" of the United States. Yet, despite an expansive commitment of resources, there is no reliable evidence that these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Faces of Japanese Feminism

    Crimson and Other Works

    by Ineko Sata ...
    Translated by Samuel Perry ...
    This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women rarely dignified in fiction: glamorous café waitresses, feisty communist activists, a tortured novelist, a soldier’s wife, and single women in Japan’s Korean colony. Her delicately penned portraits challenge the tired, erotic tropes of the geisha and schoolgirl, while ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • From Wonso Pond

    by Kang Kyong-ae ...
    Translated by Samuel Perry ...
    "A vibrant account of the travails of Japanese colonialism as experienced by workers and women by the pioneering feminist writer of the Korean left." —Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between EmpiresA classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English, From Wonso Pond transforms the love triangle between three ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking America Back for God

    Christian Nationalism in the United States

    by Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry ...
    Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt moral failings? Why do many Americans advocate so vehemently for xenophobic policies, such as a border wall with Mexico? Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge the injustices that ethnic and racial minorities experience in the United States? Why do a sizeable proportion of Americans ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bridge Builder

    A Look Back at My First Term as Judge/Executive of Mccreary County, Kentucky

    by Jimmie W. Greene ...
    BRIDGE BUILDER is the story of a man and his dream to movehis home county into the modern era. His stubborn pursuit of openness andaccountability provoked hostility from some, but admiration from most. Hispopulist idealism and his promotion of the common man endeared him to hisconstituents and he never lost touch with his origins or his source of support.BRIDGE BUILDER is a must-read for all ... Read more

    $8.69 USD