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  • Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium

    Sweden Unparadised

    Edited by O. Sigurdson, Y. Leffler, M. Demker ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • If the Oceans Were Ink

    An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

    by Carla Power ...
    "A welcome nuanced look at Islam . . . combat[s]the dehumanizing stereotypes of Muslims that are all too common. . . . Mandatory reading." — The Washington PostPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAn eye-opening story of how Carla Powers and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Marisol and Other Plays

    by José Rivera ...
    The first collection of plays by one of the most moving and astonishing writers of the last 15 years. Though critics reflexively class his work as magical realism,” Rivera’s extravagant, original imagery always serves to illuminate the gritty realities and touching longings of our daily lives. Also includes: Each Day Dies with Sleep and Cloud Tectonics. ... Read more

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  • Nostalgia for the Absolute

    by George Steiner ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Islam

    A Graphic Guide

    by Ziauddin Sardar ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of fundamentalism, bigotry and violence- a perception that couldn't be more wrong.Introducing Islam recounts the history of Islam from the birth of Prophet ... Read more

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  • United by Faith

    The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race

    by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, Karen Chai Kim ...
    In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations in every possible setting--a call that is surprisingly controversial, even in the twenty-first ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Dharma

    The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India

    Edited by Veena R. Howard ...
    Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0

    by S. Fuller ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be. ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion

    Edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Muslims in 21st Century Europe

    Structural and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Muslims in 21st Century Europe explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims.Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam in Europe and a discussion on the nature of Muslimophobia as a social phenomenon, this book shows how ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Journalism and Memory

    Edited by B. Zelizer, K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social Media and Personal Relationships

    Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship

    by D. Chambers ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD