Being Religious, American Style

Charles H Lippy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 37
• Popular religion rarely expresses itself in the artifacts of high culture. In this book, Lippy approaches the study of popular religion by asking how ... Lees meer

Toward a Jewish (M)Orality

S Daniel Breslauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 53
• Moving the focus away from the exposition of one particular thinker, this unique book offers a constructive, postmodern approach to contemporary Jewis... Lees meer

Noble Daughters

Marie Conn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 60
• The history of Western Christianity, written predominantly from a male perspective, has often ignored women's stories and their unique contributions t... Lees meer

To Promote, Defend, and Redeem

Arnold Sparr

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• The Catholic literary revival in America refers both to the impact of the modern resurgence in European Catholic thought and letters upon the American... Lees meer

The Star of Return

Dow Marmur

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• At the heart of this sustained meditation that touches on aspects of the history, present state, and possible future of Judaism is Rabbi Dow Marmur's ... Lees meer

Competing Visions of Islam in the United States

Kambiz Ghaneabassiri

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 50
• This book fills a void in the study of Muslims in the United States, presenting the first in-depth study of the large Muslim population in Los Angeles... Lees meer

Church and Synagogue Affiliation

Amy L. Sales, Gary A. Tobin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• In this book, scholars and church and synagogue leaders examine religious affiliation in contemporary America. Their essays explore the dynamics of co... Lees meer

Triumph Over Silence

Richard Greaves

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• This timely and fascinating historical study of Protestant women will increase the appreciation of their continuing struggle for acceptance within the... Lees meer

Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society

Jan Blodgett

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• While studies have been done on the politics, personalities, and television empires of Protestant evangelicals, little has been said about the power o... Lees meer

Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia

Douglas Allen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• One of the most dramatic and surprising developments of the last twenty years was the proliferation of aggressive political movements linked to religi... Lees meer

Toward Universal Religion

Daniel R Chandler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• Using the 1893 and the 1993 World's Parliament of Religions as a focus for probing intercultural religious communication, this study describes more th... Lees meer

Thomas K. Beecher

Myra C Glenn, Carl Buzawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 47
• This is the first full-length biography of the Reverend Thomas K. Beecher, a member of the most famous family of reformers in 19th-century America. Un... Lees meer

Choosing the Dream

Frederick Mark Gedicks, Roger Hendrix

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• Religion has been deeply embedded in the history and culture of the United States since its birth. The last 20 years have seen a revival of religion w... Lees meer

Just War and Jihad

James Johnson, John Kelsay

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• In this collaborative examination two diverse groups of scholars look at Western and Islamic approaches to war, peace, and statecraft from their own p... Lees meer

Drums of Redemption

Harvey Sindima

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• This book covers the history of Christianity in Africa from the first century to the present, highlighting the roles of the Coptic and Ethiopian Churc... Lees meer

Buddhist Behavioral Codes and the Modern World

Chung-Hwa International Conference on Bu

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 38
• Within the scope of the English-language literature on Buddhism, the codes of behavior mandated by Buddhist doctrine represent an infrequently discuss... Lees meer

Transforming Faith

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• This book examines the persistence of religious belief in an America that has become increasingly secular. A series of essays addresses specific aspec... Lees meer

Popular Religion in America

Erling Jorstad

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• The enormous growth of evangelicalism is one of the major developments in recent American life. Like other scholars, Jorstad acknowledges that evangel... Lees meer

Drums of Redemption

Harvey Sindima

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• This book covers the history of Christianity in Africa from the first century to the present, highlighting the roles of the Coptic and Ethiopian Churc... Lees meer

Exorcising the Trouble Makers

Francis L K Hsu

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• The very human need for religion and magic as supplements to scientific and technological knowledge is the subject of this work. In 1942 Hsu witnessed... Lees meer

Gods of Our Fathers

Richard A Gabriel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• Gabriel offers a startling new look at Judaism and Christianity by attempting to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of G... Lees meer

From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion | nr. 48
• In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In this volume, noted scholars reflect on how their... Lees meer

Politics and Religious Authority

Richard J Gelm

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• This study assesses the political effects of the Second Vatican Council on the politics of American Catholics. After discussing Catholic contributions... Lees meer

Between Man and God

Martin Sicker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Religion
• Sicker presents a personal attempt to come to grips with the awesome question, Where was God at Auschwitz? and with it some of the related central iss... Lees meer