Playing for God

Annie Blazer

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 11
• When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a m... Lees meer

The Course of God's Providence

Philippa Koch

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 3
• Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early America The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated... Lees meer

Shout to the Lord

Ari Y Kelman

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 9
• How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American ... Lees meer

The Church of the Dead

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 11
• Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nas... Lees meer

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Theology

M Cooper Harriss

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 12
• Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison's concept of race Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for w... Lees meer

Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith

Terry Rey, Alex Stepick

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 2
• Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the mos... Lees meer

Jews on the Frontier

Shari Rabin

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 1
• Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Lite... Lees meer

Old Canaan in a New World

Elizabeth Fenton

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 2
• Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel? From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them ... Lees meer

Vernacular Religion

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 17
• Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion A comprehensive col... Lees meer

Religion, Law, USA

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 8
• Offers insight into the complex relationship between religion and law in contemporary America Why religion? Why law? Why now? In recent years, the Uni... Lees meer

Beyond the Synagogue

Rachel B Gross

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 6
• Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewi... Lees meer

Religion and Us Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions
• Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The United S... Lees meer

Beyond the Synagogue

Rachel B Gross

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 6
• Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewi... Lees meer

Spirituality and the State

Kerry Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 5
• An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system America's national parks are some of the m... Lees meer

From Dust They Came

Jonathan H Ebel

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 18
• The untold story of the federal government's Depression-era effort to redeem Dust Bowl refugees in rural California through religion In the midst of t... Lees meer

Border Medicine

Brett Hendrickson

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 10
• Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S. border region for cen... Lees meer

The Production of American Religious Freedom

Finbarr Curtis

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 7
• Americans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either "religion" or "freedom." Rather than resolve these debates, Finba... Lees meer

Muslims on the Margins

Katrina Daly Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions
• Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities The turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern i... Lees meer

Fear in Our Hearts

Caleb Iyer Elfenbein

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 5
• Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values In a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents report... Lees meer

Religion Out Loud

Isaac Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions
• For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic ca... Lees meer

Playing for God

Annie Blazer

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 11
• When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a m... Lees meer

Suffer the Little Children

Jodi Eichler-Levine

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 4
• Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jo... Lees meer

Spirituality and the State

Kerry Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | North American Religions | nr. 5
• An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park system America's national parks are some of the m... Lees meer

Suffer the Little Children

Jodi Eichler-Levine

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Religions
• Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literature Through close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jo... Lees meer