Spiritualism in Antebellum America

Bret E Carroll

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• "At a time when the New Age movement is starting to make good on the Spiritualists' vision of America as a 'grand clairvoyant nation', Carroll's work ... Lees meer

The Spiritual Journals of Warren Felt Evans

Warren Felt Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• Warren Felt Evans (1817-1889) converted to Methodism while at Dartmouth College, became a minister, and spent his Methodist years as a spiritual seeke... Lees meer

On the Edge of the Future

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• "Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather precar... Lees meer

Healing the Nation

L Ashley Squires

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and ... Lees meer

The White Buddhist

Stephen Prothero

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• Denounced by the New York Times as an "unmitigated rascal" while simultaneously being lauded as a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha himself, Henry Steel... Lees meer

Spiritual Spectacles

Sally M Promey

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• "Promey's book is a penetrating analysis of Shaker art. . . . The book is a gem, a true advance in Shaker studies, art history, religious history, and... Lees meer

Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• "This is an amazing study, a memoir which provides insight into family abuse in 18th century America. . . . a significant volume which enhances our kn... Lees meer

New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America

Mary Farrell Bednarowski

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• "Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions. . . . [She] demonstrates in a very few pages ho... Lees meer

Yearning for the New Age

Sarah Diane Sasson

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Laura Holl... Lees meer

American Post-Judaism

Shaul Magid

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary Am... Lees meer

American Sacred Space

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation--and the conflict behind the creation--of sacred space in America. The essays in th... Lees meer

Odyssey of a New Religion

Phillip Charles Lucas

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• ". . . solid scholarship. . . . [It] will not only serve as a model for those studying the New Religious Movements of the late twentieth century, but ... Lees meer

Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields

Richard J Callahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their reli... Lees meer

Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Kay Almere Read

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere ... Lees meer

The New Black Gods

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a... Lees meer

Dialogic Semiosis

Jorgen Dines Johansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• A study of C. S. Peirce's conception of the sign, with a critique of Saussure and Hjelmslev, Dialogic Semiosis presents a semiotics of the production,... Lees meer

Vedanta for the West

Carl T Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• "This important book fills a gap in our knowledge. . . . Highly recommended." --Library Journal " . . . highly recommended . . . " --Choice "With admi... Lees meer

Healing the Nation

L Ashley Squires

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and ... Lees meer

Religious Imagination of American Women

Mary Farrell Bednarowski

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• "This book is a nuanced discussion of contemporary feminist thought in a variety of religious traditions. It draws from both academic and popular writ... Lees meer

Rally the Scattered Believers

Shelby M Balik

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the America... Lees meer

Early American Methodism

Russell E Richey

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion in North America
• Offering a revisionist reading of American Methodism, this book goes beyond the limits of institutional history by suggesting a new and different appr... Lees meer

Mother S First-Born Daughters

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• " . . . an excellent collection of writings covering the period 1774-1854 . . . mostly in print for the first time. . . . Humez provides excellent and... Lees meer

Rolling Away the Stone

Stephen Gottschalk

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achieveme... Lees meer

Sisters of the Spirit

• Paperback | Engels | Religion in North America
• "Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made the... Lees meer