Social Gospel in Black and White

Ralph E Luker

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an... Lees meer

The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962

James Terence Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• James Fisher argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the "immigrant church," largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, laun... Lees meer

Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic

Stephen Sharot

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• In this first sociological analysis of millenarian and mystical movements from the Middle Ages to the present, Sharot deals primarily with the Jewish ... Lees meer

Nathan Söderblom and the Study of Religion

Eric J Sharpe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• Nathan Soderblom (1866 - 1931), the Swedish scholar, churchman, and winner of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize, was one of the early twentieth century's mos... Lees meer

Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe

Mary Lee Nolan, Sidney Nolan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe is a commanding exploration of the importance of religious shrines in modern Roman Catholicism. By analy... Lees meer

A Study of Religion in a New Key

Jeppe Sinding Jensen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion | nr. 3
• What are the global and cross-cultural phenomena of religion anyway? They are not things-in-the-world, not things in themselves, and yet we know they ... Lees meer

Transfiguration

Frank Burch Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literature's complex role in the discovery and creation of significant pattern... Lees meer

Mother Worship

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• The authors identify the general symbol of the "Mother Goddess" as a common sanctified image, and they demonstrate some of the cultural variations in ... Lees meer

The Religious Investigations of William James

Henry Samuel Levinson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrat... Lees meer

The Drama of Dissent

Ritchie D Kendall

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• This study examines the complex relationship between theological conviction and artistic expression among a diverse group of religious dissidents. Ken... Lees meer

And Muhammad Is His Messenger

Annemarie Schimmel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been ... Lees meer

Will Herberg

Harry J Ausmus

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished ... Lees meer

The Poetics of Belief

Nathan A Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• Scott continues his examination of modernism -- not in its skeptical, iconoclastic dissentient phase -- by tracing out a line of thought that accords ... Lees meer

Exiles in a Land of Liberty

Kenneth H Winn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Religion
• Using the concept of "classical republicanism" in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptiona... Lees meer