Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these...
Author: Gann, Mary Mc Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflicts-many ...
Description: Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing consti...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to in...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading int...
Author: Lichterman, Paul Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few st...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals th...
Author: Dewey, Pamela Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American religious scene in 1955 was a very tame and predictable world. It matched the tame, predictable world of women's clothing, where most women going out shopping wore a dress with coordi...
Author: Thatcher, Adrian Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume.Ma...
Author: Aravamudan, Srinivas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original c...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handbook showcases current research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspec...
Author: Cusack, Carole M. Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Utilising contemporary scholarship on secularisation, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianis...
Description: Home to approximately one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Home to approximately one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a...
Author: King, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Orientalism and Religion offers a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. It draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers to ref...
Author: Emerson, Michael O. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is sometimes said that the most segregated time of the week in the United States is Sunday morning. Even as workplaces and public institutions such as the military have become racially integrated, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious ...
Author: Turner, Bryan S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on Islam in particular. This book provides a unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of rel...
Author: Katznelson, Ira Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global p...
Author: Chidester, David Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of th...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizin...
Description: Offering a fresh approach to the study of contemporary Jewish identity, the author explores the implications of this identity from the perspective of traditionism, covering issues of religion, traditi...
Author: Kuru,Ahmet T. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a...
Author: Erzen, Tanya Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Erzen is sensitive, savvy, and provocative. Her mastery of historical sources, ethnographic technique, and accessible writing style are evident throughout. She illuminates aspects of conservative Ch...
Author: Porter, Muriel Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decade...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of reli...
Author: Penty, Arthur Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Subtitled "A Challenge to the Myth of Progress," this collection includes selections from Old Worlds for New, Post-Industrialism, Towards a Christian Sociology, and Means and Ends. This first-ever ant...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reflecting the very latest developments in the field, the New Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of religion with a clear emphasis on comparative and historical approache...
Author: Sinclair, Upton Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical manu...
Author: Goodbrand, Grant Publisher: ECW Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A behind-the-scenes look at a 1970s phenomenon, this study-written by someone who was involved in and a key member of the movement-discusses Therafields and how 900 people came to live in a therapeuti...
Author: Schaller, Lyle E. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "We are living in "The Big Revolution"- a time when the rights of the individual are expanding and the cultural pressures lessoning. we are immersed in liberation, rebellion, and abandonment of tradi...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United State...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United State...
