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  • New Religions and State's Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam

    Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred

    by Chung Van Hoang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book approaches newly emerging religious groups through the interplay between religious and non-religious spheres in the specific context of Vietnam. It considers the new religious groups as a part of religious reconfiguration in Vietnam caused by intensified interactions among these spheres. It explores changes of relationship between religions, and changes between the religious sphere and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church

    by Lillian Daniel ...
    The phrase "I'm spiritual but not religious" has become a cliché. It's easy to find God amid the convenience of self-styled spirituality -- but is it possible (and more worthwhile) to search for God through religion?Minister and celebrated author Lillian Daniel gives a new spin on church with stories of what a life of faith can really be: weird, wondrous, and well worth trying. From a rock-and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    by Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenberg Marx ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart — Judy Abrams in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg Marx in Czechoslovakia — are only children when they are thrown into the turmoil and terror of World War II. At seven, Judy’s mother leaves her at a convent where she must adopt a new Christian identity. Eva is first sent away at two, then again at six, in disguise and tearful. Separated from their parents, forced ... Read more

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  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    by Christian Smith ...
    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Shattering the Illusion

    Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian Religious Institutions

    by Tracy J. Trothen ...
    Series series Editions SR
    Shattering the Illusion is the first book to gather and comparatively analyze policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection of religious institutions in Canada. Although there is a substantial body of literature regarding Christianity and sexual abuse, very little of it focuses on religious institutions in Canada and their respective policies.In the foreword, Tracey J. Trothen ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Stronger Together

    by Andy Réti, Ibolya Grossman ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused – a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will see.” When András (Andy) is born, Ibi realizes her husband was right. Andy gives her a reason to go on during the worst of times in the Budapest ghetto, and to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition

    Reflections on Bahá’í Practice and Thought

    Edited by Geoffrey Cameron, Benjamin Schewel ...
    Series series Bahá’í Studies
    Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has, paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that arise from these complex relationships, many search for ways to find peace and understanding through a “global ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century

    by Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, Jonathon L. Wiggins, Thomas P. Gaunt ...
    A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came in the 1980s with the publication of a series of reports from the ground-breaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. These reports are now badly outdated, as Catholic dioceses grapple with new challenges that didn't exist in the 80s. Topics that were not considered then, like greater Catholic mobility, increased cultural ... Read more

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  • Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

    Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom

    by Celucien L. Joseph ...
    Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804. Particular attention is given to the place of religion in the Haitian Revolution, as well as to the interpretation and representation of this singular event in the work of Frederick ... Read more

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  • Trance Mediums and New Media

    Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction

    by Anja Dreschke, Martin Zillinger ...
    Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements

    by T. Olesen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon. ... Read more

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  • Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora

    The New Chosen People

    by Thien-Huong T. Ninh ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD