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  • Islamic perspectives relating to business, arts, culture and communication

    Proceedings of the 1st ICIBACC 2014

    Edited by Roaimah Omar, Hasan Bahrom, Geraldine de Mello ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This timely book explores how the Malays and Muslims in general are faced with challenges in the fields of business, economy and politics, in the modern era of globalisation. These research findings can help the Muslim community to enhance international integration, particularly in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.In this work, scholarly and expert authors explore Islamic perspectives on communication, ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement

    by Lauren Sandler ...
    Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandler's report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage evangelical "Disciple Generation," Sandler offers the first front line exploration of the Christian youth counterculture and what its influence could ... Read more

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  • New York Amish

    Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State

    by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner ...
    In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.While the Amish settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are internationally known, the Amish population in New ... Read more

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  • Renewal

    How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church

    by Anne Hendershott, Christopher White ...
    In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the end” of the Catholic priesthood. Demands for an end to celibacy, coupled with calls for women’s ordination, dominated discussions on the effectiveness of the Catholic Church in America. Renewal argues that rather than a decline of the priesthood and a diminishing influence of the Catholic Church, we ... Read more

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  • Single Women in Popular Culture

    The Limits of Postfeminism

    by A. Taylor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media forms, this is a timely, insightful and politically engaged book, exploring the ways in which postfeminism limits the representation of single women in popular culture. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Imaging Religion in Film

    The Politics of Nostalgia

    by M. Gail Hamner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There . ... Read more

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  • Slow Church Study Guide

    by C. Christopher Smith, John Pattison ...
    High-speed internet. Rapid rewards. Quick thinking. Fast food. Fast . . . church? Slow Church by Chris Smith and John Pattison has been eagerly received by a people who are ready to be invited out of franchise faith and back into the kingdom of God. This eleven-session study guide provides an opportunity to reflect on the message of this groundbreaking book both individually and in community. Each ... Read more

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  • A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption

    by David Kivinen, Keijo Rahkonen, Arto Noro, Jukka Gronow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolic and imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies. ... Read more

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  • The Calls of Islam

    Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco

    by Emilio Spadola ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "A theoretically sophisticated reading of the mediation of social and spiritual relationships in Fez." —Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at CharlotteThe sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola ... Read more

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  • Places of Redemption

    Theology for a Worldly Church

    by Mary McClintock Fulkerson ...
    The primary aim of this book is to explore the contradiction between widely shared beliefs in the USA about racial inclusiveness and equal opportunity for all and the fact that most churches are racially homogeneous and do not include people with disabilities. To address the problem Mary McClintock Fulkerson explores the practices of an interracial church (United Methodist) that includes people ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Obsolescence

    History, Materiality, and the Digital Age

    Edited by B. Tischleder, S. Wasserman ...
    Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Discourse on Civility and Barbarity

    by Timothy Fitzgerald ...
    In recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of ''religion'' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior. In his last book, The Ideology of Religious Studies (OUP 2000), Timothy Fitzgerald argued that ''religion'' was not a private area of human existence that could be separated from the public realm and that the study of religion as such was ... Read more

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