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  • Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq

    Priestly or Prophetic?

    by Christopher A. Morrissey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    The world continues to be threatened by non-state, religiously-rationalized violence. While some fail to the see the connections between the United States’ intervention in the Middle East and this ongoing threat, the non-state perpetrators of terror consistently identify American meddling as one of their principle motivating grievances. What are the social and cultural roots of different religious ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Renaissance

    The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times

    by Os Guinness ...
    Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and CultureHonorable Mention, Best Book of the Year from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds BookstoreWe live in dark times. Christians wonder: Are the best days of the Christian faith behind us? Has modernity made Christian thought irrelevant and impotent? Is society beyond all hope of redemption and renewal?In Renaissance, Os Guinness declares no. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Rasta

    Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica

    by Charles Price ...
    An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religion.So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practicing What the Doctor Preached

    At Home with Focus on the Family

    by Susan B. Ridgely ...
    Dr. James Dobson, PhD., founder of the conservative Christian foundation Focus on the Family, is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert. Millions of American children have been raised on his message, disseminated through books, videos, radio programs, magazines, and other media. While ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors

    Edited by Frederick Klaits ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the epitome of moral action but are liable to view those people’s requests for charity as merely utilitarian. Yet in many religious ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Public on the Public

    The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure

    by C. Westall, M. Gardiner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Globalization, Translation and Transmission: Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity in Kaifeng, China

    by Moshe Y. Bernstein ...
    Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China’s economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their hosts, following patrilocal custom with Chinese wives adopting their husbands’ Jewish traditions. In 1163 they built a synagogue, where the group, numbering 5,000 at its apex in the sixteenth century, ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Governing Cultures

    Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government

    Edited by K. Coulter, W. Schumann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The God Con

    Pay, Pray, Obey

    by Lee Moller ...
    The crucifix is in! You can fool most of the people most of the time. In The God Con, Lee Moller, a life-long atheist and skeptic, looks at organized religion through the lens of the con. Organized religion has been selling an invisible product, that it never has to deliver, for thousands of years. It has given us bigotry, rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and bloodshed beyond imagining. And its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability

    The Spirit of the Sacred Earth

    by Jojo M. Fung ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

    by Deborah Niederer Saxon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • An Ecological Theory of Free Expression

    by Gary Chartier ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression—one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions. Gary Chartier seeks to ground expressive freedom in mutually supportive concerns related to themes including property, autonomy, flourishing, and discovery, while seeking to tightly cabin the range of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD