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  • Religion and Change in Australia

    by Adam Possamai, David Tittensor ...
    This timely book offers a panoramic overview of the enduring significance of religion in modern Australian society. Applying sociological perspectives and contemporary theories of religion in society, it challenges conventional assumptions around the extent of secularisation in Australia and instead argues that religious institutions, groups, and individuals have proved remarkably adaptable to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Islam and Development

    Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy

    by Matthew Clarke, David Tittensor ...
    The study of Islam since the advent of 9/11 has made a significant resurgence. However, much of the work produced since then has tended to focus on the movements that not only provide aid to their fellow Muslims, but also have political and at times violent agendas. This tendency has led to a dearth of research on the wider Muslim aid and development scene. Focusing on the role and impact of Islam ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South

    Edited by David Tittensor, Fethi Mansouri ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community – women. Whilst much of the current literature continues to focus on the issues of remittances and brain drain, there has been very little that examines concerns regarding governance and rights for female workers. This is ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Statements from the Soul

    The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart

    Edited by Shireen Morris ...
    A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian ConstitutionIn this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities powerfully convey why a First ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • God Is Not a White Man

    And Other Revelations

    by Chine McDonald ...
    ***Shortlisted for the 2023 Michael Ramsey Prize***What does it mean when God is presented as male?What does it mean when - from our internal assumptions to our shared cultural imaginings - God is presented as white?These are the urgent questions Chine McDonald asks in a searing look at her experience of being a Black woman in the white-majority space that is the UK church - a church that is being ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Taking God to School

    The end of Australia's egalitarian education?

    by Marion Maddox ...
    Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children.Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangelical Christian chaplains into both public and private schools. Some states subsidise Christian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • It's Dangerous to Believe

    Religious Freedom and Its Enemies

    by Mary Eberstadt ...
    Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists.In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Globalization, Gender, and Peacebuilding: The Future of Interfaith Dialogue

    by Kwok Pui-lan ...
    Shows how globalization has impacted interreligious relationships and dialogue and argues that the future of interfaith dialogue must include those marginalized voices that have not been invited to the table, especially women. ... Read more

    $7.96 USD

  • Religion, Culture & Society

    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Man's Dominion

    The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights

    by Sheila Jeffreys ...
    In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male-headship’, impurity ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Challenge of Pluralism

    Church and State in Six Democracies

    by J. Christopher Soper, Kevin R. den Dulk, Stephen V. Monsma ...
    In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of their citizens. The ... Read more

    $39.99 USD