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“john a mcclure”

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  • Partial Faiths

    Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison

    by John A. McClure ...
    Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, Toni Morrison’s Paradise, and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine. What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. Partial Faiths is the first study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms, take the measure of its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Comparing Religions

    by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...
    Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religionsDraws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practicesProvides both a history and understanding of ... Read more

    $57.95 USD

  • The World Is Made of Stories

    by David R. Loy ...
    In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell—about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it—become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Why Religion Matters

    The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

    by Huston Smith ...

    $13.49 USD

  • The Universe Next Door

    A Basic Worldview Catalog

    by James W. Sire ...
    Over 400,000 Copies Sold!Your Trusted Introduction to the Worldviews That Shape the Western WorldFor more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. Using his widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions, James Sire examines prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world:theismdeismnaturalismMarxi... ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Superhumanities

    Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities

    by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...
    A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to "decolonize" reality itself."One of the foremost historians of religion and a consummate storyteller, Kripal makes a compelling case for restoring the anomalous and inexplicable to the heart of inquiry in the humanities. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of education, society, and indeed ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ritual

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Reality Isn't What It Used to Be

    Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World

    by Walter Truet Anderson ...
    Anderson reveals the reality of postmodernism in politics, popular culture, religion, literary criticism, art, and philosophy -- making sense of everything from deconstructionism to punk. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion

    by Dr Bradley L. Herling ...
    How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call “religion”? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field. Now in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Beyond God the Father

    Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

    by Mary Daly ...
    'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Bed with the Word

    Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics

    by Daniel Coleman ...
    In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it about reading that feels like a spiritual posture? What kinds of reading go beyond being private entertainment to produce personal and social change? A work of informal literary essays on the relations between spirituality, reading, and living in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

    $38.99 USD