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  • Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by M. Kortmann, K. Rosenow-Williams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Saints and Sinners

    Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox

    by Lawrence Wright ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder. • "Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." —Chicago TribuneLawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.29 USD

  • Honour, Violence, Women and Islam

    Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Tahir Abbas ...
    Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women in particular. The issue of HRV has become a sensitive subject in many South Asian and Middle Eastern ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Sloth

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    by Wendy Wasserstein ...
    Series series New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
    Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." Readers will find out the importance of Lethargiosis- ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • God, Sex, and Gender

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Thatcher ...
    Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume.Makes a theological contribution to understanding the unprecedented changes in sexual and gender relationships of the last fifty yearsDiscusses many topics including: sexual difference; sexual equality; ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Religious Epiphanies Across Traditions and Cultures

    by James Kellenberger ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience. Drawing upon the scriptures of various traditions, ancillary religious writings, psychological and anthropological studies, as well as reports of epiphanic experiences, the book presents and examines epiphanies ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Greening of Protestant Thought

    by Robert Booth Fowler ...
    The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970. Robert Booth Fowler explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines contemporary controversies within and between mainline and fundamentalist Protestantism over the Bible’s teachings about the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Law Enforcement and Technology

    Understanding the Use of Technology for Policing

    Edited by Andy Bain ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This edited book explores the history, development and use of technology in the policing of society, showing that technology plays a key, if not pivotal role in the work of law enforcement. The authors analyse several examples of technology in common use today, which include both officers' equipment and technology used by crime scene investigation teams. They discuss the supportive role that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Informal Economy

    Seasonal Work, Street Selling and Sex Work

    by Dominique Boels ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and criminal work in three urban and rural labour markets (seasonal work, street trade and sex work) alongside the impact of state ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society

    by Catherine Shelley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society. Much ethics taught in the UK has been dominated by Christian ethics, their relation to secularism and by the Enlightenment’s reaction against theology as a basis for ethical thought. In contrast to these perspectives this book brings secular and theological ethics into dialogue, considering the degree to which ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • 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