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  • Interpreting Religion

    Making Sense of Religious Lives

    Edited by Vikash Singh, Erin F. Johnston ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion.Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Uprising of the Fools

    Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India

    by Vikash Singh ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mosaic

    A Collection of Poems

    by Vikash Singh ...
    Mosaic is an ardent version of poetry that will stir your heart and leaves you to interpret the multitude of emotions beyond words and imagination. Entangled with ones inner soul, the flow of the language although less rhythmic sways your heart into the world of reality with a mixed blend of emotions on the edge. The author has listed poems across the mosaic of emotions hope, darkness, love, life ... Read more

    $4.99 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

  • Flourishing

    Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World

    by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair ...
    More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Rethinking Secularism

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • A Small Collection of Poems From the Past

    poems from a scared little girl

    by Lydie Celarie ...
    A collection of poems I have kept since I was 13-17 years old. They're all varying in different subjects but mostly it's about what I imagine certain things must have been like. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Religion: The Basics

    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Shards Of Clay Swept Away Remains Of Yesterday

    by Barbara M Schwarz ...
    What was left to see: journeys of devotion engulfed in a glistening ocean - streams of memory foaming all around me and in the midst I saw, amongst the memory pour, a joyful entity staring back at me. When we lose ourselves in flow, all the joy that we can know peaks and troughs to see, a vibrant depth to energy. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Bread Crumbs

    by Jedidiah Shepherd ...
    In todays society of the hustle and bustle of busy life, we so often miss not only the greatest pleasures of life, but, also the greatest lessons of life as well. We are forever submerged in an ocean of consciousness and possibility, however, this ocean of consciousness must exist within us as well, for it must in order for us to exist. Without taking the time that is essential to learning from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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