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Columbia University Press Sister Death Political Theologies for Living and
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots “death positive” movements—Beatrice Marovich critiques a political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. Adapting the figure of “Sister Death” from Saint Francis, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.Trade ReviewFew of the countless books written about death are written with such brilliance, imagination, and grace. An exemplary collection of attentive, intelligent and generous readings, Sister Death offers a rethinking of much of the history of the Christian West’s affective and reflective, martial and spiritual—and violent—rapport with death. -- Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of ChristianityEmbracing finitude, facing but never glorifying that most difficult sibling, Sister Death guides us on a darkly mesmerizing journey. Beatrice Marovich rethinks unthinkables of routine loss and existential horror, of mass death and ecological extinction. Exposing a long political theology of death, she reveals—lucidly, beautifully—the enlivening alternative. -- Catherine Keller, author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary EntanglementWith an intimate, probing voice, Beatrice Marovich invites us to meditate with her on death. Marovich is versed in but not constrained by Continental philosophy, versed in but not constrained by Christian theology. With these tools, she crafts a smart, subtle, and at times moving narrative, elevated to the next level by its gorgeous illustrations. -- Vincent W. Lloyd, author of Black Dignity: The Struggle Against DominationThere is a beauty and kind spirit in Marovich’s writing that kept me engaged. * America *Marovich’s writing is complex, rigorous, and theory-heavy; it is not for church book clubs. At the same time, it is also elegantly written and at times even personal. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of WorksPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sister Death1. Life, Death, and Lifedeath2. The War with Death3. The Human-Above-Death4. Constellated Negatives5. Sisterhood and Enmity6. Natal DisturbanceConclusion: Into the DirtNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Sister Death Political Theologies for Living and
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots “death positive” movements—Beatrice Marovich critiques a political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. Adapting the figure of “Sister Death” from Saint Francis, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.Trade ReviewFew of the countless books written about death are written with such brilliance, imagination, and grace. An exemplary collection of attentive, intelligent and generous readings, Sister Death offers a rethinking of much of the history of the Christian West’s affective and reflective, martial and spiritual—and violent—rapport with death. -- Gil Anidjar, author of Blood: A Critique of ChristianityEmbracing finitude, facing but never glorifying that most difficult sibling, Sister Death guides us on a darkly mesmerizing journey. Beatrice Marovich rethinks unthinkables of routine loss and existential horror, of mass death and ecological extinction. Exposing a long political theology of death, she reveals—lucidly, beautifully—the enlivening alternative. -- Catherine Keller, author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary EntanglementWith an intimate, probing voice, Beatrice Marovich invites us to meditate with her on death. Marovich is versed in but not constrained by Continental philosophy, versed in but not constrained by Christian theology. With these tools, she crafts a smart, subtle, and at times moving narrative, elevated to the next level by its gorgeous illustrations. -- Vincent W. Lloyd, author of Black Dignity: The Struggle Against DominationThere is a beauty and kind spirit in Marovich’s writing that kept me engaged. * America *Marovich’s writing is complex, rigorous, and theory-heavy; it is not for church book clubs. At the same time, it is also elegantly written and at times even personal. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of WorksPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sister Death1. Life, Death, and Lifedeath2. The War with Death3. The Human-Above-Death4. Constellated Negatives5. Sisterhood and Enmity6. Natal DisturbanceConclusion: Into the DirtNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Seeing and Believing
Book SynopsisSeeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice.Trade ReviewSeeing and Believing is a meticulous and engaging portrait of how digital technology, especially social media, affects society. Never abstracting or ignoring the gaze of whiteness in seeking racial justice, Armour shows the reader how photographic insurrection can upend oppressive relationships generated by biodisciplinary powers. -- Kate Ott, author of Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital AgeThe ethical questions that animate Seeing and Believing are achingly current: How do we live with the aggressive seductions of digital worlds? Can religious teachings offer us any help? This fully engaged and persistently hopeful book moves through the stripping-away of critique to find resources for insurrection. -- Mark D. Jordan, author of Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian TeachingDeveloping an account of 'photographic insurrection,' Seeing and Believing calls and calls out, attuning us to the ways that our new digital public square can be mobilized toward justice. Prophetic, critical, and meditative, this text will most certainly impact the way we see the world—and ourselves. Or at least it did for me. -- Biko Mandela Gray, author of Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the SubjectEllen Armour's sensitivity to diverse articulations of power informs her treatment of images as both inducing conformity and spawning resistance. This is especially relevant for the consideration of social media since these platforms are shaped both by their providers and by their consumers. This book brings intensive theological reflection to the study of visual culture in a way that will engage scholars of many kinds. -- David Morgan, author of Images at Work: The Material Culture of EnchantmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Setting the Stage2. Life on the New Public Square3. (Re)making Us4. Reframing Photography5. Photographic InsurrectionEpilogueAppendix: Ways of Seeing PromptsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Imagining Eden
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Columbia University Press Moral Atmospheres Islam and Media in a Pakistani
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Columbia University Press Buddhist Masculinities
Book SynopsisThis transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States, and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks.Trade ReviewIn a series of fascinating essays, . . . scholars contend with how Buddhists have negotiated with masculine ideals and the effect that this has had on Buddhist culture. * Buddhadharma: Lion's Roar *This is the first book to critically explore masculinity across such a broad swath of the Buddhist tradition in different periods and cultures. The authors—experts in fields as diverse as philology, ethnography, archeology, art history, the study of popular culture, and film studies—provide us with new and important insights into the diverse and sometimes competing notions of maleness in different parts of the Buddhist world and how these notions have often functioned to subordinate women. A theoretically sophisticated yet accessible book, Buddhist Masculinities is must read for anyone interested in Buddhism and the comparative study of gender. -- José Ignacio Cabezón, author of Sexuality in Classical South Asian BuddhismThis volume brings much needed attention to the diversities and continuities of Buddhist masculinity throughout Asia and beyond. Across four sections, Buddhist Masculinities shows how Buddhists generated masculine ideals, performed machismo, adapted to culturally specific definitions of masculinity, and responded to transgressive masculinities. This is a welcome and timely addition to the study of Buddhism and gender for a new generation of scholars. -- Bernard Faure, author of The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality and The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and GenderBuddhist Masculinities sheds light on masculinity as an object of analysis, refusing to allow it to go unmarked as it so often does in Buddhist texts and scholarship. The book is bound to become an important reference for future work in this burgeoning field, as it maintains an expansive and critical definition of masculinity, engaging masculinity theorists to think about diverse Buddhist texts and contexts. -- Sarah Jacoby, author of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera KhandroTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Masculinities Beyond the Buddha, by Megan BrysonPart 1: Masculine Models1. Middle Way Masculinity: The Bodhisattva Siddhārtha as a Renunciant in Early Buddhist Texts and Art, by Dessislava Vendova2. How Chan Masters Became “Great Men”: Masculinity in Chinese Chan Buddhism, by Kevin Buckelew3. Men of Virtue: Reexamining the Bodhisattva King in Sri Lanka, by Stephen C. BerkwitzPart 2: Mighty Masters4. The Siddha Who Tamed Tibet: Padmasambhava’s Tantric Masculinity, by Joshua Brallier Shelton5. Building a Nation on the Dharma Battlefield: Lay Zen Masculinities in Modern Japan, by Rebecca Mendelson6. Macho Buddhism (Redux): Gender and Sexualities in the Diamond Way, by Bee SchererPart 3: Making Men7. Being a Man vs. Being a Monk: Alternative Versions of Burmese Buddhist Masculinity, by Ward Keeler8. Hanuman, Heroes, and Buddhist Masculinity in Contemporary Thailand, by Natawan Wongchalard9. Buddhism and Afro-Asian Masculinities in The Man with the Iron Fists, by Marcus EvansPart 4: Breaking Boundaries10. The Afterlife of the Tang Monk: Buddhist Masculinity and the Image of Xuanzang in East Asia, by Geng Song11. Real Monks Don’t Have Gṛhastha Sex: Revisiting Male Celibacy in Classical South Asian Buddhism, by Amy Paris LangenbergAppendix: Character GlossaryContributorsIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press What to Believe
Book SynopsisIn this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, “recovering” believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and “nones” alike—to anyone in search of what they really do believe—the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.Trade ReviewJohn Caputo is one of the foremost postmodern philosophers of our time. In this brilliant book, he offers a provocative new way to think about God and an invitation to awaken to a new reality: we are entangled with God. Playful, witty, and radically profound, this is a book to return to over and over. -- Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational WholeHere is a book that countless people who have given up on the God of their childhood will relish. Tired of living in the shallow end of the theological pool, Jack Caputo invites us all to push out into the deep waters of radical theology without letting us sink. What you are about to read is God-years ahead of its time. -- Rev. Robin R. Meyers, author of Saving God from Religion: A Minister’s Search for Faith in a Skeptical WorldAn evocative, accessible, good-humored guide to living (and moving, and being) after the death of God. -- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space RaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsThis Is How the World BeganFirst WeekLesson One: God Does Not ExistLesson Two: Bridge-Builders and Ground-DiggersLesson Three: That’s Pantheism, That’s HorribleLesson Four: Do Radical Theologians Pray?Lesson Five: The Mystical Sense of LifeLesson Six: Who Do They Say Jesus Is?Second WeekLesson Seven: Suppose Everything Just Vanished?Lesson Eight: What Is Really Going On?Lesson Nine: What Is Going On in the Name of God?Lesson Ten: Whether God Will Have BeenLesson Eleven: Making Ourselves Worthy of What Is Happening to UsLesson Twelve: So What?A Parting Word (or Two): Yes, YesFurther ReadingIndex
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Columbia University Press Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in
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Columbia University Press Contemporary Arab Thought Cultural Critique in
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Columbia University Press The Evolution of Religions A History of Related
Book SynopsisThis extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.Trade ReviewReligion goes to the very heart of human cultural experience. Its oldest texts reveal what we were thinking about who we are, how we came to be, and how we fit into the world. In this well-written book, Lance Grande casts a dispassionate eye on the basic tenets of known religions—at once a good read and a valuable reference source. -- Niles Eldredge, author of Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and BeyondAn innovative, in-depth analysis—a renowned biologist applies a novel evolutionary conceptual lens to the diversity and history of human religion. The findings and implications are destined to provoke productive introspection and discussion. -- Gary M. Feinman, MacArthur Curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural HistoryGrande, a noted paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, brings his analytical framework to the study of world religions. He offers an evolutionary history of religious traditions and cooperative norms from around the world. This fascinating approach is both provocative and illuminating, providing a very readable and important book. -- Charles Stanish, author of The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless SocietiesThe Evolution of Religions classifies virtually all known organized religions, past and present, into phylogenetic trees based on their shared characteristics and evolution. Grande provides an evolutionary framework so that lay readers can better understand the similarities of religions and thereby hopefully become more tolerant of religions other than their own. -- E. Fuller Torrey, author of Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of ReligionTable of ContentsPreface: A Modern Evolutionary Approach to History of Religion StudiesIntroductory Section: Applying Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy to Aspects of Human Culture1. Religions, Classification, and Phylogenetic Pattern2. Explaining Hypothetical Patterns with Evolutionary Process TheoryMain Section: The Historical Diversification (Evolution) of Religions3. Early Supernaturalism and the Development of Organized Religion4. Indigenous Eastern Organized Religion and Asian Cyclicism5. Afro-Euro-Mediterranean Organized Religion, Beginning with Old World Hard Polytheism6. Linear Monotheism7. The Early Diversification of Abrahamic Monotheism8. Traditional Christianity9. Reformation Christianity10. Biblical Demiurgism: A Subgroup of “Gnosticism”11. IslamSummary Section: Four Historical Trends in the Evolution of Religions and Considerations for the Future of Humanity12. Organized Religions and the Evolution of Human SocietyAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Select TermsNotesChapter CitationsReferencesFigure CreditsSubject Index
£130.40
Columbia University Press Imagining the Past Remembering the Future
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Columbia University Press Discerning Buddhas
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Columbia University Press Gods in the World
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Columbia University Press The Evolution of Religions
Book SynopsisThis extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary theory can yield new insight into the development of organized religion. Lance Grande examines the growth and diversification of hundreds of religions over time, highlighting their historical interrelationships.Trade ReviewReligion goes to the very heart of human cultural experience. Its oldest texts reveal what we were thinking about who we are, how we came to be, and how we fit into the world. In this well-written book, Lance Grande casts a dispassionate eye on the basic tenets of known religions—at once a good read and a valuable reference source. -- Niles Eldredge, author of Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and BeyondAn innovative, in-depth analysis—a renowned biologist applies a novel evolutionary conceptual lens to the diversity and history of human religion. The findings and implications are destined to provoke productive introspection and discussion. -- Gary M. Feinman, MacArthur Curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural HistoryGrande, a noted paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, brings his analytical framework to the study of world religions. He offers an evolutionary history of religious traditions and cooperative norms from around the world. This fascinating approach is both provocative and illuminating, providing a very readable and important book. -- Charles Stanish, author of The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless SocietiesThe Evolution of Religions classifies virtually all known organized religions, past and present, into phylogenetic trees based on their shared characteristics and evolution. Grande provides an evolutionary framework so that lay readers can better understand the similarities of religions and thereby hopefully become more tolerant of religions other than their own. -- E. Fuller Torrey, author of Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of ReligionTable of ContentsPreface: A Modern Evolutionary Approach to History of Religion StudiesIntroductory Section: Applying Evolutionary Theory and Philosophy to Aspects of Human Culture1. Religions, Classification, and Phylogenetic Pattern2. Explaining Hypothetical Patterns with Evolutionary Process TheoryMain Section: The Historical Diversification (Evolution) of Religions3. Early Supernaturalism and the Development of Organized Religion4. Indigenous Eastern Organized Religion and Asian Cyclicism5. Afro-Euro-Mediterranean Organized Religion, Beginning with Old World Hard Polytheism6. Linear Monotheism7. The Early Diversification of Abrahamic Monotheism8. Traditional Christianity9. Reformation Christianity10. Biblical Demiurgism: A Subgroup of “Gnosticism”11. IslamSummary Section: Four Historical Trends in the Evolution of Religions and Considerations for the Future of Humanity12. Organized Religions and the Evolution of Human SocietyAcknowledgmentsGlossary of Select TermsNotesChapter CitationsReferencesFigure CreditsSubject Index
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Columbia University Press From the Heart A Memoir and Meditation on a
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Columbia University Press Kings of Oxen and Horses
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Columbia University Press Mountain Dharma
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Columbia University Press Mountain Dharma
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Columbia University Press What Is Political Theology
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MO - University of Illinois Press Religion and Sexuality
Trade Review"This is a balanced and masterful study on a timely topic that sheds light on the representative humanness of Shakers, Oneidans, and Mormons as they developed essentially religious strategies for coping with problems of intimacy in their times."--Catherine L. Albanese, author of Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America"Foster has produced an exciting, first-rate study. In showing us the details of sexual sublimation among the Shakers, the intricacies of the 'complex marriage' and coitus reservatus among the Oneida Perfectionists, and the virtually unfathomable complexity of Joseph Smith's early ideals and trials at plural marriage in Nauvoo, Foster gives these groups a degree of humanity, tangibility, and pathos rarely available from historians."--Mark P. Leone, Western Historical Quarterly"Foster's study is not merely historical, for he is asking us to perceive in these earlier struggles and achievements the same urge to discover new and better ways which is now so important a movement of our own far more troubled and confused era."--Rosemary Haughton, Commonweal"This important scholarly work is highly relevant to at least three of the academic disciplines: early American history, sociology of religion, and sociology of the family. Furthermore, no lay person with interests in such wide-ranging phenomena as Mormon history, early communal movements, alternative marriage arrangements, and sex role structure can afford to be without it."--Harold Christensen, Western Humanities Review"A model study of the history of group and cultural dynamics that includes the most exhaustively researched, broadly conceived, and sophisticated analysis of Mormon polygamy extant."--Klaus J. Hansen, author of Mormonism and the American Experience
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Making of WorkingClass Religion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pehl is to be commended for his multivalent work, and for the important contributions he makes to both The Working Class in American History series and to the study of America's religious history."--Anglican Theological Review"The value of Pehl's wonderful book is that it helps us reimagine the currents of faith that ebb and flow in American society and interact with changing political and economic circumstances. This is a book that belongs on the shelves of historians." --American Historical Review"Pehl's work makes a number of important contributions to our thinking about religion within labor history. . . . He expertly weaves together the thoughts of religious leaders and rank-and-file workers and shows the intersections of these processes among Protestants and Catholics, and African American and white workers."--Journal of American History"The Making of Working Class Religion is an important read for both scholars of labor and scholars of religion as a methodological model for advancing the study of religion, labor, and class. . . . Pehl's book teaches its readers--whether they be scholars, labor organizers, or graduate or undergraduate students--how to recover and interpret critically and empathetically, the religious worlds of working-class people."--Labour/Le Travail"This book is well-written, concise, and highly recommended to all audiences."--The Michigan Historical Review"Highly Recommended."--Choice"Matthew Pehl's subtle and stunning book describes the remarkable moments when working class identities and religion remarkably converged in America's quintessential manufacturing city--Detroit--first from the 1920s to the 1940s, then as they fractured amidst the racial, ethnic, gender, and political shifts after World War II. Pehl incisively describes the possibilities and tensions, and achievements and failures, that encouraged and undermined bonds between religion and the working classes in an uneasily complex American city. A terrific achievement and enthralling read."--Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People"A signal contribution to the resurgence of historical interest in the religious worlds of working class men and women. Pehl shows how 'work' had religious significance in Detroit's working class neighborhoods and in doing so he helps restore the realities and exigencies of daily toil to American religious history. The Making of Working Class Religion is also an exciting religious history of modern Detroit. With its huge cast of historical actors--Detroit's white and black, Protestant and Catholic workers, Elijah Muhammad, Reinhold Niebuhr, Father Charles Coughlin, and many others--the book goes a long way towards establishing the city's importance as a place of religious innovation and public engagement. This is dynamic and powerful history."--Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Eugene England
Book SynopsisEugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle for progress even as it narrowed the range of acceptable belief. Kristine L. Haglund views England's writing through the tensions produced by his often-opposed intellectual and spiritual commitments. Though labeled a liberal, England had a traditional Latter-day Saint background and always sought to address fundamental questions in Mormon terms. His intellectually adventurous essays sometimes put him at odds with Church authorities and fellow believers. But he also influenced a generation of thinkers and cofounded Dialogue, a Mormon academic and literary journal acclaimed for the broad range of its thought. A fascinating portrait of a Mormon intellectual and his times, Eugene England reveals a believing scholar who emerged from the lived experiences of his faith to engage with the changes roilTrade Review"Haglund's analysis truly shines when she places England in context with other thinkers. . . The most powerful parts of Haglund's work are when she demonstrates how England lived during a transition moment for Mormonism." --By Common Consent"Haglund's brief, elegant study brings back the restless personality of the late Eugene England, one of Mormonism's most energetic thinkers and intellectuals, wrestling with the tensions between independent thought and loyal belief. This book illuminates an entire era in Mormon intellectual history."--Claudia L. Bushman, author of Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America"Eugene England was the most gifted Latter-day Saint essayist of the late twentieth century, influencing an entire generation of thinkers and strivers. In Kristine Haglund’s deft handling, we also come to appreciate England as embodying the paradoxes and tensions of modern religion: liberal and conservative, faith and reason, individual and community, autonomy and authority. This book will enable a whole new generation to rediscover the wisdom and wrestle of one of twentieth-century Mormonism’s most remarkable souls and intellects."--Patrick Q. Mason, Utah State University
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University of Illinois Press Producing the Sacred
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Innovative, engaging, and provocative." -- Wade Clark Roof, author of A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation
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University of Illinois Press The Miriam Tradition
Book SynopsisHighlighting the importance of song and dance rituals to Sephardic Jewish religious practicesTrade Review"Taking the study of embodied Torah in women's movement and dance in an exciting new direction, this compelling and sophisticated book is of special interest to students and scholars of Judaism, ritual studies, women's studies, and dance."--Barbara A. McGraw, coauthor of Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions
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University of Illinois Press The Making of WorkingClass Religion
Book SynopsisReligion has played a protean role in the lives of America''s workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city''s working-class Catholics, African American Protestants, and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969. Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges across boundaries of class, race, denomination, and time. As he shows, workers in the 1910s and 1920s practiced beliefs characterized by emotional expressiveness, alliance with supernatural forces, and incorporation of mass culture''s secular diversions into the sacred. That gave way to the more pragmatic class-conscious religion cultures of the New Deal era and, from the late Thirties on, a quilt of secular working-class cultures that coexisted in competitive, though creative, tension. Finally, Pehl shows how the ideology of race eclipsed class in the 1950s and 1960s, and in so doing replacTrade Review"Pehl is to be commended for his multivalent work, and for the important contributions he makes to both The Working Class in American History series and to the study of America's religious history."--Anglican Theological Review"The value of Pehl's wonderful book is that it helps us reimagine the currents of faith that ebb and flow in American society and interact with changing political and economic circumstances. This is a book that belongs on the shelves of historians." --American Historical Review"Pehl's work makes a number of important contributions to our thinking about religion within labor history. . . . He expertly weaves together the thoughts of religious leaders and rank-and-file workers and shows the intersections of these processes among Protestants and Catholics, and African American and white workers."--Journal of American History"The Making of Working Class Religion is an important read for both scholars of labor and scholars of religion as a methodological model for advancing the study of religion, labor, and class. . . . Pehl's book teaches its readers--whether they be scholars, labor organizers, or graduate or undergraduate students--how to recover and interpret critically and empathetically, the religious worlds of working-class people."--Labour/Le Travail"This book is well-written, concise, and highly recommended to all audiences."--The Michigan Historical Review"Highly Recommended."--Choice"Matthew Pehl's subtle and stunning book describes the remarkable moments when working class identities and religion remarkably converged in America's quintessential manufacturing city--Detroit--first from the 1920s to the 1940s, then as they fractured amidst the racial, ethnic, gender, and political shifts after World War II. Pehl incisively describes the possibilities and tensions, and achievements and failures, that encouraged and undermined bonds between religion and the working classes in an uneasily complex American city. A terrific achievement and enthralling read."--Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People"A signal contribution to the resurgence of historical interest in the religious worlds of working class men and women. Pehl shows how 'work' had religious significance in Detroit's working class neighborhoods and in doing so he helps restore the realities and exigencies of daily toil to American religious history. The Making of Working Class Religion is also an exciting religious history of modern Detroit. With its huge cast of historical actors--Detroit's white and black, Protestant and Catholic workers, Elijah Muhammad, Reinhold Niebuhr, Father Charles Coughlin, and many others--the book goes a long way towards establishing the city's importance as a place of religious innovation and public engagement. This is dynamic and powerful history."--Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
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Indiana University Press Playing with Religion in Digital Games
Book SynopsisShaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. This book explores the increasingly complex relationship between gaming and global religious practices.Trade ReviewThis collection builds on and adds to the best criticism in this young and exciting subfield and will grow more important as religion integrates further into our digital games. * Library Journal *...[A]n ambitious and impressive compendium offering intriguing possibilities for further research and theory for the burgeoning field of cultural studies. * Publishers Weekly *This fine collection of essays represents a well-documented study of the effects and influences that religion (in general) has had on digital gaming and its players. . . . This volume will be a good launching pad for future research. * Choice *This edited collection is uniformly good and well worth reading. As the editors and authors note, the study of religion and gaming stands very near its beginning. They invite others to take up the study and this book offers a good starting point. * Communication Research Trends *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Playing with Religion Offers Digital Game Studies / Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price GrievePart 1: Explorations in Religiously Themed Games1. Dreidels to Dante's Inferno: Toward a Typology of Religious Games / Jason Anthony2. Locating the Pixelated Jew: A Multimodal Method for Exploring Judaism in The Shivah / Isamar Carrillo Masso and Nathan Abrams3. The Global Mediatization of Hinduism through Digital Games: Representation versus Simulation in Hanuman: Boy Warrior / Xenia Zeiler4. Silent Hill and Fatal Frame: Finding Transcendent Horror in and beyond the Haunted Magic Circle / Brenda S. Gardenour WalterPart 2: Religion in Mainstream Games5. From Kuma\War to Quraish: Representation of Islam in Arab and American Video Games / Vit Šisler6. Citing the Medieval: Using Religion as World-Building Infrastructure in Fantasy MMORPGs / Rabia Gregory7. Hardcore Christian Gamers: How Religion Shapes Evangelical Play / Shanny Luft8. Filtering Cultural Feedback: Religion, Censorship and Localization in Actraiser and Other Mainstream Video Games / Peter LikarishPart 3: Gaming as Implicit Religion9. The Importance of Playing in Earnest / Rachel Wagner10. "God Modes" and "God Moods": What Does a Digital Game Need to Be Spiritually Effective? / Oliver Steffen11. Bridging Multiple Realities: Religion, Play and Alfred Schutz's Theory of the Life-World / Michael Waltemathe12. They Kill Mystery: The Mechanistic Bias of Video Game Representations of Religion and Spirituality / Kevin SchutsGameographyContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Playing with Religion in Digital Games
Book SynopsisShaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. This book explores the increasingly complex relationship between gaming and global religious practices.Trade ReviewThis collection builds on and adds to the best criticism in this young and exciting subfield and will grow more important as religion integrates further into our digital games. * Library Journal *...[A]n ambitious and impressive compendium offering intriguing possibilities for further research and theory for the burgeoning field of cultural studies. * Publishers Weekly *This fine collection of essays represents a well-documented study of the effects and influences that religion (in general) has had on digital gaming and its players. . . . This volume will be a good launching pad for future research. * Choice *This edited collection is uniformly good and well worth reading. As the editors and authors note, the study of religion and gaming stands very near its beginning. They invite others to take up the study and this book offers a good starting point. * Communication Research Trends *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Playing with Religion Offers Digital Game Studies / Heidi A. Campbell and Gregory Price GrievePart 1: Explorations in Religiously Themed Games1. Dreidels to Dante's Inferno: Toward a Typology of Religious Games / Jason Anthony2. Locating the Pixelated Jew: A Multimodal Method for Exploring Judaism in The Shivah / Isamar Carrillo Masso and Nathan Abrams3. The Global Mediatization of Hinduism through Digital Games: Representation versus Simulation in Hanuman: Boy Warrior / Xenia Zeiler4. Silent Hill and Fatal Frame: Finding Transcendent Horror in and beyond the Haunted Magic Circle / Brenda S. Gardenour WalterPart 2: Religion in Mainstream Games5. From Kuma\War to Quraish: Representation of Islam in Arab and American Video Games / Vit Šisler6. Citing the Medieval: Using Religion as World-Building Infrastructure in Fantasy MMORPGs / Rabia Gregory7. Hardcore Christian Gamers: How Religion Shapes Evangelical Play / Shanny Luft8. Filtering Cultural Feedback: Religion, Censorship and Localization in Actraiser and Other Mainstream Video Games / Peter LikarishPart 3: Gaming as Implicit Religion9. The Importance of Playing in Earnest / Rachel Wagner10. "God Modes" and "God Moods": What Does a Digital Game Need to Be Spiritually Effective? / Oliver Steffen11. Bridging Multiple Realities: Religion, Play and Alfred Schutz's Theory of the Life-World / Michael Waltemathe12. They Kill Mystery: The Mechanistic Bias of Video Game Representations of Religion and Spirituality / Kevin SchutsGameographyContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press A Universe of Terms
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this genre-bending work of art, words and images morph in ways that free the reader's imagination to think and write differently. Mona Oraby, Emilie Flamme, and their ghostwriters create the kind of visionary experimentation and innovation that are sorely lacking, but very much needed both within and beyond the academy today. -- Mark C. Taylor, Columbia UniversityOraby and Flamme invite readers into an impressive, courageous, and innovative experiment in communicative arts, an interpretive work of political action, a wager at broader engagement for important ideas raised in expertly curated words and equally scintillating images. A Universe of Terms ushers into perceptible shape a series of interconnected propositions; it threads these together to create space for expansive imaginings. This hefty contribution is a brilliant object for study and thought. -- Sally M. Promey, Yale UniversityA Universe of Terms encourages readers to reconsider the conventions that have served to inform what we see and how we communicate the social sciences and humanities. And, in the process, it supports new and unconventional ways of thinking, communicating, and engaging. This is a creative and important project that opens much needed space for reimagining academic language and knowledge. -- Anthony B. Pinn, author of Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence TogetherTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsTable of TermsSPIRITECONOMYHUMANMEDIAPERFORMANCESPACE/PLACEMODERNITYENCHANTMENT/DISENCHANTMENTIndexBibliography
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Indiana University Press The Rise of Modern Mythology 16801860
Book SynopsisFeatures 'old' texts that shed light on such topical questions as the rise of Fundamentalism and the mass popularity of secular mythologies like "Star Trek", "Star Wars", and "Xena: Warrior Princess". This book presents a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism.Trade Review" ... peerless ... " --The Key Reporter " ... this book is a first. It will be a standard ... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." -Choice " ... so good as it stands ... one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas " ... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar "The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book we need now." --Wendy Doniger "There will be no book like it in English for some time to come, with the amplitude or conception of the anthology... Without question the book takes its place as a standard work in the field." --Journal of the History of Ideas "... a useful contribution to the history of myth scholarship in several scholarly traditions... this collection certainly deserves an audience among folklorists, anthropologists, and others in the humanities and social sciences who enjoy the mythology of myth in Western intellectual history."--American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAbridged Table of ContentsForeword by Wendy Doniger 1972 Foreword by Mircea EliadeAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One / The Earlier Eighteenth CenturyPart Two / The Later Eighteenth CenturyPart Three / The Nineteenth Century to 1860Bibliography on Works on Myth, 1680-1860IndexJG
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Indiana University Press Servants of Satan The Age of the Witch Hunts
Book SynopsisConsiders the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesTrade Review"In all, Klaits has done a good job. Avoiding the scandalous and sensational, he has maintained throughout, with sensitivity and economy, an awareness of the uniqueness of the theories and persecutions that have fascinated scholars now for two decades and are unlikely to lose their appeal in the foreseeable future." American Historical Review "This is a commendable synthesis whose time has come... Fascinating ... " The Sixteenth Century Journal " ... Comprehensive and clearly written ... An excellent book ... " Choice "Impeccable research and interpretation stand behind this scholarly but not stultifying account ... " Booklist "A good, solid, general treatment ... " Erik Midelfort "Servants of Satan is a well written, easy to read book, and the bibliography is a good source of secondary materials for further reading." Journal of American FolkloreTable of ContentsPreface IXIntroduction I1. The Witchcraft Enigma – 8 2. Medieval Witches - 193. Sexual Politics and Religious Reform in the Witch Craze - 484. Classic Witches: The Beggar and Midwife - 865. Classic Accusers: The Possessed - 1046. In the Torture Chamber: Legal Reform and Psychological Breakdown - 1287. An End to Witch Hunting - 159Notes - 177Bibliography - 196Index - 207
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Indiana University Press Ifa Divination Communication between Gods and
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Indiana University Press Ovids Fasti
Book SynopsisA new translation of Ovid's poetic calendar of the Roman religious year.Table of ContentsIntroductionBook 1Book 2Book 3Book 4Book 5Book 6Glossary of Proper Names Notes
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Indiana University Press American Sacred Space
Book SynopsisExamines the creation and the conflict behind the creation of sacred space in America. This book contains essays on places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, DC. It investigates visions of America as a sacred space.Trade Review"American Sacred Space makes a pivotal contribution to the theoretical dialogue surrounding issues of sacrality and space. It will be of immense value not only to scholars concerned with these issues, but also to teachers of American religions who seek to clarify for their students what terms are most useful in comprehending how Americans fashion and refashion sacred places." - Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion "It is a graceful and important work of cultural history, essential to the student of the consumer culture, nationalism and memory." - Journal of American History "One way to review a book is to use it ... My students found much to appreciate in this adventuresome volume ..." - Christian Century "This book is a welcome and interesting addition to the growing, and increasingly theoretically sophisticated, literature on sense of place." - Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review "... excellent essays . . " - Journal of Church and StateTable of Contents1. Introduction, by David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal2. Dirt in the Courtroom: Indian Land Claims and American "Property Rights," by Robert S. Michaelsen3. Resacralizing Earth: Pagan Environmentalism and the Restoration of Turtle Island, by Bron Taylor4. "Alexanders All": Symbols of Conquest and Resistance at Mount Rushmore, by Matthew Glass5. Creating the Christian Home: Home schooling in Contemporary America, by ColleenMcDannell6. Locating Holocaust Memory: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Edward T. Linenthal7. "A Big Wind Blew Up During the Night": America as Sacred Space in South Africa, by David Chidester8. American Sacred Space and the contest of History, by Rowland A. Sherrill
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Indiana University Press The Church of Women Gendered Encounters between
Book SynopsisA gendered consideration of cultural change and the religious encounter among the Maasai.Trade ReviewA readable (often almost chatty) book, this valuable addition to recent analyses of missionary encounters in Africa focuses on the question of why, among the Maasai in Tanzania, Roman Catholic missionary priests, despite their conscious best efforts to convert men, managed to create a church made up almost entirely of women. . . . In addition to its contribution to anthropology, gender studies, and religious studies, this book should be required reading for students at divinity school. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This superb book is one of the best studies written on conversion to Christianity in an African culture. . . . [A]n instant classic . . . A clearly written, interesting, and mature work of scholarship. The Church of Women is highly recommended for researchers in African studies, gender studies, and world Christianity. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *. . . [A]n engaging exploration of Maasai gender and religious adaptation over the last century. . . * American Anthropologist *. . . rich and important book . . . . Indeed, for many Maasai, Christianity provides an institutional door through which to claim the global citizenship promised but rarely fulfilled by modernism and development.vol. 48.4 August 2009 -- John G. Galaty * McGill University *The Church of Women makes a useful contribution to a number of current debates about gender, spirituality, ethnic identity, religious conversion and inculturation in Sub-Saharan Africa. . . . A major strength of the book is its treatment of the role of spiritual power in the lives of African women, and specifically, women's use of spiritual power to negotiate and challenge the socio-structural conditions of their lives. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *Hodgson's book pulls together insights from history, anthropology, and theology in a gender-sensitive inquiry about Maasai members of a Catholic Church. She begins by demolishing the generalization that the Maasai are nomadic people who do not mix with other tribes, stick to old customs, and refuse to modernize. . . . I highly recommend Hodgson's book.74.2 June 2006 * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceNote on Maasai TermsIntroduction: Gender, Power, and the Missionary Encounter1. "Oh She Who Brings the Rain"2. Men of the Church3. Evangelizing "the Maasai"4. The Church of Women5. Being a Man in the Church of Women6. Possessed by the Spirit7. Toward a Maasai Catholicism?ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the attempt by spiritually restless Americans of the 1840s and 1850s to negotiate a satisfying combination of freedom and authority as they sought a sense of harmony with the universe.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein1. Introduction: Spiritualist Religion and the Search for Order2. American Spiritualism and the Swedenborgian Order3. Spiritualist Republicanism4. The Structure of the Spirit World5. The Ministry of Spirits6. The Structure of Spiritualist Practice7. The Structure of Spiritualist SocietyConclusionNotesList of AbbreviationsBibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press The Odyssey of a New Religion The Holy Order of MANS From New Age to Orthodoxy
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University of Notre Dame Press Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer
Book SynopsisLaw professors Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd asked some of their legal colleagues to respond to this provocative question: Can a good Christian be a good lawyer? Here are twenty-one highly personal narratives that answer the question of how each writer tries, sometimes but not always successfully, to be both a good Christian and a good lawyer.How does a lawyer called to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ reconcile his or her faith with the secular calling to the legal profession? The editors did not set out to provide some kind of final resolution or unified consensus. Instead, they have compiled a remarkable collection of reflections by lawyers, judges, and academics who represent many different branches of Christianity.The reader is likely to find many role models to emulate and the inspiration to continue to fight the good fight in these accounts grounded in legal and Christian thought. Reading about these real-life ethical dilemmas, conflicting loyalties, and pTrade Review“Arguing that ‘the practice of law for too many lawyers presents either a Faustian bargain or a Godfather's offer,’ the editors present an alternative by way of meditations, case histories, and exhortations on the integration of one’s family and legal practice. While the primary intended audience is clearly lawyers, the lessons taught, experiences shared, and questions raised offer much insight to all those seeking to make their occupation a bona fide calling of the Lord.” —Books & Culture“[A]n admirable effort at answering a hard question. Ultimately, the essayists reach the same conclusion as the editors: Yes, a good Christian can be a good lawyer, but only with two indispensable aids—divine grace and the good example of others. Even the lawyer with an ordinary practice can be a practitioner of holiness. The many lawyers whose practices are relatively ordinary may take comfort in this conclusion and in the reminder from William Bentley Ball that usually lawyers serve God best by accepting the place where they are.” —Crisis“Thomas Baker and Timothy Floyd, with this charming and inspiring book, have found a way to cut through the “separation” of church and state, of law and morality, of faith and knowledge. They have done so in a very simple and direct way. On reading these essays, we remain painfully aware of the divisions of Christians themselves, but we also realize how much they have in common, of how much their lives of faith penetrate through to make them not merely lawyers, but yes, ‘good’ lawyers, and how much the law, ‘good’ law, incites them to deepen their own faith. No lawyer will want to miss it. And those who sometimes despair at the legal field, will find here an encouraging account of good and faithful men and women in the law.” —Homiletic and Pastoral Review"Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd have compiled 21 deeply insightful essays addressing the spiritual elements of legal practice and the faith implications of a vocation in the law. Responding to the widespread cultural perception that the legal profession and its practitioners are spiritually bankrupt, the contributors explore integrating personal convictions with everyday life, discuss why and how a lawyer's career choices impact his or her spiritual life and demonstrate how faith shapes legal practice." —Report from the Capital
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University of Notre Dame Press The Seven Deadly Sins Today
Book SynopsisSin, like death, is an unassailable fact of life. It is also one of the last great taboos for public debate. In this compelling book, the Henry Fairlie shows that it is possible and necessary to talk about sin in ways that enrich our societies and our personal lives. Fairlie relates these ancient sins to the central issues of contemporary life: liberal vs. conservative politics, discrimination, pornography, abortion, the vistas of modern science, and especially the pop-psychologies that confirm the narcissism of our age.Trade Review"Depressingly accurate about many of our malaises. . . . [Fairlie] fits the ancient sin to the contemporary condition." —The New York Times Book Review"A biting critique of the hocum, the sleazy, self-deluding arrogance of much pop culture." —The Christian Century". . . a thoughtful and brave analysis, argued with subtlety and insight." —Library Journal". . . remarkably absorbing." —The Atlantic Monthly
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University of Notre Dame Press Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
Book SynopsisModern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that modern physics is more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.Trade Review“Written from the viewpoint of an accomplished physicist, this book is an invaluable contribution to the growing interest in the relationship between science and religion. The arguments are rigorously logical and the documentation is excellent.”"Physicist Barr deploys his scientific expertise to challenge the dogmas of materialism and to assert his belief that nothing explains the order of the galaxies better than divine design."—Booklist"Stephen M. Barr's book energizes the reader, since its philosophical positions are well argued, its writing is clear and accessible, and its religious affirmations are provocative for believers and nonbelievers alike...His responses to the cruder materialist arguments are deftly executed and highly convincing, drawing upon history, clarifying often misunderstood theological concepts and discussing the relationship of faith and reason in traditional Catholicism and Protestantism."—Christian Century"Stephen Barr does heroic service with his book Modern Physics and Ancient Faith as a revolutionary insurgent within the intellectual hegemony of modern scientific materialism...Barr's strong and well-written arguments...open up the debate for more fundamental critiques that must necessarily come from outside the paradigm."—Crisis Magazine"Barr's background in theology, apparent in his discussions of Thomas Aquinas, serves him well as he shows that the argument is not between religion and science per se but between religion and scientific materialism, the philosophy that sees as real only what can be measured and observed. Writing in a popular style, Barr makes both modern physics and theology understandable to the lay reader."—Library Journal
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SPCK Publishing The Road of Life
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SPCK A Celtic Psaltery
Book SynopsisThe Celts had a deep love for the psalms, which gave them a feeling for verse and a desire to express their love for God in every situation. In this volume, David Adam has collected songs for guidance and songs for protection, hymns for the morning and others for the evening.Table of ContentsCreation; morning; evening; protection; calling upon God; consecration; glory; guidance; the presence; praise God; blessings; doxology.
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SPCK Publishing Liturgies for the Journey of Life
Book SynopsisA selection of liturgies. It includes ways to celebrate or mark the different stages of our life journeys, times of hope, times of sadness, the Church's year, and the call of God. They seek to provide a source of material for anyone looking for prayers or inspiration for worship.
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SPCK Publishing Exploring the Old Testament Vol 2
Book SynopsisDesigned to help students actively engage with the Old Testament, this title contains questions to encourage further thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Ancient Near East: 1450 - 332 BC; Survey of Approaches to the Historical Books of the Old Testament; The Historical Books as part of a Larger Story; The Old Testament History Books as ANE Texts; The Old Testament History Books as Literary Texts; The Old Testament History Books as Historical Documents; The Old Testament History Books as a Theological/Ethical Resource; Reading the Historical Books; Joshua-Kings: the Question of Deuteronomism; Joshua; Judges; Samuel; Kings; Introduction to the Post-Exilic Books; Chronicles; Ezra & Nehemiah; Esther; Ruth.
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SPCK The Use of Symbols in Worship
Book SynopsisAttempts to set the place of symbols in the context of our contemporary cultural and to elucidate an understanding of liturgical symbols. This book also aims to provide some theological and historical background to the symbols and then to offer practical guidance as to the place and use of symbols in the whole range of Common Worship services.
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SPCK Publishing John Henry Newman
Book SynopsisJohn Henry Newman is recognized as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of modern times and has been hailed as a great prophet of twentieth century Christianity. He was also a man of prayer and deep spirituality. Beginning with an Introduction to Newman's life and thought, this anthology provides daily readings over a six-month period.
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SPCK Publishing Just as I am
Book SynopsisPresents a pattern of daily prayer, providing material for anyone who wants to revitalize their prayer life. This book contains material for the morning and evening of each day for a month, as well as for the seasons of the Christian year and for special times of joy and sorrow.Trade Review"'This book enables us to view the powerhouse that lies within the person [of Ruth Etchells]... She has aimed to provide a resource to help others in their prayers. My prayer is that that will be the case, and that this collection of prayers will become the "personal prayers" of many.' George Carey in his Foreword"
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SPCK Thomas Merton Contemplation and Political Action
Book SynopsisA fresh exploration of Merton's life and thought, focussing on his role as a Christian activist. An inspirational book that will encourage readers to work towards a more just world, written by an author who combines a contemplative life with political action.
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SPCK Publishing Jesus and His World
Book SynopsisA popular book by a world-renowned scholar, weighing up what the latest archaeological evidence can tell us about the historical Jesus and his world. Currently, there is a lot of interest in the historical Jesus, following the success of books such as The Jesus Family Tomb, Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, and, of course, The Da Vinci Code.
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