Religious life and practice Books
Harvard University Press Seven Deadly Sins
Book SynopsisWith intellectual insight and deadpan humor, Kleinberg deftly guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Each chapter weaves the past into the present and examines unchanging human passions and the deep cultural shifts in the way we make sense of them.Trade ReviewThe Seven Sins is a fascinating, amusing and highly readable book that offers a rethinking of our sins and passions through an examination of the Christian deadly sins—sloth, envy, lust, gluttony, greed, anger and pride--to which Kleinberg adds an eighth, self-righteousness. * Ynet *The Seven Sins is an intellectual gem that introduces the reader to a new world of ideas. It is a thought-provoking and passionate book. Kleinberg cites religious (Christian and Jewish) and non-religious texts. He widens our horizons and broadens our minds…Kleinberg's humor and learning invite the reader to a journey of self exploration and to a reexamination of the sources of evil. * Timeout Israel *The strength of this book is the link between the historian-philosopher Kleinberg and the boy Aviad that appears repeatedly in the book. It offers a successful connection between theoretical issues and the life of concrete human beings in our day and age. * Haaretz *The Seven Sins is a book written with a pleasure that is bound to pass over to the reader. It is an essay that demonstrates the broad scholarship of its author, who is as comfortable with the rabbinic literature as with Christian and Jewish philosophy, with the Bible as with medieval poetry. Unlike many academics that make it a point to be boring and laborious, Kleinberg is fun to read. * Maariv *[A] lively and engaging essay collection. -- J. Courtney Sullivan * New York Times Book Review *Israeli intellectual Aviad Kleinberg's new book, Seven Deadly Sins: A Very Partial List, is a taut examination of conventional morality. He quotes widely and obscurely, from 14th-century German mystics and Jesus to Franz Kafka and the Buddha, also occasionally invoking his own experience. -- Iain Marlow * Toronto Star *Aviad Kleinberg entertainingly and instructively poses some provocative questions--"What's wrong with a little sloth? Where would haute cuisine be without gluttony?" * Jewish Chronicle *A learned, sometimes personal look at sloth, envy, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, and pride as well as self-righteousness and what [Kleinberg] calls "advanced sin." -- June Sawyers * Booklist *In this collection of essays about sin, and its relativity, Kleinberg focuses on the big seven: Sloth, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger and Pride. With each, he provides historical perspective, going back to Greek and Roman, Jewish, and Christian traditions, showing how they have changed over the centuries. He has interesting insights, a keen sense of humor, and his research skills found plenty of fodder for both. The bonus chapter on Self-Righteousness (the sin of pride and sloth), in many ways, ties them all together, as we notice the sin in others, and feel the need to point it out, yet somehow do not notice the beam in our own eye. Probably should be a reference book on many a pastor's shelf. * Sacramento Book Review *Kleinberg offers an accessible, thought-provoking reflection on the famous list of sins created by the Catholic Church in late antiquity. His previous books focused on saints; in this well-written, insightful, and witty book he turns his attention to sinners...It is an enjoyable read that will edify and entertain. -- M. A. Berkson * Choice *Kleinberg looks at the seven famous sins, dismantling and interrogating the very notion of sin. He uses history to show how sinful behavior changes with time and context, how one generation's sin becomes another's freedom. This is an important and challenging book about the moral state we're in. -- Stav Sherez * Catholic Herald *Table of Contents* The Lizard's Tail * Sin for Beginners * Sloth: Acedia * Envy: Invidia * Lust: Luxuria * Gluttony: Gula * Greed: Avaritia * Anger: Ira * Pride: Superbia * Self-Righteousness * Advanced Sin * Notes * Index
£17.95
Princeton University Press Blessed Events
Book SynopsisExplores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births. This book investigates why women whose religious affiliations range from Old Order Amish to Reform Judaism defy the medical establishment, and sometimes the law to have their babies at home. It challenges both feminist and traditionalist accounts of childbearing.Trade Review"Considering home birth from a wide variety of perspectives--sociological, political, ethical, medical, psychological, and spiritual--Klassen finds that the pain of childbirth and home birth itself often has a profound impact on the women who choose it."--Library Journal "In this provocative and engagingly written ethnography, Klassen offers an important complement to other social studies on childbirth in America."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Blessed Events will appeal most to those in the alternative birth movement, but will be of interest to anyone committed to exploring female embodied experience, as well as those interested in relations between religion and spirituality."--Amy Mullin, Journal of the Association for Research in MotheringTable of ContentsPreface: Motherhood Issues xi 1. Procreation Stories: An Introduction 1 2. Cultural Contexts of Home Birth 16 3. Risk, Fear, and the Ethics of Home Birth 38 4. Procreating Religion: Spirituality, Religion, and the Transformations of Birth 63 5. A Sense of Place: Meanings of Home 97 6. Natural Women: Bodies and the Work of Birth 135 7. Sliding between Pain and Pleasure: Home Birth and Visionary Pain 176 Epilogue: The Miracle of Birth 213 Appendix A: Interview Guide 221 Appendix B: The Women in the Study 224 Notes 231 Bibliography 285 Index 309
£36.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Our Lives As Torah
Book SynopsisIn this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and experiences of death. Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing story of the Jewish people--as Torah. This insight allows us to see these experiences as meaningful, not accidental, and opens us to recognizing God''s power in and through all that happens to us. Rather than a collection of random events, our lives are part of the Jewish people''s ongoing adventure. Armed with our personally shaped theology, we can face this adventure of living in the vanguard ofTrade Review"A most intriguing book! What is it? A work of theology? Personal reflection and childhood memories? Biblical commentary? Psychotherapeutic exploration of the unconscious, epic stories of love and loss, a self-help guide, poetry of the soul, a book of healing? Suddenly the mind penetrates to the core of this work and grasps its inner meaning: it is all of the above and more. This is a poignantly beautiful work of theological understanding." (Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism and How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household) "A moving and inspiring book that should be read by anyone wishing to have a richer, deeper life. Ochs's approach to Jewish theology will be helpful to people of all faiths and to those in search of faith." (Professor Susannah Heschel, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus) "Through her powerful stories, piercing intellect, and challenging commentary, [Ochs] enables each of us to discover God's presence in all that happens to us." (Rabbi Norman J. Cohen, provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) "With uncommon wisdom, Carol Ochs blends the discipline of theology with the art of story-telling to help us achieve the kind of self-awareness that can only enrich our lives." (Neil Gillman, professor of Jewish philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary) "Show[s] us how to find ancient hints?a curved leaf here, a splash of water there?that help us shape a path that is ours alone, yet God's as well." (Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center and author of Godwrestling? Round 2 and Down-to-Earth Judaism) "Anyone seeking to sanctify his or her life, in all of its detail, will be enriched and enlightened by this book." (Jacob J. Staub, vice president for academic affairs, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)Table of ContentsForeword by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. Searching for Meaning. Forming Our Story. Committing to Love. Enduring Suffering. Undertaking Our Work. Claiming Our Bodies. Engaging in Prayer. Living in Community. Confronting Death. Encountering God. Epilogue. References.
£22.94
Baker Publishing Group The Monkhood of All Believers
Book SynopsisReintroduces historic monasticism to the Protestant church, articulating a monastic spirituality for all believers.Table of ContentsContentsForewordIntroductionPart 1: What Is a Monk?1. Defining the Monk2. The Monk in History3. Interiorized MonasticismPart 2: Asceticism: The Monastic Vocation4. Defining Asceticism5. The Priesthood of All BelieversPart 3: The Monkhood of All Believers6. All Monks Are Christians and All Christians Are Monks7. The Vocation of MonasticismEpilogueIndex
£17.09
University of Pennsylvania Press Writing and Holiness
Book SynopsisDrawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art.Trade Review"A provocative, stimulating, and complex book, which will reward a close reading by advanced students of Greek hagiography." * Speculum *"A delight to read. Erudite yet accessible. . . . A coherent reading of the practice of hagiographical writing as an ascetic tradition which both celebrated the author as creator and placed him in the context of a scribe whose task was to record less his own view of holiness than heavenly insights." * Mystics Quarterly *"Derek Krueger's monograph provides detailed insight into an important part of Byzantine cultural history. His study fills a gap in the field of examinations of selfhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, a field that previously focussed mainly on western Christianity and monastic contexts. ... Liturgical Subjects will be a welcome resource for both scholars already familiar with this period, and graduate students in the fields of Byzantine or Religious studies." * KULT *Table of Contents1. Literary Composition as a Religious Activity 2. Typology and Hagiography: Theodoret of Syrrhus's Religious History 3. Biblical Authors: The Evangelists as Saints 4. Hagiography as Devotion: Writing in the Cult of the Saints 5. Hagiography as Asceticism: Humility as Authorial Practice 6. Hagiography as Liturgy: Writing and Memory in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina 7. Textual Bodies: Plotinus, Syncletica, and the Teaching of Addai 8. Textuality and Redemption: The Hymns of Romanos the Melodist 9. Hagiographical Practice and the Formation of Identity: Genre and Discipline List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
Book SynopsisThe Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the textile and book trades, all the while refusing to profess vows as members of any religious order or to acquire spouses and personal property as lay citizens. They defended their self-designed style of life as exemplary and sustained it in the face of opposition, their women labeled beguines and their men lollards, both meant as derogatory terms. Yet the movement grew, drawing in women and schoolboys, priests and laymen, and spreading outward toward Münster, Flanders, and Cologne.The Devout were arguably more culturally significant than the Lollards and Beguines, yet they have commaTrade Review"A grand and important book not only for those bitten by medieval studies but for all interested in Western civilization's transition from medieval to modern." * American Historical Review *"A wonderfully rich and rewarding book. . . . This work will, unquestionably, remain the standard work for years to come." * Speculum *"This is a painstakingly detailed narrative into which analysis is seamlessly woven. . . . A major contribution on several fronts." * Church History *"This will be the definitive study of a noteworthy religious movement of the later Middle Ages. Van Engen has mined the libraries and archives with extraordinary thoroughness and has found a wealth of new knowledge." * Robert E. Lerner, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and Modern History 1. Converts in the Middle Ages —Conversion as a Medieval Form of Life —Converts in the Low Countries —Circles of Converts at Strassburg and Brussels —Converts Under Suspicion: Legislating Against Beguines and Free Spirits 2. Modern-Day Converts in the Low Countries —The Low Countries —Households of Devout Women —Societies of Devout Men —Modern-Day Conversion 3. Suspicion and Inquisition —Suspicion of Devout Practices —Charge and Counter-Charge in the Mid-1390s —Sisters Under Inquisition, 1396-1397: Friar Eylard Schoneveld Intervenes —Resisting the Inquisitor: Legal Tactics —Awaiting the Bishop's Decision, 1398-1401 4. From Converts to Communites: Tertiaries, Sisters, Brothers, Schoolboys, Canons —Tertiaries "Living the Common Life" —Sisters of the Common Life —Brothers of the Common Life —Schoolboys —Windesheim Canons and Canonesses —An Option for Enclosure: Male Canons and Female Tertiaries 5. Inventing a Communal Household: Goods, Customs, Labor, and "Republican" Harmony —Living Together Without Personal Property —House Customs and Personal Exercises —Obedience and Humility in a Voluntary Community —Labor: Living from the Work of Their Own Hands —Communal Gatherings and a "Republican" Impulse 6. Defending the Modern-Day Devout: Expansion Under Scrutiny —Women's Houses and Converting Schoolboys: Burgher Critics at Zwolle —Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance —The Sisters and the Aldermen in Conflict at Deventer: The Women's Narrative —Institutionalizing Under Scrutiny 7. Proposing a Theological Rationale: The Freedom of the "Christian Religion" —Place in Society: Taking on the "Estate of the Perfect" —John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) —Gospel Law and the Freedom of the Christian Religion 8. Taking the Spiritual Offensive: Caring for the Self, Examining the Soul, Progressing in Virtue —Reading, Writing, and the Lay Tongue —Exhortation in Public and Correction in Private —Spiritual Guidance and Mutual Reproof —Modern-Day Devotion: Examining the Self, Making Progress, Experiencing Peace Conclusion: Private Gatherings and Self-Made Societies in the Fifteenth Century —The Question of an Afterlife Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Pope and Bishops The Papal Monarchy in the
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The University of Alabama Press Evangelical News
Book SynopsisPresents, through a thoroughly researched lens, a better understanding of evangelicalism in the late twentieth century and provides a nuanced picture of a religious subculture that is too often reduced to caricature.
£46.80
Kregel Publications,U.S. The First Christmas The True and Unfamiliar
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Kregel Publications Spurgeons Daily Treasures in the Psalms
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Edward Elgar ReligiousSpiritual Diversity in Organisations
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introducing Contemplative Studies
Book SynopsisThe first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary fieldwritten by an internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movement This is the first book-length introduction to a growing and influential interdisciplinary field focused on contemplative practice, contemplative experience, and contemplative pedagogy. Written by an internationally recognized leader in the area, Introducing Contemplative Studies seeks to provide readers with a deep and practical understanding of the nature and purpose of the field while encouraging them to find a place of their own in an increasingly widespread movement. At once comprehensive overview, critical reflection, and visionary proposal, the book explores the central approaches and issues in Contemplative Studies, tackles questions and problems that sometimes go unaddressed, and identifies promising new developments. The author also discusses contemplative pedagogy, an experiential approach to teaching and learninTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi List of Figures and Tables xv Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 1 Contemplative Studies 13 2 Contemplative Practice 51 3 Contemplative Experience 87 4 Contemplative Traditions 123 5 Contemplative Pedagogy 159 6 Interpretive Approaches 201 7 Current Trends 237 8 Future Prospects 275 Glossary 311 Bibliography 321 Index 355
£67.40
New York University Press Pagan Family Values
Book SynopsisPagan parents tend to seek to instil values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, which will remain with their children throughout their livesTrade ReviewAn intriguing, important, and often entertaining look at an under-studied aspect of new religions. Highly recommended. -- Douglas E. Cowan,author of Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the InternetKermanis superb interweaving of survey-data, interviews, and observations of Spiral Scout meetings and festivals offers readers a rare glimpse into religious practice from the perspectives of multiple generations. She expertly explores how children and parents co-create their tradition, working together to build a shared history that is as much about remembering a mythic past as it is about forgetting parents struggles with institutional religion. Analyzing the daily practices of pagan familieswho value childlike wonder and playful behavior in adults and preternatural wisdom in childrenKermani demonstrates the often-theorized interdependence of the definitions of 'child' and 'adult' with a clarity that will cause future scholars to rethink their assumptions about the fixed nature of these categories. This excellent volume is a must read for anyone interested in the creation and maintenance of religious practices, American Paganism, and childhood studies. -- Susan Ridgely,University of Wisconsin at OshkoshThis is one of the best and most nuanced ethnographic studies of contemporary Paganism to come along. Kermani takes us into the deeply conflicted religious lives of Pagan families, yet as she so deftly reveals, Pagans are not unique in their ambivalent desires for their children. While paying careful attention to how and why adults refashion their own lost childhoods to create religious traditions for their families, Kermani also attends to the often-uncomfortable ways real children experience these ritual practices and ethical guidelines. In so doing, she highlights a central dilemma in contemporary American cultural and religious life. This sensitively written book offers a powerful model for researching childrens religious worlds, the ways these worlds are constructed by adults and inhabited, resisted, and reshaped by children. -- Sarah M. Pike,author of Earthly Bodies, Magical SelvesThis study of the contemporary Pagan construction of childhood by Kermani (Youngstown State Univ.) is an important addition to academic collections, primarily because it covers an area of inquiry not addressed in the literature until now. Representing about 3 percent of the US population, Pagans are under-studied. This ethnography, drawing on both extensive fieldwork and survey research, provides good thick description and analysis. -- G.J. Reece * Choice *Kermani has provided a valuable window not only onto a & new religious movement but onto the very problem of & religion in America. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *In this excellent book, Kermani explores contemporary Paganism by considering how children and childhood are taken up as conceptual categories within thiseclectic new religious field...Kermani does an extraordinary job balancing the portrayals of her subjects as both modern, average people, and as imaginative and sometimes fantastic individuals defined by their self-assumed alterity...Kermani brilliantly weaves the first-person narratives of her subjects into her rich academic analysis. * Nova Religio *The author is at her strongest when discussing how four different foundation myths of religion result in different and sometimes conflicting views of how children should be integrated into the religion. She gives a very thorough description of the strengths and weaknesses of parents attempts to integrate their children in their world, while at the same time providing them with avenues to question that participation and choose another path.Pagan Family Valuescontributes to the growing literature on childhood within new religions that formed and grew in the 1960s and 1970s. As the first book-length exploration of childhood within Paganism, it makes an important contribution to the field. * Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction1 Crafting History 2 Old Souls: Pagan Childhood 3 Parenting in Neverland 4 Don't Eat the Incense: Children in Ritual 5 A Room Full of FireFlies 6 My Dream Come True Conclusion: Building Fairy Houses Appendix A: "American Pagan Families and Family Values" Online SurveyAppendix B: "Second-Generation Pagans: Experiences and Opinions" Online SurveyNotes Selected BibliographyIndex About the Author
£22.79
Baylor University Press Formed Together
Book SynopsisExplores why we should, and why we do, care for one another. Keith Dow considers what it means for us to be interdependent, created in the image of a loving God. He recounts personal experiences of supporting people with intellectual disabilities while drawing on theological sources to discover the ethical underpinnings of Christian care.Trade ReviewAs a theologian, pastor, and a professional caregiver for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, I was delighted to find a framework for faith-based caregiving in this book. Words such as 'calling,' 'virtue,' 'neighbor,' 'love,' 'friendship,' 'mutuality,' 'divinity,' 'mercy,' 'grace,' 'humility,' and 'forgiveness' are abundantly used in theology but seldom used in professional caregiving. Keith Dow has combined the work of direct support professionals with the language of imago Dei, the image of God. The concepts in this book are applicable beyond the world of ID/DD and have a place in the wider conversation of, 'Who is my neighbor?' and how Christians should develop relationships with their neighbors. I recommend this book for human service agency recruiters, trainers, and frontline workers.Table of Contents Introduction: Giving a Careful Account Part 1. The Call to Care 1 Vocation and Transcendence Called to One Another 2 Vocation and Immanence Called by Each Other 3 A Theological Story The Limits of Professional Ethics Part 2. Encountering My Neighbor 4 Traces of the Divine The imago Dei and Human Ability 5 Seeing You Through Me The Myth of the Transparent Other 6 The Stories I Tell The Myth of the Transparent Self 7 A Mysterious Revelation The Myth of a Transparent God Part 3. Responding to the Call 8 Formed Together in Love Towards an Ethic of Christian Care 9 The Virtues of Care Discovering Who We Are Conclusion: Responding to God's Call
£35.06
Baylor University Press Leaving Emmaus
Book SynopsisConceives of theology as ‘thinking with testimonies of Christian faith’, offering new students and seasoned practitioners alike a ‘new departure’ for Christian discourse. The book restructures the sources of theology to make space for the integration of new voices alongside a thoughtful reading of Scripture and classic texts of the tradition.Table of Contents Introduction: Thinking with the Witnesses 1 Theology 2 Spirit 3 Trinity 4 Creation 5 Human Beings 6 The God-Human 7 Sin 8 Sacrifice 9 Church 10 Prayer 11 Last Things
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Baylor University Press Awake in Gethsemane
Book SynopsisEnvisions the place and meaning of lament for the Christian community through engagement with the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After documenting the historical decline and current lack of lament within much of the Western Church, Judson argues that a basis for lament is necessarily located in theology, ethics, and liturgy interdependently.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Lamentable Problem 1. A Theology of Lament 2. An Ethic of Lament 3. A Liturgy of Lament 4. A Chorus of Lament 5. A Story of Lament Conclusion: A Lamentable Body
£51.00
Baylor University Press The End of Civility
Book SynopsisAnalyses the development of the concept of ‘civility’ as we know it in modern discourse and names some of the criteria Christians can use to judge between healthy and toxic appeals to civility. The challenge, Ryan Andrew Newson contends, is discerning when civility is called for and when its pursuit becomes vicious.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Genesis of Civility 2. Whose Etiquette? Which Christ? 3. Civil Rites and Uncivil Bodies 4. The End of Civility 5. Agonism, Abolition, Absolution
£39.91
Baylor University Press Sola Scriptura
Book SynopsisInvites readers to go back to the time of the writing of the Bible and look at what is said about the sacred texts with a specific focus on how the authority of such texts was viewed. Ben Witherington then walks through Christian history until the point where the phrase sola scriptura actually appears as an authority claim of some kind.Table of Contents Preface 1. The People of the Book: Early Christian Appropriations and Additions 2. The Origins of Sola Scriptura 3. The German and Swiss Reformation: Scripture as the Final Authority 4. The English Reformation and John Wesley: Anglican Views of Scripture 5. The Rise of Modern Science and the Conservative Christian Response 6. The Modern Quadrilateral, Inerrancy, and the Overruling of Scripture 7. Quo Vadis?: The Legacy and Future of Sola Scriptura
£18.00
University of Toronto Press Truly Human Indigeneity and Indigenous
Book SynopsisTruly Human explores the lifeworlds, ethics, and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism, geopolitical tensions, and internal political conflicts.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Note on Orthography Preface Introduction 1. Introduction to Taiwan and Its Indigenous Peoples 2. Samat (Forest Animals) 3. Mgaya (Headhunting) 4. Utux (Spirit) 5. Lnglungan (Heart) 6. Tminun (Weaving) 7. Conclusion Epilogue: Indigenous Peoples and Relations with China Glossary of Foreign Words References
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Information Age Publishing Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What
Book SynopsisToday's organizational environment is characterized by high levels of cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-religious communication, conflict, collaboration, and commerce. This environment produces myriad encounters between individuals who embrace different ideologies, religions and spiritual practices. As such, unanswered (and even unasked) questions about management, spirituality, and religion abound. This book, seeks to advance our understanding by asking the big questions.Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What Should We be Asking About Management, Spirituality, and Religion in Organizations? is intended to be provocative in nature. Its chapters address novel ways that leadership, organizations, and organizational stakeholders mutually impact each other by their similarities and differences in religious, spiritual, and ideological traditions, cultures, and practices. Interdisciplinary in nature and firmly grounded in scholarly literature, this book identifies and maps out bold new trajectories for advancing the study of management spirituality, and religion (including but going far beyond Western, Christian conceptualizations of religion). Sometimes universal, sometimes quite specific, this volume identifies unexplored, underexplored, or unresolved issues in the field and proposes new streams of research. Diverse conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and critical treatments that honor a variety of inquiry styles and research methods push the boundaries of MSR research.Table of Contents Foreword - J. Goosby Smith Is God Greater Than Tenure? - Quintus R. Jett Can Work Be Redeemed Through Play? (Or Why Is Playing Not an Option) - Raymond Carr Is the Spirit 'Missing' in the Discourse of Management, Spirituality & Religion? - Shoaib Ul-Haq Inspiring Inclusion: What is the Evidence for a Faith-Based Approach to Leadership Development? - Valerie L. Myers What Happens When Classical Hollywood Narrative and American Mythos Converge? - Joi Carr Should Transformational Leadership Theory Include an Ethics Component? Insights From the Cupbearer to the King - Tom Clark What are the Biblical Roots of Servant Leadership? - Michael J. Mlynarczyk The Strategy of Spirituality: How Best Can Spiritual Leadership and Spirituality at Work Support and Sustain Organizational Strategy? A Christian Perspective - Richard Peters and Joe Ricks Motivation or Justification: How Is Religiosity Used in the Decision to Engage in Environmental Sustainability Practices? - Shalei V. K. Simms and Dorothy M. Kirkman Is Today's Focus on Innovation Enticing Global Managers Away From Religious and Spiritual Principles? - Matthew Guah (What's) the Matter With Babel? - Daniel Q. Vass-Goosby Religious and Wealthy: Can One Be Both? - Miles K. Davis and Clifford F. Thies How Can an Understanding of and Acknowledgment of the Effects of Sin and Evil Inform Solutions to Organizational and Societal Problems? - Larry G. Daniel How Can the Newest Global Religion—the Baha'i Faith—Impact the Future of Business? - Payam Zamani "Nuns" to Nones? Revisiting Management, Spirituality, and Religion in the Workplace for the New Generation - Latha Poonamallee About the Contributors
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Information Age Publishing Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What
Book SynopsisToday's organizational environment is characterized by high levels of cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-religious communication, conflict, collaboration, and commerce. This environment produces myriad encounters between individuals who embrace different ideologies, religions and spiritual practices. As such, unanswered (and even unasked) questions about management, spirituality, and religion abound. This book, seeks to advance our understanding by asking the big questions.Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What Should We be Asking About Management, Spirituality, and Religion in Organizations? is intended to be provocative in nature. Its chapters address novel ways that leadership, organizations, and organizational stakeholders mutually impact each other by their similarities and differences in religious, spiritual, and ideological traditions, cultures, and practices. Interdisciplinary in nature and firmly grounded in scholarly literature, this book identifies and maps out bold new trajectories for advancing the study of management spirituality, and religion (including but going far beyond Western, Christian conceptualizations of religion). Sometimes universal, sometimes quite specific, this volume identifies unexplored, underexplored, or unresolved issues in the field and proposes new streams of research. Diverse conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and critical treatments that honor a variety of inquiry styles and research methods push the boundaries of MSR research.Table of Contents Foreword - J. Goosby Smith Is God Greater Than Tenure? - Quintus R. Jett Can Work Be Redeemed Through Play? (Or Why Is Playing Not an Option) - Raymond Carr Is the Spirit 'Missing' in the Discourse of Management, Spirituality & Religion? - Shoaib Ul-Haq Inspiring Inclusion: What is the Evidence for a Faith-Based Approach to Leadership Development? - Valerie L. Myers What Happens When Classical Hollywood Narrative and American Mythos Converge? - Joi Carr Should Transformational Leadership Theory Include an Ethics Component? Insights From the Cupbearer to the King - Tom Clark What are the Biblical Roots of Servant Leadership? - Michael J. Mlynarczyk The Strategy of Spirituality: How Best Can Spiritual Leadership and Spirituality at Work Support and Sustain Organizational Strategy? A Christian Perspective - Richard Peters and Joe Ricks Motivation or Justification: How Is Religiosity Used in the Decision to Engage in Environmental Sustainability Practices? - Shalei V. K. Simms and Dorothy M. Kirkman Is Today's Focus on Innovation Enticing Global Managers Away From Religious and Spiritual Principles? - Matthew Guah (What's) the Matter With Babel? - Daniel Q. Vass-Goosby Religious and Wealthy: Can One Be Both? - Miles K. Davis and Clifford F. Thies How Can an Understanding of and Acknowledgment of the Effects of Sin and Evil Inform Solutions to Organizational and Societal Problems? - Larry G. Daniel How Can the Newest Global Religion—the Baha'i Faith—Impact the Future of Business? - Payam Zamani "Nuns" to Nones? Revisiting Management, Spirituality, and Religion in the Workplace for the New Generation - Latha Poonamallee About the Contributors
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Faithlife Corporation Finding Soul Rest
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Wits University Press Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith
Book SynopsisSeeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator’s arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators’ resilience in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems. Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious communities who are working towards justice, diversity and inclusion.Table of Contents Foreword by Rev. Canon Dr Kapya Kaoma Introduction: Reframing sexuality, faith and migration Chapter 1 Background and methodology: On making and sharing stories Chapter 2 The politicisation of faith: Religious responses to sexual and gender diversity Chapter 3 A life on hold: LGBT migration and the (false) promise of freedom Chapter 4 Preaching love: A history of the LGBT Ministry Chapter 5 The stories 1. We must preach love, not hate /Narrated by Dumisani (Zimbabwe) 2. We deserve freedom / Narrated by Mr D (Cameroon) 3. Only love can bring unity / Narrated by D.C. (Zimbabwe) 4. Still searching for safety / Narrated by Eeyban (Ethiopia) 5. A caged animal set free / Narrated by Thomars (Zimbabwe) 6. Sexuality is a beautiful gift from God / Narrated by Dancio (Zambia) 7. This is where God wants me to be / Narrated by Mike (Zimbabwe) 8. God knows the depth of my faith / Narrated by Zee (South Africa) 9. I can serve God, no matter who I love / Narrated by Sylvester (Nigeria) 10. Don’t let the hate get you down / Narrated by Tino (Zimbabwe) 11. I am not willing to live a lie / Narrated by Angel (Uganda) 12. Love is about hearts, not parts / Narrated by Toya (Zimbabwe) 13. Stop calling us sinners / Narrated by Nkady (Lesotho) 14. I pray for strength and guidance / Narrated by Tinashe (Zimbabwe) Conclusion: Looking ahead: The case for affirming religious spaces Glossary Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Collective Ink God Interrogated: Reinterpreting the Divine
Book SynopsisLynne Renoir began life as a devout Christian, but after many years, she realized that her faith was not working. She sought an explanation for her situation by completing postgraduate degrees in psychology and philosophy and carrying out research in quantum theory. Drawing on the insights that the universe is multidimensional and that everything is ultimately one, Renoir proposes that we, too, are multidimensional beings. She points out that what we believe about anything is generally deemed to be either true or false. This approach in her view is applicable to our everyday three-dimensional reality, but that transformation occurs when what we consciously accept as fact resonates with the oneness that lies at the deepest level of our being.
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James Currey Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic
Book SynopsisA comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times BooksTrade ReviewAmongst the many books that have been written on the history, evolution and the Islamic radicalisation characteristics of Boko Haram, this one, given its ground breaking methodology of engaging with communities and the Ulamas in Borno state, stands head and shoulders above most of the others. It occupies a strong position in the genre of well-researched policy papers, and its academic rigour is sufficiently robust to have propelled it towards publication in book form. * ACCORD *[T]he book is undoubtedly well-researched, well-written, and a valuable addition to Nigeria Studies bookshelves. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Muhammad Sanusi II, CON, Sarkin Kano Introduction: Faith, Society & Boko Haram - Kate Meagher and Abdul Raufu Mustapha I: THE MACRO-SOCIAL CONTEXT The Roles of the Ulama in Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization - M. Sani Umar Why in Borno?: The History, Geography & Sociology of Islamic Radicalization - Abubakar Kawu Monguno and Ibrahim Umara "Boko Halal": Limits to Radicalization in Southern Niger Republic - Abdourahmane Idrissa The Effects of Security Measures on Youth Radicalization - Julie G. Sanda II: MICRO-SOCIAL RELATIONS Pathways to Radicalization: Learning from Boko Haram Life Histories - M. Sani Umar and David Ehrhardt Gender Norms and Women's Participation in Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Zainab Usman and Sherine El Taraboulsi and Khadija Gambo Hawaja An Inquiry into Possible Factors Contributing to Radicalization in Childhood and Youth in Northern Nigeria - Murray Last Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Kate Meagher Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Ibrahim Haruna Hassan III. SEEKING A WAY FORWARD Endgames: The Evolution of Boko Haram in Comparative Perspective - David Ehrhardt and M. Sani Umar Conclusion:Toward a whole-of-society approach to counter-radicalization (by all contributors)
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James Currey Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian &
Book SynopsisA counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims,Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance.But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives. It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sàngó, its old Islamic compounds and itsChristian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference. INSA NOLTE is Reader in African Studies, University of Birmingham, and Visiting Research Professor, Osun State University, Osogbo. OLUKOYA OGEN is Former Provost, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo,Professor of History, Osun State University, Osogbo, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. REBECCA JONES, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, is author of At the Crossroads: NigerianTravel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English, published by James Currey in 2019. All three editors worked on the ERC project 'Knowing Each Other: Everyday Religious Encounters, Social Identities and Tolerance in Southwest Nigeria'. Nigeria: Adeyemi College Academic Press (paperback)Trade ReviewThe clarity of expression, accompanied by pictorial representations, makes the book appealing and also makes for good reading to both the academic and the nonacademic audience. This work not only showcases the unique historical and cultural realities of Yoruba, it also illustrates the strong bond that exists among the Yoruba beyond the divisive power of religion. It has added to reliable materials for further research in the area of religious diversity in Africa and beyond. * RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW *[A]t a moment when many Westerners perceive an inevitable 'clash of civilizations' between Islam and the West/Christendom, Beyond Religious Tolerance offers a valuable alternative where Americans and Europeans would be least likely to look for one. . . . [It reveals] that both tolerance and secularism as typically conceived are products of Western cultural and historical experience, which can be and have been conceived differently-if at all-in other times and places. * READING RELIGION *A truly comprehensive and well-balanced overview of religious life in Ede from many different angles . this book is a must not only for scholars interested in Islam, Christianity, and African religion in Yorubaland, but for anybody interested in the governance of religious diversity. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *This book, a refreshing and articulate addition to ethnographies of religion in West Africa, captures the resiliency of peaceful coexistence across a multiplicity of religions. It should be of interest to anthropologists, historians, religious scholars, and policy makers alike, giving tangible hope to those who think peaceful existence among religions is intractable. * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *This book is the product of a remarkably successful project of North-South collaboration between the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Osun State University in Nigeria. The result is something quite different from a standard edited volume in which the chapters reflect the preoccupations and perspectives of individual authors rather than of the common theme of the book. Instead, the different chapters articulate closely with one another, exploring a single concrete problem from different but complementary angles. * THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *Table of ContentsBeyond Religious Tolerance: Muslims, Christians and Traditionalists in a Yoruba Town - Insa Nolte Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslims, Christians and Traditionalists in a Yoruba Town - Ogen Olukoya Kingship and Religion: An Introduction to the History of Ede - Siyan Oyeweso Ambivalence and Transgression in the Practice of Sàngó - Aderemi Suleiman Ajala and Insa Nolte Sàngó's Thunder: Poetic Challenges to Islam and Christianity - George Olusola Abijade Compound Life and Religious Control in Ede's Muslim Community - Amusa Saheed Balogun Challenges and Affirmations of Islamic Practice: The Tablighi Jamaat - Adeyemi Balogun The Baptist Church in Ede: Christian Struggles over Education and Land - Ogen Olukoya and Amusa Saheed Balogun Freedom and Control: Islam and Christianity at the Federal Polytechnic - Akin Iwilade and Oladipo Fadayomi Religious Accommodation in Two Generations of the Adeleke Family - Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Marrying Out: Gender and Religious Mediation in Interfaith Marriages - Insa Nolte and Tosin Akinjobe-Babatunde Everyday Inter-Religious Encounters and Attitudes - Rebecca Jones and Insa Nolte Outlook: Religious Difference, the Yoruba and Beyond - Insa Nolte and Ogen Olukoya Appendix 1: Ede Anthem Appendix 2: Songs of Ede Appendix 3: Oríkì of the Tìmì of Ede, present and past
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James Currey Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic
Book SynopsisA comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times BooksTrade ReviewAmongst the many books that have been written on the history, evolution and the Islamic radicalisation characteristics of Boko Haram, this one, given its ground breaking methodology of engaging with communities and the Ulamas in Borno state, stands head and shoulders above most of the others. It occupies a strong position in the genre of well-researched policy papers, and its academic rigour is sufficiently robust to have propelled it towards publication in book form. * ACCORD *[T]he book is undoubtedly well-researched, well-written, and a valuable addition to Nigeria Studies bookshelves. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Muhammad Sanusi II, CON, Sarkin Kano Introduction: Faith, Society & Boko Haram - Kate Meagher and Abdul Raufu Mustapha I: THE MACRO-SOCIAL CONTEXT The Roles of the Ulama in Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization - M. Sani Umar Why in Borno?: The History, Geography & Sociology of Islamic Radicalization - Abubakar Kawu Monguno and Ibrahim Umara "Boko Halal": Limits to Radicalization in Southern Niger Republic - Abdourahmane Idrissa The Effects of Security Measures on Youth Radicalization - Julie G. Sanda II: MICRO-SOCIAL RELATIONS Pathways to Radicalization: Learning from Boko Haram Life Histories - M. Sani Umar and David Ehrhardt Gender Norms and Women's Participation in Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Zainab Usman and Sherine El Taraboulsi and Khadija Gambo Hawaja An Inquiry into Possible Factors Contributing to Radicalization in Childhood and Youth in Northern Nigeria - Murray Last Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Kate Meagher Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Ibrahim Haruna Hassan III. SEEKING A WAY FORWARD Endgames: The Evolution of Boko Haram in Comparative Perspective - David Ehrhardt and M. Sani Umar Conclusion:Toward a whole-of-society approach to counter-radicalization (by all contributors)
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Rutgers University Press Conditionally Accepted: Christians' Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian rights; clear differences between conservative and liberal Catholics are evident. Overall, conservative Christians, both evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics, hold a religious identity that overshadows their relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family. Conservative religion acts as a deterrent to the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian people. Trade Review"In Conditionally Accepted Baker Rogers offers a textured analysis of perceptions of gay and lesbian citizens living in one of the most conservative parts of the country. A well-organized, engaging, and compelling investigation." -- John Bartkowski * University of Texas, author of The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men *"In this critical yet sympathetic analysis of religious intolerance, Baker Rogers listens carefully to anti-gay Christians in Mississippi. They offer strong evidence that close contact with lesbian and gay people is not enough to change deeply held anti-gay attitudes." -- Tina Fetner * McMaster University, author of How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism *"Recommended. " * Choice *"Based on rich interview data with 40 Christians in Mississippi, Conditionally Accepted presents an important argument that specific religious identity formations produce opposition to gays and lesbians....Conditionally Accepted provides an insightful contribution to sociological thinking about religious identity and sexuality." * Gender and Society *"The book is of particular value in the ways it explicates its geographical focus. Besides contextualizing gay and lesbian civil rights in a predominantly conservative religious context, the book also sensitizes the reader to develop a multicolor-perspective on the Christian South that goes beyond framing the region as only a place of Christian conservatism....The main message of the book is very clear: we must look more closely to the story of individual Mississippi Christians and how they come to their develop their attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women." * Politics, Religion, & Ideology *"Spirit in the sky: various faiths with queer-friendly aspects," by Brian Bromberger https://www.ebar.com/events/arts_events//296909/spirit_in_the_sky:_various_faiths_with_queer-friendly_aspects * Bay Area Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Religion and Homosexuality 1 God Said Love Thy Neighbor, Unless They're Gay 2 For the Bible (or My Pastor/Priest) Tells Me So: The Bible Homosexuality Part 2: Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights 3 Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman? Support and Opposition to Same Sex-Marriage 4 Do Children Need a Mom and Dad? The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage 5 All [Wo]men Are Created Equal, or Are They? The Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement Part 3: Social Contact with Gay and Lesbian People 6 Some of My Best Friends Are Gay: The Influence of Social Contact Conclusion: When Religion Overshadows Relationships Appendix: Methodology Acknowledgements Notes References Index About the Author
£26.09
Rutgers University Press Conditionally Accepted: Christians' Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian rights; clear differences between conservative and liberal Catholics are evident. Overall, conservative Christians, both evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics, hold a religious identity that overshadows their relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family. Conservative religion acts as a deterrent to the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian people. Trade Review"In Conditionally Accepted Baker Rogers offers a textured analysis of perceptions of gay and lesbian citizens living in one of the most conservative parts of the country. A well-organized, engaging, and compelling investigation." -- John Bartkowski * University of Texas, author of The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men *"In this critical yet sympathetic analysis of religious intolerance, Baker Rogers listens carefully to anti-gay Christians in Mississippi. They offer strong evidence that close contact with lesbian and gay people is not enough to change deeply held anti-gay attitudes." -- Tina Fetner * McMaster University, author of How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism *"Recommended. " * Choice *"Based on rich interview data with 40 Christians in Mississippi, Conditionally Accepted presents an important argument that specific religious identity formations produce opposition to gays and lesbians....Conditionally Accepted provides an insightful contribution to sociological thinking about religious identity and sexuality." * Gender and Society *"The book is of particular value in the ways it explicates its geographical focus. Besides contextualizing gay and lesbian civil rights in a predominantly conservative religious context, the book also sensitizes the reader to develop a multicolor-perspective on the Christian South that goes beyond framing the region as only a place of Christian conservatism....The main message of the book is very clear: we must look more closely to the story of individual Mississippi Christians and how they come to their develop their attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women." * Politics, Religion, & Ideology *"Spirit in the sky: various faiths with queer-friendly aspects," by Brian Bromberger https://www.ebar.com/events/arts_events//296909/spirit_in_the_sky:_various_faiths_with_queer-friendly_aspects * Bay Area Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Religion and Homosexuality 1 God Said Love Thy Neighbor, Unless They're Gay 2 For the Bible (or My Pastor/Priest) Tells Me So: The Bible Homosexuality Part 2: Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights 3 Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman? Support and Opposition to Same Sex-Marriage 4 Do Children Need a Mom and Dad? The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage 5 All [Wo]men Are Created Equal, or Are They? The Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement Part 3: Social Contact with Gay and Lesbian People 6 Some of My Best Friends Are Gay: The Influence of Social Contact Conclusion: When Religion Overshadows Relationships Appendix: Methodology Acknowledgements Notes References Index About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Ties That Enable: Community Solidarity for People
Book SynopsisTies that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.Trade Review“Ties that Enable provides an excellent qualitative complement to the quantitative research on recovery and mental illness. The authors’ detailed accounts of client relationships and experiences are excellent.” — Fred E. Markowitz, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University "Scheid and Smith shed light on the ways that, over time, changes in policy and trends in mental health care have actually left people stranded in 'the community.' This is a welcome and unique addition to the work on people with serious mental illness, and I enthusiastically look forward to seeing, using, and citing it."— Kerry Dobransky, author of Managing Madness in the Community: The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health CareTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Current Impasse over Mental Health Care 2 Looking Back: Reflections on the Reality of Community-Based Mental Health Care 3 Being a “Right Person”: Social Acceptance in a Faith-Based Program 4 Doing the “Best” We Can: Developing Social Relationships and Overcoming Isolation 5 Us and Them: Confronting Recovery in the Face of Marginalization 6 Going Backward: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Failures of the Past? 7 Working toward Community Solidarity and Social Justice Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's
Book SynopsisThe Divine Institution provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics. This tradition inherently enforces racial inequality in that it draws moral, religious, and political attention away from problems of racial and economic structural oppression, explaining all social problems as a failure of the individual to achieve the strong gender and sexual identities that ground the nuclear family. The consequences of this theology are both personal suffering for individuals who cannot measure up to prescribed gender and sexual roles, and political support for conservative government policies. Exposure to experiences that undermine the idea that an emphasis on the family is the solution to all social problems is causing a younger generation of white evangelicals to shift away from this narrow theological emphasis and toward a more social justice-oriented theology. The material and political effects of this shift remain to be seen.Trade Review"The Divine Institution advances a lively body of scholarship that leaves no doubt: racialization is a foundational problem in the anthropology of religion. [It] richly demonstrate[s] that racialization is not only an analytical problem; it is a lived problem that religious communities self-consciously negotiate." * American Anthropologist *"Anthropologist Sophie Bjork-James’s The Divine Institution presents a subtle, carefully crafted analysis that traces the intersectional relationships between faith, gender, sexuality, and politics within evangelical sub-cultures....It is in throwing light on these complex liminal spaces between hard categories of difference that Bjork-James’s book is especially impressive." * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"What distinguishes Bjork-James’ work, quietly published this past spring, is the ethnographic intimacy of her observations. She shows how familial norms structure the ways evangelicals talk about race, homosexuality, “biblical” issues, and conversion. Bjork-James argues that understanding evangelical family values from the inside is the best way to make sense of white evangelical worlds." * Religion Dispatches *"[The] book stand[s] out from other works on contemporary evangelicalism. As such, The Divine Institution works as a useful and informative starting point to think about the cultural and political divides between secular and evangelical America." * Reading Religion *"Intersectionality is hard work, but Sophie Bjork-James applies it brilliantly to issues of race, faith, gender, and sexuality. Her study shows the ways in which race and racial supremacy structure and infect white evangelicalism's entire approach to men, women, and children." -- Edward J. Blum * co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America *"Sophie Bjork-James has taken on one of the central dilemmas of contemporary American culture, the stubborn association between white evangelical religious practice and profoundly conservative constructions of 'family values.' Using fine-grained ethnographic methods, she brings us close to white evangelicals and enables us to more fully appreciate the complexities of racial politics that unfold in their practices. " -- Ellen Lewin * author of Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: From Rules to a Relationship: The Transformation of US Christianity Chapter 2: The Divine Institution and the Segregated Church Chapter 3: Evangelicalism and a Strict Father Theology Chapter 4: Same-Sex Attraction and the Limits of God’s Love Chapter 5: Paternal Politics Chapter 6: Losing (and Remaking) My Religion: The Transformation of White Evangelicalism from Within Conclusion: White Evangelicalism in Trump’s America
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Rutgers University Press The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's
Book SynopsisThe Divine Institution provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics. This tradition inherently enforces racial inequality in that it draws moral, religious, and political attention away from problems of racial and economic structural oppression, explaining all social problems as a failure of the individual to achieve the strong gender and sexual identities that ground the nuclear family. The consequences of this theology are both personal suffering for individuals who cannot measure up to prescribed gender and sexual roles, and political support for conservative government policies. Exposure to experiences that undermine the idea that an emphasis on the family is the solution to all social problems is causing a younger generation of white evangelicals to shift away from this narrow theological emphasis and toward a more social justice-oriented theology. The material and political effects of this shift remain to be seen.Trade ReviewSophie Bjork-James has taken on one of the central dilemmas of contemporary American culture, the stubborn association between white evangelical religious practice and profoundly conservative constructions of “family values.” Using fine-grained ethnographic methods, she brings us close to white evangelicals and enables us to more fully appreciate the complexities of racial politics that unfold in their practices. -- Ellen Lewin * author of Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition *Intersectionality is hard work, but Sophie Bjork-James applies it brilliantly to issues of race, faith, gender, and sexuality. Her study shows the ways in which race and racial supremacy structure and infect white evangelicalism's entire approach to men, women, and children. -- Edward J. Blum * co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America *"What distinguishes Bjork-James’ work, quietly published this past spring, is the ethnographic intimacy of her observations. She shows how familial norms structure the ways evangelicals talk about race, homosexuality, “biblical” issues, and conversion. Bjork-James argues that understanding evangelical family values from the inside is the best way to make sense of white evangelical worlds." * Religion Dispatches *"[The] book stand[s] out from other works on contemporary evangelicalism. As such, The Divine Institution works as a useful and informative starting point to think about the cultural and political divides between secular and evangelical America." * Reading Religion *"The Divine Institution advances a lively body of scholarship that leaves no doubt: racialization is a foundational problem in the anthropology of religion. [It] richly demonstrate[s] that racialization is not only an analytical problem; it is a lived problem that religious communities self-consciously negotiate." * American Anthropologist *"Anthropologist Sophie Bjork-James’s The Divine Institution presents a subtle, carefully crafted analysis that traces the intersectional relationships between faith, gender, sexuality, and politics within evangelical sub-cultures....It is in throwing light on these complex liminal spaces between hard categories of difference that Bjork-James’s book is especially impressive." * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"What distinguishes Bjork-James’ work, quietly published this past spring, is the ethnographic intimacy of her observations. She shows how familial norms structure the ways evangelicals talk about race, homosexuality, “biblical” issues, and conversion. Bjork-James argues that understanding evangelical family values from the inside is the best way to make sense of white evangelical worlds." * Religion Dispatches *"[The] book stand[s] out from other works on contemporary evangelicalism. As such, The Divine Institution works as a useful and informative starting point to think about the cultural and political divides between secular and evangelical America." * Reading Religion *"Intersectionality is hard work, but Sophie Bjork-James applies it brilliantly to issues of race, faith, gender, and sexuality. Her study shows the ways in which race and racial supremacy structure and infect white evangelicalism's entire approach to men, women, and children." -- Edward J. Blum * co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America *"Sophie Bjork-James has taken on one of the central dilemmas of contemporary American culture, the stubborn association between white evangelical religious practice and profoundly conservative constructions of 'family values.' Using fine-grained ethnographic methods, she brings us close to white evangelicals and enables us to more fully appreciate the complexities of racial politics that unfold in their practices. " -- Ellen Lewin * author of Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: From Rules to a Relationship: The Transformation of US Christianity Chapter 2: The Divine Institution and the Segregated Church Chapter 3: Evangelicalism and a Strict Father Theology Chapter 4: Same-Sex Attraction and the Limits of God’s Love Chapter 5: Paternal Politics Chapter 6: Losing (and Remaking) My Religion: The Transformation of White Evangelicalism from Within Conclusion: White Evangelicalism in Trump’s America
£107.20
Hardpress Publishing A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election May 25 1831 Before His Excellency Levi Lincoln Governor His Honor Thomas L Winthrop Lieutenant and the Legislature of Massachusetts 1
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