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Motilal Banarsidass, Spiritual Revolution
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£11.99
Motilal Banarsidass, Understanding Mantra
Book SynopsisBook explores Hindu mantras' origin, nature, and significance, covering Vedic age, Saivism, Vaishnavism, and Tantra. Addresses Western scholarship controversies, offers insights, and includes Prof. Alper's bibliographical essay with 1600+ items. Valuable resource for Hinduism research.
£25.64
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Spiritually Incorrect
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£8.99
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd 50 Rays of Happiness: Simple Secrets to a
Book SynopsisGuides us to the secrets of happiness. The book helps the readers to discover joyous, peaceful, enriching, healing and relaxing elements in their daily lives. It derives the concept of maximising happiness through the author''s own personal experience coupled with his public life. It fills the heart with happiness and enlightens the soul. Niranjan Shendurnikar guides us to secrets of everlasting happiness. It is an honest, sincere and practical endeavour to help readers to discover joyous, peaceful, enriching, healing and relaxing elements in their daily lives. The author has derived the concept of maximising happiness through his own personal experience coupled with his public life dealings over last 20 years.
£6.81
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd O God! Why Me?: A Collection of 66 Letters
Book SynopsisThis book is a dialogue between a holy man and his disciple. The disciple asks questions that possibly mirror universal anxieties like, why must good and kind men suffer, while sinners enjoy all comforts? The spiritual master gives the disciple the answer that gold alone is tested in the fire. The work addresses common issues of suffering and salvation. Written in a simple, direct style devoid of serious metaphysical concerns, the work remains rooted in everyday concerns and is likely to prove a soothing balm to readers. These pages reveal that the lessons to be learnt are never losing out on universal non sectarian appeal. All those who lead lives of piety and devotional fervour will revel in the towering insightful lessons this book shows.
£999.99
Books Faith Spiritual Stories of India
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£10.67
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd The Mystical Forces
Book SynopsisAs you sow, so shall you reap. Affirming the timelessness of this maxim, G.S. Vaid's eloquent prose gently extorts the reader to look beyond the everyday struggle for power and money, and listen to the whispered tones of various mysterious forces that could deliver us from all strife and provide a connectivity to the supreme being.
£4.95
Cosmo Publications Foregleams of God
Book SynopsisBook challenges colonial knowledge, emphasizes unity of truth in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity. Offers historical, sociological insights on colonialism, British-Indian relations. Valuable for intellectuals exploring theological philosophy.
£25.49
New Age Books How to Achieve Incredible Results by Inspiration
Book SynopsisThis book is full of inspiring anecdotes which show us that there is more to life than we think.
£10.35
New Age Books Spirituality: A Way of Life
Book SynopsisAiming at discovering the truth about ourselves, the reality we know as God, and our relationship to God, this book guides us to self discovery, lasting peace and total oneness with God.
£7.59
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd 30 Rays of Hope
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£6.19
Jaico Publishing House The Laws of Success: The Secrets of Successful
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£999.99
Aravali Books International Spiritual Self-realization
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£8.99
HarperCollins India Rishabhayan: The Story of the First King
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£13.99
HarperCollins India Mystics and Sceptics: In Search of Himalayan
Book SynopsisThe stories herein are as varied as the flora and fauna of the mountains.
£20.42
Niyogi Books Colours of Devotion: The Legendary Paintings and
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£101.24
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press My Precious Abalone
Book SynopsisIt all started with a pure and honest prayer in one of the holiest and most sacred places on earth. Follow one womans incredible journey of courage and faith on her path to conceiving a child. Lifes hardships are never truly about the outcome alone, but what you learn along the way.
£7.99
Kanzeon Press Becoming Me: A Story of Creation
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£22.09
HarperCollins Publishers YOURS JACK The Inspirational Letters of C S Lewis
Book SynopsisA collection of 365 readings containing the best and most compelling writing culled from more than 4,000 pages of C.S.Lewis‘s famous published letters.
£12.34
Rowman & Littlefield Five Books of Miriam
Book SynopsisWeaving together Jewish lore, the voices of Jewish foremothers, Yiddish fable, midrash and stories of her own imagining, Ellen Frankel has created in this book a breathtakingly vivid exploration into what the Torah means to women. Here are Miriam, Esther, Dinah, Lilith and many other women of the Torah in dialogue with Jewish daughters, mothers and grandmothers, past and present. Together these voices examine and debate every aspect of a Jewish woman''s life -- work, sex, marriage, her connection to God and her place in the Jewish community and in the world. The Five Books of Miriam makes an invaluable contribution to Torah study and adds rich dimension to the ongoing conversation between Jewish women and Jewish tradition.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Finding Your Religion
Book Synopsis An Indispensable Guidebook for Those Seeking a New Spiritual Path, or Wishing to Reconnect to the Religion of Their Youth
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Spiritual Direction
Book SynopsisHenri Nouwen—beloved author, priest, and internationally recognized spiritual master, counselor, and guide—offers gentle wisdom for universal questions of the spiritual life:Who am I?Where have I been and where am I going?Who is God for me?Where do I belong?How can I be of service?As a priest, pastor, and professor of spirituality at Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard, Nouwen offered spiritual direction to many students, but his famous course on spiritual direction was never recorded during his lifetime. Now, in Spiritual Direction, the first of a series, one of Nouwen's students (Michael Christensen) and one of his editors (Rebecca Laird) have developed his courses and practice of spiritual direction into a book of profound wisdom for living a deep spiritual life.
£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Theres a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Original Self
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£13.49
HarperCollins Mantenga La Fe
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£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Savor
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£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Silence
Book SynopsisZen master and one of the world''s most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to help us find happiness, purpose, and peace.Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness, running as if there is somewhere else to get to, when the world they live in is full of wonder. To be alive is a miracle. Beauty calls to us every day, yet we rarely are in the position to listen. To hear the call of beauty and respond to it, we need silence.Silence shows us how to find and maintain our equanimity amid the barrage of noise. Thich Nhat Hanh guides us on a path to cultivate calm even in the most chaotic places. This gift of silence doesn''t require hours upon hours of silent meditation or an existing practice of any kind. Through careful breathing and mindfulness techniques he teaches us how to become truly present in the moment, to recognize the beauty surrou
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Three Questions
Book SynopsisThe beloved spiritual teacher builds on the message of his enduring New York Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements with this profound guide that takes us deeper into the tradition of Toltec wisdom, helping us find and use the hidden power within us to achieve our fullest lives.In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz introduced seekers on the path to enlightenment to the tenets of Mesoamerican spiritual culture—the ancient Toltec. Now, he takes us deeper into Native American practice, and asks us to consider essential questions that drive our lives and govern our spiritual power. Three eternal questions can help us into our power and use it judiciously: Who am I? What is real? How do I express love? At each stage in our lives, we must ask these simple yet deeply profound questions. Finding the answers will open the door to the next stage in our development, and eventually lead us to our co
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Poems
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£12.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Of Other Worlds
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£12.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Business of Heaven
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Mind at Home with Itself
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Pray
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£18.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Power of Ritual
Book SynopsisCasper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more than ever for our spiritual and emotional well-being in the age of COVID-19.“After half a decade of research and hundreds of conversations with people around the country, I am convinced we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. That what used to hold us in community no longer works, and that the spiritual offerings of yesteryear no longer help us thrive.”-Casper ter KuileWhat do Soul Cycle, gratitude journals, and tech breaks have in common? For ter Kuile they offer rituals that create the foundation for our modern spiritual lives. We are in
£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Toward a Meaningful Life
Book SynopsisToward a Meaningful Life is a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Head of the Lubavitcher movement for forty-four years and recognized throughout the world simply as “the Rebbe,” Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away in June 1994, was a sage and a visionary of the highest order.Toward a Meaningful Life gives people of all backgrounds fresh perspectives on every aspect of their lives—from birth to death, youth to old age; marriage, love, intimacy, and family; the persistent issues of career, health, pain, and suffering; and education, faith, science, and government. We learn to bridge the divisions between accelerated technology and decelerated morality, between unprecedented worldwide unity and unparalleled personal disunity. Although the Rebbe’s teachings are firmly anchored in more than three thousand years of scholarship, the urgent relevance of these old-age truths to contemporary life has never been more manifest. At the threshold of a new world where matter and spirit converge, the Rebbe proposes spiritual principles that unite people as opposed to the materialism that divides them. In doing so, he continues to lead us toward personal and universal redemption, toward a meaningful life, and toward God.
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak
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£999.99
Penguin Publishing Group Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality Penguin Classics S
Book SynopsisBiographies, poetic compositions, works that are mystical, prophetic, visionary, or meditative: the selections here reflect the developments in medieval piety, particularly in the link between female spirituality and the body. Included are the dramatic visionary writings of Hildegard of Bingen; letters and poems by Hadewijch expressing passionate love for God; and Marguerite Porete's allegorical poem The Mirror of Simple Souls, a dialogue between Love and Soul that was condemned as heretical. Also included are biographies written by male ecclesiastics of women such as Christine the Astonishing, whose extraordinary behavior included being resurrected at her own funeral; revelations received by Bridget of Sweden, the first woman to found a religious order; and excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe, in which Margery imagines herself as a servant caring for the Virgin Mary in her childhood.This volume, edited by Elizabeth Spearing, who also prepared some of the translTable of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Elizabeth SpearingIntroduction by Elizabeth SpearingSuggestions for Further ReadingAcknowledgments and a Note on the TextsAbbreviationsHildegard of BingenExtracts from the Vita (translated by Peter Dronke)Extracts from a Letter to Guibert de Gembloux (translated by Peter Dronke)Extracts from Scivias (translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop)Christina of MarkyateExtracts from The Life of Christina of Markyate (translated by C.H. Talbot)HadewijchExtracts from the Letters (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Extracts from the Poems in Stanzas (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Extracts from the Visions (translated by Mother Columba Hart)Christine the AstonishingThe Life of St. Christine the Astonishing (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Mary of OigniesExtracts from The Life of St. Mary of Oignies (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Elizabeth of SpaalbeekThe Life of St. Elizabeth of Spaalbeek (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Marguerite PoreteExtracts from The Mirror of Simple Souls (translated by A.C. Spearing)Bridget of SwedenExtracts from the Liber Celestis (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Julian of NorwichExtracts from Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text) (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Extracts from Revelations of Divine Love (Long Text) (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)AnonymousA Revelation of Purgatory (translated by Elizabeth Spearing)Margery KempeExtracts from the The Book of Margery Kempe (Book I) (translated by B.A. Windeatt)Notes
£15.57
Oxford University Press, USA Religious Imagination and the Body A Feminist Analysis
Book SynopsisOffering a feminist perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice, this treatise examines the evidence, ranging from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of Frida Kahlo.Trade ReviewCooey's descriptions are refreshingly clear. Her examples drawn from the literary works of Alicia Partnoy, Paule Marshall, and Toni Morrison, and the paintings of Frida Kahlo are compelling--at times, bone chilling--as she shows the interaction between the body as a physical locus and as a nexus of discursive practices, the body as site and sign....For anyone interested in the way in which issues of gender and sex are corporeally configured by the religious imagination and the epistemological issues such an analysis generates, this book is essential reading. * Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University *
£130.62
Oxford University Press Visions of Jesus
Book SynopsisVisions and apparitions of Jesus have been reported since the earliest days of Christianity, and it is widely known that such events are still being experienced. Surprisingly, however, this book is the first recent critical study of this fascinating phenomenon. Wiebe focuses on modern visions of Jesus, as described to him by thirty contemporary visionaries - most of them ordinary people without prior or subsequent experiences of this kind. He recounts each of the visions in vivid detail, reviews recent biblical scholarship on the subject, and examines current literature on the psychology and neurology of visual hallucinations. He ultimately concludes that contemporary visions of Jesus represent genuine religious experiences of a mystical character and he calls for further discussion of their philosophical and theological implications.Trade ReviewWiebe's book shows the importance of exploring contemporary religious experience. * Paul Badham, Church Times *
£26.59
Oxford University Press Visions of Jesus
Book SynopsisPhillip H. Wiebe provides a critical study of contemporary visions of Jesus. Based on accounts by thirty people, Wiebe discusses each vision in vivid detail and discusses such issues as why these individuals believe their visions were of Jesus, what impact the experience has had on their lives, how the visions differ from dreams, and the possibility that the visions were actually hallucinations.Trade ReviewWiebe's book shows the importance of exploring contemporary religious experience. * Paul Badham, Church Times *
£14.99
Oxford University Press Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden Volume 4
Book SynopsisSt. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700 revelations, dealing with subjects ranging from meditations on the human condition, domestic affairs in Sweden, and ecclesiastical matters in Rome, to revelations in praise of the Incarnation and devotion to the Virgin. Her Revelations, collected and ordered by her confessors, circulated widely throughout Europe and long after her death. Many eminent individuals, including Cardinal Juan Torquemada, Jean Gerson, and Martin Luther, read and commented on her writings, which influenced the spiritual lives of countless individuals. Birgitta was also the founder of a new monastic order, which still exists today. She is the patron saint of Sweden, and in 2000 was declared (with Catherine of Siena and Edith Stein) co-patroness of Europe.Birgitta''s Revelations present her as a commanding and dauntless visionary who devTrade ReviewThe Revelations of St. Birgitta, volume 4 is nothing short of a well constructed treasure, noteworthy, and a useful reference work for studying religious women and mysticism during the late medieval period in Northern Europe. * Rebecca A. Giselbrecht, The Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; The Entire Birgittine Corpus ; BOOK VIII: The Heavenly Emperor's Book to Kings ; The Hermit's Letter to Kings ; Book VIII: The Heavenly Emperor's Book to Kings (translation) ; The Rule of the Savior ; The Angel's Discourse ; The Four Prayers ; Extravagant Revelations ; Supplementary Texts ; Bibliography ; List of illustrations, volumes 1-4 ; Biblical index, volumes 1-4 ; Subject index, volumes 1-4 ; Place and Personal names index, volumes 1-4
£92.15
Oxford University Press Sacred Pain
Book SynopsisPhysical pain ranks as one of the great evils of human life, not far behind death. Yet, religious individuals and groups around the world and throughout history have inflicted pain on themselves and on others in pursuit of religious goals. Despite this, no broad explanation for the uses of pain has emerged, and this book seeks to remedy this lack. Glucklich shows that a ritually controlled regimen of pain can produce a transformation of consciousness in which personal identity gives way to identification with God, Truth, or other spiritual ideals. This phenomenon is explored in many cultural and historical contexts, including rituals of possession and exorcism, rites of passage, and the tortures of the Inquisition. Glucklich also shows how the modern invention of anæsthesia transformed our perception of pain and undermined the idea that pain can be good. This book helps us to understand sacred pain from the perspective of its practitioners, opening a window onto a mysterious world of eTrade Review"Succeeds not only because of the immense and careful scholarship it displays, but also because it establishes a creative dialogue between science and religion on a question of enduring, and today largely forgotten, importance. Most of all, the book invites its readers to appreciate that pain need not be meaningless."--Stephen G. Post, First Things"Erudite and wide-ranging...compelling.... This fascinating, closely argued study suggests that in religion as in sports, there is no gain without pain."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"This demanding book does justice to the complexity of its subject as Glucklich masterfully leads the reader through all the diverse paths that connect with the central topic. He is a skilled writer who presents complicated material well without sacrificing meaning or nuance."--Library Journal"A brilliantly written, thought-provoking volume on the transformative potential of physical pain experienced within a religious context."--Harold G. Koenig, M.D., co-author, Handbook of Religion and Health"Ariel Glucklich is that rare being, a genuine comparativist, of cosmopolitan learning and wide sympathies. Drawing upon such diverse approaches as neurobiology, social psychology, ritual studies, cultural theory, phenomenology, and history of religion, he succeeds in shedding light on the darkest reaches of the seemingly chaotic realm of pain. Glucklich reminds us of all-but-forgotten insights into the transformative power of sacred pain, brings these insights into dialogue with the best thinking that is being done in the behavioral and biological sciences, and in so doing forges new instruments for the study of religious consciousness."--Carol Zaleski, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Smith College"Indeed, Glucklich examines the function of pain as part of the redemptive pilgrimage from numerous angles and distances, then turns it over and examines it some more...anyone with a serious interest in religion, pain and suffering, and/or the anthropology of the "community" will find much food for thought in this book...Sacred Pain offers valuable insights about pain, belief, and Western society's conflicting attitudes about pain and suffering."--Medscape
£45.12
Oxford University Press Inc Spirituality for the Skeptic
Book SynopsisIs it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? In Spirituality for the Skeptic, philosopher Robert Solomon philosopher Robert Solomon explores what it means to be spiritual in today''s pluralistic world. Based on Solomon''s own struggles to reconcile philosophy with religion, this book offers a model of a vibrant, fulfilling spirituality that embraces the complexities of human existence and acknowledges the joys and tragedies of life. Soloman has forged an enlightened new path that synthesizes spirituality with emotions, intellect, science, and common sense. His new paradigm, naturalized spirituality, establishes as its cornerstone the thoughtful love of life--a passionate concern for the here-and-now, and not the by-and-by. Being spiritual doesn''t mean being holed up as a recluse, spending hours in meditation and contemplation, Solomon argues. It demands involvement and emotionaTrade Review"Professor Solomon offers an approach to spirituality (and I think religion, and broader still the philosophy of religion) that many will find extremely attractive and timely.... Solomon treats this subject in a delicate fashion, one that will be the envy of experienced theologians and philosophers of religion."--G. Elijah Dann
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Oxford University Press God of Justice
Book SynopsisGod of Justice deals with ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of north India. It focuses on the cult of Bhairav, a local deity who is associated with the lowest castes, the so-called Dalits, who are frequently victims of social injustice. When powerless people are exploited or abused and have nowhere else to go, they often turn to Bhairav for justice, and he afflicts their oppressors with disease and misfortune. In order to end their suffering, they must make amends with their former victims and worship Bhairav with bloody sacrifices. Many acts of perceived injustice occur within the family, so that much of the book focuses on the tension between the high moral value placed on family unity on the one hand, and the inevitable conflicts within it on the other. Such conflicts can lead to ghost possession, cursing, and other forms of black magic, all of which are vividly described. This highly readable book includes a personal account of the author''s own experiences in the field as weTrade ReviewWilliam S. Sax's latest book... exhibits the same rich ethnography and lively, argument-driven prose that characterized his earlier work... the book offers a wealth of ethnographic description and direct quotation, and it successfully places this content in relation to larger debates in the field and sax's own arguments about ritual, modernity, and personhood in South Asia... it is an excellent book for the classroom as well as a significant contribution to the literature on healing, caste, gender, and the culture and religion of Garhwal. * Carla Bellamy, Book Reviews: South Asia *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Fieldwork Among the Harijans ; 2. God of Justice ; 3. Landscape, Memory, and Ritual ; 4. Oracles, Gurus, and Distributed Agency ; 5. Rituals of Family Unity ; 6. Families and their ghosts ; 7. Sending the God Back ; 8. Postscript: Ritual healing and modernity
£27.54
Oxford University Press Lived Religion
Book SynopsisWhat are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles with healing crystals), yet feels particularly spiritual while preparing food for religious celebrations in her neighborhood? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars of contemporary religion, whose research started with the assumption that Individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally-defined package of beliefs and practices. Social surveys typically ask respondents to self-identify by denominational or other broad religious categories. Sociologists attempt to measure religiosity according to how well individuals conform to the official religious standards, such as frequency of church attendance, scripture-reading, or prayer. In this book Meredith McGuire points the way forward towarTrade ReviewAn invaluable resource that broadens understandings of the complicated interactions of personal spirituality and social contexts. ...This important book provides an extraoridnary overview that challenges quantitative researchers to develop new approaches and stimulates qualitative researchers to addres new questions in new ways. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *Meredith McGuire's Lived Religion richly endows an expanding academic literature highlighting the relevance of religious-spiritual practices that are typically excluded from the received view of what counts as religion and spirituality. ...McGuire's thoughtful, intellectually engaging, and well-written book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the prevalence of religion and spirituality in everyday practices. ...McGuire succeeds in making visible the many hybrid sources of religious community and commitment that might otherwise remain beyond the gaze of scholarly attention. * American Journal of Sociology *McGuire's thoughtful, intellectually engaging, and well-written book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the prevalence of religion and spirituality in everyday practices. * Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire *This is an important book in the sociology of religion, because it prods us to take seriously religious practices...rich analysis.... * Wyndy Corbin Reushling *...A creative blending of a personal and professional narrative and normative zeal to reform the field of sociology and religion... The book succeeds in its goal to infuse tired debates in the sociology of religion with a fresh perspective. It will stimulate many conversations about which lamppost we should look under to find religion in contemporary society, how it got there, and where it is going. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents1. Everyday Religion as Lived ; 2. Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing the Sociology of Religion ; 3. Popular Religious Expressions Today: U.S. Latinos and Latinas ; 4. Popular Religions in Practice Today: Southern White Evangelicals ; 5. Spirituality and Materiality: Why Bodies Matter ; 6. Embodied Practices for Healing and Wholeness ; 7. Gendered Spiritualities ; 8. Rethinking Religious Identity, Commitment, and Hybridity
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Oxford University Press Soul Searching
Trade Review'We strongly recommend this book to those interested in the religiosity of American teenagers. Social scientists, religious leaders, youth leaders, and parents will find this an enlightening read.' * Brigham Young University Studies *'This book is, quite simply, the best book ever on the best study ever on the topic of adolescents and religion. It is exemplary social science, combining the best of qualitative and quantitative methods, not only empirically strong but theoretically rich.' * Journal of Adolescent Research *'Let this book challenge you as parents and church leaders to evaluate what you are teaching the rising generation. More importantly, let it challenge you to examine your beliefs and practices and the teaching of the church.' * Equip for Ministry *"For scholars as well as parents, teachers, relatives, mentors, and other persons interested in the well-being of teens, this is and will likely be the definitive book on teens and religion for years to come." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Two Baptist Girls ; 2. Mapping the Big Picture ; 3. Spiritual Seekers, the Disengaged, and Religiously Devoted Teens ; 4. God, Religion, Whatever-On Moralistic Therapeutic Deism ; 5. Teenage Religion in Social Context ; 6. On Catholic Teens ; 7. Adolescent Religion and Life Outcomes ; 8. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing
Book SynopsisDivine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. But although we know that healing is central in these movements, we know surprisingly little about how divine healing beliefs and practices reflect the interplay of local and global patterns of cultural development. The essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse contexts, trace formal and informal lines of cultural influence across geographic and national boundaries, and ask how healing both reflects and contributes to larger processes of globalization. The collection will not only flesh out a picture of how and why spiritual healing is practiced in diverse cultural contexts and how healing practices reflect and shape the transnational spread of Christianity; it will also provide insight into the nature of globalization. The authors will attend to a wide range of issues, including the theological Trade ReviewThere can now be no doubt that Pentecostal-Charismatic healing will continue to flower all over the world. It is something no thoughtful person can afford to ignore. We need careful, accurate, empathic, and unprejudiced studies of this reality in all its multitudinous expressions, including healing. And this volume provides the gold standard against which all future efforts will have to be judged. * Harvey G. Cox, Jr., Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University *...a unique set of cross-cultural and cross national case studies that allow for a deeper understanding of the role that healing plays within todays's increasingly globalized world. * CHOICE *The text demonstrates unequivocally that 'Charismatic-Pentecostalism' proves 'feeling is believing.' The book is foundational without antecedent or peer, possessing broad appeal for students and scholars of religion. * Religious Studies Review *Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing is an invaluable contribution to the field of religious studies. The book is highly informative and rich in descriptive detail. The diversity of its contributors...makes for a highly readable text that will appeal to a wide range of interests.. * Religion *The care that Candy Gunther Brown took in author selection and editing is evident in this fascinating and insightful volume...I am certain this book will prove an invaluable resource to scholars and students of all Christian traditions, indeed anyone interested in healing, globalization, or mission. * Pneuma *Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD, BY HARVEY COX; INTRODUCTION: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF ILLNESS AND HEALING, BY CANDY GUNTHER BROWN; 1. THE GLOBAL CHARACTER OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIVINE HEALING, BY HEATHER D. CURTIS; 2. WHY HEALTH AND WEALTH?: DIMENSIONS OF PROSPERITY AMONG SWEDISH CHARISMATICS, BY SIMON COLEMAN; 3. MATERIAL SALVATION: HEALING, DELIVERANCE, AND "BREAKTHROUGH" IN AFRICAN MIGRANT CHURCHES IN GERMANY, BY CLAUDIA WAHRISCH-OBLAU; 4. BLESSED BODIES: HEALING WITHIN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FAITH MOVEMENT, BY CATHERINE BOWLER; 5. JESUS AS THE "GREAT PHYSICIAN": PENTECOSTAL NATIVE NORTH AMERICANS WITHIN THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD AND NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF PENTECOSTAL HEALING, BY ANGELA TARANGO; 6. LATINO PENTECOSTAL HEALING IN THE NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS, BY GASTON ESPINOSA; 7. SANTIDAD, SALVACION, SANIDAD, LIBERACION: THE WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT AMONG TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LATIN@ PENTECOSTALS, BY ARLENE SANCHEZ WALSH; 8. EXORCISING THE DEMONS OF DEPRIVATION: DIVINE HEALING AND CONVERSION IN BRAZILIAN PENTECOSTALISM, BY R. ANDREW CHESNUT; 9. THE SALVE OF DIVINE HEALING: ESSENTIAL RITUALS FOR SURVIVAL AMONG WORKING-CLASS PENTECOSTALS IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, BY REBECCA PIERCE BOMANN; 10. LEARNING FROM THE MASTER: CARLOS ANNACONDIA AND THE STANDARDIZATION OF PENTECOSTAL PRACTICES IN AND BEYOND ARGENTINA, BY MATTHEW MAROSTICA; 11. NEW WINE IN AN OLD WINE BOTTLE?: CHARISMATIC HEALING IN THE MAINLINE CHURCHES IN GHANA, BY CEPHAS N. OMENYO; 12. HEALING IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: THE "VICTORIOUS LIVING" OF DAVID OYEDEPO, BY PAUL GIFFORD; 13. RE-ENCHANTED: DIVINE HEALING IN KOREAN PROTESTANTISM, BY SEAN C. KIM; 14. MIRACLE HEALING AND EXORCISM IN SOUTH INDIAN PENTECOSTALISM, BY MICHAEL BERGUNDER; 15. DIVINE HEALING AND THE GROWTH OF PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA, BY GOTTHARD OBLAU; 16. CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC HEALING IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: THE CASES OF INDIA, BRAZIL, AND NIGERIA, BY THOMAS J. CSORDAS; 17. GLOBAL AWAKENINGS: DIVINE HEALING NETWORKS AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN NORTH AMERICA, BRAZIL, MOZAMBIQUE, AND BEYOND, BY CANDY GUNTHER BROWN; AFTERWORD, BY CANDY GUNTHER BROWN; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Theories of Primitive Religion
Book SynopsisThe Sir D. Owen Evans Lectures delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1962.
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