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Price: $51.50
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Sale: $39.14
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
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Publication Date: 2000-07-20
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Thoroughly revised and updated in this second edition, Perspectives on Marriage is an ideal text for courses in the theology and spirituality of marriage. The new edition of this multidisciplinary reader features twenty new articles and represents the best of contemporary perspectives on marriage and sexuality. It is comprehensive and flexibly designed to accommodate a variety of approaches, from the strictly historical and canonical to the sociological, psychological, and ministerial. Striking a balance between solid theological material and stimulating readings on current issues, the essays explore marriage in its historical context; the meanings and transitions of marriage; attitudes toward sexuality; communication, conflict, and change; overcoming stereotypes; divorce and annulment; the spirituality of marriage; and interreligious perspectives on marriage. The volume is enhanced by the editors' introductions and discussion questions. Rich, provocative, and challenging, Perspectives on Marriage, 2/e is the most extensive and up-to-date reader of its kind.
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Price: $17.99
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Sale: $10.95
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Manufacturer: Crossway Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brad Scott
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Publisher: Crossway Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 239
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Publication Date: 1999-05
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Reading Level: 320
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $26.68
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rosalie Troester
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 267.182
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Publication Date: 1993-09-29
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Reading Level: 632
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Description: This rich oral history weaves a tapestry of memories and experience from interviews, roundtable discussions, personal memoirs, and thorough research. In the sixtieth anniversary year of the Catholic Worker, Rosalie Riegle Troester reconfirms the diversity and commitment of a movement that applies basic Christianity to social problems. Founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the Catholic Worker has continued to apply the principles of voluntary poverty and nonviolence to changing social and political realities. Over 200 interviews with Workers from all over the United States reveal how people came to this movement, how they were changed by it, and how they faced contradictions between the Catholic Worker philosophy and the call of contemporary life. Vivid memoirs of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and Ammon Hennacy are interwoven with accounts of involvement with labor unions, war resistance, and life on Catholic Worker farms. The author also addresses the Worker's relationship with the Catholic Church and with the movement's wrenching debates over abortion, homosexuality, and the role of women.
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Janet Forsythe Fishburn
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.0973
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Publication Date: 1982-03
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Reading Level: 208
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $7.02
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Manufacturer: Pilgrim Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Pilgrim Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.834800973
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 150
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $3.92
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Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.17
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Publication Date: 2002-07-01
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Reading Level: 221
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Description: Is religion an obstacle to the values of modernity? Popular and scholarly opinion says that it is. In a world gripped in a clash of civilizations, religious absolutism seems to threaten the modern virtues of tolerance, reason, and freedom. This collection of historical essays argues that this popular view-religion versus modernity-is used by the politically powerful to construct the religious as irrational and antimodern. The authors study how nationalists, state officials, missionaries, and scholars in the West and in the colonized world defined and redefined the relationship between the political and the religious. Part I of the book examines the political and scholarly stakes involved in defining religions-Buddhism, African traditional religion, and fundamentalist Judaism-as subjective and apolitical belief systems. Part II takes up the relationship between religious reform and nationalism, asking how the formalization of religious practices helped define nationalist ideologies in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, Japan, and India. Part III turns to religious exhibits in Turkey and the southern United States, exploring how pilgrims and tourists convert museum displays into objects of religious veneration. By treating religion as a contested social space, this book brings philosophy, theology, history, and political science together to show how struggles over the definition of the religious are bound up with colonial and national politics around the world.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $39.12
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Timothy Fitzgerald
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.71
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Publication Date: 2007-12-04
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: In recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of ''religion'' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior. In his last book, The Ideology of Religious Studies (OUP 2000), Timothy Fitzgerald argued that ''religion'' was not a private area of human existence that could be separated from the public realm and that the study of religion as such was thus impossibility. In this new book he examines a wide range of English-language texts to show how religion became transformed from a very specific category indigenous to Christian culture into a universalist claim about human nature and society. These claims, he shows, are implied by and frequently explicit in theories and methods of comparative religion. But they are also tacitly reproduced throughout the humanities in the relatively indiscriminate use of ''religion'' as an a priori valid cross-cultural analytical concept, for example in historiography, sociology, and social anthropology. Fitzgerald seeks to link the argument about religion to the parallel formation of the ''non-religious'' and such dichotomies as church-state, sacred-profane, ecclesiastical-civil, spiritual-temporal, supernatural-natural, and irrational-rational. Part of his argument is that the category ''religion'' has a different logic compared to the category ''sacred,'' but the two have been consistently confused by major writers, including Durkheim and Eliade. Fitzgerald contends that ''religion'' imagined as a private belief in the supernatural was a necessary conceptual space for the simultaneous imagining of ''secular'' practices and institutions such as politics, economics, and the Nation State. The invention of ''religion'' as a universal type of experience, practice, and institution was partly the result of sacralizing new concepts of exchange, ownership, and labor practices, applying ''scientific'' rationality to human behavior, administering the colonies and classifying native institutions. In contrast, shows Fitzgerald, the sacred-profane dichotomy has a different logic of use.
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $32.97
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Grace Davie
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Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.6
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Publication Date: 2007-05-09
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: "Aside from her substantial theoretical contributions, Davie accomplishes four things, any one of which would be worth the price of the book. First, she provides a clear, thorough review of theory and research in the sociology of religion, and argues successfully for its position as a central subdiscipline. Second, she displays an impressive command of comparative literature in the field, using French, British, and other European sources in addition to those from North American; this makes her presentation both wide and deep...Third, Davie underlines the importance of context, historical and geographical, for understanding how theory and case studies develop. The latter are exceptionally well-chosen. Finally, the author's endnotes and her extensive bibliography give excellent guidance to beginning and experienced readers alike."
-C. Hendershott, New School University
Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious? This book, written by one of the leading figures in the field, works at two levels. First it sets out the agenda – covering the key questions in the sociology of religion today. At the same time, it interrogates this agenda – asking if the sociology of religion, as we currently know it, is ‘fit for purpose’. If not, what is to be done?
Key Features
- Describes the origins of the sociology of religion
- Demystifies secularization as a process and a theory
- Relates religion to modern social theory
- Unpacks the meaning of religion in relation to modernity and globalization
- Grasps the methodological challenges in the field
- Provides a comparative perspective for religions in the west
- Introduces questions of minorities and margins
- Sets out a critical agenda for debate and research
In a single volume Grace Davie captures the nature and forms of modern religion, the current debates in the field and the prospects for future development. (20071211)
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Price: $34.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: The Pilgrim Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The Pilgrim Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.8968
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Publication Date: 2006-11-30
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Reading Level: 356
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Description: The essays in this book critically examine how Latinos(as) engage in defining their identity, which in turn affects how their religious beliefs and expressions are created and constructed. In addition to the co-editors, contributors include: Edwin David Aponte, Jorge A. Aquino, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Luis D. Leon, Lara Medina, Manuel Mejido Costoya, Laura E. Perez, and Manuel A. Vasquez.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $14.05
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Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Wuthnow
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Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.6
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Publication Date: 1992-05
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Reading Level: 188
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Description: Claiming that the realm of the sacred in modern societies is characterized more by rediscovery than by revival, Wuthnow examines the main theoretical approaches toward religion that have emerged of late in the social sciences and shows how these approaches can help explain the shifting location of the sacred.
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