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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.82
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Manufacturer: North Point Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Shachtman
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Publisher: North Point Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2007-05-29
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman’s celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of “running around” that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing such broad freedoms, their parents hope they will learn enough to help them make the most important decision of their lives—whether to be baptized as Christians, join the church, and forever give up worldly ways, or to remain in the world.
In this searching book, Shachtman draws on his skills as a documentarian to capture young people on the cusp of a fateful decision, and to give us “one of the most absorbing books ever written about the Plain People” (Publishers Weekly).
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $6.26
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joe Mackall
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 289
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Publication Date: 2008-06-15
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: Plain Secrets tells the story of Joe Mackall's long friendship with his Swartzentruber Amish neighbors, the Shetlers, to create a nuanced portrait of this most traditional Amish sect.
"Mackall does the job beautifully, painting an intimate portrait of the family that leaves the reader feeling humbled by the common thread that's woven into all of us."
—Sarah English, Cleveland Magazine
"Prose as graceful as it is unsentimental . . . Mackall doesn't sensationalize, romanticize, or condescend."
—Brigid Brett, Los Angeles Times
"The book points to a difficult truth: A religious community is bound to be freed. Mackall explores this paradox with rare honesty and insight . . . [and] achieves what he promises."
—Tom Montgomery-Fate, Boston Globe
"Mackall describes the details of family, farming and church life with sympathy, accuracy and good will . . . His particularistic description of one family is a welcome addition to what has often been a sociological literature."
—Levi Miller, Christian Century
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $5.68
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Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gustav Niebuhr
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Publisher: Viking Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 201.5
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Publication Date: 2008-07-31
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A bracing rejoinder both to religious fanaticism and to recent books decrying religion
The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world and the most religiously diverse collection of people in history. And even in this age of increasing religious violence, there is a growing movement of cooperation: thousands of devout worshippers who are willing to take a gamble on people of radically different faiths.
In this insightful, deeply felt examination of the nature of community and religion, former New York Times religion reporter Gustav Niebuhr traces the roots of religious freedom in America and the setbacks and triumphs it has encountered along the way. From Hindus and Quakers in Queens to Catholics and Jews in Baltimore, to black Baptists and Catholics in Louisville, to Catholics and Buddhists in Los Angeles, Niebuhr focuses on the ways people build ties between groups. He looks at why this movement is a particularly American endeavor and how it can save us all. Beyond Tolerance is a handbook for religious cooperation in our fractured times.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.16
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Kimball
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, leading religion and Middle East expert Charles Kimball shows how all religious traditions are susceptible to these basic corruptions and why only authentic faith can prevent such evil. The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion
1. Absolute Truth Claims
2. Blind Obedience
3. Establishing the "Ideal" Time
4. The End Justifies Any Means
5. Declaring Holy War
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $14.34
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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: David F. Wells
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Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1994-07
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In this sequel to the widely praised No Place for Truth, David Wells calls for the restoration of the church based on a fresh encounter with the transcendent God. By looking anew at the way God's transcendence and immanence have been taken captive by modern appetites, Wells argues convincingly for a reform of the evangelical world.
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Price: $48.00
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Sale: $51.87
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Manufacturer: Fidelity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: E. Michael Jones
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Publisher: Fidelity Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909
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Publication Date: 2008-09
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Reading Level: 1200
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $13.78
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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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Author: Lamin O. Sanneh
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.8
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Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening" and the unparalleled richness and diversity, as well as the tension and conflict, it has brought to World Christianity.
Tracing Christianity's rise from its birth on the edge of the Roman empire--when it proclaimed itself to be a religion for the entire world, not just for one people, one time, and one place--to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, Sanneh sheds new light on the ways in which post-Western societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America were drawn into the Christian orbit. Ultimately, he shows, these societies outgrew Christianity's colonial forms and restructured it through their own languages and idioms--a process that often occurred outside, and sometimes against, the lines of denominational control. The effect of such changes, Sanneh contends, has been profound, transforming not only worship, prayer, and the interpretation of Scripture, but also art, aesthetics, and music associated with the church. In exploring this story of Christianity's global expansion and its current resurgence in the non-Western world, Sanneh pays close attention to such issues as the faith's encounters with Islam and indigenous religions, as well as with secular ideologies such as Marxism and nationalism. He also considers the challenges that conservative, non-Western forms of Christianity pose to Western liberal values and Enlightenment ideas.
Here then is a groundbreaking study of Christianity's role in cultural innovation and historical change--and must reading for all who are concerned with the present and future of the faith.
"I am lost in admiration for Lamin Sanneh's magnificent study of world Christianity, for the work's geographical scope and historical sweep, and for the breadth of the author's learning. Throughout, Sanneh asks the critical question: how can we reconceive Christianity in a way that frees it from its European and imperial contexts, permitting the faith to adapt to the kaleidoscopic realities of different societies around the globe. This is a splendid achievement."
--Philip Jenkins,
author of The Next Christendom
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $5.69
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Huston Smith
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2002-01-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Why Religion Matters is a passionate, accessible, ambitious manifesto written by one of the very few people qualified to address its titular topic. Huston Smith is the grand old man of religious scholarship. Raised by missionary parents in China, Smith went on to teach at M.I.T. and U.C. Berkeley, among others, and his World's Religions has long been the standard introductory textbook for college religion courses. The subject of Why Religion Matters, Smith writes, "is the importance of the religious dimension of human life--in individuals, in societies, and in civilizations." Smith believes that the religious dimension of human life has been devalued by the rise of modern science: we have now reached a point at which "modern Westerners . . . forsaking clear thinking, have allowed ourselves to become so obsessed with life's material underpinnings that we have written science a blank check ... concerning what constitutes knowledge and justified belief." In candid, direct style, Smith describes the evolution of intellectual history from pre-modern to postmodern times, and the spiritual sensibilities that have been shunted "by our misreading of modern science." In the book's final sections, Smith avoids the folly of predicting the future, instead focusing on "features of the religious landscape that are invariant" and therefore may serve as "a map that can orient us, wherever the future may bring." This book is fresh, insightful, and important. It may prove to be as influential in shifting readers' terms of religious understanding as any of Smith's previous writings. --Paul Power
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $18.55
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Manufacturer: Frog Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John A. Phd Rush
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Publisher: Frog Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2008-10-28
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: On a 2001 trip to the cathedrals of Europe, anthropologist John Rush and his wife entered St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice and encountered a mosaic depicting Jesus surrounded by mushrooms with an Amanita muscaria cap in his hand. Examining the space with new eyes, they discovered images of mushrooms and mind-altering plants all over the Basilica. Intrigued, Dr. Rush spent seven years researching and reflecting on the profound effects hallucinogens had on the founding of all three major Western religions. He concluded that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are political constructions evolving out of the use of not only Amanita muscaria, but a plethora of mind-altering substances.
Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World re-examines the scriptural stories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as told in the Bible and Qur’an and reveals them as “concocted mythical charters stemming from drug-induced romps with the super-natural.” Rush shows how mind-altering substances played an instrumental role in the birth and development of Western religions and explains how they contributed to reports of “prophetic” experiences, including angry and disturbing messages from the divine. With chapters on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Rush fully addresses the effects of mind-altering substances on each tradition, convincingly discrediting the idea that they stem from actual human interaction with the divine. He also shows how an intoxicated and over-zealous Apostle Paul corrupted Jesus’s simple message of human decency, forming an oppressive religious system based on fear. In a thought-provoking conclusion, Rush asks how we can continue to attribute authority to traditions that were so clearly irrationally founded and incompatible with today’s world.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.13
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Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Aikman
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 275.1
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Publication Date: 2006-12-25
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant and its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity and what this change means to the global balance of power.
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