Religious life and practice

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology.

Over the past decade, democratization and civil society promotion became key variables in preserving global security and the liberal economic market.

How would your life change if you could show up as your true self?

Is there any greater gift than knowing you are loved?

Create a lifelong intimate relationship between each other and with God.

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory.

Fishermen don't rely on luck in order to catch fishthey put their skills, knowledge, and experience into play every time they cast their line.

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?

God designed men to seek out adventure.

Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America.

God has something to say to his daughters.

Like the products of the "e;sea-change"e; described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "e;rich and strange.

Let God's Word light your way every day with one of the most beloved devotionals of all time.

Striking out from my familiar path of poetry writing, this devotional continues my walk of openly sharing the challenges of mental disease.

This year, take an insightful journey through the pages of the New Testament.

In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.

Before you charge into the busy day, take a few minutes to equip yourself.

Learn how to rest in God's peace while you develop perfect trust.

Be a father God's way!

Paints the picture of God's promises for Christmas-from the beginning of time and to all of eternity.

Santa and the Mrs.

Take a Bite Out Of Jesus is a spiritual lesson told by the author of his personal journey through hardships of failing health.

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade.

A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century FranceHysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

Santa visits the big city-and winds up playing himself in the Macy's parade-in this merry take on the classic Christmas poem.

Surviving the Storm Through the Wind of the Spirit is the story of one woman's journey through grief.

The search for wisdom invariably leads us back to the places we've overlooked.

The secret ingredient is love.

Discover how true faith can leave a lasting legacy with a poignant and personal look into the lives of some of the Bible's most faithful women.

The Ultimate Challenge: To Be Better Than Good He has spent his life helping other people to realize their dreams and experience maximum success.

Where You Go, I Shall is a book that was born of experience and need.

With clarity, wisdom, and wit, Brian Taylor offers a fresh look at contemplative prayer as the pathway to genuine healing and spiritual transformation.

In Intimate Spirituality: The Catholic Way of Love and Sex, Gordon J.

Preaching is a central task in the lives of clergy, and yet it sometimes seems as though the pressure to produce, combined with other duties of parish life, becomes a burden and contributes to the busyness that squeezes out time for spiritual practices.

James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival.

Church education programs for children often substitute children's Bibles for Holy Scripture and simple moralism for imagination.

Now in a significantly revised sixth edition with 70% new material, this comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today.

Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person.

If you could ask God for one thing and know that you would get it now, what would it be?

Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic represents a pivotal moment in the life of the Catholic community.

Schlafer looks at the preacher's task at the "e;high times"e; of the church and the secular year, those occasions on which expectations run high and emotions can be intense.

Fear is hardwired into our brains and is a common biblical theme.

Anna Wickham's life is characterized by the turbulent, burgeoning feminism of the early 20th century.

A study in the relationship between Bible scriptures in a contemporary translation and in a responsive reading format for use as a resource for corporate worship or personal study.

"e;Religion can be a realm of extraordinary power,"e; says U.

This is a rich, informative, and inspiring compendium of the Christian tradition of prayer and contemplation from the earliest days of the Church to the present day.