Religious life and practice

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about.

Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.

Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, archival material and published sources, this book shows how women's participation in radical Basque nationalism has changed from the founding of ETA in 1959 to the present.

This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women.

This text provides the first full-length consideration of women's economic roles in early modern Scottish towns.

';Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

The role of women in positions of worship and church leadership is one of the most divisive and inconclusive biblical debates.

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEVoices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M.

This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics.

This book investigates women's political activism and conflict in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, examining issues around domestic violence, racial abuse and women in detention without trial.

At the Center reflects on how the study of gender has changed and how studying gender has affected our research methods and our knowledge of the world around us.

You probably speak 20,000 words a day, give or take, and each one influences those who listen.

Witness the power of faith and prayer!

Bestselling author Emile Barnes' classic 15 Minutes Alone with God (more than 525,000 copies sold) has a lovely new cover and interior design that embraces inspiring devotions and encourages women in their quiet times with God.

What is worship?

This wise and practical handbook, written by a palliative care physician and a priest with experience in hospice ministry, addresses the needs of the dying, their relatives and friends, and also those who provide support and care.

In this moving spiritual memoir, Dr.

This collection of essays considers topics in pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, pastoral leadership, and social work, and attends to challenges and opportunities pertaining to the support and care of persons in need.

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

What is justice?

We yearn to be accepted and loved for who we really are.

Parktails is an adventure that takes place in the aftermath of a great forest fire.

Musings is a collection of short, easy-reading essays dealing with the challenges of life.

In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them.

This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church.

This book invites the reader to experience Advent as a spiritual journey to Bethlehem, a journey from darkness to light.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

Leaders constantly rely upon power.

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways.

Since the rise of the "e;New Homiletic"e; a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country.

A Conscious Endeavor is a synopsis of the social teachings and the concept of justice in the Old and New Testament.

Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change is a wake-up call for Christians and others.

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it .

Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners.

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture.

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.

As a freshman in college, Rachel Murr found herself trying to decide which campus social group to join: the gay and lesbian advocacy group or the campus Christian fellowship.

Fear works its way into our lives on a daily basis, but it does not define us.

This book offers reflections on a number of theological themes, going beyond abstraction to ask what is involved in coming to know God--through all the praying, struggling, and rejoicing that entails.

Laypersons receiving a divine call to preach in the Roman Catholic Church may feel caught between a rock and a hard place--both figuratively and ecclesiastically.

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities.

This publication develops a strategic focus for integrating gender concerns into programs and operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Kazakhstan.

This book provides a current and comprehensive analysis of the context in which Pacific women engage in the private sector, as well as a detailed list of strategies to increase their participation in business.

Do you want to make a greater difference with your life?

This book is a conversation-not a lecture-for women.

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice.