The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
The story of Mormonism and the philosophy of Mormonism presents a detailed exploration of the origins, development, and belief systems of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, highlighting how foundational experiences and revelations shaped the early faith community.
This book deepens our understanding of the social, legal, and anthropological issues that arise from the global proliferation of advanced biomedical technologies and how they enable people to use their bodies to express individual and collective identities.
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present.
This book deepens our understanding of the social, legal, and anthropological issues that arise from the global proliferation of advanced biomedical technologies and how they enable people to use their bodies to express individual and collective identities.
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present.
A revelatory exploration of how the Bible's underdogs, outlaws, and forgotten figures can teach us about our humanityIn this unprecedented book, a secular humanist and celebrated scholar of religion tells the stories of the Bible's most marginalized figures, challenging readers to reconsider who are the heroes of the text, and who are the villains.
Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hopeIn Thomas More's Utopia, a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking message: on a lost island beyond the horizon, people live far better lives than in Europe.
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as ';American sophistication'or is it a contradiction in terms?
The cell of self-knowledge: Seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 presents a collection of spiritual writings that guide readers toward deep interior awareness.
The Clarion Call sounds a piercing summons to awaken God's children, exposing the enemy's handiwork--mental illness, addiction, unforgiveness, and doubt--tactics to confuse and dismantle faith.
A Housewife Prays is a collection of short stories depicting situations of everyday life and the extraordinary events as seen through the eyes of a woman who has experienced the power of faith firsthand.
In twelfth-century Baghdad, crowds gathered to hear Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani speak about the states of the heart — trial, provision, leaving the self, standing with God.
Twenty years ago, in a physics department common room in Pune, I noticed something that has not let go of me since: a cosmologist's whiteboard, covered in the mathematics of an expanding universe, sitting beside a printed verse from the Rig Veda that denied, three thousand years earlier, that being or non-being could even be said to have existed before creation.
And in the midst of the sevencandlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet,and girded about the chest with a golden band.
Der vorliegende Band bietet die erste deutsche Übersetzung der »Teologia politica« des Philosophen Merio Scattola (1962–2015) sowie eine Einführung von Luise Schorn-Schütte.
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
This unique volume brings together intergenerational survivors of genocide and mass atrocities, who are actively engaged in producing knowledge related to their lived and inherited experiences, to share their stories.
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.
This unique volume brings together intergenerational survivors of genocide and mass atrocities, who are actively engaged in producing knowledge related to their lived and inherited experiences, to share their stories.
In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.
The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagans presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.