Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces.
Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.
Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the most holy cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan, when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).
John Julius Norwich expertly examines the history of the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter to the presentOf the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable immorality.
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "e;Madame Restell,"e; the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City.
This book takes inspiration from AIDS activist history to argue that current individualized approaches to the queer suicide crisis could be expanded to include structural work.
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivias president in 2005 made him his nations first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples.
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.
A l'heure ou les identites culturelles se recomposent, cet ouvrage interroge la maniere de transmettre la foi chretienne sans effacer l'histoire spirituelle des peuples.
L' uvre de Jan Pascha, Le Pelerinage spirituel vers Jerusalem, se distingue par une richesse multiforme qui se deploie sur les plans litteraire, historique, geographique, theologique, metrologique, hagiographique et spirituel.
"e;A great leap forward in understanding and contextualizing Mary's life, after two millennia of her being dismissed and rewritten by patriarchal power structures.
As a major source of debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and predestination, the New Testament epistles of Saint Paul played a central role in the development of religious thought and practice across Reformation Europe.
In a memoir that's equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking secret, and her family's history.
This monograph tackles Marshall McLuhan's relationship with Jacques Maritain and Étienne Gilson and, thanks to unpublished letters, essays and interviews, accredits a hypothesis that, until now, has found little support in the academic community.
This book seeks to educate counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and other professionals about the benefits and challenges of a fundamentalist religious upbringing and the impact on adult wellbeing.
This thought-provoking book challenges ideas on morality and religion while addressing the nature of faith and the power it has to guide humans and define they way they live their lives.
This book seeks to educate counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and other professionals about the benefits and challenges of a fundamentalist religious upbringing and the impact on adult wellbeing.
Designed for students in Christian colleges and seminaries, An Introduction to Philosophy surveys the four main areas of philosophy - logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics - in an accessible and engaging manner.
In this sensitive work, Whyte examines issues and ambiguities within Bonhoeffer's writing-as well as complexities in his biography-that imply gaps in his understanding of the full theological implications of Christ's solidarity with suffering.
This work explores what the formative writers of the fourth century said about divine fatherhood in order to address a key subject in Trinitarian debate in modern theology.
