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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Four

University of Alabama Press

Case studies that vividly reimagine the meaning and applications of American religious history

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With This Root about My Person

Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion

University of New Mexico Press

Charles H. Long’s groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person.

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Interfaith Worship and Prayer

We Must Pray Together

Edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis; Foreword by Dalai Lama
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This insightful and important collection contains contributions from representatives of 12 religions, demonstrating how religions can be a powerful means of unity and compassion. It shows the benefits of bringing people from different backgrounds together, especially in a time of crisis.

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Religion and Canadian Party Politics

UBC Press

A unique and timely exploration of the important ways that religion shapes political conflict across Canada.

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Resilient Gods

Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, or No Religious in Canada

UBC Press

An unmatched, up-to-date reading of religious and non-religious inclinations in Canada, accompanied by an examination of the consequences of such choices for Canadians and their way of life.

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Middle of Nowhere

Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain

University of New Mexico Press

In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.

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Got Religion?

How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back

Templeton Press

Why are young people dropping out of religious institutions? Can anything be done to reverse the trend? In Got Religion?, Naomi Schaefer Riley examines the reasons for the defection, why we should care, and how some communities are successfully addressing the problem.

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Saved and Sanctified

The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia

University Press of Florida
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Chieftains into Ancestors

Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China

UBC Press

An in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China’s minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.

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From La Florida to La California

Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands

Academy of American Franciscan History
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Religions, Regionalism, and Globalization in Asia

By Ateneo Center for Asian Studies
Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Children and Childhood in World Religions

Primary Sources and Texts

Rutgers University Press

Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child’s relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children today.

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With All Thine Heart

Love and the Bible

Rutgers University Press

Addressing a wide range of topics, from biblical archaeology and fundamentalism to Hollywood movies, lexicography, and the act of praying, With All Thine Heart suggests that the Hebrew Bible is a novel worth decoding patiently, such as one does with classics like Don Quixote de la Mancha, In Search of Lost Time, and Anna Karenina.  Similar to the protagonists in these tales, biblical characters, although not shaped with the artistic nuance of modern literature, allow for astonishing insight. This exploration of love through the pages of the Bible—organized chronologically from Genesis to Exodus and followed by insightful meditations on the Song of Songs and the Book of Job—is a  delightful intellectual and spiritual treat . . . Shema Ysrael!

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Asian Religions in British Columbia

UBC Press

This path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.

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Waiting for the Dawn

Mircea Eliade in Perspective

University Press of Colorado
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Children and Childhood in American Religions

Rutgers University Press

Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunities and challenges of American life.

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For the Love of God

The Bible as an Open Book

Rutgers University Press

For the Love of God is a provocative and inspiring re-interpretation of six essential Biblical texts: The Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Job.  In prose that is personal and probing, analytically acute and compellingly readable, Ostriker sees these writings as “counter-texts,” deviating from convention yet deepening and enriching the Bible, our images of God, and our own potential spiritual lives. Attempting to understand “some of the wildest, strangest, most splendid writing in Western tradition,” she shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice. 

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American Denominational History

Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future

Edited by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press

Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature
 

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