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Portfolios of the Poorby Daryl Collins; Jonathan Morduch; Stuart Rutherford; Orlanda Ruthven
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 19.95Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems. The authors conducted year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. The stories of these families are often... more...
Women and Religion in the Westby Kristin Aune; Sonya Sharma; Giselle Vincett
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but are leaving in large numbers, why are they leaving? Where are they going? What are they doing? And what's happening to those who remain? This book addresses a neglected yet crucial issue within the debate on religious belonging and departure: the role of women in and out of religion and spirituality. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship between gender and secularization, the book moves its focus to in-depth examination of women's experiences... more...
The Hybrid Church in the Cityby Christopher Richard Baker
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95This book argues that theology and the church need to engage more seriously with post-modern reality and thought if points of connection are going to be created. Drawing on case studies from Europe and the USA, this book examines examples of Third Space methodologies to ask questions about hybrid identities and methods churches might adopt to effectively connect with post-modern cities and civil society. more...
Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europeby Sylvia Brown
BRILL 2007; US$ 138.00A collection of twelve essays that examines the role of women and of gender in a range of 'radical' beliefs and practices in post-Reformation Europe. more...
Justice Educationby Susan C Toton
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 20.00Catholic colleges and universities, like non-religious academic institutions, are dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and truth. However because Catholic colleges and universities take their inspiration from the Gospel, that pursuit has a different orientation. Its specific point of reference, direction and purpose is perhaps best captured by the phrase "a preferential option for the poor." This phrase, coined by the Latin American bishops at their 1979 conference in Puebla, Mexico and since then central to the vocabulary of the Catholic Social Tradition, simply means that we as individuals, collectives and institutions are called by the Gospel to identify with the poor and marginalized of society, stand in solidarity with them,... more...
Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC)by Emma Wild-Wood
BRILL 2008; US$ 123.00Through oral history research in north eastern Congo, this book studies the migration of Anglicans and the subsequent reconfiguring of their Christian identity. It engages with issues of religious contextualisation, revivalism and the rise of Pentecostalism. It also demonstrates how religious affiliation aids a sense of belonging. more...
Formational Children's Ministryby Ivy Beckwith
Baker Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.99This practical book helps ministers and parents create a ministry that captures children's imaginations and teaches them to live as citizens of the kingdom of God. more...
Women in Christianityby Hans Küng
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 90.00For two years K++ng guided a research project on Women and Christianity, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For most of the religions of the world, women are a problem. From time immemorial they have been subordinate to men, second class in the family, p more...
Theirs Is the Kingdomby Robert D. Lupton
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 9.99Timely, informative reflections on the relationship between poverty and Christianity, the responsibilities of the haves and have-nots, and the lessons Christians can learn from the poor. more...
Liberating Traditionby Kristina LaCelle-Peterson
Baker Publishing Group 2008; US$ 24.00Offers a clear perspective on the issues Christian women face in the twenty-first century and shows how the Bible is a liberating and enriching book for women. more...