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Die Ganja-Picassos: Identität und Kunst bei den Rastafari
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37"Mein Malen kommt aus dem Beten", diese Worte von Rasta Leonard Daley zeigen, dass Kunst nicht nur einen ästhetischen Wert inne hat, sondern auch immer eine Funktion in der Gesellschaft einnimmt. Anhand von Kunst ist es möglich soziale und religiöse Systeme zu erkennen, nachzuvollziehen und zu verstehen. Auch bei den Rastafari spielt die Kunst eine... more...
Edge of Reason?
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 130.00Confrontation between science and religion has defined much public debate about religion in recent years, most lately in bestsellers portraying a clash between scientists and religious believers, such as Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith or Letter to a Christian Nation . But what does this clash mean for... more...
Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 77.00Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imagination. These magical beliefs and practices have figured in literary works by such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed, and they have been central to numerous films, such as The Skeleton Key. Written... more...
A Case for the Existence of God
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 15.99A Case for the Existence of God explores fundamental questions about why our world exists and how it functions, using principles of logic, physics, and theology to show that a belief in God can explain more about our world than even the most sophisticated science. In a time when religion and science are often portrayed as diametrically opposed,... more...
The Sacred Void
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 50.00David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. more...
Communities of Dissent
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 14.99Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gender, and region. Virtually always, the dramatic, dynamic... more...
Religion zwischen Zivilgesellschaft und politischem System
Springer Fachmedien 2010; US$ 47.99The Greenie's Guide to the End of the World
ATF Press 2011; US$ 20.00There is an old fundamentalist argument that the world will eventually be destroyed in the Apocalypse, so there is no point in caring for it. more...
Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at cognitive foundations of religion--and arriving at some surprising conclusions. Over the course of the past two decades, scholars have employed insights gleaned from cognitive science,... more...
Science and Religion
Wiley 2013; US$ 103.95Now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest debates, this popular textbook introduces readers to the central questions in the field of science and religion. Ideally suited to those who have little or no prior knowledge in either area, it incorporates numerous student-friendly features, including maps, summaries, and historical references, resulting... more...









