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Egypt, the Trunk of the Tree
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95Award-winning writer Najovits shares the joy and fascination of decoding the hints and signals emanating from ancient Egypt that still illuminate civilization today. Volume II discusses Egypt's place in the history of religions and its possible influence more...
The Faith Factor
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00Examines the role of faith and religion in American elections, including most recently the 2004 election more...
Liberal Protestantism and Science
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 65.00Addresses the mainline protestant acceptance of the scientific worldview more...
Religion and the Politics of Tolerance
Baylor University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and significant book, she thoroughly re-examines previous studies and presents new research to support her argument that there is, in fact, a positive correlation between religious belief... more...
Divine Hierarchies
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 26.95Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through representations. It entails relationships, identifications,... more...
Clashes of Knowledge
Springer 2008; US$ 119.99The majority of social scientists and economists believed that the production and application of knowledge as a process was unrelated to the spatial context. This book features a topic, Knowledge and Space that covers various interrelated research topics, which are of political and economical relevance to society. more...
Religion, Economics and Demography
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 155.00Using the tools of economics, this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas, including education, employment, family size, entry into cohabitation and formal marriage, the choice of spouse and divorce. In each case, the relationships are rigorously quantified based on multivariate statistical analyses... more...
De wereld in evenwicht
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 11.25Het Oude Egypte oefent nog altijd een grote aantrekkingskracht uit op vele mensen. De piramides, tempels en faraos prikkelen de verbeelding van menigeen. In het zesde deel van de serie Oudheid wordt deze antieke cultuur en haar godsdienst nader onder de loep genomen. Een belangrijk kenmerk van de Oudegyptische religie was de verscheidenheid aan ideeën... more...
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 22.99This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism, and scientism. Arguing that the metaphysical doctrine... more...
Religion in America
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 9.99It's hard to think of a single aspect of American culture, past or present, in which religion has not played a major role. The roles religion plays, moreover, become more bewilderingly complex and diverse every day. For all those who want--whether out of curiosity, necessity, or civic duty--a vivid picture and fuller understanding of the current... more...









