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Canada's Religions
University of Ottawa Press 2004; US$ 34.99With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind - Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Aboriginal, or one of dozens of other religions - faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, Robert Choquette offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the ongoing... more...
Afro-Eccentricity
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Afro-Eccentricity explores three overlapping stories of Black Religion: the soul, the black church, and ancestor narratives. Hart contends that these narratives dominate most accounts of Black Religion that, collectively, he calls the "Standard Narrative of Black Religion." more...
Santeria
Beacon Press 2011; US$ 20.00Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He traces... more...
The Kebra Nagast
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 24.99A sacred text to Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians, The Kebra Nagast tells of the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and their son Menyelik, who hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. This edition of the Ethiopian text is edited by Gerald Hausman, with an introduction by Ziggy Marley. more...
Ecstatic Encounters
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 54.95Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomblé temples in Bahia, Brazil, where - for many generations - members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each other's otherness. Having allowed himself to be baffled by Candomblé's mysteries and miracle productions, the... more...
Popvirus
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 28.75Er waart een popvirus door het land. Steeds meer sferen in de samenleving lijken gepopulariseerd te worden. Religie vindt een nieuwe weg op de videowebsite GodTube.com; debatten over islam en integratie worden voor een breed en jong publiek gebracht in televisieseries als Dunya en Desie; HEMA-posters en videoclips rukken op in kunstmusea. Soms gebeurt... more...
Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean
UPF 2011; US$ 74.95The first book-length work to compare and contrast Afro- and Indo-Caribbean materials in a systematic and multidimensional manner, this volume makes fresh and innovative contributions to anthropology, religious studies, and the historiography of modernity. By giving both religious subcultures and their intersections equal attention, McNeal offers a... more...
Religion and Public Life
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95For more than twenty years, Bishop Tom Butler has related religious belief to the events of public life, both national and global, in regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Each 'Thought' is prompted by current events, without knowing how the news will develop, thereby illustrating how religion relates to contemporary... more...
Erinnerung an Jesus
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 55.96Hauptbeschreibung Diese Band verfolgt nicht das Ziel, hinter den Evangelien den historischen Jesus ausfindig zu machen. Vielmehr möchte er in der Kontinuität und Diskontinuität der Überlieferungen die Mehrstimmigkeit neutestamentlicher Erinnerungen an Jesus hörbar machen. Es werden ganz unterschiedliche Facetten seines Wirkens beleuchtet: Jesus im... more...
Sustaining Faith Traditions
NYU Press 2012; US$ 80.00Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically... more...









