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  • Sacred Circles, Public Squaresby Arthur E. II Farnsley; N. J. Demerath III; Etan Diamond; Mary L. Mapes

    Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 36.00

    This study of the religious landscape of Indianapolis -- the summative volume of the Lilly Endowment's Project on Religion and Urban Culture conducted by the Polis Center at IUPUI -- aims to understand religion's changing role in public life. The book examines the shaping of religious traditions by the... more...

  • Dream Catchersby Philip Jenkins

    Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 20.99

    In this account of the changing attitudes towards Native American spirituality, Philip Jenkins charts the history of white American attitudes toward Native religions from colonial times to the present. more...

  • The Nature of Magicby Susan Greenwood

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2005; US$ 109.95

    This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. more...

  • American Sanctuaryby Louis P. Nelson

    Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 19.95

    This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut;... more...

  • Taking Religious Pluralism Seriouslyby Barbara A. McGraw; Jo Renee Formicola

    Baylor University Press 2005; US$ 39.95

    The clash between the religious right and the secular left undermines any serious debate about the role of religion in American public life. Such strident cultural rhetoric often ignores the positive contributions of America's many religions. By contrast, this volume celebrates America's religious diversity, demonstrating that religious pluralism is... more...

  • Do You Believe?by Antonio Monda

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00

    Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God. Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: ?Do you believe... more...

  • Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United Statesby Mark Hulsether

    Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 29.83

    Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverse and contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the base of the Republican Party, racial-ethnic communities often organised along religious lines, and social-political movements... more...

  • Religious Revolutionariesby Robert C. Fuller

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 28.00

    Fuller picks up where his Spiritual, but Not Religious (Oxford 2001) left off in this study of men and women who were "creatively religious" as they encountered the main currents of American religion. Fuller sets his study of these "religious revolutionaries" in the context of their own times, thus providing a helpful and concise... more...

  • Interfaith Encounters in Americaby Kate McCarthy

    Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 22.95

    From its most cosmopolitan urban centers to the rural Midwest, the United States is experiencing a rising tide of religious interest. While terrorist attacks keep Americans fixed on an abhorrent vision of militant Islam, popular films such as The Passion of the Christ and The Da Vinci Code make blockbuster material of the origins of Christianity.... more...

  • Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagementby Paul Numrich; Fred Kniss

    Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 25.95

    Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of America's history. Currently, about 40 percent of the nation's annual population growth comes from the influx of foreign-born individuals and their children. As these new voices enter America's public conversations, they bring with... more...