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American Sociology of Religion
BRILL 2007; US$ 140.00This is a collection of histories of various aspects of American sociology of religion. The contributions range from descriptions of early dissertations, accounts of changes in theoretical conceptualization, the evolution of studies of particular denominations, to the rise of new areas of inquiry such as globalization, feminism, new religions, and... more...
Converting Cultures
BRILL 2007; US$ 206.00This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism. more...
Rites of Passage
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 9.99Rites of Passage is a knowledgeable book By Gary Ferguson and Kathleen Wall, revolving around the rituals that mark a change in a persons social status. The narrative provides an earnest lesson to the readers that they can control the changes and demanding situations in their life graciously. more...
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
Wiley 2010; US$ 98.95Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century. A timely and highly original contribution to debates about... more...
Politics to Come
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00This title considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. "The Politics to Come" brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive... more...
Women and New and Africana Religions
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 45.00This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethnicities and nationalities across the social spectrum.||In Women and New and Africana Religions,... more...
Proselytization Revisited
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 85.50The current volume updates and expands earlier studies of proselytism, and explores more thoroughly the theoretical and practical implications of proselytization and anti-proselytization, notably within the current phase of democratization and globalization. Several authors offer analyses of the new actors, movements, and territories now associated... more...
Sacred Places of the World: A Religious Journey Across the Globe
Abhishek Publications 2010; US$ 50.00Meditation: Road to Spiritual Freedom
Abhishek Publications 2010; US$ 50.00There are many facts and myths surrounding the world. They have always amused the human race and added to the numerous mysteries that remain unsolved. To cover such mystifiying subjects and themes, we have introduced the following series. Here the reader can read in detail about the Sacred places of the World, Famous Battles of the World, World Famous... more...
This Is It
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.00The six essays in this volume all deal with the relationship of mystical experience to ordinary life. The title essay on "cosmic consciousness" includes the author's account of his own ventures into this inward realm. "Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety" is a study of the paradoxes of self-consciousness; "Spiritually and Sensuality," a lively discussion... more...









