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  • How I Prayby Jim Castelli

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00

    Religion writer Jim Castelli set out to answer these profound questions by talking with twenty-six spiritual leaders and practitioners representing the wide spectrum of faith in America today. How I Pray gathers these remarkable conversations into a thought-provoking, personal, and deeply meaningful volume. In How I Pray Christians and Jews, Muslims... more...

  • Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 19by Ralph L. Piedmont

    BRILL 2008; US$ 132.00

    This volume provides a wide range of research on the psychological and sociological aspects of spirituality and religiousness. Volume 19 also contains a special section focusing on issues related to adolescent spirituality. more...

  • Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200by Maria-Zoe Petropoulou

    OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 54.99

    A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity during the period of their interaction between about 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple (up to AD 70), Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice.... more...

  • Images of the Body in Indiaby Axel Michaels; Christoph Wulf

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00

    This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three... more...

  • Postsecular Citiesby Justin Beaumont; Christopher Baker

    Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 27.95

    Exploration of postsecularism in theory and practice of urban life, evaluating the secular-to-postsecular shift in terms of public space, building use, governance and civil society. more...

  • History, Time, Meaning, and Memoryby Barbara Jones Denison

    BRILL 2011; US$ 144.00

    It can be said that history is poor sociology that does not account sufficiently for present social circumstances, while sociology is bad history in that it does not go back in time. This volume in the Religion and Social Order series sets out to address these conjoint problems of history and sociology within the disciplinary boundaries of the sociology... more...

  • Understanding Faithby Stephen R.L. Clark

    Andrews UK 2011; US$ 20.99

    Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of ‘scientists’ compared with the ‘dogmatism’ of ‘believers’;... more...

  • Understanding Religious Sacrificeby Jeffrey Carter

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 160.00

    This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. Collected here are twenty five influential selections, each with a brief introduction addressing the overall framework and assumptions of its author. As they present different theories and examples of sacrifice, these selections also... more...

  • Civic Ideology, Organization, and Law in the Rule Scrollsby Yonder M. Gillihan

    BRILL 2011; US$ 242.00

    Using insights from modern sociology, this book argues that the organization, law, and literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls sect expressed an "alternative civic ideology" by which members claimed citizenship in a superior commonwealth that would soon replace the existing Judean state. more...

  • Sacrifice Imaginedby Douglas Hedley

    Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 27.95

    Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling... more...