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Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century Best Price: $4.14 A splendid interfaith, interdisciplinary study of Lewis and Chesterton, with numerous...	The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism Best Price: $6.99 Sherbok has written many books on Judaism. The Crucified Jew is written with emotion and bias,...	Grace and Truth in the Secular Age Best Price: $8.99	The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions (SAGE Library of Social Research) '...the book is a most useful contribution to the study of social movements. It should also...	Shamanism Best Price: $13.06 Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies at the Scott...



Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America Best Price: $30.97 The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as...	Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement Best Price: $23.00 Barkun recites a Talmudic workmanlike account of Identity recent history, but he is...	The Church in the Barrio: Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston Best Price: $20.00 In a story that spans from the founding of immigrant parishes in the early twentieth century to...	$Great Australian Urban Myths: "Granny on the Roofrack" and Other Tales of Modern Horror$ Great Australian Urban Myths: "Granny on the Roofrack" and Other Tales of Modern Horror For this collection of urban myths and legends, the author has tracked down over 100...	A Theology for the Social Gospel Best Price: $16.94 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...



The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial Best Price: $20.20 Robert Bellah's book is a thoughtful and, in places, animated sociological critique of...	The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination Best Price: $19.49 American spirituality?with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration?is...	Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity Best Price: $14.91 Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy?...	Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood (Morality and Society Series) Best Price: $17.88 Long considered the lifeblood of urban African American neighborhoods, churches are held up as...	The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland Best Price: $26.23 Zubrzycki's work is excellent in that it provides an in-depth summary of the situations and...

Seek the Peace of the City: Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realistic and Transformative	An Islamic Court in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning Best Price: $74.45 Prof. Stiles' book should be assigned to a wide range of anthropology and religious studies...	The Sikhs: History, Religion, and Society Best Price: $30.00 The Sikhs, a colorful and controversial people about whom little is generally known, have been...	In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion...	Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Master Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture) Best Price: $23.19 In Worldly Wonder, Mary Evelyn Tucker argues that the challenge for modern world religion is to...

Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion Best Price: $2.90 In this book, Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends that...	Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church (Qualitative Studies in Religion) Best Price: $17.00 Dreams and visions, prophetic words from God about "dusty souls," speaking in tongues...	Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion (Women and Gender in North American Religion) Best Price: $14.97 This is a ground breaking book. The author tells the story of Indonesian Christian women who go...	Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women (Gender and Globalization) Best Price: $21.58 Over the last fifteen years, there have been an increasing number of middle- and upper-class...	Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains (Studies in Anglican History) Best Price: $18.95 Howard Harrod's Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern...

Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain (American Culture) Best Price: $120.00	Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture (Religion & American Culture) Best Price: $42.47 The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest...	Deep South: Memory and Observation (Brown Thrasher Books) Best Price: $4.00 Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a...	Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins Best Price: $5.49 The New York Public Library's series on the 7 deadly sins, which invites authors to reflect...	Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite Best Price: $3.60 Having been touted in the Wall Street Journal and published by Oxford University Press, Faith in...

Islam and Liberal Citizenship The Search for an Overlapping Consensus Best Price: $39.40 Some argue that Muslims have no tradition of separation of church and state and therefore...	The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh Best Price: $19.44 This book is a study of possession among the Buddhists of Ladakh. The author demonstrates that...	The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford Handbooks in Religion &) Best Price: $41.25 Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and...	Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion Best Price: $14.16 During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of...	Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 Best Price: $13.89 I always hope that when i'm reading a book about two alternatives, in this case the...

Hansel and Gretel	The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids	Planning the Good Community	In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion...	Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Master Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture) Best Price: $23.19 In Worldly Wonder, Mary Evelyn Tucker argues that the challenge for modern world religion is to...

Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion Best Price: $2.90 In this book, Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends that...	Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church (Qualitative Studies in Religion) Best Price: $17.00 Dreams and visions, prophetic words from God about "dusty souls," speaking in tongues...	Christian Women in Indonesia: A Narrative Study of Gender and Religion (Women and Gender in North American Religion) Best Price: $14.97 This is a ground breaking book. The author tells the story of Indonesian Christian women who go...	Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women (Gender and Globalization) Best Price: $21.58 Over the last fifteen years, there have been an increasing number of middle- and upper-class...	Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains (Studies in Anglican History) Best Price: $18.95 Howard Harrod's Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern...

Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain (American Culture) Best Price: $120.00	Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture (Religion & American Culture) Best Price: $42.47 The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest...	Deep South: Memory and Observation (Brown Thrasher Books) Best Price: $4.00 Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a...	Amulets of Ancient Egypt (Egyptian)	World of Myths (The Legendary Past S.) (Vol 2) Best Price: $5.00 This book is a compilation edition of five further titles from the successful series The...

Millennialism and Violence (Cass Series on Political Violence) Best Price: $48.26 This book was an issue of Terrorism and Politcial Violence. I tried hard to get a back issue...	Women in Greek Myth Modern feminism often takes Greek mythology as reflecting a world in which men dominate women,...	Aboriginal Legends: Animal Tales Best Price: $7.99 A.W. Reed. Why are there black swans only in Australia? How did snakes become poisonous? Learn...	Generation Hex: Understanding the Subtle Dangers of Wicca Best Price: $3.11 I have been interacting quite a bit with the Pagan community over the Internet in promotion of...	Looneyville Zip Code 25259 Lore Best Price: $30.99 A look at Appalachian folklore and the charming colloquial speech practiced in isolated...

The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan: Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy Best Price: $68.33 The most influential sect in the Chinese mainland in the 1940s, Yiguan Dao was largely destroyed...	The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States Best Price: $59.00 One hundred years after the Azusa Street Revival stunned Los Angeles and changed Western...	The Sikhs in Britain	Social and Cultural Diversity in a Sporting World (Research in the Sociology of Sport) Best Price: $81.23	The Clergy of Winchester, England 1615-1698: A Diocesan Ministry in Crisisthe Clergy of Winchester, England 1615-1698

The Mind of the Anglican Clergy: Assessing Atitudes and Beliefs in the Church of England Best Price: $109.95 The study illustrates the broad diversity of opinion held by Anglican clergy on key issues...	The Righteousness of the Kingdom (Texts and Studies in the Social Gospel, 2) Best Price: $119.95 Stackhouse has provided those interested in the Social Gospel with a powerful and very readable...	An Examined Faith Best Price: $5.90 This short book argues a threefold thesis: first, that the same actions, events, texts, or...	American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination: Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion Best Price: $27.22 Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to...	Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies) Best Price: $39.51 The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were...

Kind of Life Imposed on Ma -OS	The Choice: America At the Crossroads of Ruin and Revival Best Price: $1.17 Evangelist Sammy Tippit sees America at the crossroads. We can continue down the road that leads...	Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture Best Price: $15.29 Very interesting and thought provoking book. What do you want to know about African American...	Sacred Treasure, Secret Power Best Price: $220.20 This remarkable book traces the legend of the lost treasure of the Jews, from the sack of...	Religion in Contemporary Japan What role does religion play in contemporary Japanese society and in the lives of Japanese...

Beyond Decline Best Price: $43.64	Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism: Puritanism, Democracy, and Society Best Price: $118.31 This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to...	God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture Best Price: $69.80 God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth, diversity, and persistence of...	The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature Best Price: $88.50 From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni...

The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature Best Price: $33.09 From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni...	Religion and American Culture: A Reader Best Price: $110.56 Religion and American Culture challenges the religion's traditional emphasis on older...	Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult Best Price: $25.00 A fascinating look at one of the least studied phenomenoms about religious movements and cults -...	Passionate and Compassionate Love: Vision for Christian Marriage	Toronto Blessing - Or Is It? Pb

Light from the Dark Valley: Reflections on Suffering and the Care of the Dying	Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power, and Schooling in a West African Best Price: $35.94 "I know of no one who has taken such an ambitious swath of time and done such a good job of...	Religion and Prime Time Television Best Price: $85.73 How is religion portrayed on prime time entertainment television and what effect does this have...	Anglican Communion and Homosexuality,The Best Price: $3.99 If you're looking for a quick and easy read, this is not your book. However if you're...	Rulings Of The Night: An Ethnography Of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts Best Price: $13.00 This book is simply amazing, for lover's of the occult, psychology, litature, anthropology,...

The Campaign for Justice, Truth and Love: A History and Reader of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement Best Price: $69.95 Founded in 1975, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement has become the largest and most...	Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion Best Price: $16.12 What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring...	Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers Best Price: $29.99 Contains alphabetical lists of flowers and the meanings associated with them.	Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations The work is a valuable listing of direct and indirect source material for each oracular...	Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal Best Price: $289.59 Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for...

Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World Best Price: $18.00 Though this book contains analysis of other civilizations , its author's insight into early...	Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte (Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems) Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes and interprets trance behaviour...	Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (Publications of the German Historical Institute) Best Price: $37.30 Although Weber's path-breaking work on the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has...	Religious Integrity for Everyone: Functional Theology for Secular Society Best Price: $3.27 Fred Campbell's Religious Integrity for Everyone is a timely book for our distracted...	American Religious History (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History) Best Price: $31.94 In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty...

The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan Best Price: $190.00 The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority, neither Muslim, Christian nor Jewish....	The Magical History of the Horse Best Price: $369.22 The horse has become integrated with human work, warfare, history and sport and is the living...

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