"Go Shout it from the Mountain, A Personal Look at Angels"

by Senior Chaplain Anna M. Miller

<p>There are times when things occur in this life that are just unexplainable. We look at things in the natural and that’s all we see. I will tell you some of my personal experiences and what God has shown me over the years about angels and ...

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"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"

Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration

by Edward Orozco Flores

<p><strong>An examination of the efforts of faith-based organizations to expand the rights of the formerly incarcerated</strong></p> <p>The use of religion to rehabilitate and redeem formerly incarcerated individuals has been a cultural ...

ISBN: 9781479862467

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A Downward Spiral? How the United States falls victim to its own religious history

by Gordon Wagner

<p>Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), course: Religion and Science, language: English, abstract: Das vorliegende Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Ursache

ISBN: 9783656735519

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A God of One's Own

Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence

by Ulrich Beck

<p>Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: ‘We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality ...

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A House of Prayer for All People

Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

by David K. Seitz

<p>Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often ...

ISBN: 9781452955582

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A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

by Joshi, Vibha

<p> 'Nagaland for Christ' and 'Jesus Saves' are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies the underlying ...

ISBN: 9780857456731

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A Nation with the Soul of a Church: How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History

How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History

by James Dunkly & O. C. Edwards Jr.

<p>What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is &quot;Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God&quot; sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession of the Southern states from the Union? And why does ...

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A Visit to a Gñáni

Or Wise Man of the East

by Edward Carpenter

<p>Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenter’s <em>Adam’s Peak to Elephanta,</em> originally published in 1892*,* which details his travels in India and Ceylon. This excerpt in

ISBN: 9781317290971

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A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States

by Carr, C. Lynn

<DIV>In Santer&iacute;a, entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. In&#160;<I>A Year in White</I>, sociologist C. Lynn Carr&mdash;who underwent this initiation herself&mdash;offers a wealth of ...

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Accounts of China and India

by Abu Zayd al-Sirafi

<p><strong>The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.</strong></p> <p>An exceptional exemplar of Arabic ...

ISBN: 9781479814428

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African Pilgrimage

Ritual Travel in South Africa's Christianity of Zion

by Retief Müller

<p>Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the bottom end of the social ladder to make ...

ISBN: 9781317184232

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Alternative Sociologies of Religion

Through Non-Western Eyes

by James V. Spickard

<p><strong>Alternative Sociologies of Religion explores what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one.</strong></p> <p>Sociology has long used ...

ISBN: 9781479878208

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America's Dark Theologian

The Religious Imagination of Stephen King

by Douglas E. Cowan

<p><strong>Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror stories</strong></p> <p>Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion ...

ISBN: 9781479814466

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America's Sacred Calling

Building a New Spiritual Reality

by John Medina

<p>America's Sacred Calling describes a blueprint for creating an entirely new society that truly uplifts and honors the spiritual reality of the human soul, while fostering the conditions for humankind to transcend the existential fears, ...

ISBN: 9781618511171

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American Parishes

Remaking Local Catholicism

by Gary J. Adler, Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane & others

<p>Argues forcefully for a break between the sociology of Catholic parishes and previous models found in Congregational Studies</p> ...

ISBN: 9780823284368

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American Prisons

A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam

by SpearIt

<p>This book is a critical exploration of prisons in contemporary America. Paying special attention to race and Islam, the work draws on a range of data and sources, including interviews and written correspondence with current and ex-prisoners, ...

ISBN: 9781506904887

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Antifundamentalism in Modern America

by David Harrington Watt

<p>David Harrington Watt's <em>Antifundamentalism in Modern America</em> gives us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played—and continues to play—in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral ...

ISBN: 9781501708534

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Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)

by Novak, Michael

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize

ISBN: 9781412817554

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Atheism And The Case Against Christ

by Matthew S. Mccormick

<p>Hundreds of millions of people believe that Jesus came back from the dead. This cogent, forcefully argued book presents a decidedly unpopular view —namely, that the central tenet of Christianity, the resurrection of Jesus, is false. The ...

ISBN: 9781616145828

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Beyond Accommodation

Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians

by Jennifer Selby, Amelie Barras & Lori G. Beaman

<p>Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. <em>Beyond Accommodation</em> offers a different perspective, ...

ISBN: 9780774838313

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