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Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Heart and Head Black Theology--Past, Present, and Future Dwight N. Hopkins; Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson Palgrave Macmillan An inclusive theology of liberation for the 21st century.

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Around the Sacred Fire Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era James Treat Palgrave Macmillan A cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S....

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Afro-Eccentricity Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion William David Hart Palgrave Macmillan Afro-Eccentricity explores three overlapping stories of Black Religion: the Soul, Black Church, and Ancestor Narratives. Hart contends that these narratives...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body Mystical Sensuality Thomas Cattoi and June McDaniel Palgrave Macmillan Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses--our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions--in the...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	A Peaceful Jihad Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Ronald Lukens-Bull Palgrave Macmillan This book is an examination of how Muslims in Java, Indonesia, are using education and other arenas to negotiate both modernity and tradition in the contexts...

Trade Paperback : $93.00 Buy	Focus on Ethnicity and Religion Focus On Office for National Statistics Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on the latest information from the 2001 Census, as well as a range of other sources, this report provides a comprehensive statistical picture of...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966 Edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu Palgrave Macmillan This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Muslims on the Map A National Survey of Social Trends in Britain Serena Hussain Tauris Academic Studies Many faith groups in the UK - most notably Muslims - have in recent years challenged the idea that religion should be predominantly a matter for the private...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space Martyn Smith Palgrave Macmillan This book proposes a new way of thinking about how a place becomes sacred and investigates the cultural considerations that influence the way a place becomes...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Bible Witness in Black Churches Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher Palgrave Macmillan What is the proper place of the Bible in Black Churches? Baker-Fletcher explores the Bible as a uniquely authoritative text within the context of Black church...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Renee K. Harrison Palgrave Macmillan The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of the past have dealt...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Jewish Ethics as Dialogue Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World Moses L. Pava Palgrave Macmillan This book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next. Jewish...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Religions of the Silk Road Premodern Patterns of Globalization Richard Foltz Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on the latest research and scholarship, this newly revised and updated edition of Religions of the Silk Road explores the majestically fabled cities...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Ethical Complications of Lynching Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Terror Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Angela D. Sims Palgrave Macmillan In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells’s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Diversity and Pluralism in Islam Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims Edited by Z. Hirji Institute for Ismaili Studies For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Epistemology of Religious Disagreement A Better Understanding James Kraft Palgrave Macmillan The opponent in either an ordinary or religious disagreement asserts you have made a mistake. To avoid mistakes we strive to have good justification for...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Peter S. Cahn Palgrave Macmillan Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Spirits without Borders Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien Palgrave Macmillan An ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam’s Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual, this book is the...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Faith in Objects American Missionary Expositions in the Early Twentieth Century Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Erin L. Hasinoff Palgrave Macmillan In the early twentieth century, missionary expositions were a central event in the religious life of many Americans. They also converged with the research...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	The Christianity of Culture Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Liana Chua Palgrave Macmillan In recent years, anthropologists have increasingly viewed Christian conversion as a form of rupture from the past. But what happens if the people with whom...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Communitas The Anthropology of Collective Joy Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Edith Turner Palgrave Macmillan In this seminal work, Edith Turner extends the concept of communitas that Victor Turner developed nearly four decades ago. Communitas is inspired...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion Religion/Culture/Critique Edited by Theodore Louis Trost Palgrave Macmillan The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion engages a variety of conversations at the forefront of contemporary scholarship in the study of religion and in...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Christianity in the Local Context Southern Baptists in the Philippines Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Brian M. Howell Palgrave Macmillan How do Filipino Baptists who sing in English, quote from James Dobson, and download sermon illustrations from Alabama understand themselves, and their faith,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China Ritual, Complicity, Community DJ W. Hatfield Palgrave Macmillan Through an examination of the pilgrimages to China that enveloped Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hatfield advances anthropological understandings of...

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