RELIGION
August 2013
Religion in America is constantly evolving. In the case of Catholicism, cultural conflicts about the family have intensified in recent decades. In other cases, Christian Americans are turning more towards complementary and alternative medicine, itself deriving from entirely different religions than Christianity. This month, we feature authors looking at religion in America: its past, its present, and its future.
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Spirit's Tether Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics Mary Ellen Konieczny List price: Sale price: $24.00 Explains moral polarization as a result of local fragmentation of Catholic tradition. |
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Healing Gods Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America Candy Gunther Brown List price: Sale price: $23.95 Explains how and why CAM entered the American biomedical mainstream and won cultural acceptance. |
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Gods
in America Religious Pluralism in the United States Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Ronald L. Numbers List price: Sale price: $28.00 Brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explain the historical roots of recent phenomena and assess their impact on modern American society. |
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MisReading
America Scriptures and Difference Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush With Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid List price: Sale price: $31.95 Presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color. |
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Debating
Christian Theism Edited by J. P. Moreland, Khaldoun A. Sweis, and Chad V. Meister List price: Sale price: $28.00 |
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Early
Evangelicalism A Reader Edited by Jonathan M. Yeager List price: Sale price: $28.00 |
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Formation of the Babylonian Talmud David Weiss Halivni Translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein List price: Sale price: $52.00 |
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Post-Islamism The Changing Faces of Political Islam Edited by Asef Bayat List price: Sale price: $28.00 |
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Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Matthew S. Hedstrom
Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the
American Society of Church History
Chosen People
The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions
Jacob S. Dorman
Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize
Spirituality
What It Is and Why It Matters
Roger S. Gottlieb
Winner of the Nautilus Silver Award
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