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Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape מאת Alan Wolfe Why is gambling so accepted in the U.S. while other historical vices, such as smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this pathbreaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan W...

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Science and the Quest for Meaning: מאת Alfred I. Tauber In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated. Avoiding the dogmatism that has def...

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Sociological Imagination: A Reader, 1897-1914 מאת Robert A. Wortham Introducing and presenting thirty core texts from the sociological writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Worthams unique reader highlights Du Bois as a multifaceted researcher and thinker who, by attempting to approach African American social life from every angle, became a pioneer in American sociol...

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The Ethics of Citizenship: Liberal Demorcacy and Religious Convictions מאת J. Caleb Clanton Offering the most significant contributions on the topic from leading contemporary scholars, J. Caleb Clanton's carefully edited and organized The Ethics of Citizenship seeks to answer one of the most salient and hotly debated questions of the day: What role, if any, should religion play in U...

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International Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Guide to Organizations, Law, and NGOs מאת H. Knox Thames The first resource of its kind, International Religious Freedom Advocacy equips activists and policymakers with an intimate knowledge of the governmental institutions, NGOs, and laws that work to safeguard religious liberties across the world. Beginning with an overview of the international legal pr...

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Religion in the National Agenda: What We Mean by Religious, Spiritual, Secular מאת C. John Sommerville In this highly provocative investigation, C. John Sommerville examines common linguistic uses of the terms 'religion,' 'religious,' 'spiritual,' and 'secular' in order to discern understandings of these words in contemporary American culture. Sommerville then uses these definitions to examine the wa...

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Amos: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text (Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible) (Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible) מאת Duane A. Garrett This third volume in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides expert, comprehensive guidance in answering significant questions about the Hebrew text. While reflecting the latest advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics, the work utilizes a style that is lucid enough ...

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After Modernity?: Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-enchantment of the World מאת James K. A. Smith After Modernity? addresses a cluster of questions and issues found at the nexus of globalization and religion. This unique volume examine various religious--especially Christian--evaluations of and responses to globalization. In particular, the book considers the links among globalization, ca...

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Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination) מאת Rowan Williams Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devil...

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The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation מאת Beth Allison Barr The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation is a landmark work of research, containing examples of specific ways that Baptists have used Acts in their confessions, sermons, tracts, commentaries, monographs, devotional and denominational literature, speeches, and hymns. ...

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No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World מאת Michael Henderson Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, No Enemy to Conquer shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile with their enemies. Gathering the voices of Desmond Tutu, Benazir Bhutto, Rajmohan Gan...

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Reading the Bible Intertextually מאת Richard B. Hays Reading the Bible Intertextually explores the revisionary hermeneutical practices of the Bible. Here some of the world's foremost interpreters of the New Testament examine the varied and distinctive ways that the canonical texts engage in conversation with other parts of the Bible....

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Preaching the Inward Light: EarlyQuaker Rhetoric (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion) מאת Michael P. Graves Studying the history of early Quaker preaching, Michael Graves uses careful rhetorical analysis to provide insights into Quaker theology and practice. Situating the movement within the intellectual context of early seventeenth century Europe, he explores both seminal preachers and lesser known figur...

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Small Screen, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion מאת Diane Winston A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, th...

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Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth מאת Kim Paffenroth Winner of the silver medal in popular culture for the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hel...

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Escape into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular Culture מאת Glenn W. Shuck Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Shuck rummage through interesting and eclectic body of pop culture - from Fight Club to X-Files to the Left Behind series -pointing out the pr...

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Deep Exegesis:The Mystery of Reading Scripture מאת Peter Leithart Seeking to train readers to hear all that is being said within a written text, Peter Leithart advocates a hermeneutics of the letter that is not rigidly literalist and looks to learn to read not just the Bible, but everything--from Jesus and Paul. Thus Deep Exegesis explores the nature of rea...

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Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives מאת Werner H. Kelber Few scholars have influenced New Testament scholarship in the areas of orality, memory, and tradition more profoundly than Birger Gerhardsson. Today, as these topics have again become important in biblical scholarship, his pioneering work takes on a new light. Though the esteemed contributors may di...

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Ephesians: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament) מאת William J. Larkin In this volume, William Larkin provides students with a reliable guide through the intricacies of the Greek text of Ephesians, introducing them to consensus views on matters of syntax, semantics, and textual criticism. In addition, the annotations contain references to current debates relating to th...

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The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture (Studies in Christianity and Literature) מאת David Jasper Continuing the work began in The Sacred Desert, David Jasper here turns his attention to the body, seeking a profound understanding of what it means to be in the flesh. A deeply autobiographical journey through disparate written texts (in literature, philosophy, theology and religion), art, a...

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Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music מאת Michael J. Gilmour Though American attitudes toward religion changed dramatically during the 1960s, interest in spirituality itself never diminished. If we listen closely, Michael Gilmour contends, we can hear an extensive religious vocabulary in the popular music of the decades that followedarticulating each generati...

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Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light (Studies in Christianity and Literature) מאת John F. Desmond In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known poet Czeslaw Milosz and the French philosopher Simone Weil. Weil was a powerful influence on Milosz'...

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Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court מאת Ronald B. Flowers Toward Benevolent Neutrality (5th edition, 1996), a longstanding favorite for professors of church-and-state relationships in the U.S., has been revised and updated by one original author, Robert T. Flowers, and two new ones, Melissa Rogers and Steven K. Green. Religious Freedom and the Su...

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Theology After Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction מאת Darren J. N. Middleton Theology After Reading explores how recent novelists, alongside certain post-War Christian theologians, appear to be challenging, inverting, reinterpreting, and sometimes even affirming, the basic questions and answers of more traditional theologians. Focusing on five novels, Darren Middleton...

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The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David מאת Anthony Le Donne The Historiographical Jesus introduces a new theory and approach for studying the life of Jesus. Anthony Le Donne uses the precepts of social memory theory to identify memory refraction in the Jesus tradition--the refocusing distortion that occurs as the stories and sayings of Jesus were hand...

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Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers מאת Patricia A. Ward In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, François de Fénelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional literature--one that continues to influence Ame...

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A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism מאת Gregory E. Ganssle Calmly engaging the philosophical arguments posed by best-selling authors Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, and to a lesser extent, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, Gregory Ganssle's A Reasonable God is a nuanced, charitable, and philosophically well-informed defense of the existence of...

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Disputed Issues: Contending for Christian Faith in Today's Academic Setting מאת Stephen T. Davis Disputed Issues is a collection of essays reflecting Professor Steven Davis's thinking--developed over a long and illustrious career--on a host of widely-contested issues essential to Christian philosophy, theology, and belief. These thoughtful and highly readable essays explore a range of to...

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Mark's Jesus: Characterization as Narrative Christology מאת Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

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Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection: An Ecumenical Dialogue מאת Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric Employing fresh, innovative readings, Edgardo Colon-Emeric examines and underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley--and finds them, surprisingly, largely complementary. Utilizing the image of a kneeling ecumenism, he offers a p...

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What's in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament מאת Ben Witherington III Written in clear, and at times colorful, prose, Ben Witherington's Whats in the Word explains how the recognition of the oral and socio-rhetorical character of the New Testament and its environment necessitates a change in how the New Testament literature is read. Expanding on the work in whi...