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On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life
N. J. Allen
Hardcover - $316.95
This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece i The Elementary Forms of Religious Life /i and includes work by the most important international Durkheim scholars.
Strong Religion : The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Gabriel Abraham Almond
Paperback - $44.95
After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators, and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? ...
Everyday Religion : Observing Modern Religious Lives
Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Paperback - $41.95
Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with religion. In the first century of sociologys history as a discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that rel ...
Dueling Identities : The Christian Biker
Doreen Anderson-Facile
Hardcover - $102.95
Dueling Identities examines the contradictions facing the Christian biker in regard to conflicting culture norms and values, while exploring how the Christian biker identity is developed and maintained.
Religion and Cultural Memory : Ten Studies
Jan Assmann
Paperback - $38.95
In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cul ...
Spirit and Flesh : Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
James M. Ault
Paperback - $24.95
In an attempt to understand the growing popularity and influence of Christian fundamentalism, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.
Spirit and Flesh takes us ...