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Cults, Religion, and Violence
David G. Bromley
Paperback - $55.95
Contrary to conventional wisdom, violent episodes involving cults are rare historically. But their potential to affect and disrupt civic life looms large and efforts to manage these incidents involve controversial issues of religious freedom, politic ...
Sex Worship and Symbolism
Sanger Brown
Paperback - $36.95
In this work, a psychiatrist seeks, in the study of the worship of procreating power, to gain a clearer understanding of the forms taken by certain kinds of mental diseases. His theory is that we may expect diseased minds to reproduce, or return to e ...
Choice and Religion : A Critique of Rational Choice Theory
Steve Bruce
Hardcover - $315.95
People of the western world now have unprecedented freedom to choose their religion. Here, one of the world's leading sociologist of religion argues that the liberty and freedom to choose religion corrodes faith and that religion remains most vital w ...
Religion and Modernization : Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis
Steve Bruce
Hardcover - $315.95
The claim that modern societies are less religious than their predecessors because modernity itself undermines the plausibility of religion has been almost an orthodoxy. But increasingly this "secularization thesis" is being challenged on a number of ...
Man and the Sacred
Roger Caillois
Paperback - $27.95
These new Illinois paperbacks restore to print Roger Caillois's classic studies of two of the most fundamental aspects of human social and spiritual life. In their English translations by Meyer Barash, these works by an influential and wide-ranging t ...
Selling Spirituality
Jeremy R. Carrette
Hardcover - $222.95
From feng shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living, and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. "Selling Spirituality" is a shor ...
Selling Spirituality : The Silent Takeover of Religion
Jeremy R. Carrette
Paperback - $51.95
From feng shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living, and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. "Selling Spirituality is a short, s ...
Salvation and Suicide : Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown; Revised Edition
David Chidester
Paperback - $46.95
Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Ch ...