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A Consuming Faith : The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture
Susan Curtis
Paperback - $54.95
In A Consuming Faith, Susan Curtis analyzes the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. By examining lives and works of indi ...
Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals
Frederick Morgan Davenport
Paperback - $48.95
A study in mental and social evolution. The author endeavored to present a sociological interpretation of religious revivals. He aimed at a true scientific description, beginning with a provisional discrimination of the whole subject, continuing with ...
Religion in Britain Since 1945 : Believing Without Belonging
Grace Davie
Paperback - $103.95
This important book describes as accurately as possible the religious situation of Great Britain at the end of the twentieth century, and evaluates this evidence within a sociological framework. Two key themes emerge within the book. The first concer ...
Religion in Modern Europe - A Memory Mutates
Grace Davie
Hardcover - $315.95
Religion in Modern Europe examines religion as a form of collective memory. This is a memory held in place by Europe's institutional churches, educational systems, and the mass media - all of which are themselves responding to rapid social and econom ...
Religion in Modern Europe : A Memory Mutates
Grace Davie
Paperback - $239.95
Religion in Modern Europe examines religion as a form of collective memory. This is a memory held in place by Europe's institutional churches, educational systems, and the mass media - all of which are themselves responding to rapid social and econom ...
The Sociology of Religion
Grace Davie
Paperback - $86.95
Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious? This book, written by one of the leading figures in the field, works at two levels. First it sets out the agenda ??? covering the key questions in the sociology of religion ...
New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America, 2nd Edition.
Derek Davis
Paperback - $75.95
New nontraditional religious movements are the most likely groups to offend mainstream culture and the least likely to have representatives in government to ensure that their liberty is protected. These new religious movements are sometimes ostracize ...
Shaking the Faith : Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867
Elizabeth A. De Wolfe
Hardcover - $193.95
Winner of the 2003 Communal Studies Association Outstanding Publication Award!
When Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) joined the Shakers in 1813 with her husband and five children, she thought she had found salvation. But two years later, she fled t ...
Abraham on Trial : The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth
Carol Delaney
Paperback - $61.95
"A strikingly original and provocative analysis of a topic that is intensely controversial and yet peculiarly conventional. Carol Delaney's combination of critical methods as well as her particular focus on the implications of the Abraham story for o ...