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This book explore how sports and religions are intertwined with American cultural elements including capitalism, race relations, gender norms, and nationalism.
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This book provides the first comparative analysis of how religious, gender and national identities have been constructed in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu girls' schools in Sri Lanka.
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This handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multi-religious, cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of religion and food.
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This volume offers a broad examination of the impact of religion on the lives of women around the world.
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In The Purity Culture Recovery Guide, sex educator Erica Smith-founder of the Purity Culture Dropout® program-offers the comprehensive, inclusive, and trauma-informed sex education many never received.
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This volume critically and constructively examines Jeremiah Wright Jr.'s life and legacy, focusing on his patriotic promotion of inclusion within the church and society.
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Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.
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This book explores the recent rise of African Pentecostalism and its rejuvenation of the Protestant-Evangelical minority religion in a secular and liberal (Flemish) Belgium.
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The book includes a detailed discourse analysis of twelve 'blasphemy' incidents in the history of modern Serbia.
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The authors introduce a new branch of computational humanities, using computational modeling to simulate civilizational transformations.
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Contributes to the current debate over Islam in a globalizing world by drawing on the contemporary and historical justice discourse within the Islamic traditions.
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Explores how certain religious dimensions of North America's settler colonial past, expressed and encoded in frontier religion, continue to affect its cultural present, especially its cultures of science and technology.
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It's only February but we're already picturing AAR/SBL 2026 in Denver: great conversations, full schedules, and a warm cup of coffee to ward off the cold! 🏔️ ☕
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How to Plant a Billion Trees comes out in two weeks. I am so honored that the book is graces with an endorsement from Luis Alberto Urrea: "Nicole Walker’s How to Plant a Billion Trees gives me hope. It has resonance and life, and will always be on my shelf."
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Redefining how we understand diplomacy, Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals Buddhism as a dynamic force in shaping international relations.
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Examining contemporary understandings of the term 'cult', this book brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including sociology, anthropology and religious studies.
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By positioning Japan within a global perspective, this work challenges the “black-box” approach to psyche dominating studies in the history of religion.
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With a vivid ethnographic lens on a Spanish village, Josep Almudéver Chanzà brings to life the resurgence of religion at the heart of European public life amid the global rise of neo-conservatism.
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Welcome: Patterns of the Moral Life proposes a transformative concept that places the act of welcoming at the core of ethical living and human flourishing.
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Exploring how notions of solitude in Pali literature are encompassed in various literary forms this book includes close analysis of some of the most famous Buddhist verses about solitary practice.
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The Shabbat Effect illuminates how the practice of a day set aside for rest brings about a deep, lasting, and pervasive transformation of character, not just on that seventh day but every day.
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Mormonism and Moral Life is the first scholarly introduction to the approaches to moral life and the normative principles and practical ethics of the LDS tradition.
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This book argues that the search for life's meaning is vital in terms of one's personal identity, developing a sense of what really matters to you and others.
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This book highlights the Church's significant cultural, social, and political presence across the Anglophone Caribbean.
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Religious Encounters along the Silk Road draws on a diverse range of sources to examine the connections, rivalries, and interactions among Buddhism, Christianity, and Daoism along the Silk Road during the medieval era.
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Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cartoons.
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This open access book argues that existing scholarship on animism often overlooks a fundamental tension: that the same forces that sustain collective life also demand individual sacrifice.
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This study explores the growing discourse about indigenous Jews in colonial Algeria. Vered Sakal adopts a Halachic perspective to examine the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.
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