Chogyam Trungpa 
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Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, …

This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz» anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. I …

This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The r …

What is secular biblical criticism? »Secularism and Biblical Studies» presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles. The essays …

Critiquing a paradigm of growth within the church, this book contends that the church’s growth ethic should be replaced by one based on virtue. Drawing on the work of Sennett, Fromm, and Hauerwas, Jo …

This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, rele …

Grace Jantzen was an internationally-renowned feminist philosopher of religion whose work has transformed the way we think about the interactions between religion, culture and gender in Western cultu …

How, if at all, is religious faith »true»? The starting point for this book is that traditional Christian theology overvalues the importance of »correctness». What really counts far more is »Hon …

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years …