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‘Merchandizing’ Diasporic Hinduism

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The purpose of this book is to help Christians understand the importance of studying and training in God»s word. This is my testimony. In the book I talked about 17 things that a Christians should k …

‘And the spexialist said to his new stodent:You think, YOU have a good life? You think, that YOU are the master of your life? You think, that YOU can control EVERYTHING?I am very sorry, but I must di …

In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine’s ancient question ‘what do I love when I love my God?’ and presses it into service in the p …

How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the …

This book, first published in 1989, demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western so …