Through firsthand accounts and up-to-date facts about eight global issues, "Zealous Love" uniquely provides readers with the information, inspiration, and involvement they crave to personally make a difference in their world.

An anthropological survey was conducted in its terrain during British times, but Till Kingdom Come is the first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest ...

I am aware that the thesis of this book, that we must move from a Christendom to a post-Christendom way of thinking about the Christ and culture problem, will be judged by many individuals to be far too radical for their tastes.

By presenting a more complete picture of the Valley of the Dawn, this book counters the persistent media representations of the Valley as a cult.

Chapters in this book include: - Religion as a Cultural System (Clifford Geertz) - Colour Classification in Ndembu Religion (Victor W. Turner) - Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation (Melford E. Spiro) - Fathers, Elders and ...

The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key theoretical and methodological issues and debates within gender studies. includes case studies drawn from a variety of countries and ...

Mumford's focus is on the "dialogue" taking place between the lamaist and the shamanic regimes, as a historic development occurring between different cultural layers.

Many aspects of religion are puzzling these days. This book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion.

This edition includes a new introduction by the author that outlines both the changes that Italian Harlem has undergone in recent years and significant shifts in the field of religious history.

Examines the state of the American Christian community from a cross-cultural perspective.