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Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World
ISBN: 9780061152245 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. The rest of us will be left behind to endure massive earthquakes, devastating wars, and the terrifying rise of the Antichrist. But true believers aren't sitting around waiting for the Rapture. They're getting involved in debates over abortion, gay rights, and even foreign policy. Are they devout... In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe th... |
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66,65 zł |
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Supernatural as Natural: A Biocultural Approach to Religion
ISBN: 9780131893030 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book provides a general introduction to the biological and evolutionary bases of religion and is suitable for introductory level courses in the anthropology and psychology of religion and comparative religion. Why did human ancestors everywhere adopt religious beliefs and customs? The presence and persistence of many religious features across the globe and time suggests that it is natural for humans to believe in the supernatural. In this new text, the authors explore both the biological and cultural dimensions of religion and the evolutionary origins of religious features.
This book provides a general introduction to the biological and evolutionary bases of religion and is suitable for introductory level courses in th... |
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489,22 zł |
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Protestant Ethic and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780140439212 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and...
In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvin...
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83,37 zł |
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The Social Ecology of Religion
ISBN: 9780195069747 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What effect does the Islamic attitude toward abortion have upon the family size and growth of Muslim populations? How do the Sukuma people of Tanzania react to the birth of an abnormal child, and why do their reactions differ so radically from those of Roman Catholics in Pennsylvania? Why were one sixth of all brides in English rural parishes between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries pregnant at marriage, and what does this tell us about Christian practices during that period?
No society exists in which religion does not play a significant part in the lives of ordinary... What effect does the Islamic attitude toward abortion have upon the family size and growth of Muslim populations? How do the Sukuma people of Tanzania...
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356,16 zł |
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The Other Side of Joy : Religious Melancholy Among the Bruderhof
ISBN: 9780195119435 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a case study of one pietist religious group, the Bruderhof. A Christian brotherhood founded on Anabaptist and evangelical pietist doctrine, they practice community of goods, seeking to emulate the vision of the Apostolic church and fulfill the ethic of brotherhood taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Rubin offers compelling accounts of the lives of Bruderhof apostates who foundered over issues of faith, and relates these crises to the central tenets of Bruderhof theology, their spirituality, and community life.
This is a case study of one pietist religious group, the Bruderhof. A Christian brotherhood founded on Anabaptist and evangelical pietist doctrine, th...
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735,79 zł |
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Religious Reading : The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion
ISBN: 9780195125771 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? Paul Griffiths finds the answer in "religious reading" --- the kind of reading in which a religious believer allows his mind to be furnished and his heart instructed by a sacred text, understood in the light of an authoritative tradition. He favorably contrasts the practices and pedagogies of traditional religious cultures with those of our own fragmented and secularized culture and insists that religious reading should be preserved.
What social conditions and intellectual practices are necessary in order for religious cultures to flourish? Paul Griffiths finds the answer in "relig...
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677,43 zł |
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Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies
ISBN: 9780195131185 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Family and religion face a myriad of challenges in the modern age. Although many social theorists think these institutions would be greatly weakened or eliminated in the course of modernization, this book rejects that notion and demonstrates that both family and religion--no matter what significant transformations they may be undergoing--are nevertheless well rooted in societies throughout the world. The persistence and vitality of these two institutions contradict the secularization thesis or the family decline thesis. Though the importance of religion and family is manifested in different...
Family and religion face a myriad of challenges in the modern age. Although many social theorists think these institutions would be greatly weakened o...
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566,25 zł |
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The Church on the World's Turf : An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University
ISBN: 9780195134995 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at McMaster University, a group that espouses fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible, women's roles, the age of the earth, alcohol consumption, and sexual ethics. In examining this group, Bramadat demonstrates how this tiny minority thrives within the overwhelmingly secular context of the University.
Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Int...
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706,61 zł |
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Beyond Idols : The Shape of a Secular Society
ISBN: 9780195143690 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself and one's society to a wide range of possibilities, some interesting and exciting, some burdensome and dreadful. While some sociologists have argued that a "Civil Religion" is necessary to hold together our newly "religionless" society, Fenn urges that there is nothing to fear--and everything to gain--from living in a society that is not bound together by sacred memories and beliefs, or...
This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could ...
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554,87 zł |
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Between Eden and Armageddon : The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking
ISBN: 9780195157253 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in violence perpetrated in the name of religion. While much has been written on the relationship between violence and religious militancy, history shows that religious people have also played a critical role in peacemaking within numerous cultures. In the new century, will religion bring upon further catastrophes? Or will it provide human civilization with methods of care, healing, and the creation of peaceful and just...
Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world. At the same time, there has been ...
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397,31 zł |
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Convictions of the Soul : Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement
ISBN: 9780195169232 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Many U.S. Christians were profoundly moved by the liberation struggles in Central America in the 1980s. Most learned about the situation from missionaries who had worked in the area and witnessed the repression firsthand. These missionaries, Sharon Erickson Nepstad shows, employed the institutional and cultural resources of Christianity to seize the attention of American congregations and remind them of the moral obligations of their faith. Drawing on archival data and in-depth interviews with activists in ten separate solidarity organizations around the country, Nepstad offers a rich...
Many U.S. Christians were profoundly moved by the liberation struggles in Central America in the 1980s. Most learned about the situation from missiona...
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362,29 zł |
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Landscapes of the Soul : The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life
ISBN: 9780195169447 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Do you believe in God? Nine out of ten Americans unhesitatingly answer yes. But for Douglas Porpora, the real questions begin where pollsters leave off. What, he asks, does religious belief actually mean in our lives? Does it shape our identities and our actions? Or, despite our professions of faith, are we morally adrift?
Landscapes of the Soul paints a disturbing picture of American spiritual life. In his search for answers to his questions, Porpora interviewed clerks and executives, Jews, evangelical Christians, Buddhists, Taoists, and even followers of Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh.... Do you believe in God? Nine out of ten Americans unhesitatingly answer yes. But for Douglas Porpora, the real questions begin where pollsters leave of...
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397,31 zł |
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A Greener Faith : Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
ISBN: 9780195176483 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith, Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of "religious issues" in political life. Asserting that...
In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprece...
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251,12 zł |
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Soul Searching : The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
ISBN: 9780195180954 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked. Very few such efforts pay serious attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of American adolescents. But many teenagers are very involved in religion. Surveys reveal that 35% attend religious services weekly and another 15% attend at least monthly. 60% say that religious faith is important in their lives. 40% report that they pray daily. 25% say that they have been "born again." Teenagers feel good about the congregations...
In innumerable discussions and activities dedicated to better understanding and helping teenagers, one aspect of teenage life is curiously overlooked....
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251,12 zł |
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Kinship and Pilgrimage : Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture
ISBN: 9780195300338 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, based in part on the author's own fieldwork, argues that in Reformed Protestantism, the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of "reunion," in which scattered members of a family or group return each year to their place of origin to take part in a quasi-sacred ritual meal and other ritual activities. Neville discusses open air services and kin-based gatherings in the Southern United States and Scotland as examples of symbolic...
The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, based in part on the author's ...
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245,28 zł |
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Evolution and Religious Creation Myths : How Scientists Respond
ISBN: 9780195315387 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Polls show that 45% of the American public believes that humans were created about 10,000 years ago and that evolution is a fictitious myth. Another 25% believes that changes in the natural world are directed by a supernatural being with a particular goal in mind. This thinking clashes head on with scientific findings from the past 150 years, and there is a dearth of public critical thinking about the natural world within a scientific framework. Evolution and Religious Creation Myths seeks to educate and arm the public on the differences between myth and science, fiction and...
Polls show that 45% of the American public believes that humans were created about 10,000 years ago and that evolution is a fictitious myth. Another 2...
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251,12 zł |
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Forbidden Fruit : Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers
ISBN: 9780195320947 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of teenagers' sexual values and actions? What difference, if any, does religion make in adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors? Are abstinence pledges effective? What does it mean to be "emotionally ready" for sex? Who expresses regrets about their sexual activity and why? Tackling these and other questions, Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American...
Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion con...
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221,94 zł |
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Religion in Sociological Perspective
ISBN: 9780198266648 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, Bryan Wilson traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by the sociologist. His themes range from the study of sectarianism, on which he is one of the relationship between religion and culture in modern societies of the West and the East.
In this book, based on lectures that the author was invited to deliver in Japan, Bryan Wilson traces the dominant contours of religion as perceived by...
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397,02 zł |
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Religion and Modernization : Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis
ISBN: 9780198273691 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The claim that modern societies are less religious than their predecessors because modernity itself undermines the plausibility of religion has been almost an orthodoxy. But increasingly this "secularization thesis" is being challenged on a number of fronts. Leading sociologists and historians who share a common interest in advancing our understanding of religious change here clarify the key elements of this thesis, testing them against appropriate data bases. The book discusses the thesis and explores such issues as church adherence in the nineteenth century in the United States Europe, the...
The claim that modern societies are less religious than their predecessors because modernity itself undermines the plausibility of religion has been a...
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823,33 zł |
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The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism : Sects and New Religious Movements in Contemporary Society
ISBN: 9780198278832 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging collection explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society and examines the controversial social, political, and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of other people. Wilson argues that sects, often subject to negative theological and moral judgements, can be understood only as social entities and as such require a scientifically neutral and unbiased approach to explore their emergence and persistence. He traces the growth and expansion of various movements--including the...
This wide-ranging collection explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society and examines the controversia...
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543,21 zł |
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