Religious Studies Books


Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, 2004 Best Price: $63.00 Provides information on matters involving international religious freedom. Covers events from...	The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $112.44 This book is a seminal work because it had a crucial influence on four important works of the...	Founders of Faith Founders of the Faith comprises four self-contained studies of the world's greatest...	The Enlightenment in America Best Price: $38.00	Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's Studies The authors have updated this volume to include the latest feminist theory and practice, and the...



The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology Best Price: $29.54 Robert Merrihew Adams has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that...	Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy Best Price: $5.00 Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study...	Diakonia: Re-interpreting the Ancient Sources What a tragedy. This OUP book is out of print. Is there anyone out there who can persuade the...	Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work Best Price: $77.22 Since the rise of modern industrial society, work has come to pervade and rule the lives of men...	Echoes of the Call: Identity and Ideology among American Missionaries in Ecuador Best Price: $19.35 Drawing on the personal histories of one hundred evangelical missionaries in Ecuador, Echoes of...



The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion (Oxford Handbooks) Best Price: $105.00 This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for...	A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future Best Price: $11.33 In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and...	World Religions: Western Traditions Best Price: $33.26 Pretty decent for a Western Religion textbook, and well researched. Including judaism,...	Religion in Australia: A History Best Price: $49.95 This is an updated and accessible account of how various religious beliefs and institutions have...	Dalits and Christianity Best Price: $23.95 Clarke draws upon his unique perspective and firsthand experience to examine the relationship...

Crescents on the Cross: Islamic Vision of Christianity Crescents on the Cross By Ali Usman Qasmi The issue of Christianity-Islam relationship is as old...	Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland Best Price: $140.00 This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of relations between landlords and tenants in...	Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith The metaphor of a "leap of faith" is probably the element most widely recognized as a...	The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics (Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics) Best Price: $30.00 This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of Karl Barth, one of the...	Industrial Numerical Analysis (Oxford Science Publications) Best Price: $33.50 a must buy for industrially minded mathematicians

New Directions in American Religious History Best Price: $16.99 The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held...	Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives Best Price: $28.09 This is a deeply felt issue by all viewpoints involved. As such, it has proved difficult for...	Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America Best Price: $29.99 This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of...	Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds Best Price: $0.15 Shriver, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary...	Teaching Freud (AAR Teaching Religious Studies) Best Price: $2.49 As one of the first theorists to explore the unconscious fantasies, fears, and desires...

The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense Best Price: $5.50 Michael Shermer gives an open and honest account about the inner workings of scientific thought...	Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual (American Academy of Religion Academy) Best Price: $15.00 I found this book boring and not worth reading. I have about 50 books on Wicca and this one was...	Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief, and Society Best Price: $32.38 Sacred Realms is a comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of religion that presents and...	When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group Best Price: $24.80 Having read Ernest Norman's The Truth About Mars: An Eyewitness Account recently, I was...	Letter to a Christian Nation Best Price: $7.05 I read this book in about two days because it was so good, yes, I know some can read it in one...

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession Best Price: $5.00 When I finished reading of this journey, I felt so inspired -- full of life's spirit! From...	Building a Church of Small Groups Best Price: $3.61 In the title to this review I said that it contains everything you need to start a small group...	The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates the New Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God Best Price: $19.17 Ever since Darwin published "Origin of the Species" in 1859 creation apologists have...	The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham Best Price: $2.74 I teach a leadership course and tell my students I will read and review the business or...	Concise History of English Christianity Pb In this text, the author has condensed his three-volume work "Christian England" into...

The Magdalene Legacy: The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy Best Price: $6.90 I read "Bloodline of the Holy Grail" and found familiar family names published in the...	C.s. Lewis Letters to Children Best Price: $8.00 A collection of letters from the English author of the Narnia books to a variety of children.	Miracles: How God Intervenes In Nature And Human Affairs Best Price: $2.75 This book provides readers with the best defense for the belief in a living Christianity. As a...	David Hume: The Natural History of Religion Best Price: $6.39 This work is essential reading for students of Philosophy and Religion, and important for...	The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims Best Price: $8.91 This is a short, brilliant account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad...

The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt Best Price: $10.88 "This readable anthology is a good introduction to a civilization that fascinates like few...	Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo Best Price: $4.93 Black Livingstone is a remarkable tale, illustrating hardships, history, and the dignity and...	Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius (Compass) Best Price: $3.98 Paul Mariani, a writer and English professor at Boston College, completed a thirty day retreat...	American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.00 A groundbreaking collection of sacred Christian writings of American origin from Mormons,...	Applied Ethics in American Society Best Price: $120.95 I had this book for a Social Ethics course.. I wasn't particularly excited about it but it...

The History of Hell Best Price: $12.49 This is not a new book; I dug it from my shelves just to write this review. It's not a...	Witness To Freedom: The Letters Of Thomas Merton In Times Of Crises Best Price: $11.00 Given the censorship that existed within Thomas Merton's Cistercian religous order, there is...	Journey Through the Old Testament [Teacher Manual] Best Price: $23.99	Catholics Believe Best Price: $18.99	Empowering Your Life with Wicca Best Price: $5.49 Knight has written a very good book on Wicca and the New Age. I bought her book Empowering Your...

Healing and Restoring: Health and Medicine in the World's Religious Traditions Best Price: $124.98	Damnation and Deviance: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure Best Price: $222.51 The Calvinist view that man is predestined to be among the elect or the damned has profoundly...	Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson Best Price: $17.81 While some people see it as negative and unproductive, doubt does lots of work. Doubt toils in...	Fortune Telling Book and Kit (Abracadazzle)	Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion (8th Edition) Best Price: $68.55 The overall content of the textbook is generally well laid out, it is the explanation that of...

Anthology of Living Religions, An (2nd Edition) Best Price: $40.68 The book was in excellent conditions. It was new just like promised. Quick shipping, too.	The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents withheld for Over 35 Years Best Price: $8.04 The book presents the Hebrew or Aramaic text of the 55 best-quality scrolls from the Qumran...	The Rule of St Benedict (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.36 The Rule of St. Benedict is an excellent, quick read that helps the reader understand the aims...	Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.36 This book is part of the growing Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. ...	The Mind Possessed: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition Best Price: $11.95 The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of...

Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise Best Price: $18.71 President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was...	Scientology Best Price: $12.85 I am not a proponent or an opponent of Scientology; I simply wanted to learn about its history...	Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation Best Price: $16.04 Tariq Ramadan has published an important new book as a culmination of all the work that he has...	Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion (Religion in American Life) Best Price: $6.98 "Women are the backbone of the church," says an old African-American aphorism. Since...	Faith- Based Diplomacy Trumping Realpolitik Best Price: $18.40 For most of the twentieth century, the most critical concerns of national security have been...

Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship Best Price: $33.00 In this small volume, Dr. Slade captures the power and significance of a seemingly small...	The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict Best Price: $27.00 Cavanaugh's book is a response to 9/11 and the proliferation of media expounding the...	The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion (Oxford Handbooks) Best Price: $105.00 This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for...	A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future Best Price: $11.33 In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and...	World Religions: Western Traditions Best Price: $33.26 Pretty decent for a Western Religion textbook, and well researched. Including judaism,...

Religion in Australia: A History Best Price: $49.95 This is an updated and accessible account of how various religious beliefs and institutions have...	Dalits and Christianity Best Price: $23.95 Clarke draws upon his unique perspective and firsthand experience to examine the relationship...	Crescents on the Cross: Islamic Vision of Christianity Crescents on the Cross By Ali Usman Qasmi The issue of Christianity-Islam relationship is as old...	Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland Best Price: $140.00 This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of relations between landlords and tenants in...	Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith The metaphor of a "leap of faith" is probably the element most widely recognized as a...

The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics (Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics) Best Price: $30.00 This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of Karl Barth, one of the...	Industrial Numerical Analysis (Oxford Science Publications) Best Price: $33.50 a must buy for industrially minded mathematicians	The Social Ecology of Religion Best Price: $5.86 What effect does the Islamic attitude toward abortion have upon the family size and growth of...	By the Grace of Guile: The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs Best Price: $18.78 The title ought to be "Towards A Theory of Biocentrism." The first half of the book...	Against the Protestant Gnostics Best Price: $32.64 Probing the past for perspectives on the present, a Presbyterian pastor in Saint John, New...

Modern Trinitarian Perspectives Best Price: $94.23 One of the more important developments in the field of theology in the past two decades has been...	The Faces of the Goddess Best Price: $10.00 The decades of Motz's academic work in myth and folklore are on powerful display. In the...	New Historical Atlas of Religion in America Best Price: $41.00 As a head of a ministry involved in spiritual mapping this book is by far the best resource...	The Golden Rule This work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of the golden rule, "Do unto others...	World Religions Today Best Price: $27.00 I have used this book in an introductory class in World Religions. I have found the book to be...

Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion Best Price: $24.00 This work is a collection of ten essays by different authorities on different elements of...	The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia (Religion in America Life) Best Price: $110.00 Beth Barton Schweiger has mined Baptist and Methodist newspapers, journals, papers, and diaries...	Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today Best Price: $17.99 Since the moment Islam has touched the Western world there has been surmounting concern about...	Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen Best Price: $5.75 Jeremy Cohen has performed a great service in writing "Christ Killers." It's an...	The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology (Oxford Handbooks) Best Price: $50.00 The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the...

The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance Best Price: $17.50 This work is a wonderful scholarly work that is rich in theology. Most Theological Aesthetic...	Conversations with Ogotemmï¿1/2li: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas (Galaxy Books) Best Price: $31.04 Many years ago a colleague in African Studies told me to buy this book. It had just been...	Jesus Christ: The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith Best Price: $18.89 This is a beautifully produced volume, and could be a very good `first book', because it is...	Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa (Series in Contemporary History and World Affairs) Best Price: $24.63 With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the...	Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession Best Price: $8.49 There are some books about the Conclaves available. Pope John Paul II's long, and amazing,...

Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation Best Price: $13.39 The Ten Commandments condone slavery, and Deuteronomy 22 deems the rape of an unmarried woman to...	Asceticism and Its Critics: Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism) Best Price: $32.97 Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this...

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