Advancing Studies in Religion – serie
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23 produkter
Identities Under Construction
Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada
Av Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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Growing numbers of young adults are either nonreligious or "spiritual but not religious," but this does not signal a lack of interest in religion and meaning-making. Though the lexicon describing sexuality and gender is quickly evolving, young people do not yet have satisfactory language to …
Prayer As Transgression?
The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings
Av Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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Healthcare settings are notoriously complex places where life and death co-exist, and where suffering is an everyday occurrence, giving rise to existential questions. The full range of society's diversity is reflected in patients and staff. Increasing religious and ethnic plurality, alongside …
Sacred As Secular
Secularization Under Theocracy in Iran
Häftad, 2022
441 kr
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Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrongheaded assumptions about the attachment of Muslims to their religion and the …
Relation and Resistance
Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora
Av Sailaja Krishnamurti, Becky R. Lee
Häftad, 2021
413 kr
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In Canada, women's bodies are often at the centre of debates about religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and secularism. Women have long played a critical role in building and maintaining diasporic religious communities and networks, and they have also been catalysts for change and transformation …
Under Siege
Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation
Av Jasmin Zine
Inbunden, 2022
1462 kr
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The 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global "war on terror," and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions. The …
Under Siege
Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation
Av Jasmin Zine
Häftad, 2022
413 kr
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The 9/11 attacks in the United States, the subsequent global "war on terror," and the proliferation of domestic security policies in Western nations have had a profound impact on the lives of young Muslims, whose identities and experiences have been shaped within and against these conditions. The …
Sacred Cyberspaces
Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Av Oren Golan, Michele Martini
Inbunden, 2022
1462 kr
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In recent years every major institution has had to adapt to the fast-evolving technologies of the digital age or risk being left behind. Amid a global crisis of faith and declining levels of religious participation in places around the world, the Catholic Church has likewise come face to face with …
Sacred Cyberspaces
Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Av Oren Golan, Michele Martini
Häftad, 2022
385 kr
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In recent years every major institution has had to adapt to the fast-evolving technologies of the digital age or risk being left behind. Amid a global crisis of faith and declining levels of religious participation in places around the world, the Catholic Church has likewise come face to face with …
Caught in the Current
British and Canadian Evangelicals in an Age of Self-Spirituality
Av Sam Reimer
Inbunden, 2023
1350 kr
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Evangelical Christianity is known for its defence of traditional Christian teachings and resistance to liberalizing trends. Many Western evangelicals themselves do not yet realize how their faith is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist. Caught in the Current explores how and why Western …
Caught in the Current
British and Canadian Evangelicals in an Age of Self-Spirituality
Av Sam Reimer
Häftad, 2023
385 kr
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Evangelical Christianity is known for its defence of traditional Christian teachings and resistance to liberalizing trends. Many Western evangelicals themselves do not yet realize how their faith is being reshaped by the modern zeitgeist. Caught in the Current explores how and why Western …
Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather
The Struggle for Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada
Inbunden, 2023
1604 kr
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Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world. In Canada, it is the most rapidly growing Christian group among Indigenous people, with approximately one in ten Pentecostals in the country being Indigenous. Pentecostalism has become a religious force in many …
Holy Spirit and the Eagle Feather
The Struggle for Indigenous Pentecostalism in Canada
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world. In Canada, it is the most rapidly growing Christian group among Indigenous people, with approximately one in ten Pentecostals in the country being Indigenous. Pentecostalism has become a religious force in many …
Prophets of Love
The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul
Inbunden, 2023
301 kr
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Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. …
Resisting Orders
Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church
Av Christine Gervais, Amanda Watson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
385 kr
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Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been …
Decolonizing Church
Emerging Voices Speak
Av Néstor Medina, Becca Whitla
Häftad, 2025
441 kr
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As Canada wrestles with the legacy of colonialism, a new understanding of the church is emerging. Racialized and marginalized voices within the church are daring to make sense of their own experiences and understanding of Christianity, turning their faith traditions into a force for …
Crossing Communities
Muslims and Christians in Contemporary Egypt
Av Isaac Friesen, Isaac Friesen
Häftad, 2026
365 kr
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War, sectarianism, and imperialism have eroded diversity in the Middle East. While Egypt has been spared the scale of violence devastating Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, religious nationalism, economic turmoil, and state repression have deepened tensions between Egyptian Muslims and Coptic …
Journey Presses on
Pope Francis's Apology to Residential School Survivors in Canada
Av Doris M. Kieser, Jane Barter
Inbunden, 2026
349 kr
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In July 2022 Pope Francis travelled to Canada on what he called a “penitential pilgrimage,” apologizing for the Catholic Church’s role in the Indian residential school system. One of Francis’s most symbolically charged interventions, the visit has been understood as an attempt to align his broader …
Leaving Christianity
Changing Allegiances in Canada Since 1945
Av Brian Clarke, Stuart Macdonald
Häftad, 2017
441 kr
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Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart …
Everyday Sacred
Religion in Contemporary Quebec
Häftad, 2017
413 kr
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Over the last decade there has been ongoing discussion about the place of religion in Québécois society, particularly following the proposed Charter of Quebec Values in 2013. The essays in Everyday Sacred emerged from this active and often tense period of debate. Revitalizing an awareness of how …
Convergent Knowing
Christianity and Science in Conversation with a Suffering Creation
Häftad, 2018
483 kr
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Global environmental destruction, growing inequality, and the persistent poverty afflicting the majority of humans on the planet challenge Christian theorists, theologians, and ethicists in their pursuit of an ethical vision that is both environmentally sustainable and just for all of creation. Too …
Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism
The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto
Häftad, 2019
441 kr
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Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations. Drawing …
Public Work of Christmas
Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies
Av Pamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer
Häftad, 2019
385 kr
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Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both festivity and controversy, hospitality and hostility. The …
Subversive Evangelical
The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
Häftad, 2019
413 kr
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Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as "religious Walmarts." In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman shows how a growing group of "reflexive evangelicals" use irony to critique their own tradition and distinguish …
