North American Religions – serie
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Old Canaan in a New World
Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel
Häftad, 2022
342 kr
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Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the most compelling explanation was the …
Religion Out Loud
Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism
Av Isaac Weiner
Inbunden, 2013
968 kr
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For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into …
Religion Out Loud
Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism
Av Isaac Weiner
Häftad, 2013
385 kr
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For six months in 2004, controversy raged in Hamtramck, Michigan, as residents debated a proposed amendment that would exempt the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, from the city's anti-noise ordinance. The call to prayer functioned as a flashpoint in disputes about the integration of Muslims into …
Suffer the Little Children
Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature
Inbunden, 2013
658 kr
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Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are …
Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle
Marriage, Murder, and Madness in the Family of Jonathan Edwards
Inbunden, 2012
592 kr
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Who was Elizabeth Tuttle? In most histories, she is a footnote, a blip. At best, she is a minor villain in the story of Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the greatest American theologian of the colonial era. Many historians consider Jonathan Edwards a theological genius, wildly ahead of his time, a Puritan …
Walking Where Jesus Walked
American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage
Inbunden, 2014
897 kr
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Sincethe 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land tovisit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's lifeand death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journeyhalfway around the world? How dothey react to what they encounter, and how dothey …
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith
Haitian Religion in Miami
Inbunden, 2013
968 kr
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Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants inAmerica, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as morerecently arriving …
Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith
Haitian Religion in Miami
Häftad, 2013
427 kr
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Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s,significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami.Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants inAmerica, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as morerecently arriving …
When the Medium Was the Mission
The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1120 kr
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**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies**An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networksWhen Samuel Morse sent the words "what hath God wrought" from the US Supreme Court to Baltimore in mere minutes, it was the first public demonstration of words …
When the Medium Was the Mission
The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture
Häftad, 2021
425 kr
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**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies**An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networksWhen Samuel Morse sent the words "what hath God wrought" from the US Supreme Court to Baltimore in mere minutes, it was the first public demonstration of words …
Church of the Dead
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Inbunden, 2021
565 kr
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Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith aliveMany scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period …
Beyond the Synagogue
Jewish Nostalgia As Religious Practice
Inbunden, 2021
1063 kr
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Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesHonorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyReveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuityIn 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a …
Fear in Our Hearts
What Islamophobia Tells Us About America
Inbunden, 2021
317 kr
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Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American valuesIn a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents reported that treating people equally is an essential American value. Almost eighty percent said accepting people of different racial backgrounds is very …
Course of God's Providence
Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America
Inbunden, 2021
486 kr
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Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early AmericaThe COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of narrative during times of sickness and disease. As Americans strive to find meaning amid upheaval and loss, some consider the nature of …
Religion and US Empire
Critical New Histories
Av Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson
Inbunden, 2022
1123 kr
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Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American historyThe United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and US Empire …
Religion and US Empire
Critical New Histories
Av Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson
Häftad, 2022
337 kr
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Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American historyThe United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and US Empire …
Muslims on the Margins
Creating Queer Religious Community in North America
Inbunden, 2023
1007 kr
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Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communitiesThe turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public's perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims on the Margins tells the story of …
Muslims on the Margins
Creating Queer Religious Community in North America
Häftad, 2023
342 kr
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Offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communitiesThe turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose modern interpretations and practices transformed the public's perception of who could follow the teachings of Islam. Muslims on the Margins tells the story of …
Without a Prayer
Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools
Inbunden, 2024
1007 kr
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Reframes religion's role in twentieth-century American public educationThe processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school …
Without a Prayer
Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools
Häftad, 2024
331 kr
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Reframes religion's role in twentieth-century American public educationThe processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school …
Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism
Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change Through Performance
Inbunden, 2024
1120 kr
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Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance groupSince the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anti-capitalist critique in what they call "Earth Justice." Led by co-founders, Reverend …
Church of Stop Shopping and Religious Activism
Combatting Consumerism and Climate Change Through Performance
Häftad, 2024
378 kr
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Explores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance groupSince the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anti-capitalist critique in what they call "Earth Justice." Led by co-founders, Reverend …
Playing for God
Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry
Av Annie Blazer
Häftad, 2015
425 kr
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When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too," reasoned …
Vernacular Religion
Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano
Inbunden, 2022
1007 kr
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Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studiesIn 1995, Leonard Norman Primiano …
Vernacular Religion
Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano
Häftad, 2022
365 kr
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Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studiesIn 1995, Leonard Norman Primiano …
Beyond the Synagogue
Jewish Nostalgia As Religious Practice
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish StudiesHonorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical SocietyReveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuityIn 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a …
Fear in Our Hearts
What Islamophobia Tells Us About America
Häftad, 2022
286 kr
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Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American valuesIn a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents reported that treating people equally is an essential American value. Almost eighty percent said accepting people of different racial backgrounds is very …
Jewish Sunday Schools
Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Av Laura Yares
Inbunden, 2023
472 kr
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73rd National Jewish Book Awards Finalist Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itselfThe earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in …
Suffer the Little Children
Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children's Literature
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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Examines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are …
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Theology
Inbunden, 2017
415 kr
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Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison's concept of race Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While the term "invisibility" has become shorthand for all forms of marginalization, Ellison was primarily …
