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Tracks how songs that first arose from a close relationship to the conservative religion of the American South have taken on new meanings in a post-religious environment.

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This text explores religious fundamentalism as a social and cultural phenomenon, one whose influence has spread dramatically. It focuses on the regional factors that encourage the development of fundamentalist movements and on the local to international consequences of the rise of such movements.

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There is an "American Way" to religion and race unlike anyplace else in the world, and the rise of religious pluralism in contemporary American (together with the continuing legacy of the racism of the past and misapprehensions in the present) render its understanding crucial....

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This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain's multicultural society. -- .

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This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain's multicultural society. -- .

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Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, this book examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, and the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities".

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Offers a view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences.

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What does Jesus mean to a Buddhist, or the Buddha to a Christian In this volume 12 scholars, six of them Christian and six of them Buddhists, speak simply and from the heart about their personal relationship to the great religious leader from the other tradition.

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"Building Your Church" will help you find your niche in the church so you can truly make a difference. 13 sessions

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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Librarys extensive special collections

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Inspiration for the Netflix documentary series The Family.The author of the runaway paperback bestseller The Family returns with a blistering investigation of the true influence of fundamentalism in American politics.

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In this fun, informative book, a scientist demonstrates how intelligence and faith can-and should-go hand in hand.

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To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, the author interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum: rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains; Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians; and others.

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Overall, this catalogue contains more than five times as many entries of different English translations as two other Bible bibliographies, those by Hill and Herbert, combined.

The entries are grouped in 151 categories, and within each category entries are listed in chronological order.

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This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with various developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life. This book argues that the survival of myth systems mirrors the survival of such charismatic groups as modern street gangs, the Anglo-Saxon comitatus, or Satan's fallen angels in "Paradise Lost".