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The first edition of this award-winning reference, published in 1977, contained 425 biographical profiles of the most significant American religious figures. The biographical essay that follows places the basic facts of the figure's life within the larger context of American religious history.

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In this work, Catholic heretics mingle with Baptists and Mormons, female heretics are hanged and banished, and laypersons are dismissed from membership in their beloved church.

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The preeminent resource guide for more than 20 years, this one-of-a-kind book has been updated to include those recently canonized and beatified.

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Attempts to analyze the rise of comparative religion as a response to modernization. This book tells how Western scholars began to interpret religion's history drawing on prehistorical evidence and ethnographical reports. It shows how religions that had been rejected as irrational by Enlightenment philosophers were being studied with enthusiasm.

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Don Miller meets Anne Lamott meets Brian McLaren in this tale of shedding religion and plunging into uncharted depths of knowing God. Jim Palmer, emergent pastor, shares his compelling off-road spiritual journey and the unsuspecting people who became his guides.

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Shows that Superhero comics address deep emotional needs. This book suggests the fantasies of power and romance are attempts to wrestle and negotiate with some fundamentally spiritual issues: the problem of evil, the inescapability of human imperfection, and the stark fact of mortality.

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Explores instances of the oppression of women in the name of religious and cultural norms and how these issues play out both in the community and in the political arena. Drawing on philosophical concerns such as truth, relativism, knowledge and ethics, this title is a rallying call for a progressive politics that is committed to universal values.

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This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence.

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Early Christology must focus on not simply 'historical' but also theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone - the emergence of 'monotheism'.

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The field of religion and ecology is an emerging and growing movement that is becoming relevant and influential in the world.

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Seeks to analyze, encourage, inspire, use, compare, and combine religious traditions to engage and shape environmental issues. This book explores different world religions for ecological themes and the resulting expressions of ecological visions.

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An overview of Christian perspectives on the relationship between social justice and ecological integrity, this annotated bibliography focuses on works that cover topics such as ethical issues, social-ethical values and problems, and theological reflection on ecological and social ethics.

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Analyzes the interpretations of Pauline faith by Heidegger, Badiou, and Agamben.

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Offers an overview of the politics of religion in the United States as well as an examination of the strategic choices that politicians and religious groups have made and will continue to make in the future.

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This A-to-Z encyclopedia explores the phenomenon of the Crusades in all of its complexity, ranging from the classic numbered crusades in the Middle East to the Reconquista in Spain, and from the Baltic Crusades to the crusades against Albigensian heretics in France.

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An improved, updated edition of a much-needed reference work in an increasingly pluralistic world where all kinds of unconventional religious groups abound. Formerly published as Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions, and the Occult.