This book answers a pressing need, for if celebrity culture continues to expand and consume our social lives, the case for a philosophical reflection on the nature and value of this culture becomes even more necessary.
Faith and Community provides valuable insights into the relationship between religion and community engagement. The data illustrates how community engagement benefits individuals, congregations, and democracy and offers one solution to what ails religion in America today.
Markus Vinzent interrogates standard interpretations of Christian origins handed down over the centuries. In so doing, the author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place.
Demonstrates how human attraction to the supernatural led to the formation of organized religions - cyclically oriented Asian faiths, Asian and western polytheisms, Abrahamic monotheism, traditional and reform Christianity, gnostic mystery religions, and Islam - and the impact these diverse religions had.
No book to date better prepares the Christian community for responding to evidence of other life, if it is found. In thinking about planets, creatures, and ecosystems beyond our planet, Davison already reinvigorates our theology for the earth.
Are you in charge of your actions and decisions, or is your life following a script? Alfred R. Mele answers the big questions through engaging thought experiments, and provides a lively, beginner-friendly tour of the most prominent theories, puzzles, and arguments about free will.
Critically examines four contemporary social practices and phenomena wherein sex plays a central role: the "hookup" culture that predominates on college campuses; "sexting"-that is, the sending of naked photos or videos via text message; sex work/prostitution; and sex trafficking.
The biblical Ruth has inspired numerous readers from diverse cultural backgrounds across many centuries. The author invites us to marvel at the ever-changing perspectives on Ruth's foreignness. In our own era of widespread migration and dislocation, Ruth remains as relevant as ever.
Analyzing Scripture, church history, and current events in the United States and Russia, Looper shows how the nation might supplant the church as Christians' primary allegiance. Thoughtful and balanced, he gives readers a way out of the rut of a well-worn argument - and a way forward for the American church.
Evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. Cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, they form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership. Evangelicalism's racial history festers, splits America, and needs a reckoning now.
Using multiple perspectives, voices, and sources, this volume underscores the multivalent centrality of this story. The book will be an invaluable resource to practicing Buddhists and students of Buddhist Studies to help them engage in the most foundational story of the tradition.
Never bested by hardship or defeated by death, the phoenix is the ultimate icon of hope and rebirth. And in The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast, it finally has its due--a complete chronicle worthy of such a fantastic and phantasmal creature.
In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth.
Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world.
For anyone interested in monsters, myths, folklore, demons, and more, God's Monsters is an entertaining deep dive into the creaturely strangeness of the Bible.
Luke Russell discusses why some philosophers think that evil is a myth or a fantasy, while others think that evil is real.
In Losing Our Religion, Russell Moore calls his fellow evangelical Christians to conversion over culture wars, to truth over tribalism, to the gospel over politics, to integrity over influence, and to renewal over nostalgia.
Introduces philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focusing in particular on their treatment of language, truth, time, creation, personhood, knowledge, and morality; providing an understanding of Mesoamerican philosophy and a sense of the current scholarship in the field.
The women of the Qur'an are varied and fascinating. They are military leaders, advisors in business, barren women who miraculously give birth, and much more. Many are paragons of virtue, and some are morally pernicious. They contain multitudes.
The New Heretics explores the development of progressive Christianity, a movement of Christians who do not reject their identity as Christians, but who believe Christianity must be updated for today's times and take into consideration modern science, historical criticism, and liberal humanism.
A philosophically rigorous, comprehensive approach to business ethics that will be foundational for all future reflection in the field.
An attempt to take seriously The Satanic Temple's work to redefine religion, the nature of pluralism and religious tolerance, and what "religious freedom" means in America.
For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation.
In Being Muslim Today, author Dr. Saqib Qureshi silences the noise that obscures the message of Islam. He provides a compelling presentation of the faith's beginnings, its evolution throughout the last 1,400 years, and its relevance today. He simplifies complicated academic debates and reveals the heart and soul of a growing faith tradition
It's the full-color edition of Drinking with the Saints! Recipe for a liturgically correct cocktail: mix Bartender's Guide and Lives of the Saints, shake well, garnish with good cheer. Drinking with the Saints is a concoction that both sinner and saint will savor.
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.
In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle.
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society.
If you're a minister who is stressed, overwhelmed, and perhaps bewildered by recent changes in your congregation and community, this book can help. It offers insights from 50 congregational ministers and leaders across 19 religious groups, tips for building relationships with other congregations, and study questions to apply to your context
Pedro Martínez de Luna, Benedicto XIII, Papa Luna. Ha pasado a la historia como la obstinación personificada por la firmeza de sus convicciones contra Roma, y es quizás, el personaje más determinante de la Baja Edad Media en todo Occidente.
Herramienta esencial para una comprensión e interpretación más profunda de la profecía y la escatología bíblicas. Los términos, conceptos y descubrimientos teológicos modernos brindan un enfoque contemporáneo al cumplimiento de las Escrituras más allá de las simples definiciones y una comprensión e interpretación enriquecedoras de los textos bíblicos.
Caroline nos invita a un compromiso íntimo y sanador con el alma, que experimentamos explorando nuestras siete pasiones en la sombra, potenciando nuestras siete gracias y aprendiendo a trabajar con las leyes místicas.
Regardless of the choices they made - to buy or to sell people, to risk sale or to flee from it - the effects of the slave trade reverberated throughout the conflict and produced legacies that endured long after the guns fell silent.
The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of pervasive human mobility on the West - a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global.
Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom.
By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.
This new two-volume set provides an in-depth examination of the Congresses and their impact and role in the shaping and foundation of early American society and government.
Explores L.B.J.’s seminal accomplishments - protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration - as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage.
David E. Wilkins provides the recognition and respect due Indigenous governments, while offering a considered critique of their shortcomings as imperfect, sovereign institutions, and highlights their history, evolution, internal and intergovernmental issues, and diverse structures.
Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she's been married to President Bill Clinton.
Demonstrates the impact of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran across the Middle East. Challenges assumptions on 'proxy wars', the role of religion and sectarianism, and highlights how the rivalry has shaped and been shaped by regional politics and local groups.
This wartime biography of Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific Ocean Area during World War II, gives a bird's eye view of the war from inside the theater headquarters of the man most responsible for eventual victory against Japan.
This book covers the unique immigrant experience of the Jews in Canada by focusing on three processes: settlement, adaptation, and diversity. Bialystok adds new research, unique insights, and, best of all, memorable stories to the history of Jewish life in Canada.
Esta obra magna histórica abarca 4.000 años de la extraordinaria historia de los judíos como pueblo, cultura y nación. Muestra el impacto del carácter judío en el mundo: su genio, su imaginación y, sobre todo, su capacidad de perseverar a pesar de las duras persecuciones.
Mientras Hannah narra las experiencias de su propia vida durante y después de la guerra, ofrece una mirada mordaz a lo que innumerables niños soportaron a manos del régimen nazi, así como un retrato íntimo, nunca antes visto, de la víctima más reconocible del Holocausto.
Para transformar a México debe haber un cambio de mentalidad colectivo, teniendo el bien común como premisa para lograr la paz. El Mito de las Tres Transformaciones es un recorrido por la historia, por nuestra propia forma de pensar para lograr una verdadera transformación y construir el mejor México posible.
Luchando con el papel de la raza en los Estados Unidos, junto con las propias conversaciones de Tobar con sus estudiantes latinos y, por supuesto, con sus propias experiencias de vida y las de su familia, Our Migrant Souls ofrece un análisis invaluable de lo que significa ser latino en los Estados Unidos hoy.
Ofreciendo una historia de la guerra excepcionalmente convincente, accesible e inmediata, El libro de la Primera Guerra Mundial muestra cómo ciertas batallas clave, líderes individuales, fuerzas políticas y económicas y avances tecnológicos influyeron en el curso del conflicto.
Da vida al vasto y dinámico mundo de América del Norte antes de que la colonización europea lo transformara para siempre. El apasionante y desesperado viaje de cuatro náufragos deambulando por una tierra extraña.
El volumen La Casa Arqueológica: estudios de caso en la antigüedad está compuesto de 18 artículos en los que se lleva a cabo el acercamiento a la realidad de la casa, el hogar como espacio físico, social, simbólico, a lo largo del tiempo y en diferentes contextos geográficos.
Laila Porras detalla cómo se transformó Rusia desde su etapa soviética hasta su integración al capitalismo, su desarrollo económico, el ajedrez siniestro de sus oligarquías, su regreso como potencia militar y el afán de sus élites por volver a su nación artífice y líder de un nuevo orden mundial multipolar.
This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning,
Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts.
While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.
A long-time Austinite and journalist's exploration of the profound movements that shaped Austin, Texas - charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and challenges of gentrification - questioning what this city's transformation signals for American urban identity.
Narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today. East Europeans are people with an acute feeling for the precariousness of history: they know that nations are not eternal, but come and go; sometimes they disappear. From Peoples into Nations tells their story.
The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president.
Rohingya men, women and children have been fleeing their homes for forty years. The tipping point came in August 2017, when almost 700,000 were wrung from Myanmar in a single military operation. The lives uncovered in I Feel No Peace are complex, heart-breaking and unforgettable.
A historical and philosophical concept of the future imagined through a Black cultural lens and interpreted through a myriad of writers, artists, scientists, and other visionary creatives.
New perspectives on Du Bois's famous invocation of the global "color line."
Captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early British North America.
Hafertepe brings to life the colorful and varied pasts of an entirely new set of notable residences in Waco, Texas.
Black Women Will Save the World presents a vital kaleidoscopic look at women of different ages and from diverse backgrounds who devote their lives to making the world a better place.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off.
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South.
The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology.
From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—US Representative George Santos.
An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States'from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day'written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba.
Combining fascinating scholarship, detective suspense, and adventurous thrills, Egypt’s Golden Couple is a journey through excavations, museums, hieroglyphic texts, and stunning artifacts.
A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present
A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism.
Guillermo Parvex #autor de varios best seller de investigación histórica# se sumerge en los archivos de uno de los hechos más enigmáticos en la forja de nuestra naciente nación, el homicidio de Manuel Rodríguez Erdoyza ocurrido el 26 de mayo de 1818.
Un testimonio fulgurante del poder la verdad, la justicia y la responsabilidad de la boca de un oficial decorado e inmigrante que ilustra las mejores aspiraciones de una nación agradecida.
