The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader
Scholarship has portrayed A Philip Randolph, a black trade unionist in America as an atheist and anti-religious. Taylor places him within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She shows that his religiosity covered a spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs.
Examines the conflict between Lenin's logic-driven efforts to stamp out religion and the churches' passionate attempts to save themselves from obliteration. This work looks at both sides objectively and admits that they both presented strong cases.
The author reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day.
Many of the Bible's remarkable women-Mary, Ruth, Naomi, Abigail, Anna, Tamar, Judith-are widows. In this book, the authors, two of whom are widows themselves, provide an understanding and comfort not only for widows but for all who love, care for, and minister to individuals who have been widowed.
Fragments of Bone discusses African religions as forms of resistance and survival in the face of Western cultural hegemony and imperialism. The collection is unique in presenting the voices of scholars primarily outside of the Western tradition, speaking on the issues they regard as important. Bellegarde-Smith, himself a priest in the Haitian ......
An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible
In Sanctified Vision John J. O'Keefe and R. R. Reno explain the structure and logic of the early Church fathers' interpretations of the Bible. These interpretations are considered foundational to the development of Christianity as a religion and offer insight into how the early church fathers thought about Christian doctrine and practice. By ......
Award for the Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of ReligionDescriptionFeminist theory and postcolonial theory share an interest in developing theoretical frameworks for describing and evaluating subjectivity comparatively, especially with regard to non-autonomous models of agency. As a historian of religions, ......
The ever-provocative author and presenter Bob sitze explores the question: What does the human brain have to do with the beliefs, practices, and structures of congregations? Weaving together clear, accessible explanations about the workings of the human brain. Sitze shows how a congregation's identity and behaviors are shaped by the work of ......
The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith.The ......
