Winner of the Evans Biography Award and the John Whitmer Association Best Book Award''One of the best biographies yet written about any Latter Day Saint leader in either the Reorganized church or Utah Mormon church. . . . 'Must' reading for all students of Mormon history.'' -- Newell Bringhurst, Sunstone''An important appraisal of the man who ......
This book, which has sparked a storm of controversy in Germany, embarks on an exhaustive examination of all the New Testament and Apocrypha texts realting to the Resurrection. Provocative, stimulating, and courageous, Luedemann's work will occasion re-evaluation of just what the New Testament--and we--affirm in the Resurrection of Jesus.
Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
This book is the first substantial study of Islamization in any part of Inner Asia from any perspective and the first to emphasize conversion narratives as important sources for understanding the dynamics of Islamization. Challenging the prevailing notions of the nature of Islam in Inner Asia, it explores how conversion to Islam was woven ......
The retrenchment among Mormons is the main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes the last forty years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective. At the official ecclesiastical level, Mauss finds, the retrenchment can be seen in the greatly increased centralization of bureaucratic control and in renewed emphases on obedience to modern ......
What is Public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? These are the fundamental questions Robert Wuthnow addresses in Producing the Sacred. Wuthnow uses as a guiding assumption the idea that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major kinds of organizations that produce public ......
Originally published in 1912 in England, this work by the American journalists Ruth Kauffman and Reginald Wright Kauffman reflects their belief as Marxists that the Mormon church was a victim of a capitalistic society. An introduction by John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito places the book in historical context and provides biographical details ......
Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (POD)
''This eloquent, lucid, and complex work is the product of remarkable intelligence and erudition; it is a profound contribution to the understanding of the cultural hegemony of the West.''--Ralph M. Coury, Religious Studies Review.''All articles are extremely well written, exhibit impressive scholarship, and are thoughtful and are thoughtful and ......
With an eye to recent proposals on Paul's view of the Law and his relation to his first-century context, N. T. Wright looks in detail at passages central to the current debate. Among them are some of the most controversial sections of Paul. From his meticulous exegesis Wright argues that Paul saw the death and resurrection of Jesus as the ......
The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture (POD)
American Pentecostalism began as a culturally isolated sect intent upon announcing the imminence of the world's end. The sect's early millenarian fervor gradually became muted in favor of flag-waving patriotism. At the end of the twentieth century it has become an affluent, worldwide movement thoroughly entrenched in popular culture.Edith ......