New books
Sociology of religion for generations X and Y - Adam Possamai
ISBN/ISSN: 1845533046
This book on the sociology of religion makes specific relevance to the generation X and Y from the very first page. Readers and students from this generation are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the Internet, and are more practical than theoretical. The academic world is in great need for such a work that focuses on the need of these generations, and this is done with this book which is at the intersection of consumer, cyber, and popular culture.
A problem of presence : beyond Scripture in an African church - Matthew Engelke
ISBN/ISSN: 0520249046
The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" from the Holy Spirit. In this insightful and sensitive historical ethnography, Matthew Engelke documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. The Bible, of course, has been a key medium through which Christians have recognized God's presence. But the apostolics perceive scripture as an unnecessary, even dangerous, mediator. For them, the materiality of the Bible marks a distance from the divine and prohibits the realization of a live and direct faith.
Fire in my bones : transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American gospel - Glenn Hinson
ISBN/ISSN: 0812217179
The saints of the African American sanctified community say that the soul is the domain not of body or mind, but of spirit. And when the Spirit touches spirit, the soul rejoices in an epiphany of truth and knowledge. Speaking of soul, Spirit, and experience draws discourse into a realm rarely explored by ethnographic inquiry. Ethnography has traditionally avoided encounter with the subjective realm of experience -- not just supernatural experience, but experience in general. In Fire in My Bones, Glenn Hinson focuses on a single gospel program and offers a major contribution to our understanding not just of gospel, but of the nature of religious experience.
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Featured new book
The case for God - Karen Armstrong
ISBN/ISSN: 0307269183
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level.
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- Anthropology, politics and the state : democracy and violence in South Asia / Jonathan Spencer
- A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith : with "on my religion" / John Rawls ; edited by Thomas Nagel ; with commentaries by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, and by Robert Merrihew Adams
- The case for God / Karen Armstrong
- China and religion / by Edward Harper Parker
- Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion / edited by Michael Stausberg
- The culture of Islam : changing aspects of contemporary Muslim life / Lawrence Rosen
- The ethical soundscape : cassette sermons and Islamic counterpublics / Charles Hirschkind
- Ethnographic sorcery / Harry G. West
- Fire in my bones : transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American gospel / Glenn Hinson in collaboration with saints from a host of churches ; photographs by Roland L. Freeman
- A general theory of magic / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Robert Brain with a foreword by D.F. Pocock
- In God's image : the metaculture of Fijian Christianity / Matt Tomlinson
- Greek religious terminology : telete & orgia : a revised and expanded English edition of the studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg / by Feyo L. Schuddeboom
- Kupilikula : governance and the invisible realm in Mozambique / Harry G. West ; based on research conducted in collaboration with Marcos Agostinho Mandumbwe and with assistance from Eusébio Tissa Kairo and Felista Elias Mkaima
- Nature, space and the sacred : transdisciplinary perspectives / edited by S. Bergmann ... [et al.]
- The philosophy of the Daodejing / Hans-Georg Moeller
- A problem of presence : beyond Scripture in an African church / Matthew Engelke
- Questioning the veil : open letters to Muslim women / Marnia Lazreg
- The reinvention of primitive society : transformations of a myth / Adam Kuper
- Religion and revelry in Shakespeare's festive world / Phebe Jensen
- Sensuous scholarship / Paul Stoller
- Sexual politics in modern iran / Janet Afary
- Sociology of religion for generations X and Y / Adam Possamai
- Wisdom of the mythtellers / Sean Kane
- The workplace and spirituality : new perspectives on research and practice / edited by Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, and Richard King
Latest e-journal issues for religious studies
Alerts were received in the past month for these journals (in order of most to least recent).
For more journals on religion, see: Current journals list
- Literature and theology
- Journal of religious history
- Indian economic & social history review
- Journal of Hindu studies
- Politics and religion
- Harvard theological review
- Spiritus : a journal of Christian spirituality
- Journal of Indian philosophy
- South Asia research
- History of religions
- Journal of feminist studies in religion
- Religious studies
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Buddhist-Christian studies
- Journal of ecclesiastical history
Recent new books
The forging of races : race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world, 1600-2000 - Colin Kidd
ISBN/ISSN: 0521793246
Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion - Michael Stausberg (ed.)
ISBN/ISSN: 0415463475
A brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith : with "on my religion" - John Rawls
ISBN/ISSN: 0674033310
The Hindus : an alternative history - Wendy Doniger
ISBN/ISSN: 1594202052
The atheist and the God particle - Edwin Eugene Klingman
ISBN/ISSN: 0979176565
Jesus, interrupted : revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible (and why we don't know about them) - Bart D. Ehrman
ISBN/ISSN: 0061173932
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