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Storms over Genesis: Biblical Battleground in America's Wars of Religion
In one of history's discouraging ironies, just as the academic study of the Pentateuch revealed the multilayered composition of Genesis and separated it from...
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Blue Twilight: Nature, Creationism, and American Religion
Gilkey's latest work takes the measure of the current American religious and cultural crisis, assesses recent theological responses to it, and shows how these...
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Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post 9-11 Powers and American Empire
Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate...
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American Religious Traditions: The Shaping of Religion in the United States: Stand-alone CD-ROM
In this fully revised and enhanced edition of his Religion in the New World (Fortress Press, 1990), Wentz extends and deepens his successful account of the...
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Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History
This book provides a comprehensive overview of African American religious history from the African Traditional Religions, slavery, the development of black churches, the rise of black new religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches, and examines contemporary issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.
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Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion
Given the unique history of African Americans and its diverse religious flowering—in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Voodoo, and...
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A Documentary History of Lutheranism: Volumes 1 and 2
This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical and theological documents—many translated here for the first time—presents readers with a full picture of how the...
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Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative
In this volume, Gary Yamasaki develops an innovative approach to biblical narrative, exploring the way stories are treated in filmmaking, and using that as a...
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Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion
Here is a skillful tracing of two tracks in the evolution of musical genres that have evolved from black religion. Songs of protest developed from the...
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The Lutherans in North America: Revised Edition
This book gives today's Lutherans a sense of heritage, identity and continuity, a sense of self-understanding. Readers will see themselves as part of a...
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The Imposing Preacher: Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith
As a distinguished Baptist pastor, educator, and public servant, Samuel DeWitt Proctor made it his mission to serve American life by fighting against racism. In...
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Coming Full Circle: Constructing Native Christian Theology
Coming Full Circle provides a working constructive dogmatics in Native Christian Theology. Drawing together leading scholars in the field, this volume seeks to encourage theologians to reconsider the rich possibilities present in the intersection between Native theory and practice and Christian theology and practice.
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Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.
What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin looks beyond all of the mythic, messianic, and iconic images to treat King in terms of his fundamental and vivid humanness.
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The Paradox of Church and World: Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr
“Ultimately,” wrote H. Richard Niebuhr in 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world it becomes indistinguishable from the world and loses its effectiveness no less surely.”
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Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats: Churches and Hip-Hop - A Basic Guide to Key Issues
In this innovative project, ten individuals write as one voice to illuminate the ways that hip-hop and the Black Church agree, disagree, and inform each other on key topics.
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Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory
Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of evil and suffering.
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A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement
Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story—the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.
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Lutherans in America: A New History
In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived within them. This shows the complete story—not only the policies and the politics, but the piety and the practical experiences of the Lutheran men and women who lived and worked in the American context.
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Called Out for Witness: The Missional Journey of Grace Korean Church
Called Out for Witness tells the vast, dedicated missionary history of Grace Korean Church in California. Since 1982, GKC has invested over 50 percent of its income into mission operations in over sixty countries. This book examines GKC's theological motivations, as well as the future of the church's missionary journey.
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