Indonesian Muslims in a Global World
Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries have been an interesting topic in academia recently. Zulfikar serves to enrich previous literature on this important issue, highlighting Indonesian Muslims’ experience of living in between their home and their host society.
Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts
This volume explores the relationship between religion and print, examining the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks that circulate words and images to nourish religious faith in a global context.
This volume explores how well-being captures the imagination by addressing issues related to the social good and the quest for personal happiness. It discusses what difference the study of well-being makes from a Christian perspective.
Ogbonnaya examines varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. He shows that the centrality of culture for world Christianity showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the interplay between ethics and spirituality. How can love, compassion, and tolerance encounter mistrust, enmity, and violence? And how can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics?
Serfaty translates the full text of Donato Manduzio’s Diary from Italian into English, making it available at last to a wider public. She provides a social and historical basis for the trajectory of Manduzio and retraces his mystical visions and spiritual development.
Ten articles on contemporary Muslim thought, gathered here, give testimony to the existence of plurality in Muslim theology. They each focus on the thought of a contemporaneous Muslim theologian and deliberate the interdependence between theological debates and their context.
Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality
Mukhopadhyay examines goddess spirituality in cultural critique, and presents literary readings and cultural phenomena from this perspective. He contemplates the possibilities of inserting the figure of the Great Mother into the critical domain of cultural pluralism.
Becoming Jewish
A worldwide fascination with Judaism has led millions to convert. In this volume, leading scholars explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.
The Neo Abu Sayyaf
East follows the rise of criminality in the greater Mindanao region regarding the participation of major players in the suppression of the Moros—indigenous Muslims. He contemplates, among other things, why a murderous group such as the Abu Sayyaf has so much local support.
Christianity and Culture Collision
This book prompts new understandings of inculturation, universality, and world Christianity. As world Christianity is central to how the gospel is good news today, it is essential for readers concerned with new evangelization, African history, and inter-cultural dialogue.
Divine Rite of Kings
This monograph presents a social-historical-political analysis of the religion of the Latter-day Saints as deeply indebted to a variety of esoteric systems of belief, discussing the connections between its current homophobic policies and its earlier racist practices.
Few books focus on French missions in Britain’s sphere of influence. This work explores the unique experience of French missionary Eugène Casalis, who became a king’s advisor and is still hailed as one of the men who built the nation of Lesotho.
A God More Powerful Than Yours
Throughout American history, religious movements have used communication technologies to shape the nation. Broadcast media nurtured a dominant, conservative Christianity, while new technologies like the internet now cause its theological fragmentation.
Gender Agenda Matters
Feminism has often been declared dead. This volume offers vivid proof that feminist studies have not lost their appeal, bringing together fresh and interesting research from young scholars. It shows that gender agendas still matter, especially when feminism is a political aim.
Living with the AK-47
This book explores Hezbollah through extensive ethnography in its Beirut stronghold and training camps. Focusing on micro-narratives, it reveals how volunteers become militants, scripting a rich tale of ‘resistance’ and everyday life that offsets stereotypes.
Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
Scripture
Scripture is a mysterious, enriched word of God with both human and divine authorship. At once ancient and open to contemporary challenges, it draws people into a fertile divine-human dialogue that transcends cultures and times, destroying isolation.
Transforming From Christianity to Islam
Why would a Western woman convert to Islam and embrace the hijab? These personal accounts explore the complex reality where devotion collides with the immense influence of peer, social, and male pressure on one of life’s biggest decisions.
The Secret History of the Soul
What if the soul wasn’t an abstract entity but a physical force? This book examines forgotten models from the ancient world where spirit was a potent, transferable energy that blurred the line between body and soul and was used to effect magical cures.
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