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  • SEXUALITY AND THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD
    MARCO MARZANO
    Based on interviews with Roman Catholic seminarians, priests and former priests, as well as with managers of seminaries, teaching staff, psychologists and psychiatrists, this book considers the lives of the clergy, beginning with the period before entering the seminary. With attention to both heterosexual and homosexual relationships – and so addressing the tension that exists ...

    $800.00

  • THE POWER OF TOGETHER
    JIM PUTMAN
    Do you long for a genuine Christian community? Many of us experience loneliness and isolation, even in our church communities. Churches often emphasize increasing knowledge rather than encouraging believers to foster deep, authentic connections that reflect the heart of God. We sometimes forget that both are important if we want to experience vibrant spiritual growth. In The Po...

    $534.00

  • THE POWER OF TOGETHER WORKBOOK
    JIM PUTMAN
    This companion to Jim Putman’s book, The Power of Together, provides a 9-week Bible study to encourage spiritual growth and community building. Trusted discipleship leader and pastor Jim Putman invites you to dig deeper into what it means to “do life” in close fellowship with other believers and to grow in your understanding of why fellowship is important for spiritual maturity...

    $562.00

  • INTERSTICES
    ALEXANDER ALBERRO
     An exploration of innovative practices flourishing at the margins of Western art.   With this book, Alexander Alberro engages decolonial theory to explore the dynamic exchanges that occur where the ideals and values of different artistic frameworks meet. Resisting notions of a singular art world and global contemporary art, Alberro explores what lies outside of Western art’s h...

    $698.01

  • SIKHISM - THE BASICS
    NIKKY-GUNINDER KAUR SINGH / ELEANOR NESBITT
    Sikhism: The Basics provides an accessible, up-to-date and gender inclusive introduction to one of the five major world religions. The chronological and geographical parameters of the book are expansive, tracing five and half centuries ‒ from the vision of the founder Guru (Nanak 1469-1539) to its rich diasporic presence across the globe. Sikhism: The Basics includes chapters o...

    $500.00

  • HANDBOOK OF GESTALT-THEORETICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ART
    WALTER COPPOLA
    The Handbook of Gestalt-Theoretic Psychology of Art synthesizes contemporary research in the psychology of perception, cognition, language and hearing to reassess the Gestalt approach to studying the arts. Since Rudolf Arnheim’s death in 2007, the field has seen a resurgence, with scientists revisiting and reinventing previously articulated points of view. For the first time, t...

    $1,140.00

  • NATURE CONTEMPLATION IN CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
    DORU COSTACHE
    This book examines Clement of Alexandria’s interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation—which he terms “physiology” and “physics”—showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline. It reconstructs Clement’s method of nature contemplation, which, while discernible throughout his writings, does not feature as such in one place. Yet it ex...

    $1,140.00

  • CONFUCIAN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    YONG LI
    This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition. The author demonstrates the relevance of Confucianism to contemporary discussions on important political ideals, such as equality, democracy, human rights, perfectionism, and global justice. He also introduces individual Confucian thinke...

    $1,140.00

  • FIRST STEPS IN SPACE-TIME
    ED MACAULAY
    First Steps in Space-Time: A Brief Introduction to Special Relativity provides an accessible, authentic, and readable introduction to the theory of special relativity. The academic level of the book builds only on skills that would be covered in a GCSE maths course, such as Pythagoras's theorem, and rearranging equations, and no prior knowledge of relativity (or physics) is ass...

    $740.00

  • THE LAWYER AND THE LAUNDRESS
    CHRISTINE HILL SUNTZ
    Lawyer James Kinney isn’t looking for love, and laundress Sara O’Connor doesn’t want to be found. When their paths cross in a British colony on the brink of rebellion, a marriage of convenience may be their best hope of survival. Canada, 1837. Widower James Kinney knows his precocious daughter, Evie, needs more than his lessons on law and logic, but Toronto offers few options. ...

    $534.00

  • CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN GHANA
    JEFFREY HAYNES
    This book investigates the impact of Christian nationalism on democracy in Ghana, arguing that proponents of a specific Christian worldview seek to remake the country according to their values and beliefs. Christian nationalism is a significant religious and political ideology in several African countries, not only Ghana, but also Zambia and Nigeria. In Ghana, prominent Christi...

    $1,140.00

  • GANDHI AND THE CASTE QUESTION IN COLONIAL INDIA
    SHASHI BHUSHAN UPADHYAY
    This book comprehensively surveys and critically analyses Gandhi’s ideas on caste and untouchability. It emphasizes the fact that Gandhi was a considerable thinker who had seminal ideas on the caste question. As an intellectual history, this book is not just a study of his ideas but also of what he practised. It narrates his lifelong struggle against untouchability since his So...

    $1,000.00

  • REDISCOVERING HUMANITARIANISM
    This book provides a new approach to understanding the histories of refugee resettlement and their relevance for contemporary emergencies. By drawing on histories of faith-based humanitarianism from 1917 to the present, it explores how faith-based organisations have engaged with refugee aid and the efforts of other secular humanitarian movements. These understandings of humanit...

    $1,140.00

  • EMBODIED PEDAGOGIES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
    Embodied Pedagogies in the Study of Religion provides a forum for creative, renowned teachers (professors and instructors) of religion to discuss ways in which they think about the embodied dimension of teaching and learning specific to their areas of expertise and how they have shaped their curriculum to engage and reflect their thinking. The goal of this volume is multiple: I...

    $1,100.00

  • HEAVEN HAS A WALL
    ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD
    An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.   Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects. In this bo...

    $565.92

  • THE SACRED SCALES
    BRYAN DAVIS
    A middle grade faith-building fantasy adventure from the bestselling Dragons in Our Midst story world. In King Arthur’s Camelot where dragons are outlawed, a poor apprentice boy and a dragon-raised orphan girl unravel an evil plot to exterminate dragons from this world and the next. Hawk spends his days trying to survive as a lowly apprentice in the harsh employ of Master Andre...

    $478.00

  • IF THE OCEAN HAS A SOUL
    RACHEL G. JORDAN
    The ocean is filled with scientific discoveries—and God’s presence. For marine biologist Rachel Jordan, both science and Scripture are means of knowing creation and Creator. In If the Ocean Has a Soul, Rachel considers the natural world through a spiritual lens, meshing marine biology with biblical truths in a keen and current take on faith and science. With engaging storytelli...

    $534.00

  • THE SABBATH WAY
    TRAVIS WEST
    Experience the transformational power of the sacred, ancient, radical rhythm of Sabbath rest. In the fast-paced, chaotic, overly scheduled cadence of our culture, it can be difficult to imagine how to squeeze the Sabbath into our already over-stuffed lives—like trying to fit an eleventh passenger into an eight-passenger van. What if Sabbath isn’t designed to “fit” into our live...

    $534.00

  • THE DEAD SEA SQUIRRELS SET BOOKS 10--12: RISKY RIVER RESCUE / A TWISTY-TURNY JOURNEY / BABBLELAND BREAKOUT
    MIKE NAWROCKI
    This 3-book set includes books 10–12 in the Dead Sea Squirrels Series Book 10 Risky River Rescue: The Gomez family and friends continue the search for Merle through the Holy Land. But instead of finding Merle, they uncover Dr. Simon’s master plan to create the BabbleLand Animal Park. Theme: Choosing to follow God’s will. Book 11 A Twisty-Turny Journey: Merle and Pearl have been...

    $646.00

  • THE FOOTBALL MANAGERS
    TONY PAWSON
    There are few posts more dramatic, more controversial, or more public than a football Manager’s. The pressures of success, and failure; the problems of finance and business management; the challenge of tactics and training: these are just some of the issues which Tony Pawson examines in this book, originally published in 1973. He not only traces the development of the Manager f...

    $1,400.00

  • THE DYNAMIC PSYCHOLOGY OF EARLY BUDDHISM
    RUNE JOHANSSON
    Originally published in 1979, The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism was a psychologist’s attempt to understand what the Buddha meant by “dependent origination” (paticcasumappāda, sometimes translated as “causality”). Those who are familiar with Theravada Buddhism have met the famous series of twelve links in the chain of causation (nidanas) of which each is said to be the co...

    $1,400.00

  • AUGUSTE COMTE
    JANE M. STYLE
    First published in 1928, Auguste Comte is a biography of the famous French philosopher Auguste Comte, the founder of the doctrine of positivism. In this book, the author traces Comte’s journey from his birth till his death. The final chapter ‘After Days’ provides a commentary on the changes the society underwent over a course of seventy years after Comte’s death. The author dra...

    $1,400.00

  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF FRENCH CATHOLICISM 1789–1914
    RALPH GIBSON
    First published in 1989, A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914 is a clear survey of over a hundred years of Catholicism in French society. It chronicles the religious experience of French men and women, both clergy and laity, in post-revolutionary France. The book begins with a look at Catholic life in the Old Regime and during the French Revolution, and proceeds to ...

    $1,400.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
    EMILIO CHUVIECO / MARIA A. MARTIN
    A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives, this cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way. Environmental problems are explained by ecological, social, ethical, and religious dimensions that inspire environmental conservatio...

    $1,140.00

  • SPORTS MEDICINE, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT AND DOPING
    IVAN WADDINGTON / CHRISTOPHE BRISSONNEAU
    Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport. Combining historical and sociological analysis, the book shows how sports medicine, as it developed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, became increasi...

    $1,140.00

  • HINDUTVA FOR OUR TIMES
    ARVIND SHARMA
    This book studies Hindu nationalism and deliberates on the forms Hindu self-assertion might take in the future. It examines the intersection of Hindu nationalism with the contemporary reality of India, as represented by a religiously plural society with a secular state, which possesses a social system characterised by caste, and one whose vision has been shaped by a mainstream ...

    $1,100.00

  • HINDUISM IN THE WORLD
    KNUT A. JACOBSEN
    This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide. Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world, and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these p...

    $1,100.00

  • MODERN TENDENCIES IN WORLD RELIGIONS
    CHARLES SAMUEL BRADEN
    First published in 1933, Modern Tendencies in World Religions is the result of author’s desire to find out what was happening in different religions and a long difficult search for materials to satisfy that interest. The sources of information have been various: books, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, in just so far as possible from the countries or religions represented. Th...

    $1,400.00

  • LEVINAS, ETHICS, AND THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
    NORMAN K. SWAZO
    This book engages with the philosophical thought of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It studies some of his Talmudic readings and his concern for a Jewish “universal ethics.” It does so in relation to the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the moral imperatives that apply to the conduct of the State of Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) vis-a-vis th...

    $1,100.00

  • GRECO-ROMAN WATERS
    GEORGIA L. IRBY
    The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized. Offering a deep look at the many ways that water culture impacted the ancient world, bo...

    $1,100.00