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New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity: Christianity Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There Is Confusion (Paperback)

Honorable mention 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion This open access book sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic... more

Scaling the Secular City: Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity (Paperback)

This volume offers up-to-date arguments for God s existence and for Jesus s deity and resurrection answers to objections to Christian theism and discussions of four key issues. more

The Anthropology of Christianity: Reason to Believe : Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (Series #3) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America if not the world. For converts it emphasizes self-discipline and provides a network of communal support which together have helped many overcome substance abuse... more

Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity: Explorations in Augustine s Anthropology (Hardcover)

What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? The volume discusses anthropological themes in Augustine s corpus of writings. The reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine s anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on... more

Contrapuntal Readings of the Bible in World Christianity: Chinese Biblical Anthropology (Hardcover)

In this study that is largely intellectual history Cao Jian observes how Old Testament motifs were introduced by Protestant missionaries and Bible translators with the help of Chinese co-workers in the beginning and how those motifs drew attention from... more

The Anthropology of Christianity: A Problem of Presence : Beyond Scripture in an African Church (Series #2) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

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... more

Pre-Owned Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana s Time of AIDS: 8 (The Anthropology of Christianity) Paperback - USED

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Anthropology and Cultural History in Asi My God My Land: Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji (Paperback)

Examining the multifaceted nature of Christianity in Fiji My God My Land reveals the deeply complex and often paradoxical dynamics and tensions between processes of change and continuity as they unfold in representations and practices of Christianity... more

Debate on the evidences of Christianity : containing an examination of the social system and of all the systems of scepticism of ancient and modern times held in the city of Cincinnati between

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1829 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Pre-Owned Word Made Global : Stories of African Christianity in New York City (Paperback) 9780802864482

A groundbreaking work of ethnography urban studies and theology Mark Gornik s Word Made Global explores the recent development of African Christianity in New York City. Drawing especially on ten years of intensive research into three very different... more

Pre-Owned Cities of Gods : Faith Politics and Pluralism in Judaism Christianity and Islam 9780313249440 Used

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Pre-Owned Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome (Paperback) 0061349887 9780061349881

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Temple talks ... Being extracts from addresses delivered before the Unity Society of Practical Christianity Kansas City Mo. 1912. Volume 1912 (1912) [Leatherbound]

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Christianity s storm centre; a study of the modern city 1907 [Leather Bound]

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Debate on the evidences of Christianity; containing an examination of the social system and of all the systems of scepticism of ancient and modern times held in the city of Cincinnati for eight day

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Pre-Owned Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity Paperback

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Pre-Owned Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity Paperback

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Pre-Owned Cities of God : The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome 9780060858421 Used

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Christianity and Society in the Modern World: European Religion in the Age of Great Cities: 1830-1930 (Paperback)

Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change... more

Arab Christianity and Jerusalem : A History of the Arab Christian Presence in the Holy City

An arresting and authoritative record of the last two centuries - essential to an understanding of Jerusalem s religious communities today. more

Cultural Memory in the Present: Formations of the Secular : Christianity Islam Modernity (Paperback)

Opening with the provocative query what might an anthropology of the secular look like? this book explores the concepts practices and political formations of secularism. The focus is on major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and... more

Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries (Hardcover)

In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed... more

Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity: Christians in the City of Hong Kong: Chinese Christianity in Asia s World City (Hardcover)

Christians in the City of Hong Kong tells the story of a multi-faceted constantly evolving Christianity in a vibrant metropolis that has always been China s gateway to the wider world. Having served in Hong Kong for over 25 years in contexts from... more

Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought: Dynamis of Healing: Patristic Theology and the Psyche (Paperback)

This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see... more

Pre-Owned Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries (Paperback 9780295993867) by Sergei Kan

9780295993867. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 696. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 696 p. In Memory Eternal Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between... more

Pre-Owned Formations of the Secular: Christianity Islam Modernity (Paperback 9780804747684) by Talal Asad

9780804747684. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 280. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 280 p. Cultural Memory in the Present. Opening with the provocative query what might an anthropology of the secular look... more

Early Christianity in North Africa (Paperback)

Along with the churches located in large Greek cities of the East the church of Carthage was particularly significant in the early centuries of Christian history. Initially the Carthaginian church became known for its martyrs. Later the North African... more

Cult in Pisidia : Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity (Paperback)

This volume is dedicated to cult in the ancient region of Pisidia. The findings of the archaeological research at the ancient city of Sagalassos are combined with the results of archaeological survey projects conducted in the region as well as... more

Pre-Owned Christianity in the Local Context: Southern Baptists Philippines (Hardcover 9780230606616) by B Howell

9780230606616. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2008 ed. Language: English. Pages: 253. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 253 p. Contains: Unspecified. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. In three congregations representing three distinct... more

Discovering Christianity: Paul s Letter To The Colossians: Extols The Person Of Jesus The Christ In Letter (Paperback)

The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians is the twelfth book of the New Testament. It was written according to the text by Paul the Apostle and Timothy and addressed to the Church in Colossae a small Phrygian city near Laodicea and approximately 100 miles... more

Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers (Paperback - Used) 0736937021 9780736937023

Dillon Burroughs has defended the faith as a writer speaker and professor. But when he asked himself how he was helping a homeless guy in his city or a hungry family in Darfur everything started to unravel. Now with renewed vision disarming candor and... more

Pre-Owned Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in to (Paperback) 0393003973 9780393003970

Back cover text: In Christianity in the Roman Empire Harold Mattingly traces the course of two mighty empires the Roman and the Christian - one declining one growing - to determine how they influenced each other. Rome fighting her way up from a city... more

The Anthropology of Christianity: The Saint in the Banyan Tree : Christianity and Caste Society in India (Series #14) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century when the religion was integrated into Tamil... more

Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality: The Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers (Hardcover)

The place of Hilary of Poitiers in the debates and developments of early Christianity is tenuous in contemporary scholarship. His invaluable historical position is unquestioned but the coherence and significance of his own thought is less certain. In... more

Pre-Owned Theological Anthropology: Revised and Expanded Edition (Paperback 9781506449401) by J Patout Burns Joseph W Trigg Robin Darling Young

9781506449401. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 225. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 225 p. Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources. The book gathers and translates texts from early Christianity that explore the... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop Japanese Women Class and the Tea Ceremony: The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan (Paperback)

This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chad�) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city Akita the book surveys the rigid hierarchical chad� system at grass roots... more

An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples (Hardcover)

This book recounts the author s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure the femminiello has found a safe environment within the city s historical poorest neighborhoods the so-called... more

Christians in the City: Studies in Contemporary Global Christianity: Christians in the City of Shanghai: A History Resurrected Above the Sea (Hardcover)

Examining the stories of diverse Christians in Shanghai this book uses the city as a model to highlight how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions as well as social cultural political and economic changes. Susangeline Y.... more