31 books in Social Science - Sociology Of Religion
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Crescent Moon Rising
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
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Crescent Moon Rising
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
The Islamic Transformation of America
Written by Paul L. Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Informative and at times controversial, this book examines the rise of Islam in American and clearly shows it will be a force to reckon with for some time. In 1975, Leo Rosten published his Religions of America, an exhaustive compilation of statistical information on every major and minor group of believers... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $50.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $50.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $25.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $25.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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Religion for Atheists
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion—without having to believe in any of it.
He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the...
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Sacred Ground
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Written by Eboo Patel
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $24.95
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Written by Eboo Patel
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $24.95
There is no better time to stand up for your values than when they are under attack.
In the decade following the attacks of 9/11, suspicion and animosity toward American Muslims has increased rather than subsided. Alarmist, hateful rhetoric once relegated to the fringes of political discourse has now become frighteningly mainstream...
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Protestant, Catholic, Jew
An Essay in American Religious Sociology
Written by Will Herberg
Format: eBook, 309 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $14.99
"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in still applicable ways to the American condition and, at its best, the human condition." —Martin E. Marty, from the Introduction
"In Protestant-Catholic-Jew Will Herberg... Read more >
An Essay in American Religious Sociology
Written by Will Herberg
Format: eBook, 309 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $14.99
"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in still applicable ways to the American condition and, at its best, the human condition." —Martin E. Marty, from the Introduction
"In Protestant-Catholic-Jew Will Herberg... Read more >
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God and the Folly of Faith
The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
Written by Victor J. Stenger
Format: Trade Paperback, 408 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $20.00
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the... Read more >
The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
Written by Victor J. Stenger
Format: Trade Paperback, 408 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $20.00
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the... Read more >
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God and the Folly of Faith
The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
Written by Victor J. Stenger
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the... Read more >
The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
Written by Victor J. Stenger
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Puritan Islam
The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Written by Barry A. Vann
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $12.99
In contrast to previous waves of immigrants who arrived in host countries eager to become productive and contributing members of their new homelands and desiring to adopt the native customs and culture, puritan Muslim immigrants with their more conservative, if not radical, interpretation of the dictates of Islam are likely to... Read more >
The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Written by Barry A. Vann
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $12.99
In contrast to previous waves of immigrants who arrived in host countries eager to become productive and contributing members of their new homelands and desiring to adopt the native customs and culture, puritan Muslim immigrants with their more conservative, if not radical, interpretation of the dictates of Islam are likely to... Read more >
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Puritan Islam
The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Written by Barry A. Vann
Format: Hardcover, 228 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
In contrast to previous waves of immigrants who arrived in host countries eager to become productive and contributing members of their new homelands and desiring to adopt the native customs and culture, puritan Muslim immigrants with their more conservative, if not radical, interpretation of the dictates of Islam are likely to... Read more >
The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Written by Barry A. Vann
Format: Hardcover, 228 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $26.00
In contrast to previous waves of immigrants who arrived in host countries eager to become productive and contributing members of their new homelands and desiring to adopt the native customs and culture, puritan Muslim immigrants with their more conservative, if not radical, interpretation of the dictates of Islam are likely to... Read more >
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The Mushroom in Christian Art
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Written by John A. Rush
Foreword by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $29.95
In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher... Read more >
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Written by John A. Rush
Foreword by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $29.95
In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher... Read more >
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Spirit and Flesh
Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Written by James M. Ault, Jr.
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $11.99
In an attempt to understand the growing popularity and influence of Christian fundamentalism, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.Spirit and Flesh takes us into worship services, home Bible studies, youth events, men’s prayer breakfasts, and bitter conflicts leading to a... Read more >
Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Written by James M. Ault, Jr.
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $11.99
In an attempt to understand the growing popularity and influence of Christian fundamentalism, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.Spirit and Flesh takes us into worship services, home Bible studies, youth events, men’s prayer breakfasts, and bitter conflicts leading to a... Read more >
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Working on God
Written by Winifred Gallagher
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $11.99
Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the... Read more >
Written by Winifred Gallagher
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $11.99
Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence
Religious Violence Across Culture and History
Written by Jack David Eller
Format: Hardcover, 451 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $28.00
The phrase "religious violence" often brings to mind dramatic events: the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, riots in India between Muslims and Hindus, or, farther back in history, the Crusades and the Thirty Years War. But as this anthropologist shows in his illuminating, in-depth study, violence in connection... Read more >
Religious Violence Across Culture and History
Written by Jack David Eller
Format: Hardcover, 451 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $28.00
The phrase "religious violence" often brings to mind dramatic events: the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, riots in India between Muslims and Hindus, or, farther back in history, the Crusades and the Thirty Years War. But as this anthropologist shows in his illuminating, in-depth study, violence in connection... Read more >
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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.95
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.95
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >
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God's Brain
Written by Lionel Tiger
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.00
In the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of religion, two distinguished authors radically alter the discussion. Taking a perspective rooted in evolutionary biology with a focus on brain science, the authors elucidate the perennial questions about religion: What is its purpose? How did it arise? What... Read more >
Written by Lionel Tiger
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.00
In the fractious debate on the existence of God and the nature of religion, two distinguished authors radically alter the discussion. Taking a perspective rooted in evolutionary biology with a focus on brain science, the authors elucidate the perennial questions about religion: What is its purpose? How did it arise? What... Read more >
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The Gospel of Hip Hop
The First Instrument
Written by KRS-One
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 800-plus-page opus is a life-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and... Read more >
The First Instrument
Written by KRS-One
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 800-plus-page opus is a life-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and... Read more >
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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
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... Read more >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
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... Read more >
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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.99
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.99
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Forced Into Faith
How Religion Abuses Children's Rights
Written by Innaiah Narisetti
Format: Trade Paperback, 126 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2009
Price: $9.99
In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, proclaiming elementary rights for children worldwide. Among other provisions, the Convention safeguards children’s religious freedom and their freedom of thought. But because child rearing is recognized as the primary responsibility of parents, the question of... Read more >
How Religion Abuses Children's Rights
Written by Innaiah Narisetti
Format: Trade Paperback, 126 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2009
Price: $9.99
In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, proclaiming elementary rights for children worldwide. Among other provisions, the Convention safeguards children’s religious freedom and their freedom of thought. But because child rearing is recognized as the primary responsibility of parents, the question of... Read more >
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Failed God
Fractured Myth in a Fragile World
Written by John A. Rush
Format: Trade Paperback, 472 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $28.95
On a 2001 trip to the cathedrals of Europe, anthropologist John Rush and his wife entered St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice and encountered a mosaic depicting Jesus surrounded by mushrooms with an Amanita muscaria cap in his hand. Examining the space with new eyes, they discovered images of mushrooms and mind-altering... Read more >
Fractured Myth in a Fragile World
Written by John A. Rush
Format: Trade Paperback, 472 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $28.95
On a 2001 trip to the cathedrals of Europe, anthropologist John Rush and his wife entered St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice and encountered a mosaic depicting Jesus surrounded by mushrooms with an Amanita muscaria cap in his hand. Examining the space with new eyes, they discovered images of mushrooms and mind-altering... Read more >
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Heavy Metal Islam
Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Written by Mark LeVine
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”
—Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene
“Music is the weapon of the future.”
—Fela Kuti
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They... Read more >
Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Written by Mark LeVine
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.”
—Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene
“Music is the weapon of the future.”
—Fela Kuti
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They... Read more >
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