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Crossroads of American Religious Life
By Robert S. Ellwood
The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat....
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/2000
ISBN: 9780664258139
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 244
A Guide for the Perplexed
By Mark I. Pinsky
In this insightful and accessible book, religion journalist Mark Pinsky takes the curious reader on a tour of the fascinating world of Sun Belt evangelicalism. Pinsky, religion reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, uses his unique position as a Jew cove...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 8/3/2006
ISBN: 9780664230128
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 168
A Journey through His Writings
By Dale Brown
The most thorough and extensive investigation ever written on the much-beloved writer, The Book of Buechner explores the ways in which Frederick Buechner's writing, particularly his fiction, presents the possibilities of grace in the midst of the amb...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/31/2007
ISBN: 9780664231132
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 416
The Way to Peace
By Raimon Panikkar
In this important and timely book, philosopher and theologian Raimon Panikkar deals with the crucial issues of our time--war, religion, and ecology--as he redefines true peace and offers a way to achieve it in the world. Peace, he argues, requires mo...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1995
ISBN: 9780664255497
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 156
Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies
By Craig Detweiler, Robert K. Johnston, Barry Taylor
Elvis Presley. Andy Warhol. Nike. Stephen King. Ellen DeGeneres. Sim City. Facebook. These American pop culture icons are just a few examples of entries you will find in this fascinating guide to religion and popular culture. Arranged chronologically...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/3/2012
ISBN: 9780664235055
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 240
A Guidebook for Leaders
By Edward N. McNulty
Growing numbers of church leaders are discovering that many films are able to impact viewers with gospel truths almost as well as a good sermon. Ed McNulty, a former pastor and longtime reviewer of films, offers this guide to help church leaders ente...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/31/2007
ISBN: 9780664229504
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 280
Baseball, Religion, and American Culture
By Christopher H. Evans, William R. Herzog II
The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball an...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 3/1/2002
ISBN: 9780664223052
Format: 6x9
Pages: 274
Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives
By Richard Bauckham
This book outlines a biblical understanding of freedom and the particular ways in which Christians choose to exercise that freedom in response to major issues confronting the world today. Specifically, Bauckham constructs a Christian understanding of...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/31/2002
ISBN: 9780664224790
Format: 6x9
Pages: 224
A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens
By John F. Haught
In God and the New Atheism, a world expert on science and theology gives clear, concise, and compelling answers to the charges against religion laid out in recent best-selling books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Sam Harris (The End of Faith)...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/15/2008
ISBN: 9780664233044
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 144
Musings on Pain, Poetry and Pop-Culture
By Kathy Shaidle
Bone-cutting, zipperwit essays from a sardonic, determined Gen-X'er with Lupus. Kathy Shaidle writes on being sick, on being catholic, and on being a pop-culture junky in the '90s. Her writing has been called "cerebral, seductive and funny." It is "f...
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Publisher: Woodlake Books
Publication Date: 1/1/1998
ISBN: 9781896836249
Format: 5 x 7
Pages: 144
Reading the Bible in a World of Religious Diversity
By W. Eugene March
In this engaging book aimed at pastors, teachers, and laypeople in Christian churches, W. Eugene March helps the reader develop theological clarity about how to live in a religiously diverse society. Following up on the success of his previous book, ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/16/2009
ISBN: 9780664233600
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 136
A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ-haunted Idea
By David Dark
Using icons from music, literature, film, and politics, David Dark hopes to provide fodder for lively conversation about what it means to be Christian and American in this day and age. The end result of this conversation, Dark hopes, will be a better...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/19/2005
ISBN: 9780664227692
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 200
By Steve Turner
Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published material, and fresh insights, Turn...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 8/3/2006
ISBN: 9780664229832
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 280
The Old, Old Story for Modern Times
By Michael J. Gilmour
Since the early 1960s, music fans have found Bob Dylan spirituality fascinating, and many of them have identified Dylan as a kind of spiritual guru. This book, written by a scholar who is a longtime fan, examines Dylan's mystique, asking why audience...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/2011
ISBN: 9780664232078
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 216
Rock and Redemption, from Asbury Park to Magic
By Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz
In this engaging book, Jeffrey Symynkywicz, a minister and dedicated Springsteen fan, shows us that Bruce Spingsteen's enduring importance stems largely from the rich spiritual themes that run throughout his albums. With a lively and engaging style, ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 6/16/2008
ISBN: 9780664231699
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 216
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