The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life (Root Andrew)(Paperback)

The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time Against the Speed of Modern Life (Root Andrew)(Paperback)

Academy of Parish Clergy 2022 Top Ten Book for Parish MinistryChurches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.Leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers a new paradigm for understanding the congregation in contemporary

The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God (Root Andrew)(Paperback)

Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Top Ten Book for Parish MinistryIn Faith Formation in a Secular Age, the first book in his Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, Andrew Root offered an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulated how faith can be formed in our

Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness (Root Andrew)(Paperback)

A Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry in 2017, Academy of Parish ClergyThe loss or disaffiliation of young adults is a much-discussed topic in churches today. Many faith-formation programs focus on keeping the young, believing the youthful spirit will save the church. But do these programs have more

Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare (Brokaw Katherine Steele)(Paperback)

The term 'secular' inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare's plays present 'secularization' not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a

Reimagining Apologetics: The Beauty of Faith in a Secular Age (Bailey Justin Ariel)(Paperback)

How should one proclaim of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a secular age? For many Christians, the traditional approach of apologetics has grown stale. In light of the current secular climate, as described by Charles Taylor and others, rhetorical strategies that previously served the church and

A Secular Age (Taylor Charles)(Paperback)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Tablet Best Book of the Year Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award 'One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost

God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology (Moltmann Jrgen)(Paperback)

In this masterful analysis of the religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age, world-renowned theologian Jrgen Moltmann assays the vaulting dreams and colossal failures of our time. He asks how we came to this point, and he argues strenuously for Christian discipleship and public

Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Mahmood Saba)(Paperback)

How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse--not better--for religious minoritiesThe plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by

On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (Humphreys Andrew)(Paperback)

The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change (Tacey David)(Paperback)

In The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change, David Tacey presents a unique psychological study of the postsecular, adding a Jungian perspective to a debate shaped by sociology, philosophy and religious studies. In this interdisciplinary exploration, Tacey looks at the

The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (Pettegree Andrew)(Paperback)

This account uncovers for the first time a largely overlooked marvel of the Dutch Golden Age: books. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch reshaped the seventeenth-century book world and, in the process, bought and owned more books per capita than any other people in

Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-90 (Mangion Carmen M.)(Paperback)

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self: Dancing to Silent Music (Merkle Judith A.)(Paperback)

Judith A. Merkle examines the situation of Christian spirituality today, in a secular age, through the images of dance, silence, and music. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor as well as core aspects of the tradition of Christian theology on discipleship, Merkle asks how these new conditions

Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Brown Peter)(Paperback)

The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be

Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age (Fadl Khaled Abou El)(Paperback)

From laws against the implementation of Shari'ah in the United States to anger about the role of Shari'ah in Egypt's new constitution, many people are confused about the meaning of Shari'ah in Islam and its role in the world today. In Reasoning with God, renowned Islamic scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl

Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church (Chappel James)(Pevná vazba)

In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why,

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru (Guest Tim)(Paperback)

At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a

China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty (Benn Charles)(Paperback)

The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn paints a vivid picture of the

The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (Young Julian)(Paperback)

What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition

The Sacred Depths of Nature (Goodenough Ursula)(Paperback)

For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us that the scientificworld view

Stepp'd in Blood: Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi (Wallis Andrew)(Paperback)

The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century. Andrew Wallis reveals, for the first time, the personal lives and crimes of the family group ('Akazu') that destroyed their country and left one million dead. Wallis' meticulous research uncovers a

Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper (Martin Andrew)(Paperback)

In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can

Muhammad (Rodinson Maxime)(Paperback)

A classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born. Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has

The Book in the Renaissance (Pettegree Andrew)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and