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Kingdoms of This World
How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481319935
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-07-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
350 Pages
Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires. Secular empires have provided the means by which religions achieve their global...
Objective Religion
Freedom, Politics, Secularization
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319614
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-01-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
532 Pages
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied...
The Kaleidoscopic City
Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them,...
Better Religion
A Primer for Interreligious Peacebuilding
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481317832
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
242 Pages
In the twenty-first century, humanity faces both unprecedented existential threats and remarkable possibilities for development. While no one knows how things will unfold by century's end, it is...
Objective Religion
Problems, Prosociality, Progress
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481317719
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
398 Pages
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied...
The Gospel in Latin America
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481317221
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
256 Pages
The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the most...
Migrational Religion
Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481315944
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
213 Pages
Many scholars have documented how migration from Latin America to the United States shapes the interconnected spheres of religious participation, political engagement, and civic formation in host countries....
Redeeming Expertise
Scientific Trust and the Future of the Church
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481316156
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
264 Pages
Recently the scholarly community and popular media have highlighted the denial of science by conservative Christians, linking a low view of scientific expertise to the United States' current cultural...
Objective Religion
Competition, Tension, Perseverance
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481314268
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
392 Pages
Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before. And yet, despite the persistence of religion, it remains a woefully understudied...
LDS in the USA
Mormonism and the Making of American Culture
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481314961
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
176 Pages
From the politics of Glenn Beck to reality television's Big Love and the hit Broadway show The Book of Mormon, Mormons have become a recognizable staple of mainstream popular culture. And while most...
Religion as Social Capital
Producing the Common Good
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481314589
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
273 Pages
While Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000) highlighted the notion of volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in generating social capital--an ironic omission since religion...
Small Screen, Big Picture
Television and Lived Religion
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481314794
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
535 Pages
A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines...
God's Wounded World
American Evangelicals and the Challenge of Environmentalism
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481311731
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
272 Pages
Although evangelicals and environmentalists at large still find themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly contentious issue, there is a counternarrative that has received less attention. Since...
Interreligious Studies
Dispatches from an Emerging Field
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312547
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
295 Pages
In an increasingly connected world, the question of how different religious traditions relate to one another is more urgent than ever. The study of interreligious encounters and relations, by no means...
Religion and Human Flourishing
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312851
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
245 Pages
When talking about the relationship between religion and flourishing, the first task is to frame the question theologically and philosophically, and this entails taking seriously the potential challenges...
Fertility and Faith
The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481311311
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
270 Pages
Demography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population’s fertility rates, the greater the tendency for...

Kingdoms of This World
How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481319935
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-07-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
350 Pages
Objective Religion
Freedom, Politics, Secularization
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481319614
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-01-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
532 Pages
The Kaleidoscopic City
Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481318976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
279 Pages
Better Religion
A Primer for Interreligious Peacebuilding
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481317832
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
242 Pages
Objective Religion
Problems, Prosociality, Progress
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481317719
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
398 Pages
The Gospel in Latin America
Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481317221
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2022-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
256 Pages
Migrational Religion
Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481315944
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
213 Pages
Redeeming Expertise
Scientific Trust and the Future of the Church
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481316156
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2021-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
264 Pages
Objective Religion
Competition, Tension, Perseverance
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481314268
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-06-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
392 Pages
LDS in the USA
Mormonism and the Making of American Culture
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481314961
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
176 Pages
Religion as Social Capital
Producing the Common Good
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481314589
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
273 Pages
Small Screen, Big Picture
Television and Lived Religion
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481314794
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
535 Pages
God's Wounded World
American Evangelicals and the Challenge of Environmentalism
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481311731
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
272 Pages
Interreligious Studies
Dispatches from an Emerging Field
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312547
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
295 Pages
Religion and Human Flourishing
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312851
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-08-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
245 Pages
Fertility and Faith
The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481311311
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
270 Pages