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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: 2024-07-15
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: 2024-01-15
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: 2023-11-01
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: 2022-10-01
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: 2022-07-01
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: 2022-06-15
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: 2021-10-01
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: 2021-10-01
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: 2021-06-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-10-15
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: 2020-10-01
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: 2020-09-01
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: 2020-07-01
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...
A New Meeting of the Religions
Interreligious Relationships and Theological Questioning
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481311090
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-12-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2018-12-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
195 Pages
A New Meeting of the Religions demonstrates that one can affirm the Christian mission internationally and interculturally without diminishing either the importance of good interreligious relationships...
Patriotism Black and White
The Color of American Exceptionalism
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481309578
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-11-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
388 Pages
American civil religion unifies the nation's culture, regulates national emotions, and fosters a storied national identity. American civil religion celebrates the nation's founding documents, holidays,...
Confronting Religious Violence
A Counternarrative
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481308953
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
310 Pages
Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria. Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Afrikaners and black churches in South Africa. The rising tide of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia across Europe....
The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481308717
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-08-21
Imprint: Baylor University Press
295 Pages
A well-worn, often-told tale of woe. American higher education has been secularized. Religion on campus has declined, died, or disappeared. Deemed irrelevant, there is no room for the sacred in American...
Sacred Terror
Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481304900
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2016-04-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2016-01-29
Imprint: Baylor University Press
325 Pages
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to...
Sociology of Religion
A Rodney Stark Reader
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781602589728
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2015-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2015-07-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
648 Pages
For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology’s most prolific and important scholars of religion. The theoretical depth, the scientific rigor, and the clarity of style manifested...
Sociology of Religion
A David Martin Reader
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781602589742
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2015-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2015-07-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
525 Pages
Sociologist David Martin has framed the secularization debate, guided Pentecostal studies, and shaped the scholarly study of religion. Martin’s work possesses both theoretical depth and global perspective....
The Black Megachurch
Theology, Gender, and the Politics of Public Engagement
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781602584228
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2012-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2012-07-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
275 Pages
An explosion of flourishing black megachurches has changed the landscape of American religious life. Boasting memberships into the tens of thousands and meeting within both adorned walls and refurbished...

Kingdoms of This World
How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481319935
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-07-15
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: 2024-01-15
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: 2023-11-01
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: 2022-10-01
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: 2022-07-01
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: 2022-06-15
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: 2021-10-01
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: 2021-10-01
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: 2021-06-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-12-15
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: 2020-10-15
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: 2020-10-01
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: 2020-09-01
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: 2020-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
270 Pages
A New Meeting of the Religions
Interreligious Relationships and Theological Questioning
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481311090
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-12-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2018-12-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
195 Pages
Patriotism Black and White
The Color of American Exceptionalism
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481309578
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-11-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
388 Pages
Confronting Religious Violence
A Counternarrative
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481308953
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
310 Pages
The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481308717
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2018-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2018-08-21
Imprint: Baylor University Press
295 Pages
Sacred Terror
Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481304900
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2016-04-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2016-01-29
Imprint: Baylor University Press
325 Pages
Sociology of Religion
A Rodney Stark Reader
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781602589728
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2015-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2015-07-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
648 Pages
Sociology of Religion
A David Martin Reader
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781602589742
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2015-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2015-07-31
Imprint: Baylor University Press
525 Pages
The Black Megachurch
Theology, Gender, and the Politics of Public Engagement
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781602584228
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2012-08-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2012-07-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
275 Pages