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Kingdoms of This World

How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions

by Philip Jenkins

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

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

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

by Alex R. Mayfield

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

by John D. Barton

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

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

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

Edited by David W. Bebbington

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

by João B. Chaves

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

by Josh A. Reeves

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

Edited by Byron R. Johnson

Foreword by Rodney Stark

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

by Lee Trepanier and Lynita K. Newswander

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

Edited by Corwin E. Smidt

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

Edited by Diane Winston

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

by Melanie Gish

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

Edited by Hans Gustafson

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

Edited by Adam B. Cohen

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

by Philip Jenkins

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

by E. Luther Copeland

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

by Nichole R. Phillips

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

Edited by Richard A. Burridge and Jonathan Sacks

With Megan Warner

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

by John Schmalzbauer and Kathleen A. Mahoney

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

by Douglas E. Cowan

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

by Rodney Stark

Edited by Dedong Wei and Zhifeng Zhong

Foreword by Paul Froese

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

by David Martin

Edited by Dedong Wei and Zhifeng Zhong

Foreword by Grace Davie

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

by Tamelyn N. Tucker-Worgs

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...

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