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Faithful Families - Creating Sacred Moments at Home (Paperback): Traci Smith Faithful Families - Creating Sacred Moments at Home (Paperback)
Traci Smith
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
How the Movies Saved Christmas - 228 Rescues from Clausnappers, Sleigh Crashes, Lost Presents and Holiday Disasters... How the Movies Saved Christmas - 228 Rescues from Clausnappers, Sleigh Crashes, Lost Presents and Holiday Disasters (Paperback)
William D. Crump
R1,267 R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Save R412 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What could there possibly be about Christmas that needs to be ""saved""? Christmas isn't dead, not by a long shot. But when in the movies Santa Claus is in trouble, Christmas is in trouble and must be ""saved."" If bogeys or other circumstances prevent Santa from delivering the presents on Christmas Eve, there will be no Christmas because, as far as the movies are concerned, generally speaking, Santa IS Christmas. Explore 53 reasons for saving Christmas in this lighthearted collection of 228 films (over half of which are animated) from theatrical releases to television movies and specials to episodes of television series. The reasons for saving Christmas just may surprise you.

Creating Church Online - Ritual, Community and New Media (Hardcover, New): Tim Hutchings Creating Church Online - Ritual, Community and New Media (Hardcover, New)
Tim Hutchings
R3,881 Discovery Miles 38 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Online churches are Internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. The first examples appeared in the mid-1980s, but this genre of online activity has been revolutionized over the last decade by considerable institutional investment and the rise of new low-cost social media platforms. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations, generating new kinds of ritual, leadership, and community as well as new networks of global influence.

Creating Church Online is the first large-scale sociological investigation of this area, offering a significant and timely advance in the study of religion, media, and culture. Five ethnographic case studies are presented, based primarily in the UK, USA, and Australasia, providing levels of detail, scope, and variety previously unexplored by researchers in this field. Comparative analysis of these case studies demonstrates the emergence of intriguing new hybrids of digital, local, and institutional religion, reflecting major shifts in contemporary patterns of religious commitment. Author Tim Hutchings constructs a rich account of the culture and practice of five online churches, emphasizing worship, leadership, and community and the relationship between online and everyday life. Through such in-depth analysis, this book explores the significance and impact of online churchgoing in the religious and social lives of participants, as well as the relationship between online and everyday life, in search of a new theoretical framework to map religious users engagement with new media."

Dangerous Prayer - Discovering a Missional Spirituality in the Lord's Prayer (Paperback): Darren Cronshaw Dangerous Prayer - Discovering a Missional Spirituality in the Lord's Prayer (Paperback)
Darren Cronshaw
R449 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dangerous Prayer offers a strategy for fostering prayer and spirituality in mission that focuses on neighbourhood transformation and global needs using the Lord's Prayer as a radical blueprint. Sustainability in mission is not possible without prayer; vibrancy in prayer is not possible without mission. Christians on mission need a vibrant life of prayer in order to be effective yet to have a vibrant prayer life they need an outlet in mission. The Lord's Prayer offers a radical inspirational framework to help move Christians beyond praying just for themselves and to have their imaginations captured by the mission of God and concern for global needs. Jesus' words guide us to pray for God's Kingdom on earth, for restoration, for food for all who are hungry, for people to experience forgiveness and all that really is good news about Jesus. It is a dangerous prayer because of its counter-cultural and radical stance, and because it invites us to be, in part, the answer to our prayers. This book offers inspiring and practical approaches for unleashing the whole people of God for missional prayer and prayerful mission.

From Altar-Throne to Table - The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church (Hardcover): Joseph Dougherty From Altar-Throne to Table - The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church (Hardcover)
Joseph Dougherty
R2,853 Discovery Miles 28 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened. This book emphasizes that significant ritual change may occur while liturgical texts remain the same, and it also proposes a method for understanding the causes for such a ritual change. It admonishes not to project current ritual practice into even our recent past. Further, it implies an explanation for the massive decline in Catholics' use of the sacrament of reconciliation.

So You Want to Sing Gospel - A Guide for Performers (Paperback): Trineice Robinson-Martin So You Want to Sing Gospel - A Guide for Performers (Paperback)
Trineice Robinson-Martin
R1,092 Discovery Miles 10 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There are few works in existence that teach gospel singing and even fewer that focus on what gospel soloists need to know. In So You Want to Sing Gospel, Trineice Robinson-Martin offers the first resource to help individual gospel singers at all levels make the most of their primary instrument-their voice. Robinson-Martin gathers together key information on gospel music history, vocal pedagogy, musical style and performance, and its place in music ministry. So You Want to Sing Gospel covers such vital matters as historical, cultural and spiritual perspectives on the gospel music tradition, training one's voice, understanding the dynamic of sound production, grasping gospel style, and bringing together vocal performance with ministerial imperatives. She also includes in her discussion such matters as voice type, repertoire selection, and gospel sub-genres. Additional chapters by Scott McCoy and Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards address universal questions of voice science and pedagogy, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Gospel features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

The Real Story of Christmas - Compiled from the Scriptures and Authoritative Historical Sources (Paperback): W. Cleon Skousen The Real Story of Christmas - Compiled from the Scriptures and Authoritative Historical Sources (Paperback)
W. Cleon Skousen; Foreword by Paul B Skousen; Compiled by Tim McConnehey
R184 R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Save R33 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daily Guideposts: 25 Devotions for Advent (Paperback): Guideposts Daily Guideposts: 25 Devotions for Advent (Paperback)
Guideposts
R119 R98 Discovery Miles 980 Save R21 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Experience the joy of the Advent season in a new light with the help of America's favorite devotional, Daily Guideposts. Advent is a sacred time of preparation, a time of wonder and anticipation, and a time to ponder the miracle and mystery of Christ's birth. This year, rekindle the hope of the Christmas season with Daily Guideposts: 25 Days for Advent. In just five minutes each day, these devotions will provide you with a timeless Bible verse, a personal story, and a prayer to help you apply the day's message. For each of the 25 days of Advent, Daily Guideposts invites you to experience: God's heart for redemption The gift of hope The promise of God's love Travel with Rick Hamlin as he finds joy in the Advent season through small moments. Learn with Daniel Schantz how the little things we take for granted played important parts in the story of the world's most extraordinary birth. Find out how Brock Kidd and his family celebrate the birth of Jesus. Learn how Patricia Lorenz increases her joy by giving the gift of herself. And join Mary Brown for a special journey as she ponders the seven "I am" sayings of Jesus. Join the community of over a million Daily Guideposts readers on this remarkable and deeply personal spiritual journey as you learn to take off those things that we do not need and wrap ourselves in what is coming: the Light of the World.

Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book - The Power of Paratexts (Hardcover): Rosalind Brown-Grant, Patrizia Carmassi, Gisela... Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book - The Power of Paratexts (Hardcover)
Rosalind Brown-Grant, Patrizia Carmassi, Gisela Drossbach, Anne D. Hedeman, Victoria Turner, …
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features - annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles - are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

The Seven Wonders of the Cross - The Last 18 Hours (Paperback): Wilkin Van de Kamp The Seven Wonders of the Cross - The Last 18 Hours (Paperback)
Wilkin Van de Kamp
R439 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe - Crossing the Borders (Hardcover, New Ed): John Eade, Mario Katic Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe - Crossing the Borders (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Eade, Mario Katic
R4,164 Discovery Miles 41 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the beginning of the anthropology of pilgrimage, scant attention has been paid to pilgrimage and pilgrim places in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. Seeking to address such a deficit, this book brings together scholars from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe to explore the crossing of borders in terms of the relationship between pilgrimage and politics, and the role which this plays in the process of both sacred and secular place-making. With contributions from a range of established and new academics, including anthropologists, historians and ethnologists, Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe presents a fascinating collection of case studies and discussions of religious, political and secular pilgrimage across the region.

Anglican Confirmation - 1662-1820 (Hardcover, New Ed): Phillip Tovey Anglican Confirmation - 1662-1820 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Phillip Tovey
R4,164 Discovery Miles 41 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Confirmation was an important part of the life of the eighteenth-century church which consumed a significant part of the time of bishops, of clergy in their preparation of candidates, and of the candidates themselves in terms of a transition in their Christian life. Yet it has been almost entirely overlooked by scholars. This book aims to fill this void in our understanding, and offers an important contribution and correction of our understanding of the life of the church during the long eighteenth-century in both Britain and North America. Tovey addresses two important historical debates: the 'pessimist/optimist' debate on the character and condition of the Church of England in the eighteenth century; and the debate on the 're-enchantment' of the eighteenth century which challenges the secular nature of society in the age of the 'enlightenment'. Drawing on new developments of the study of visitation returns and episcopal life and on primary research in historical records, Anglican Confirmation goes behind the traditional Tractarian interpretations to uncover the understanding and confidence of the eighteenth-century church in the rite of confirmation. The book will be of interest to eighteenth-century church historians, theologians and liturgists alike.

The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523-1541 (Hardcover, New Ed): Daniel Trocme-Latter The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523-1541 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Daniel Trocme-Latter
R4,193 Discovery Miles 41 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the part played by music, especially group singing, in the Protestant reforms in Strasbourg. It considers both ecclesiastical and 'popular' songs in the city, how both genres fitted into people's lives during this time of strife and how the provision and dissemination of music affected the new ecclesiastical arrangement.

Celebrating Biblical Feasts - In Your Home or Church (Paperback): Martha G. Zimmerman Celebrating Biblical Feasts - In Your Home or Church (Paperback)
Martha G. Zimmerman
R409 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This popular guide explains how families and churches can celebrate seven Hebrew festivals to enhance their understanding of the message of the Bible.,"This unique book brings deeper meaning to seven Jewish feasts by offering a ""guided tour"" through each celebration from a new testament perspective. The author carefully explains the signi?cance of each feast, the materials necessary to observe them, and full directions for the events. Families and church groups will gain a memorable understanding of the symbolic representations of the Christ as found in the holy celebrations of the Old Testament."

Reading Responsibly - A Basic Guide to Biblical Interpretation (Paperback): Tony L. Moyers Reading Responsibly - A Basic Guide to Biblical Interpretation (Paperback)
Tony L. Moyers
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reading Responsibly: A Guide to Biblical Interpretation focuses on two key areas: methods and ethics of interpretation. The book introduces, explains, and guides students in the understanding and application of particular methods commonly used by biblical scholars in the study of the Bible. The methods discussed focus on historical, literary, and reader-oriented aspects of biblical interpretation. The attention to ethics occurs mainly in the last chapter. Because the Bible is an extremely influential book, it often motivates people to act in beneficial or harmful ways. The focus on love for others motivates charitable giving or actions designed to help others. Emphasis on God's wrath may lead to exclusivism and even violence. Readings leading to disrespect and mental or physical abuse, stem from an irresponsible use of the Bible. Responsible readings give full consideration to the text in its proper context and never call for action that is inconsistent with love and justice.

Celebrating the Eucharist - A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers (Paperback): Patrick Malloy Celebrating the Eucharist - A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers (Paperback)
Patrick Malloy
R1,310 Discovery Miles 13 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this first new Eucharistic customary in nearly 20 years, Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and liturgical scholar, presents a clear, illustrated guide for the presider and other leaders of the liturgy, contemporary in approach but based on ancient and classic principles of celebration. The 1979 "Book of Common Prayer, " like its predecessors, is long on telling the Church what to say, and short on telling it what to do. This leaves those who "choreograph" Prayer Book liturgies with a complex task and a powerful influence over the faith of the Church. The author begins with a concise theology of the liturgy that underpins all of his specific directives in the book. Contents include: Theological and liturgical principles; Liturgical ministry and liturgical ministers; Liturgical space; Vesture, vessels, and other liturgical objects; The liturgical year; The shape of the liturgy; The sung liturgy and singing during the liturgy; The order of the Eucharist (the "heart" of the book); and The celebration of Baptism during the Eucharist.

The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan - A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day (Paperback): Stephen... The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan - A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day (Paperback)
Stephen Turnbull
R1,388 Discovery Miles 13 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.

Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age (Hardcover, New Ed): Anna E Nekola, Tom Wagner Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age (Hardcover, New Ed)
Anna E Nekola, Tom Wagner
R3,894 Discovery Miles 38 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Congregational music can be an act of praise, a vehicle for theology, an action of embodied community, as well as a means to a divine encounter. This multidisciplinary anthology approaches congregational music as media in the widest sense - as a multivalent communication action with technological, commercial, political, ideological and theological implications, where processes of mediated communication produce shared worlds and beliefs. Bringing together a range of voices, promoting dialogue across a range of disciplines, each author approaches the topic of congregational music from his or her own perspective, facilitating cross-disciplinary connections while also showcasing a diversity of outlooks on the roles that music and media play in Christian experience. The authors break important new ground in understanding the ways that music, media and religious belief and praxis become 'lived theology' in our media age, revealing the rich and diverse ways that people are living, experiencing and negotiating faith and community through music.

Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity - Seeing and Believing (Hardcover): Jill Krebs Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity - Seeing and Believing (Hardcover)
Jill Krebs
R2,552 Discovery Miles 25 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt an enchanted worldview in which the miraculous becomes everyday. Through relationships with Our Lady, their lives are enriched and even transformed. When they negotiate institutional loyalty and individual autonomy, they affirm their own authority and Catholic identity. Finally, through social media, they expand their devotional networks in ways that shift authority structures and empower individuals. Individuals engage beliefs, practices, and attitudes both arising from and resisting elements of modernity, religious pluralism and religious decline, empowerment and perceived disempowerment, tradition and innovation, and institutional loyalty and perceived disloyalty to reveal one way of understanding Catholic identity amidst the shifts and flows of modern change.

The Walk of the Cross - Christian Discipleship: Dying to Self (Hardcover): Robert Makrush The Walk of the Cross - Christian Discipleship: Dying to Self (Hardcover)
Robert Makrush
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Womb of Advent (Paperback): Mark Bozzuti-Jones The Womb of Advent (Paperback)
Mark Bozzuti-Jones
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mark Bozzutti-Jones offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds to the presence of light and dark, and begins to position himself for birth.
What does this teach us about our own spiritual journey through Advent? Waiting and preparation is essential to the Christian life. By reflecting on our own birth experiences and Jesus' own progress through the womb, Christians can learn how to remain intimate with God, how to approach the light, and how to get ready for new birth in Christ.
The Womb of Advent guides the reader through each day with a mantra, scripture reading, and questions to focus our meditation. Each session ends with a spiritual exercise.

More Sermon Nuggets - Topical Excerpts from a Lifetime of Preaching (Paperback): Fred R. Zimmerman More Sermon Nuggets - Topical Excerpts from a Lifetime of Preaching (Paperback)
Fred R. Zimmerman
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R. Zimmerman's sermons delivered over the span of six decades to a wide-ranging number of Protestant congregations, mostly in Ohio. Two hundred seventy-eight excerpts on these sermon topics were selectively chosen and titled to reflect the author's biblical, theological, and pastoral concerns. This book and the earlier published Sermon Nuggets (2014) provide insight into a variety of topics helpful to ministers in their own concerns and sermon preparations as well as to seminary students and teachers of religion.

The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century - Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views (Hardcover): Samuel Sanchez Y... The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century - Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views (Hardcover)
Samuel Sanchez Y Sanchez, Annie Hesp
R4,309 Discovery Miles 43 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Spanish Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage rooted in the Medieval period and increasingly active today, has attracted a growing amount of both scholarly and popular attention. With its multiple points of departure in Spain and other European countries, its simultaneously secular and religious nature, and its international and transhistorical population of pilgrims, this particular pilgrimage naturally invites a wide range of intellectual inquiry and scholarly perspectives. This volume fills a gap in current pilgrimage studies, focusing on contemporary representations of the Camino de Santiago. Complementing existing studies of the Camino's medieval origins, it situates the Camino as a modern experience and engages interdisciplinary perspectives to present a theoretical framework for exploring the most central issues that concern scholars of pilgrimage studies today. Contributors explore the contemporary meaning of the Camino through an interdisciplinary lens that reflects the increasing permeability between academic disciplines and fields, bringing together a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives (cultural studies, literary studies, globalization studies, memory studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, cultural geographies, photography, and material culture). Chapters touch on a variety of genres (blogs, film, graphic novels, historical novels, objects, and travel guides), and transnational perspectives (Australia, the Arab world, England, Spain, and the United States).

Burial Rites for Adults Together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child - Enriching Our Worship 3 (Paperback): Burial Rites for Adults Together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child - Enriching Our Worship 3 (Paperback)
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the Prayer Book rites are addressed from the reception of the body to the consecration of the grave and the interment but with a freshness of language in new texts that the speak to contemporary sensibilities.

CONTENTS

Introduction with planning information Two vigil rites before a funeral Rites for the reception of the body Collects, prayers and readings for the burial service, including a celebration of the Eucharist Rites of committal Burial of one who does not profess the Christian faith Additional prayers Committal at a crematory A service of remembrance Suggested hymns and songs

The Philokalia, Volume One - The Complete Text  (Paperback, Main): St.Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain, St. Makarios of Corinth The Philokalia, Volume One - The Complete Text (Paperback, Main)
St.Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain, St. Makarios of Corinth; Translated by Kallistos Ware, G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard
R575 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R115 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual master of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Salvonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church.

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