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Islamic Economic Alternatives - Critical Perspectives and New Directions (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992): K.S. Jomo Islamic Economic Alternatives - Critical Perspectives and New Directions (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992)
K.S. Jomo
R1,559 Discovery Miles 15 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The global Islamic resurgence of the last two decades has spawned parallel intellectual efforts to articulate an alternative Islamic way of life. This volume critically assesses much of what is said to be Islamic economics today - its theories, assumptions, concepts and the alternatives it claims to offer. While critical of much of contemporary Islamisation and the interests such economic policies protect, the current relevance of progressive policy alternatives inspired by Islamic economic morality is also analyzed.

Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process - Critique and Counter-Critique (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992): Eric Dunning, Chris Rojek Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process - Critique and Counter-Critique (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992)
Eric Dunning, Chris Rojek
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on sport and leisure, offers a superb introduction to the figurational sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the approach are clearly explained and contributors show how figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete problems. However, the collection also gives space to critics of the figurational approach. Included here are contributions which claim that the approach is inaccurate, blinkered and irrelevant.

The Principles of Islamic Political Economy - A Methodological Enquiry (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992): Masudul Alam Choudhury The Principles of Islamic Political Economy - A Methodological Enquiry (Paperback, 1st ed. 1992)
Masudul Alam Choudhury
R4,560 Discovery Miles 45 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the methodological development of the principles of Islamic political economy in its theoretical and applied aspects. This is carried out in a general equilibrium framework using the theory of social choice. Thus a comparative study is also undertaken here in these areas while developing the theory of Islamic political economy. In these respects this book appears to be the first one of its kind.

The Liquidation of the Church (Hardcover): Kees De Groot The Liquidation of the Church (Hardcover)
Kees De Groot
R4,563 Discovery Miles 45 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. Religion is crossing the boundaries of the parish and appears in other social contexts. In the fields of leisure, health care and contemporary culture, religion has an unexpected currency. The metaphor of liquidation provides an alternative to approaches that merely perceive the decline of religion or a spiritual revolution. Religion is becoming liquid. By examining a number of case studies in the Netherlands and beyond, including World Youth Day, television, spiritual centers, chaplaincy, mental healthcare, museums and theatre, this book develops a fresh way to look at religion in late modernity and produces new questions for theological and sociological debate. It is both an exercise in sociology and an exercise in practical theology conceived as the engaged study of religious praxis. As such, the aim is not only to get a better understanding of what is going on, but also to critique one-sided views and to provide alternative perspectives for those who are active in the religious field or its surroundings.

Religious Interaction Ritual - The Microsociology of the Spirit (Hardcover): Scott Draper Religious Interaction Ritual - The Microsociology of the Spirit (Hardcover)
Scott Draper
R2,536 Discovery Miles 25 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a microsociological study of religious practice, based on fieldwork with Conservative Jews, Bible Belt Muslims, white Baptists, black Baptists, Buddhist meditators, and Latino Catholics. In each case, the author scrutinizes how a congregation's ritual strategies help or hinder their efforts to achieve a transformative spiritual encounter, an intense feeling that becomes the basis of their most fundamental understandings of reality. The book shows how these transformative spiritual encounters routinely depend on issues that can seem rather mundane by comparison, such as where the sanctuary's entrance is located, how many misprints end up in the church bulletin, or how long the preacher continues to preach beyond lunchtime. The spirit responds to other dynamics, as well, such as how congregations collectively imagine outsiders, or how they talk about ideas like individualism and patriarchy. Building on provocative theories from sociologists such as Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, Randall Collins, and Anne Warfield Rawls, this book shows how "interaction ritual theory" opens compelling new pathways for sociological scholarship on religion. Micro-level specifics from fieldwork in Texas are supplemented with large-scale survey analysis of a wide array of religious organizations from across the United States.

The Sociology of Time (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990): John Hassard The Sociology of Time (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990)
John Hassard
R4,811 Discovery Miles 48 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of time. Based on selected contributions from leading writers, it illustrates the range of issues and perspectives which define the field. The volume traces distinct traditions of time analysis in social science and uses these to explain, for example, the development of capitalist time-consciousness, the ways we structure time in organizations and institutions, and how our time perceptions change in line with changes in culture. The book is for those who wish to understand how time comes to condition our everyday actions and affairs.

The Unintended Reformation - How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Hardcover, New): Brad S. Gregory The Unintended Reformation - How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Hardcover, New)
Brad S. Gregory
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Out of stock

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation""and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West.

Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science as the source of all truth necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge.

"The Unintended Reformation" asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.

Markets and Ideology in the City of London (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990): David Lazar Markets and Ideology in the City of London (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990)
David Lazar
R2,982 Discovery Miles 29 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Markets and Ideology in the City of London is the first fieldwork-based sociological study of how participants in City of London financial markets view the markets in which they work and the market mechanism in general. But it is more than a narrow study of financial market participants because it is also an empirical investigation into how ideologies function and it develops a critique of pro-market ideologies such as 'Thatcherism'. Finally, it is one of a small number of sociological studies into the privileged world of high earners and the wealthy - sociologists too frequently study the powerless and the 'deviant' or 'marginal' groups.

Glossar Kulturmanagement (German, Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Verena Lewinski-Reuter, Stefan Luddemann Glossar Kulturmanagement (German, Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Verena Lewinski-Reuter, Stefan Luddemann
R2,796 Discovery Miles 27 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Das Glossar bietet mit rund 30 zentralen Stichworten ein unverzichtbares Grundlagenwerk fur den Alltag im Kulturmanagement und daruber hinaus."

Still Evangelical? - Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning (Paperback): Mark Labberton, Shane... Still Evangelical? - Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning (Paperback)
Mark Labberton, Shane Claiborne, Jim Daly, Mark Galli, Lisa Sharon Harper
R654 R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Save R70 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists -Religion Evangelicalism in America has cracked, split on the shoals of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, leaving many wondering if they want to be in or out of the evangelical tribe. The contentiousness brought to the fore surrounds what it means to affirm and demonstrate evangelical Christian faith amidst the messy and polarized realities gripping our country and world. Who or what is defining the evangelical social and political vision? Is it the gospel or is it culture? For a movement that has been about the primacy of Christian faith, this is a crisis. This collection of essays was gathered by Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, who provides an introduction to the volume. What follows is a diverse and provocative set of perspectives and reflections from evangelical insiders who wrestle with their responses to the question of what it means to be evangelical in light of their convictions. Contributors include: Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians Jim Daly, Focus on the Family Mark Galli, Christianity Today Lisa Sharon Harper, FreedomRoad.us Tom Lin, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Karen Swallow Prior, Liberty University Soong-Chan Rah, North Park University Robert Chao Romero, UCLA Sandra Maria Van Opstal, Grace and Peace Community Allen Yeh, Biola University Mark Young, Denver Seminary Referring to oneself as evangelical cannot be merely a congratulatory self-description. It must instead be a commitment and aspiration guided by the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ. What now are Christ's followers called to do in response to this identity crisis?

Islamic Economic Co-operation (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989): Masudul Alam Choudhury Islamic Economic Co-operation (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989)
Masudul Alam Choudhury
R3,053 Discovery Miles 30 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Immoral Majority - Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values (Paperback): Ben Howe The Immoral Majority - Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values (Paperback)
Ben Howe
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Spiritual Care - The Everyday Work of Chaplains (Hardcover): Wendy Cadge Spiritual Care - The Everyday Work of Chaplains (Hardcover)
Wendy Cadge
R2,967 Discovery Miles 29 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chaplains are America's hidden religious leaders. Required in the military, federal prisons, and Veterans Administration Medical Centers, chaplains also work in two-thirds of hospitals, most hospices, many institutions of higher education, and a growing range of other settings. The chaplains of the U.S. House and Senate regularly engage with national leaders through public prayer and private conversation. Chaplains have been present at national protests, including the racial justice protests that took place across the country in 2020. A national survey conducted in the United States in 2019 found that 21% of the Americans public had contact with a chaplain in the prior two years. Contact with chaplains likely increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, which thrust chaplains into the spotlight, as they cared for patients, family members, and exhausted and traumatized medical staff fighting the pandemic in real time. Wendy Cadge steps back to ask who chaplains are, what they do across the United States, how that work is connected to the settings where they do it, and how they have responded to and helped to shape contemporary shifts in the American religious landscape. She focuses on Boston as a case study to show how chaplains have been, and remain, an important part of institutional religious ecologies, both locally and nationally. She has combed through the archives of major Boston institutions including the city government, police and fire department, hospitals, universities, rest and rehabilitation centers, the Catholic church, and several Protestant denominations, as well as the Boston Globe, to chart the work of chaplains historically. Cadge also interviewed over one hundred chaplains who work in greater Boston and shadowed them whenever possible, going on board container ships, walking through homeless shelters, and attending religious services at local prisons. The result is a rich study of a little-noticed but essential group of religious leaders.

Am I Still My Brother's Keeper? - Biblical Perspectives on Poverty (Paperback): Robert Wafawanaka Am I Still My Brother's Keeper? - Biblical Perspectives on Poverty (Paperback)
Robert Wafawanaka
R1,191 Discovery Miles 11 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor? This book examines the concept of "brother's keeper" in both the ancient Near East and the biblical world. Wafawanaka contends that biblical Israel failed to play the rightful role of brother's keeper and claims that we, too, have strayed from this responsibility. Am I Still My Brother's Keeper? reveals what we can learn about poverty from a biblical context and how we might appropriate those insights to fight poverty in our own communities. Beginning with the biblical mandate in Deuteronomy 15, Wafawanaka surveys the Hebrew Scriptures and challenges those with power and resources to reevaluate their response to the poor. Failure to revisit the notion of "brother's keeper" threatens to create a society that is increasingly disenfranchised and unjust. A glance at our world in light of biblical history suggests that poverty is an endemic global problem that requires a radical global solution.

Sacred Bull, Holy Cow - A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Donald... Sacred Bull, Holy Cow - A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Donald K Sharpes
R2,369 Discovery Miles 23 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Across the world cattle remain absolutely essential to civilization's survival as a source of food, clothing, and labor. Human beings eat beef and ice cream, drink milk, wear leather, and love hamburgers and hot dogs. This book describes the history of the domestication and deification of the cow and bull and their intimate relation to humans. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) scares reveal its continued importance in daily life.

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Paperback): Paul R Brass The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (Paperback)
Paul R Brass
R1,328 Discovery Miles 13 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more than half a century's riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh. This book is the culmination of a lifetime's thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule as well as the entire post-Independence history of Aligarh. Brass exposes the mechanisms by which endemic communal violence is deliberately provoked and sustained. He convincingly implicates the police, criminal elements, members of Aligarh's business community, and many of its leading political actors in the continuous effort to "produce" communal violence. Much like a theatrical production, specific roles are played, with phases for rehearsal, staging, and interpretation. In this way, riots become key historical markers in the struggle for political, economic, and social dominance of one community over another. In the course of demonstrating how riots have been produced in Aligarh, Brass offers a compelling argument for abandoning or refining a number of widely held views about the supposed causes of communal violence, not just in India but throughout the rest of the world. An important addition to the literature on Indian and South Asian politics, this book is also an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the interplay of nationalism, ethnicity, religion, and collective violence, wherever it occurs.

American Parishes - Remaking Local Catholicism (Paperback): Gary J. Adler, Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks American Parishes - Remaking Local Catholicism (Paperback)
Gary J. Adler, Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks; Contributions by Gary J. Adler, Nancy Ammerman, …
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, this book displays the numerous forces currently reshaping American parishes. It draws from sociology of religion, culture, organizations, and race to illuminate basic parish processes, like leadership and education, and ongoing parish struggles like conflict and multiculturalism. American Parishes brings together contemporary data, methods, and questions to establish a sociological re-engagement with Catholic parishes and a Catholic re-engagement with sociological analysis. Contributions by leading social scientists highlight how community, geography, and authority intersect within parishes. It illuminates and analyzes how growing racial diversity, an aging religious population, and neighborhood change affect the inner workings of parishes. Contributors: Gary J. Adler Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, S.J., Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mary Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Ann Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt, and Brian Starks

Authenticity and Religion in the Pluralistic Age - A Simmelian Study of Christian Evangelicals and New Monastics (Hardcover):... Authenticity and Religion in the Pluralistic Age - A Simmelian Study of Christian Evangelicals and New Monastics (Hardcover)
Francesca E.S. Montemaggi
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an original concept of authenticity to illuminate the transformation of Christian consciousness in the increasingly more secular and pluralistic culture of Western societies. The present work is unique in offering an in-depth study of Simmel's sociology and philosophy in dialogue with an ethnographic account of contemporary Christians. It develops original concepts drawing on Simmel's writings on individuality and religion and connecting them with classical and contemporary scholarship in sociology and philosophy. The theoretical framework is illustrated through an analysis of the narratives and practices of Christians in an evangelical church in the UK and several New Monastic communities in the UK, US, and Canada. The book proposes an understanding of belief as relational and experiential and a concept of authenticity, as self-transcendence articulated in dialogue with religious tradition and the Other. Religious tradition is developed through an on-going process of interpretation and sacralization of what is considered within and without the tradition's boundaries. The book also proposes an innovative approach to the study of morality by distinguishing between a people-centered ethic (ethic of compassion) and a norm-centered ethic (ethic of purity) to account for the the different ways in which Christians engage with the Other. This allows an exploration of the relationship between ethics and the making and breaking of boundaries in a given community. The case studies in this book show that committed Christians attempt to reconcile commitment to their tradition with the value of inclusiveness and to affirm their moral and religious identity as a distinctive moral lifestyle, not superior, but of equal worth to those of non-Christians.

Support for Interreligious Conflict in Indonesia (Paperback): Tery Setiawan Support for Interreligious Conflict in Indonesia (Paperback)
Tery Setiawan
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Der Sozialwert der Religion (German, Hardcover): Volker Drehsen Der Sozialwert der Religion (German, Hardcover)
Volker Drehsen; Edited by Christian Albrecht, Hans Martin Dober, Birgit Weyel
R5,863 Discovery Miles 58 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In light of the current popularity enjoyed by the subject of religion and questions about the consequences arising from this situation, especially for practical theology, the early essays on the sociology of religion by Volker Drehsen (born 1949) have once again become poignant. They continue to retain their power of illuminating the self-conception and tasks of practical theology. The collected essays, some of which were originally published obscurely, are now published together for the first time in this volume.

The Rise of Victimhood Culture - Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018): Bradley... The Rise of Victimhood Culture - Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Bradley Campbell, Jason Manning
R1,119 R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Save R179 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture-victimhood culture-and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and "safe spaces," many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump.

Religion, Ritual, Theatre (Paperback, New edition): Bent Holm, Karen Vedel, Bent Flemming Nielsen Religion, Ritual, Theatre (Paperback, New edition)
Bent Holm, Karen Vedel, Bent Flemming Nielsen
R1,804 Discovery Miles 18 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scholars and experts in anthropology, theatricality, ethnoscenology, dance, religious studies, theology, history and art have contributed to the inspiring exchange of intellectual inquiry in this book. It presents the revised lectures and a selection of the revised papers from the international and interdisciplinary conference Religion, Ritual, Theatre which took place in April 2006 at the University of Copenhagen. The aim of the book is to intertwine new theories with concrete case studies in an empirical and practical manner. Case studies from different places and various cultures in Europe, South Africa, the Near East and India demonstrate noticeable parallels concerning the notions of embodiment and practice. Even though these upcoming perspectives share a rather redundant vocabulary they nevertheless seem to contribute to a common ground of a phenomenology of the body, of action and perception.

Women in American Religion (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.): Janet Wilson James Women in American Religion (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
Janet Wilson James
R2,125 Discovery Miles 21 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cotton Mather called them "the hidden ones." Although historians of religion occasionally refer to the fact that women have always constituted a majority of churchgoers, until recently none of them have investigated the historical implications of the situation or v the role of woman in the church. But the focus of church history has been moving toward a broader awareness, from studying religious institutions and their pastors to studying the people--the laity--and the nature of religious experience. This book explores the many common elements of this experience for women in church and temple, regardless of their differences in faith.

Discovering Suicide - Studies in the Social Organisation of Sudden Death (Paperback, 1st ed. 1978): J.Maxwell Atkinson Discovering Suicide - Studies in the Social Organisation of Sudden Death (Paperback, 1st ed. 1978)
J.Maxwell Atkinson
R2,991 Discovery Miles 29 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019):... Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
Peter Hervik
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries. Examining critical media events in this heavily mediatized society, the contributors explore how processes of racialization take place in an environment dominated by commercial interests, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives and sentiments, and a surprising lack of informed research on national racism and racialization. Overall, in tracing how these individual events further racial inequalities through emotional and affective engagement, the book seeks to define the trajectory of modern racism in Scandinavia.

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