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  • Heaven's Gate

    America's UFO Religion

    by Benjamin E Zeller, Robert W Balch ...
    The captivating story of the religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth— and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO.2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies AssociationIn March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prophets and Protons

    New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America

    by Benjamin E Zeller ...
    Series Book 4 - New and Alternative Religions
    This in-depth study shows how new religious movements offer a variety of strategies for reconciling science and religious faith.By the twentieth century, established religious traditions were forced to grappled with the challenges presented by scientific knowledge and innovation. But emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, found news ways to respond to science. The Hare ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Food

    Edited by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Assistant Professor Benjamin E. Zeller ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    This handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multi-religious, cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of religion and food. It highlights recent trends and methodologies in religious studies and food studies from the humanities and the social sciences. A team of international scholars provide theoretical frameworks presenting food as integral to the ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America

    Edited by Marie W. Dallam, Benjamin E. Zeller ...
    Clothing, dress, and ornamentation are crucial parts of individual and communal religious life and practice, yet they are too often overlooked. This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America

    Edited by Marie W. Dallam, Benjamin E. Zeller ...
    Clothing, dress, and ornamentation are crucial parts of individual and communal religious life and practice, yet they are too often overlooked. This book convenes leading scholars to explore the roles of attire and adornment in the creation and communication of religious meaning, identity, and community. Contributors investigate aspects of religious dress in North America in the nineteenth, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements

    Edited by George D. Chryssides, Assistant Professor Benjamin E. Zeller ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations. Several categories of new religions receive special attention, including African new religions, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

    Edited by Reid Neilson, Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Nora L. Rubel ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Original essays explore the role of food and eating in defining ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Flourishing

    Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World

    by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair ...
    More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Religions in the Modern World

    Traditions and Transformations

    Edited by Linda Woodhead, Christopher Partridge, Hiroko Kawanami ...
    Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest perspectives in the field. This third edition contains new and upgraded pedagogic features, including chapter summaries, key terms and definitions, and questions for ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue

    Edited by Catherine Cornille ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration.Explores in full the background, history, objectives, and discourse between the leaders and practitioners of the world’s major religionsExamines relations between religions from around the world, moving ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements

    Edited by Peter B. Clarke ...
    New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of mainstream religion. The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three-hundred ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached.In November 2009 Armstrong and TED launched The Charter of Compassion, which states that "We call upon all men and women to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion...to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings — even those regarded as enemies." To date ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD