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  • James Baldwin and the Heavenly City

    Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

    by Christopher Z. Hobson ...
    Behind James Baldwin’s uncanny ability to evoke a nation’s crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin’s novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Human Security and Natural Disasters

    Edited by Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon, Robin Cameron ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    "Human security" is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security. It offers a way of broadening our perspective, and recognizing that the most pressing threats to individuals do not come from interstate war, but from the emergencies that affect people every day, such as famine, disease, ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion

    Edited by Christopher Hobson, Milja Kurki ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    How do different meanings of the concept of ‘democracy’ operate in democracy promotion? How do conceptual decisions influence real political events? How is policy and reflection on democracy promotion shaped by the way different practitioners and scholars understand democracy?The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion explores the way in which the meaning, content and context of ‘democracy’ ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Blake, Politics, and History

    Edited by Jackie DiSalvo, G. Rosso, Christopher Hobson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: William Blake
    First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake’s art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of ... Read more

    $109.92 CAD

  • Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster

    Responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis

    Edited by Paul Bacon, Christopher Hobson ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context. This book applies the human security approach to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's ‘triple disaster’. This left more ... Read more

    $109.92 CAD

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    by Guy Pearse ...
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  • Knowing Christ Today

    Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge

    by Dallas Willard ...
    At a time when popular atheism books are talking about the irrationality of believing in God, Willard makes a rigorous intellectual case for why it makes sense to believe in God and in Jesus, the Son. ... Read more

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  • The Gagging of God

    Christianity Confronts Pluralism

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

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    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christian Worldview

    A Student's Guide

    by Philip Graham Ryken, David S. Dockery ...
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    Everything we do, say, and think reflects our fundamental worldview. Whether we realize it or not, basic beliefs about God, man, good and evil, history, and the future inevitably shape how we view and interact with the world. In this accessible student's guide, Phil Ryken, author and current president of Wheaton College, explains the distinguishing marks of a distinctly Christian worldview ... Read more

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