A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
10 best books like A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation (Diana L. Eck): Loving Day, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House, God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being, Intimations of Postmodernity, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value, Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age
| Author | Mat Johnson |
| ISBN | 0812993454 |
From the author of the critically beloved Pym comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia.
"In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father's house."
Warren Duffy has...
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
| Author | Ben Rhodes |
| ISBN | 1847925170 |
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.
The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really...
God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right
| Author | Daniel K. Williams |
| ISBN | 0195340841 |
When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on extensive...
| Author | Eboo Patel |
| ISBN | 0807077267 |
With a new afterword"
Acts of Faith" is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people--and...
Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature—and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies...
Intimations of Postmodernity
| Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
| ISBN | 0415067502 |
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
| Author | Ulrich Beck |
| ISBN | 0803983468 |
This is a remarkable book – but not least because it is so incredibly famous, even though I’ve only started hearing about it over the last couple of years. As it says in the Introduction, this book sold 60,000 copies in its first five years. That is pretty remarkable given it is a book on social theory....
The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value
| Author | John Cottingham |
| ISBN | 0521604974 |
The Spiritual Dimension offers a new model for the philosophy of religion, bringing together emotional and intellectual aspects of our human experience, and embracing practical as well as theoretical concerns. It shows how a religious worldview is best understood not as an isolated set of doctrines,...
Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics
| Author | Seyla Banhabib |
| ISBN | 0415905478 |
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Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age
| Author | Mara Einstein |
| ISBN | 0415409772 |
In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively faiths...
Social Theory and Religion
| Author | James A. Beckford |
| ISBN | 0521774314 |
This book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social theory and the social scientific study of religion. James Beckford reviews the current state of social scientific knowledge about religion. He clarifies the social processes involved...
Enlightenment: Behind The Scenes
Is it possible to map the directions to a Void? Is it conceivable that one can point to the abyss? Just maybe, it can be done, and here is how I propose to do it.
It starts with the recounting of my personal quest for ‘Spiritual Enlightenment,’ which can also serve as a roadmap for any human being...
The Sacred Quest: An Invitation to the Study of Religion
| Author | Lawrence S. Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0023263369 |
This book provides a thematic and comparative approach to the study of religion. The focus of individual chapters gives equal weight to both theoretical issues and to practices as they are reflected in the major religions of the world. These chapter topics include a definition of religion; the nature,...
Educating about Religious Diversity and Interfaith Engagement: A Handbook for Student Affairs
| Author | Kathleen M. Goodman |
| ISBN | 1620366088 |
This book arises out of a recognition that student affairs professionals have little preparation or guidance in dealing with matters of spirituality, religion, secularism and interfaith work at a time of greater diversity in students' beliefs; and from a broad recognition that there is a need to...
Interfaith Leadership: A Primer
| Author | Eboo Patel |
| ISBN | 0807033634 |
A guide for students, groups, and organizations seeking to foster interfaith dialogue and promote understanding across religious lines
In this book, renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel offers a clear, detailed, and practical guide to interfaith leadership, illustrated with compelling...
The Interfaith Prayer Book: New Expanded Edition
| Author | Ted Brownstein |
| ISBN | 0983260974 |
The first edition of the Interfaith Prayer Book was released in 2001. It proved to be immensely popular for use both at interfaith gatherings and for personal reflection, having found its way into hospitals, motel rooms and college classrooms as well as places of worship all around the world. That edition...
Contested Issues in Student Affairs: Diverse Perspectives and Respectful Dialogue
| Author | Peter M. Magolda |
| ISBN | 1579225845 |
What is your level of understanding of the many moral, ideological, and political issues that student affairs educators regularly encounter? What is your personal responsibility to addressing these issues? What are the rationales behind your decisions? What are the theoretical perspectives...
Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference
In recent years, the United States has been more polarized and divided than ever. This fissure is evident across the nation in conflict over LGBTQ rights; in challenges to religious liberty; in clashes over abortion; in tensions between law enforcement and minority communities. With all of this physical...
