On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process
10 best books like On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (Catherine Keller): Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Art of Loving, Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition), Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, The Masks of God, 4 Vols
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 0805063897 |
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
| Author | Thomas S. Kuhn |
| ISBN | 0226458083 |
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit...
| Author | Erich Fromm |
| ISBN | 0061129739 |
The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love
Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded...
Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition)
| Author | Milorad Pavić |
| ISBN | 0679724613 |
A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book...
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Harry Braverman |
| ISBN | 0853459401 |
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570759375 |
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America.
"They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0231061013 |
I read this book a few years ago and just realized that I never reviewed it. Brown is everything one could desire from a scholar of Mediterranean culture in the several centuries after Christ. He founded the field of Late Antique studies as such, and this book is one of the key contributions he made earlier...
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0140194436 |
I wish I could like Campbell's Masks of God series more than I do. I keep having the same experience -- I pick one up and read 15 pages that are magnificent, electrifying, and truly brilliant in their scope and perspicacity.
Then the long digressions accumulate and I start to lose the line of his...
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
| Author | R. Buckminster Fuller |
In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces man s intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly...
Reading the whole set of Campbell's The Masks of God tetrology took place over a number of years, but I believe it began when Rich Hyde--a friend from high school, college and, later, seminary--came up with me to grandmother's cabin near Lake Michigan one fall after we had matriculated at Grinnell. He...
| Author | Howard Thurman |
| ISBN | 0913408034 |
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Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition
| Author | Barry Keith Grant |
| ISBN | 0814326390 |
Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation...
Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit
| Author | Patrick S. Cheng |
| ISBN | 1596272414 |
- The first book to explore the theologies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of color
- Addresses issues of homophobia in communities of color, including ethnic churches, as well as racism in LGBT communities
- Pioneering work on the global and local intersections...
African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness
| Author | Milton C. Sernett |
| ISBN | 0822324490 |
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents—many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult...
Apostle to the Conquered: Reimagining Paul's Mission
| Author | Davina Lopez |
| ISBN | 0800697693 |
A fairly good analysis of Roman visual culture and what it can tell us about the imperial imagination, though it feels like the author doesn't actually have enough archaeological material to work with and is generalizing from 1 particular work, which is on the cover page. nonetheless, assuming that...
Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques Of Italian Cooking
| Author | Giuliano Bugialli |
| ISBN | 0671252186 |
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Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy
| Author | Giuliano Bugialli |
| ISBN | 0941434524 |
The cuisine of Italy, inspired by the beauty and elegance, the tastes and textures of the country itself, is one of that nation's richest cultural heritages. This book is a very personal celebration of the foods and traditions of this Italian culinary authority and award-winning author.
The...
Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self
| Author | Robert V Levine |
| ISBN | 0691167915 |
In "Stranger in the Mirror," Robert Levine offers a provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and psychological entity we call our self. Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else? Are we all multiple...
