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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Jon Krakauers literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Publisher Comments As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion (Religion in North America) by Jean M. Humez Publisher Comments ... an excellent collection of writings covering the period 1774-1854... mostly in print for the first time.... Humez provides excellent and clear introductions, emphasizing the ambiguous role of women. --Library Journal This very fine book is a valuable... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State by Forrest Church Publisher Comments Todays dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a revelatory look at our nations birth, Forrest Church re-creates our first great culture wara tumultuous, nearly... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality (Religion in North America) by Diane Sasson Publisher Comments This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Laura Holloway-Langford, a rebel girl from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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With God on Our Side the Rise of the Rel by William Martin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [386]-406) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence by Quinton Hosford Dixie Publisher Comments In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul by G Jeffrey Macdonald Publisher Comments Though waves of cynics and atheists claim that America is too religious, G. Jeffrey MacDonald disagrees. Americas churches, he argues, have abandoned their sacred role as dispensers of community values, and instead are increasingly serving up... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America by Jonathan Miller Publisher Comments Kentucky State Treasurer Jonathan Miller, a rising star in the Democratic party and the leading advocate for a broader discussion of faith within politics, identifies ten nonpartisan values that unite all Americans, and uses Old Testament stories to... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory by Willard H Rollings Publisher Comments Rollings shows how the Osages' passive resistance to missionaries' attempts to Christianize them helped preserve their culture and religious beliefs.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President by Joe Wheeler Publisher Comments How Lincoln's Faith Shaped His Leadership Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together. But for all that's been written, little has focused on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America by Robert S Mcelvaine Publisher Comments “Jesus never wrote a book, but I recognize his handwriting in Grand Theft Jesus. Like Jesus, McElvaine uses lively illustrations and a serious sense of humor to cleanse the temple of exclusive and exploitative religion.” -The Reverend Alan... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shaker Village by Raymond Bial Publisher Comments The Shakers—officially known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing—were, at their peak, a small but thriving Christian sect that lived in private, rural communities throughout the eastern United States. Only a... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam Publisher Comments American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal by Christian (edt) Goodwillie Publisher Comments From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Yet until the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Allan Greer Publisher Comments As a 73-volume library, the original The Jesuit Relations has long been inaccessible to undergraduate students. Vitally important, the writings of seventeenth-century French Jesuits in Native North America tell the story of early American encounters... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Place in Time: The Shakers at Sabbathday Lake, Maine by Stephen Williams Publisher Comments A spare and elegant photo-essay on contemporary Shaker life by a photographer who has chronicled this New England religious community for nearly four decades.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Dying Church, Living God: A Call to Begin Again by Chuck Meyer Publisher Comments Make a new church. That's the challenge Chuck Meyer lays down for readers. He writes that the institutional church we know so well is dying. In fact, it may already be dead. Its structure and theology make no sense today, and haven't for decades. It has... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller Publisher Comments Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was preeminent as a theologian in the eighteenth century American colonies, deeply involved in the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. He was also the first American Puritan, or Calvinist, to recognize the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--And What We Should Do about It by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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