Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life, Hardback - Joel Robbins

How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together t...

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What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Tom Nettles has spent more than 15 years working on this magisterial biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the famous 19th century preacher and wri...

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global or...

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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging varie...

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Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a co...

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense ...

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This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the An...

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DescriptionStudy of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heid...

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

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Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

Peter C. Phan, noted for his theological exploration of the afterlife, presents an easily understood study of what eternal life means from a Cathol...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

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F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trac...

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This dictionary breaks new ground by combining articles on Christians ethics and pastoral theology in one volume. It seeks to integrate moral, past...

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Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging ...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Judith (Western Washington University) PinePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 216 x 274 x 18Cover type: P...

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Mel Robbins teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF...

This book will change your view of the New Testament and deserves to radically alter New Testament studies in Universities, Theological Colleges an...

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