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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
2nd ed.
Description
"Many Americans today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian...
Author
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Description
""The scandal of the evangelical mind," says historian Mark Noll, "is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." This critical yet constructive book explains the decline of evangelical thought in North America and seeks to find, within evangelicalism itself, resources for turning the situation around." "According to Noll, evangelical Protestants make up the largest single group of religious Americans; they also enjoy increasing wealth, status...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1989
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Integrating faith with introductory Western history, this text provides a Christian perspective on the major epochs, issues, and events of Western Civilization. It details the role of the Greeks and Hebrews, Jesus in history, the Renaissance, and more.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, "New York Times" bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s.
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
This Reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that can not be reduced...
Author
Publisher
Panorama Editorial
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1. ed.
Description
An overview of the history, architecture, and archaeology of the Aztecs of Central Mexico including information about daily life and customs of Aztec society, religious ceremonies, sculpture and painting, and the Templo Mayor in the city of Tenochtitln.
Author
Publisher
Southwater
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
An exploration of how the Romans lived their daily lives that covers street life, sports and games, the theatre and the forum, childhood, courtship, marriage, gods and cults, scientific and medical advancements, the trading system, art, architecture, and more. Includes illustrations, maps, and photographs.
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Called to live in the world, but not of it, the balancing act for Christians becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? Here, D.A. Carson applies his masterful touch to the problem. He begins by exploring the classic typology of Reinhold Niebuhr and his five options offered for understanding...
Author
Series
America a cultural history volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
This book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily...
13) Orientalism
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
©1994
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Description
The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"In Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit Jodi Magness unearths 'footprints' buried in both archaeological and literary evidence to shed new light on Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century b.c.e. to 70 c.e. the time and place of Jesus' life and ministry. Magness analyzes recent archaeological discoveries from such sites as Qumran and Masada together with a host of period texts, including the New Testament, the works of Josephus, and rabbinic...
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