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Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African...
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Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...
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Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An introductory overview of the development of African American religion and theologyDown by the Riverside provides an expansive introduction to th...
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Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography CategoryBrings to life the inspiring story of one of America's Black ...
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If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781570753435 Publisher: Orbis Books Publication Date: 11-01-2000 Pages: 253 Product Dimensions: 5.94(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.59(d...
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The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in...
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The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose...
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The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa...
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics a...
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of the logics a...
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What's Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781570756092 Publisher: Orbis Books Publication Date: 10-28-2005 Pages: 252 Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
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Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the ...
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Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781570755422 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Orbis Books Publication Date: 08-05-2004 Pages: 124 Product Dimensions: 8.80...
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Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The slaughter of a wagon train of some 120 people in southern Utah on September 11, 1857, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. In...
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African Immigrant Religions in America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the...
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Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Choosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the As...
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Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A thorough updating of the book that revolutionized the way the we understand the origins of Christianity and how the translation of the Bible in...
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The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2-Volume Set
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$138.99$138.99 - $138.99Current price $138.99| /In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern G...
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The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this account of the history between Indigenous Peoples and the United States government, readers will learn the role of the bible played in the ...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the fam...
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Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundar...
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Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. T...
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An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholar...
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Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgott...
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