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A State-of-the-Art Review
In this final volume in a national survey of the study of religion in Canada, Bowlby (Chair, Religious Studies, St. Mary's U., Nova Scotia) reviews th...
A Defence of Hendrik Kraemer’s Theology of Religions
Annotation Avoiding the study of specific religions, religious communities, and comparative theology, Perry (theology, Providence College and Seminary...
This fourth volume in a series of state-of-the-art reviews of religious studies programs in Canadian provinces traces the formative role of religion i...
The Debate Over Torah and Nomos in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity
The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period—especially in Judaism—has been a key issue among scholars in recent year...
Religion and the Culture of Technology
As the developer of a model for computerizing India's university system, Stahl (sociology, U. of Regina) is no Luddite. What the author critiques is c...
Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics Against Idolatry
Annotation Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) and Dayananda Sarasvati (1824-1883) are two of the best-known nineteenth-century Hindu reformers. Despite radicall...
Canadian Churches and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Debate
The Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline debate included many actors. This is the first in-depth study in comparative religious ethics to examine the...
Canadian Churches Against Apartheid
Annotation Explains why the Christian churches were among the first to publicly protest apartheid, and how they provided international support for the...
Naming Violence Against Women in The United Church of Canada
Trothen (systematic theology and ethics, Queen's U., Canada) argues that the Church's approaches to sexuality and gender contributed to the length of ...
Christian Self-Understanding in a Technological Age
In this re–examination of the roots of the relationship between religion and science, David Hawkin focuses on the concept of autonomy as he explores...
Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson
North American and European scholars of archaeology and theology explore the issue of how primary religious texts of the ancient Mediterranean world a...
Essays in Honour of Charles Davis
Written in tribute to one of the foremost Catholic theologians in the English-speaking world, the essays in The Promise of Critical Theology address t...
The Irony of Atheism
Modern atheism is a further act in the ancient drama of Prometheus vs Zeus. This book argues that the antagonism is false, as proved by the "irony": i...
Takes a look at the religious dimension of life in one Roman city Caesarea Maritima, on the Mediterranean coast of Judea. This volume studies religiou...
Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women h...
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her ea...
A Conversation on Method and Christology
Annotation. This book addresses the relationship between theological method and experience....
Presbyterian Progressives and the Social Gospel in Canada 1875-1915
The Social Uplifters examines the Social Gospel among Canadian Presbyterians prior to the First World War. The book explores the theology, social cont...
Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry
"Clothed in Integrity draws on feminist studies, alternative economics, and the ethical foundations proposed by Bernard Lonergan to fashion a construc...
Analyzes the content of some 300 texts on clinical pastoral supervision written in the past 20 years in light of fundamental questions about the natur...
Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE
Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early...
This volume, one in a series of books examining religious rivalries, focuses in detail on the religious dimension of life in two particular Roman citi...
Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel
Annotation Using extensive primary resources this book analyzes the spiritual life of Canadian Methodist women and shows how their lived faith shaped ...
Negotiations of Difference in a Pluralist Society
How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without ...
Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson
Annotation A collection of essays in honur of the man who encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics....
Sociological models and types are employed to analyze the tensions that arose from excesses of patronage and leadership by the well-to-do."--BOOK JACK...
Annotation Explores questions about persuasion and its relationship to early Christianities. The essays cover a wide chronological range and diverse t...
Rethinking Morton Smith’s Controversial Discovery
Did the evangelist Mark write two versions of his gospel? According to a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, Mark created a second, more spiritu...
Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion ...
Virtually from its redaction about the sixth century A.D., the Babylonian Talmud became the rabbinic document par excellence. Through its lens almost ...
Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers
Annotation Examines women who chose to risk persecution and martyrdom to pursue the radical Protestant movement during the Reformation. Most of the 34...
A collection of 24 essays representing current theological research concerns in relation to historic and historiographical Christian investigations. T...
Understanding Theravada Psychology and Soteriology
According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of various phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different ...
Canadian Women’s Spirituality
“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in...
A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan
Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no ...
1 Corinthians 8-10 in Its Context
Recognizing the social meaning of food and meals in Greco-Roman culture and, in particular, the social meaning of idol-food, is an integral part of un...
Canada-Guatemala Solidarity
Weaving Relationships tells the remarkable, little-known story of a movement that transcends barriers of geography, language, culture, and economic di...
Contains 16 contributions representing work drawn from a multi-year seminar conducted through the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. North American...
Cultural Synthesis Vs Cultural Replacement
"On one hand he practised cultural replacement at the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Schools [school] which he founded at Sault Ste. Marie ; on the other hand...
French Protestant Responses to the Algerian War, 1954-1962
Then it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of Muslims were herded into resettlement camps in Algeria; that Algerians suspected of nationalist sym...