"In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies …
"In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies …
The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered & rsquo;60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic & ldquo;Goat of Mendes & rdquo; and a swastika-like mandala…
Glancy here situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting, arguing that modern scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches - and upon the bodies of t…
Glancy here situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting, arguing that modern scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches - and upon the bodies of t…
This open dialogue with the Chief Rabbi of Argentina addresses God, fundamentalism, atheism and the Holocaust as well as some of the most controversial issues of today like abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage.