First published in 1928, The Development of Sacramentalism traces the history of the fundamental presuppositions upon which the doctrine of sacraments....Daugiau...
This interdisciplinary volume recontextualises biblical texts to explore how the relationship between sex/gender, power, and religion is constructed to produce a rape culture, linking religious history with contemporary conflicts to show the enduran...Daugiau...
Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-century Italian reforming movements....Daugiau...
This book is an exploration of the relationship between race and class in the specific context of middle-class Christianity in South Africa....Daugiau...
In Faithful Careers: Integrating the Catholic Faith & Work Peter Smudde reasons that God calls us to live an integrated life that unifies both the spiritual and the secular aspects of life....Daugiau...
Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and personal relationship, secular laws have evolved...Daugiau...
Offering a holistic approach to improving athlete welfare and performance, in which faith and spirituality are core tenets of wellbeing, this is a critical reference for students and researchers working in sport psychology or sport and spirituality...Daugiau...
This book develops a spirituality of anorexia by suggesting that these eating disorders are physical symptoms of the general repression of feminine nature in our culture. Furthermore, it puts forward Goddess feminism as a framework for a healing the...Daugiau...
Provides a much-needed overview of the state of scholarship on Christian theological reflection on sexuality. An international set of contributors offer a range of perspectives, including work from beyond the traditional boundaries of theological sc...Daugiau...
Focusing on everyday practices of marriage in two very different contexts: Argentina and England, this book considers how Christian understandings of marriage as a covenant or sacrament relate to the lived experience of marriage....Daugiau...
This book shows how necessary ritual is to human freedom and to social processes of liberation. It aims to reflect upon the deep human longing for ritual and to interpret it in the light of our physical, social, political, sexual, moral, aesthetic,...Daugiau...
Issues of homosexuality are the subject of public and political controversy in many African societies today. This book investigates Christian politics and discourses on homosexuality in sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors present case studies from...Daugiau...
This book explores the idea that shame has historically been, and continues to be, used by an oftentimes patriarchal Christian Church as a mechanism to control and regulate female sexuality and to displace mens ambivalence about sex. It is a fresh t...Daugiau...
Structured as a spiritual and literary journey, this book moves from models of the institutional Catholic Church into more radical and ambiguous textual spaces, which the author creates by bringing together an unorthodox group of thinkers referred t...Daugiau...
Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this controversial and discursive subject area. This book provides an accessible exploration into the major themes within queer studies, queer theologies, and th...Daugiau...
Advancing Sexual Health for the Christian Client is an essential toolkit for professionals working at the intersection of Christian belief and sexual health. In this book, Beverly Dale and Rachel Keller deconstruct potentially harmful Christian beli...Daugiau...
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection examines religion as a critical element of modern childrens history, building on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative im...Daugiau...
The Compassion-Based Workbook for Christian Clients integrates contemporary research in clinical psychology on compassion-based approaches to shame with a Christian worldview, offering a wide variety of strategies for Christians to better understand...Daugiau...
