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The Directory of religious organizations in the United States. by McGrath Publishing Company.(CARDINAL)841817;
Subjects: Directories.; Religious institutions;
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The divine economy : how religions compete for wealth, power, and people / by Seabright, Paul,Author(DLC)no 93039133 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-452) and index.A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their competitive strategies over thousands of years. Today, they are big business; like businesses, they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage facilities, organize transportation, motivate employees, and get their message out. In The Divine Economy, economist Paul Seabright argues that religious movements are a special kind of business: they are platforms, bringing together communities of members who seek many different things from one another--spiritual fulfilment, friendship and marriage networks, even business opportunities. Their function as platforms, he contends, is what has allowed religions to consolidate and wield power. This power can be used for good, especially when religious movements provide their members with insurance against the shocks of modern life, and a sense of worth in their communities. It can also be used for harm: political leaders often instrumentalize religious movements for authoritarian ends, and religious leaders can exploit the trust of members to inflict sexual, emotional, financial or physical abuse, or to provoke violence against outsiders. Writing in a nonpartisan spirit, Seabright uses insights from economics to show how religion and secular society can work together in a world where some people feel no need for religion, but many continue to respond with enthusiasm to its call.
Subjects: Economics; Globalization; Religious institutions.; Social networks; Religion;
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The line : poverty in America [videorecording] / by Kubistal, Lesley,screenwriter.; Midgett, Linda,film director,film producer.(CARDINAL)561868; Noble, Jim,actor.(CARDINAL)361799; Travis, Melissa,actor.; Dreamscape Media,publisher.(CARDINAL)347553;
Melissa Travis, Jim Noble.A groundbreaking documentary that shows the new face of poverty in America and what defines it, along with how the church and the community can make a difference.DVD; Widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Poor; Poverty; Religious institutions;
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Shopping for God : how Christianity went from in your heart to in your face / by Twitchell, James B.,1943-(CARDINAL)151838;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.Oh Lord, why U.S.? an overview of the spiritual marketplace -- Another great awakening? -- Let's go shopping: brought to you by God -- Hatch, match, dispatch, or baptized, married, buried: the work of denominations -- Holy franchise: marketing religion in a scramble economy -- The United Methodist example -- The church impotent: what's wrong with the mainlines? -- Out of the ivory tower and into the missionary fields -- The megachurch: "If you are calling about a death in the family, press 8." -- And this too shall pass: the future of megas.
Subjects: Church marketing.; Consumption (Economics); Religious institutions;
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Pillars of faith [videorecording] : Religions of the world.
Subjects: Religion and sociology; Religious institutions;
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Ethics in the sanctuary : examining the practices of organized religion / by Battin, M. Pabst.(CARDINAL)148786;
Inlcudes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Clergy; Religious institutions; Religious institutions;
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Directory of African American religious bodies : a compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity / by Payne, Wardell J.,1948-(CARDINAL)361674; Howard University.Research Center on Black Religious Bodies.(CARDINAL)361675;
Subjects: Directories.; African American churches; African Americans; African American scholars; Religious institutions;
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Scholars, saints, and Sufis : Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500 / by Keddie, Nikki R.(CARDINAL)131583;
Includes bibliographical references.Some observations on the development of the Ottoman learned hierarchy / Richard Repp -- The Ottoman ulema and the Tanzimat / Richard L. Chambers -- The religious establishment in Husainid Tunisia / Leon Carl Brown -- The Moroccan ulama, 1860-1912 : an introduction / Edmund Burke, III -- Profile of a nineteenth-century Moroccan scholar / Kenneth Brown -- The ulama of Cairo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Nonideological responses of the Egyptian ulama to modernization / Daniel Crecelius -- The roots of the ulama's power in modern Iran / Nikki R. Keddie -- The oppositional role of the ulama in twentieth-century Iran / Hamid Algar -- Activism of the ulama in Pakistan / Aziz Ahmad -- A short history of the Khalwati order of dervishes / B.G. Martin -- Doctor and saint / Ernest Gellner -- The Hamadsha / Vincent Crapanzano -- Religious symbolism and social change : the drama of Husain / Gustav Thaiss -- Mahdis, walis, and new men in the Sudan / John Voll -- Variation in religious observance among Islamic women / Robert A. Fernea, Elizabeth W. Fernea.
Subjects: Ulama.; Sufism.; Shiites.; Muslim women; Islam;
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Description of the character, manners, and customs of the people of India : and of their institutions, religious and civil / by Dubois, J. A.(Jean Antoine),1765-1848.(CARDINAL)192608;
Subjects: Old State Library Collection.;
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You lost me : why young Christians are leaving church, and rethinking faith / by Kinnaman, David,1973-(CARDINAL)486487; Hawkins, Aly.(CARDINAL)495912;
Includes bibliographical references.Faith, interrupted -- Access, alienation, authority -- Nomads and prodigals -- Exiles -- Overprotective -- Shallow -- Antiscience -- Repressive -- Exclusive -- Doubtless -- What's old is new -- Fifty ideas to find a generation.The author reveals results of a nationwide study of 19- to 29-year-olds with a Christian background and advises readers on how to engage this next generation.
Subjects: Christian youth; Ex-church members; Religious institutions; Christianity; Public opinion;
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