Download PDF: Menhinick, Searching, not Leaving For the first time in recorded history, religious membership in the United States has dropped below 50%. Earlier this year, in March 2021, Gallop released this finding in its most recent poll, which tracks
Download PDF: Csinos, Toward a Childist Homiletic Abstract The art of preaching has often been adult-centric in how it is discussed among academic homileticians and how it is practiced by frontline preachers, leaving children silent at the sidelines. In this
Download PDF: Wheeler RV, Muslim Cool By Su’ad Abdul Khabeer New York: New York University Press, 2016. 288 pages. $30.00 Following the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer uses embodied ethnography to tell the story of
Download PDF: RV Barber, Religion as a Social Determinant Edited By: Ellen Idler New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 445 pages. $51.00 The edited volume, Religion as a Social Determinant of Health, is unique in that the editor, sociologist Ellen Idler,
Download PDF: RV Carr, Servant of All By Craig C. Hill Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016. 203 pages. $18.00 In Servant of All: Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus, Craig C. Hill examines how New Testament authors reasoned theologically about status-related
Download PDF: RV Wagner, Approaching the End By Stanley Hauerwas London: SCM Press, 2014. 251 pages. 25 pounds. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013. 272 pages. $24.00 In Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life,
Download PDF: Sessions, Beyond Religious Giving Practical Matters is proud to publish Issue 10: Wealth, Poverty, and Practice. Our hope, birthed nearly two years ago, was to bring together scholars and practitioners to critically reflect on the intersection of money,
Download PDF: RV Lavallee, The Grace of Playing By Courtney T. Goto Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2016. 150 pages. $22.00 In this short yet insightful text, religious education scholar Courtney Goto argues that “creating conditions for revelatory experiencing can be better
Download PDF: RV Weingartner, The Presbyterian Mission Enterprise Review By Mark J. Englund-Krieger Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015. 224 pages. $27.00. While not a book written for scholars, The Presbyterian Mission Enterprise: From Heathen to Partner is a well-researched, well-written, and helpful
Download PDF: Rudnyckyj, Debating Form Consuming Substance Abstract In the past decade Malaysian planners have taken steps to create an “Islamic Wall Street” in the country’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. They seek to position the country as the central node in a
Download PDF: Hoesterey, Marketing Islam Abstract Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim majority country and third most populous democracy – has experienced both a widespread Islamic revival and democratic transition over the last several decades. Just prior to the fall
Download PDF: Mercer, Girl Talk By Joyce Ann Mercer San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. 192 pages. $22.95. With twenty years of experience in pastoral and social work, and now a practical theologian at Virginia Theological Seminary, Joyce Ann Mercer offers an excellent qualitative research study
Download PDF: Mahan, Warren, and White, Awakening Youth Discipleship By Brian J. Mahan, Michael Warren, and David F. White Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008. 126 pages. $17.00. The authors of Awakening Youth Discipleship seek to expand the “practices” discussion introduced to youth ministry with “communitarian-narrativist approaches”
Download PDF: Luhr, Witnessing Suburbia By Eileen Luhr Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 208 pages. $19.95. Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, brothers Steve and Jim Peters hosted “burning parties,” events at which teens would destroy books, posters, and
Download PDF: Lear, Radical Hope By Jonathan Lear Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008. 187 pages. $22.95. Radical Hope explores what happens to a people when the material reality – the stuff used to weave webs of meaning – is altered to such a
Download PDF: Devries, Sustainable Youth Ministry By Mark Devries Downer’s Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008. 224 pages. Paperback, $16.00. In a flooded market of youth ministry resources designed to give youth pastors a “quick fix”, Devries’ book represents the wise,
Download PDF: Clark, From Angels to Aliens By Lynn Scholfield Clark New York: Oxford, 2003. 304 pages. $25.00. Lynn Scholfield Clark’s 2003 book, From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural, attempts to parse the implications of the
Organized and sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN June 4-7, 2009 In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue