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1. White Roses on the Floor of Heaven

   Nature and Flower Imagery in Latter-Day Saints Women's Literature, 1880-1920

   By Susanna Morrill

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge
2. Steel City Gospel

   Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh

   By Keith A. Zahniser

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an...

   Published January 3rd 2005 by Routledge
3. Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns

   The Legacy of the Mi'raj in the Formation of Islam

   By Brooke Olson Vuckovic

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj)....

   Published December 19th 2004 by Routledge
4. Theories of the Gift in South Asia

   Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Reflections on Dana

   By Maria Heim

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift....

   Published September 20th 2004 by Routledge
5. Liturgy Wars

   Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich

   By Theodore M. Vial

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict,...

   Published November 30th 2003 by Routledge
6. The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture

   Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities

   By Michael Bathgate

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on...

   Published November 30th 2003 by Routledge
7. Lest We Be Damned

   Practical Innovation & Lived Experience Among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559–1642

   By Lisa McClain

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   Through compelling personal stories and in rich detail, McClain reveals the give-and-take interaction between the institutional church in Rome and the needs of believers and the hands-on clergy who provided their pastoral care within England. In doing so, she illuminates larger issues of how...

   Published October 29th 2003 by Routledge
8. Explaining Mantras

   Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra

   By Robert A. Yelle

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   Published August 18th 2003 by Routledge
9. The Spirit of Development

   Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe

   By Erica Bornstein

   Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

   This work is an ethnographic account of the work of transnational, Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe. Protestant NGOs are one of the voices of pluralism in southern Africa, sometimes challenging the state and at other times collaborating with it. The tensions of such...

   Published April 29th 2003 by Routledge
10. Las Abejas

    Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas

    By Marco Tavanti

    Series: Religion in History, Society and Culture

    Published December 19th 2002 by Routledge