David Green: 98 books
Synagogues in a Time of Change
Fragmentation and Diversity in Jewish Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook
A Guide to Understanding, Exploring & Living a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What is “Jewish Spirituality”? How do I make it part of my life?
Today’s foremost spiritual leaders share their ideas and experience.
Whether you are just curious, intently searching for greater personal meaning, or actively seeking ideas, information, practices and inspiration to enrich...
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Dangerous But Not Omnipotent
Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
In an analysis grounded in the observation that although Iranian power projection is marked by strengths, it also has serious liabilities and limitations, this report surveys the nature of both in four critical areas and offers a new U.S. policy paradigm that seeks to manage the challenges Iran presents...
Insights in Sound
Visually Impaired Musicians' Lives and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual impairment and music includes perspectives from the social history of music, ethnomusicology, child development...
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World
Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World reconsiders the dialogue between formal scholarship and Amerindian ways of knowing. Beginning and ending with a public archaeology project in the region, the...
Hasidism
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism
This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book’s unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement’s...
by Louis A. Barbieri, Michael Boyle, James Coakley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Now you can study the Bible with the faculty of the Moody Bible Institute!
Imagine having a team of 30 Moody Bible Institute professors helping you study the Bible. Now you can with this in-depth, user-friendly, one-volume commentary.
General editors Michael Rydelnik and Michael Vanlaningham...
Religion and Politics in America
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Les mondes d'Honor
Autour d'Honor, T2
Language: French
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Autour d’Honor : le titre du premier recueil devient aussi celui de la série complémentaire où David Weber invite plusieurs de ses confrères à écrire dans l’univers qu’il a élaboré au fil de ses romans. Les mondes d’Honor présente cinq nouvelles dont deux de Weber lui-même, et l’une...
The Enigmatic Mr Phelps
The Oscar Phelps Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
"32-Red" & "Berlin by Christmas"combine to become"The Enigmatic Mr Phelps" The sequel to the late 1990's set "32-Red", brings Oscar Phelps into the new century with a certain gusto and a very personal mission to be relentlessly pursued. "32-Red"...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...