Bøger i Where Religion Lives serien

Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren Kerby's lively, engaging book takes readers onto tour buses and explores the world of Christian heritage tourism.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants.

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. The work of these crafters embodies a vital Judaism that is engaged in honouring and nurturing the fortitude, memory, and community of the Jewish people.

Takes the reader deep inside faith and character-based correctional institutions, analysing the subtle meanings and difficult choices with which the incarcerated, prison administrators, staff, and chaplains grapple every day.

"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"--