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HIGHLIGHTS Does God Make the Man?

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Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University

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The Divided Mind of the Black Church Theology, Piety, and Public Witness RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK

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Heaven’s Gate

Mississippi Praying

BENJAMIN E. ZELLER

Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1975

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Building the Old Time Religion

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Pray the Gay Away

Gender in Judaism and Islam

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Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage

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American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage HILLARY KAELL

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Immigrant Faith

Changing Faith

Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities

PHILLIP CONNOR

DARREN E. SHERKAT

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“Insightful and sophisticated.”

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Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

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A History of Nuns in America

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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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Walking Where Jesus Walked

Called to Serve

BERTIN M. LOUIS, JR.

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Beth Baron, CUNY

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The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays

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Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era

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Sally M. Promey Yale University

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Losing Our Religion

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An Unlikely Union

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Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems

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The Growth of a Religious Movement

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Religion in the Kitchen

Religion Out Loud

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A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo

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“Brings a fresh perspective to the study of religion and sport.”

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The Beginnings of a New Era

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The Civil War marked a climactic moment in the history of New York’s Jewish community. Howard Rock tells the tale of this important era.

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