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1

by Mark C. Taylor

80 members

½ 3.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

2

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

19,350 members

369 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

3

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

by Mary Douglas

1,207 members

9 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

4

Violence and the Sacred

by René Girard

994 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

5

by René Girard

506 members

1 review

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

6

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

by René Girard

622 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

7

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

by René Girard

609 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

8

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

by René Girard

428 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

9

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

by Marie-Louise von Franz

458 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

10

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

1,043 members

8 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

11

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

1,634 members

13 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

12

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

by Walter Benjamin

1,128 members

12 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

13

The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

by Steven Mithen

542 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

14

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

by Steven Mithen

376 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

15

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

by Pascal Boyer

927 members

11 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

16

Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life

by Wesley J. Wildman

12 members

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

17

Coming to Our Senses

by Morris Berman

170 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

18

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

by Silvia Federici

313 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

19

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation

by Silvia Federici

1,424 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

20

Misogyny, Projective Identification, and Mentalization: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Institutional Manifestations

by Karyne E. Messina

2 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

21

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

644 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

22

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

1,275 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

23

All About Love: New Visions

3,919 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

24

Proverbs of Ashes : Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us

by Rita Nakashima Brock

300 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

25

Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

by Juliet L. King

16 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

26

Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change (Arts Therapies)

by Ellen G. Levine

14 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

27

The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation

by James H. Cone

251 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

28

(White)Washing Our Sins Away: American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity

by Deborah Justice

3 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

29

Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

93 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

30

Music and Theology (Horizons in Theology)

by Don E. Saliers

51 members

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

31

Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation

by Thomas Turino

68 members

1 review

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

32

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

by Stephen Nachmanovitch

554 members

10 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

33

Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

by Stuart Brown

566 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

34

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

1,473 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

35

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

1,156 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

36

Theater And Incarnation

21 members

5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

37

Highbrow/Lowbrow : The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

by Lawrence Levine

372 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

38

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

by Pierre Bourdieu

1,642 members

9 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

39

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

by Sabrina Strings

443 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

40

by Edward W. Said

6,785 members

54 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

41

by Philip J. Deloria

365 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

42

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

by Rebecca Ann Parker

256 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

43

The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

by Timothy Beal

271 members

11 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

44

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally

by Marcus J. Borg

1,434 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

45

The Peace Table: A Storybook Bible

by Chrissie Muecke

49 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

46

An Introduction to the Old Testament: Sacred Texts and Imperial Contexts of the Hebrew Bible

by David McLain Carr

48 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

47

Genesis: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

by Walter Brueggemann

1,076 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

48

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible

by Ellen F. Davis

201 members

½ 4.4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

49

by Daniel Quinn

7,007 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

50

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

2,001 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

51

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

1,791 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

52

The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life: An Invitation to Personal, Ecclesial, and Social Transformation

by Ross Kinsler

52 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

53

The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics

72 members

2 reviews

1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

54

Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

by Walter Brueggemann

549 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

55

by Walter Brueggemann

102 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

56

Journey to the Common Good

by Walter Brueggemann

233 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

57

The Prophetic Imagination

by Walter Brueggemann

1,780 members

14 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

58

Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile

by Walter Brueggemann

348 members

1 review

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

59

A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

205 members

12 reviews

3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

60

Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed

by William R. Herzog

203 members

½ 4.7

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

61

Jesus the Riddler: The Power of Ambiguity in the Gospels

by Tom Thatcher

26 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

62

Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now (Bible & Liberation)

by Wes Howard-Brook

118 members

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

63

In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

by Elisabeth Fiorenza

761 members

1 review

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

64

In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity

28 members

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

65

Money and Possessions: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church

by Walter Brueggemann

72 members

1 review

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

66

Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor

by Liz Theoharis

64 members

½ 3.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

67

God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

by M. Douglas Meeks

132 members

2 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

68

Wealth As Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions

by Sondra Ely Wheeler

77 members

3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

69

Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

by Diana Butler Bass

219 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

70

Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire

by William T. Cavanaugh

372 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

71

The Market as God

55 members

½ 4.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

72

At the Altar of Wall Street: The Rituals, Myths, Theologies, Sacraments, and Mission of the Religion Known as the Modern Global Economy

by Scott W. Gustafson

16 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

73

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

404 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

74

Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament

330 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

75

Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

527 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

76

Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence

303 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

77

When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations

96 members

3 reviews

3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

78

Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way (Facets)

395 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

79

The Politics of Jesus

by John Howard Yoder

1,710 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

80

Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World

by John Howard Yoder

281 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

81

Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

by Shane Claiborne

893 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

82

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

91 members

3 reviews

5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

83

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

by Sarah Schulman

527 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

84

Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think

by George Lakoff

927 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

85

The Desire for Mutual Recognition : Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self

1 member

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

86

For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

by Herman E. Daly

252 members

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

87

Transcending Greedy Money: Interreligious Solidarity for Just Relations (New Approaches to Religion and Power)

3 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

88

Alternatives to Global Capitalism

by Ulrich Duchrow

21 members

3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

89

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

by Kevin M. Kruse

575 members

10 reviews

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

90

Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice

by Gary Dorrien

24 members

4

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

91

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

by Peter R. Mitchell

1,917 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

92

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini

5,062 members

59 reviews

4.2

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

93

7,087 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

94

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

by Jonathan Smucker

139 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

95

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

5,125 members

51 reviews

4.1

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

96

Justice and the Politics of Difference

by Iris Marion Young

304 members

½ 4.3

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

97

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

by The Care Collective

237 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

98

Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being

70 members

1 review

½ 1.5

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

99

We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

by adrienne maree brown

327 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

100

Spirituality and Abolition (Abolition Collective Series, 3)

by Ashon Crawley

5 members

Member: KristenLeighMitchell

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